Chuck Van Eekelen
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Chuck Van Eekelen
ModeratorSometimes you will hear soft hissing or other noise when no music is played. If the speaker does this while no leads are connected (and preferably without any wireless gear in the vicinity like bluetooth and wifi on tablets and phones), the problem most likely sits within the speakers themselves. And most likely involves the amp or cross-over.
If it only makes the sound when a cable is connected (what cable are you using?), then it can be a host of other things. Even the USB cable can be the culprit. You should, if at all possible, use the XLR outputs and XLR inputs on the speakers to eliminate problem on the speaker cabling.
ModeratorGet a small PA mixer (Yamaha MG06 for example), hook up your main setup and an iPhone/iPad to the aux. Should your main set quit or you need to play a Spotify tune (which you shouldn’t in public as it is illegal!), you can easily take it off the phone/tablet.
Should you still want a controller, then the Reloop BeatPad 2 would be something worth looking at.
December 17, 2016 at 8:48 am in reply to: Convert MP3 Files while Keeping original Cue Points #2481631ModeratorYou heard the guys, don”t do it. Squarecell is even being nice about the content being the same in a bigger container.
Fact is that if you would put the same content in a bigger container, there would be lots of empty space around the old content. MP3 containers can’t have empty space though. So what happens is that during re-compressing the software will try to GUESS what should be in the empty space, thus introducing musical information that wasn’t there before!
Conclusion: a 320MP3 made from a 128MP3 can actually sound WORSE than the 128MP3 you started with (and we all know that 128MP3 is really horrible quality).
I’ll +1 Cypress in always getting your music in the highest possible quality (CD or WAV/FLAC/AIFF if you know/trust the source) and doing the compression to 320MP3 yourself. This way you will always have a high quality copy to go back to should something happen.
ModeratorYep, welcome back to stay and good to have you on the forums. Enjoy your time here.
ModeratorModeratorHi Ethan, welcome to the forums.
I wouldn’t worry too much about beat matching, if it’s electronic music you can get away using sync for most of it. All other music you are better off learning a few of the very basic transitions. Much easier to learn and execute.
More important is music selection, something you can only learn playing live. Another reason not to invest too much time during the night looking at and fiddling with pitch-faders and jogwheels. Time better spent watching the crowd and trying to read them.
Also building a playlist in advance for any other reason than having the music you want to play during your gig in one place for easy picking, is a recipe for failure. It’s impossible to make a fixed playlist for most mobile events. You should of course think of the audience and select tracks to take with you based on what you think the crowd will want to hear. Add some extra stuff from other genres to have some backup for plan B. Also count on bringing double the amount of tracks for the time your gig lasts. With an average of 20 tracks an hour and a 7-hour gig, that comes to 20 * 7 * 2 = 280 tracks.
Another thing is to make mini-playlists, for example a few (3-5) tracks in a certain genre that fit well together. Then bring a lot of those playlists to make up the 280 tracks needed. Now you can play a track from one of those playlists, watch the crowd reaction and if they like it you have a few tracks right there in your mini-playlist to play next. This generally reduces a lot of the stress involved in “picking the right next track” when you are starting to DJ. And then you can move to the next genre/mini-playlist and do the same.
Good luck with your gigs and enjoy your time here at the forums.
ModeratorAH!
Well, this is not a question for the Forum News, FAQS & Feedback forum, so let me first move it to DJ Booth as that seems more appropriate.
Oops … moderator status is gone LOL … will ask Terry to move it 😀
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