DJ Vintage
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ModeratorI worked in one place for 5 months where all they had was one earpiece , it was all the thing back in the day.
We are so spoiled with rotating, flexing, hinging, heavy duty headphones these days :-).
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorYou should be able to pick up some turntables for not too crazy money, unless you want pristine SL1200s :-).
I didn’t know the Mackie had backlit knobs, that would appeal to me too. Don’t let the position of the filters fool you though. Those three knobs are only for the settings of the filter. For filtering you actually use the aux send knob under the EQs, which is also a more logical place to have them workflow-wise.
If you decide on the a DVS system, the phono inputs are not gonna be much use, since you’ll be getting sound from the soundcard that you will need and they will give you line out :-), but -as you stated- it has 4 of those too.
Yes, all in all I’d say it is a great analogue mixer WITH firewire support (curious to see what all you can do and wether it is Mixer2PC, PC2Mixer or both) that I for one could certainly live with, especially given the quality of build and sound as I said before.
Good luck with it.
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorGood for you m8. Good luck!
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorI have a Mackie 16-channel iPad mixer (DL1608) and a Mackie HD Series PA. Both build and sound quality are excellent. Never used their DJ mixers though.
Zone provides you with a second output (master signal) with a seperate volume control. You could use it to have a second set of speakers in another room playing at a different level.
You can clearly see it’s “live sound” heritage. Two full mic channels with 3-band EQ and both with XLR or combi connectors and even +48V phantom power! Aux send/return channel for outboard FX. And nice filters built in.
You can also tell its age, 4 phono channels, nice if you are a vinyl jock ;-pGreetinx,
C.ModeratorChuck van Eekelen, post: 39490, member: 2756 wrote: … The mixer features a USB port, so you can record straight to a laptop or PC and four standard FX. Other than that, very plain. …
Sorry folks for the mixup, but you can record to a USB stick, NOT on a laptop or PC.
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorAs long as you stay away from the CHEAP laptops, but opt for an i3 Intel CPU with 4GB of RAM memory, I would feel secure in setting it up so I can do DJ work on it without any problem. I have had several Core 2 Duo machines with 4GB that worked flawlessly.
Greetinx,
C.April 22, 2013 at 5:44 am in reply to: 2 part question: 1st about Traktor Pro 2, 2nd: PC or MAC #39450Moderatoratom12v, post: 39604, member: 1423 wrote: Windows 8, not got for DJ’ing yet
Not good for anything yet … but, help is on the way … Microsoft is giving in. First major update 8.1 will have the old Windows 7 working environment again … pfff.
Greetinx,
C.April 21, 2013 at 6:03 pm in reply to: 2 part question: 1st about Traktor Pro 2, 2nd: PC or MAC #39432ModeratorHey m8,
Sorry to hear you are still having problems. Are you running 64-bit or 32-bit version of windows and which flavor? How far does your load meter go?
In essence a Mac and a PC should technically both be suitable to do what you are trying to accomplish. Loads of people are doing it on either platform. The specs look good enough. I have ran Traktor on Windows XP on a 7 year old laptop. Granted, no room left for any other process, but Traktor ran without hickups.
Are you running 2 or 4 deck, key lock on or off? There is quite a few areas to look at.
We can dig some deeper into this through private message if you like.
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorWhile prepping is evidently very important and will help your memory (which slowly goes down with the years, I can tell you :-p), the key for me has always been “KNOW YOUR MUSIC”.
Back in the pre-digital days, there were no storable cue points (heck, no cue points whatsoever), no loops, not fancy on-screen waveforms. But you knew every track you owned. In your head you would hear where the break was, where the vocals came in, wether the outro was long and faded or short and abrupt and if the tempo held or not. You’d pretty much be doing the prep in your head. Listening to what was playing and determining where and how to bring in the next track. Remember, no FX section on your mixer either. So no covering up with filters, flangers, beatmashers, jets or what have you. The good thing about it was, you could be playing a relatively new song and in your head you’d get all these “oh, that song will go well with it -or- I could use the acapella from that song in that break next time”-thoughts.
In effect, what you now call on the spot mixing, was the only kind then. And I think the basics still apply.
“KNOW YOUR MUSIC”
Greetinx and good luck with it,
C.ModeratorThe first time it happened, I tossed in “always look on the bright side of life”. After that I got told to shut down the music next time :-).
ModeratorHey,
… do you consider yourself an artist … ?
No, not as a musician. Apart from some unmentionable experimenting for about 2 hours I haven’t seriously touched producing anything.
Yes, as in someone able to use predetermined building blocks (tunes), his personality and voice to create an everchanging mood with the intention of providing entertainment and pleasure. Some painters paint to tell a story, some painters paint to bring other people joy.
Both are artists, but different kinds. I do feel the line between “true” DJs in the classical sense and the new breed of Producer/DJs is narrowing.
A major difference, I think, is that people choose to go to a name DJ because they know exactly what they are gonna get, just like you would when you go to a regular performing artist. That is what you go to see, that is what you expect to get and that is what will make you happy.
People that go to clubs, dancing bars and what have you, expect to be entertained in a different way. Here the DJ is less likely to disappoint, as there is less expectation. By the same token the DJ will be less admired, since he is not the focal point of the evening.
In my current gigs, I could not live with myself if I had a night with nobody dancing because I wanted to do “my own thing”. People pay me to make their guests have a good time. On the other hand, if I had a large following who came to watch me specifically do “my own thing”, I would be hard pressed to do anything else because it would disappoint my fans.
Hope that answer your question LOL.
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorHey Bas,
Give me a call if you want. I am in Holland too. Better than long typing sessions on my iPad 🙂
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorNo worries m8, I keep unregular hours at best lol. And with this devilishly helpful tool called TeamViewer I could even “look over your shoulder” into your computer. You know, a pictures say more … etx.
Let me know what and we will work out a schedule.
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorIf you like we can take this to a private message session to dig a bit deeper into the matter if you like.
Greetinx,
C.ModeratorI’ve been around the block a few times, but I didn’t know that grounding issues lead to popping sounds. Normally the effect of a grounding issues is noticeable as a 50/60Hz humm in the signal. But, it won’t hurt to try I guess.
I read back to your original post and when I look at the laptop you have, there just shouldn’t be any performance issues. Things like disabling visual themes and desktop composition are nice when you want to run Traktor on an old laptop and you need every ounce of computing power you can get. But not on an i5, 6GB powered modern laptop.
In essence I doubt that performance is an issue here, unless you have some pretty wacky background processes running. You could check buy pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL, then Task Management (hope I am getting the English terms right). There is a performance tab, where you can see what both the CPU and Memory load is.
In conclusion I keep returning to either a sound card driver (setting) issue and/or latency problems. You said you sorted it, but you didn’t say what you sorted and more importantly how.
Greetinx,
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