Henry

Fressure, post: 18674, member: 1111 wrote: You blew ALL your speakers? Wow

They weren’t mine they where the schools (thankfully) and the left one started making the humming noise first then the right then the both just went out and made a terrible noise. The dj that was helping me said that the left has always had trouble, I guess they both just gave. I hope he invest in new speakers before I do a gig there in 2 weeks.

Side Quest, post: 18277, member: 1884 wrote: First of: great selection of music and some sweet fx. That part is solid.
Something to think of is that your soundlevels get a wee bit low when you mix from one song to the other. Let them ride together for a while longer. That way they add more to the mix. If one song has too short of an intro then loop it and bring it in at a low level, work it in.

You really got something going. Just try to keep the levels up a bit. Big like on the outdoors setup, btw what gear is that?

Thanks man I will try my best to keep a good ear out next time. My outdoor setup isn’t really my permanent one I just moved the shit from my bedroom outside because it was nice outside. My setup is Scs.4DJ, Numark Redwaves, and a set of KRK Rokit 6’s (which I won in a mix contest :D)

GregSweet, post: 18257, member: 1523 wrote: Nice. Looks like you know your way around your controller. The second track should’ve had more volume. More vocal tracks?

Thanks really not that hard to work. I started out on the mixtrack just making countless mixes spending countless hours on that thing. Really once I picked up the scs.4dj the controls where not that different besides the display screen.

Dayvue, post: 17029, member: 837 wrote: Well first, congratulations on getting a chance to play! You need to figure out how to connect to an amp (I presume that your school doesn’t have their own mixer because it’s well.. a school). Most amps take either an XLR (has three prongs and a pretty large diameter) in or a 1/4 inch TRS (like an ipod jack, but bigger), and you need to figure out how to plug your controller into that. What are the outs on your controller?

Thanks It has TRS, and RCA outputs. I will be dj’ing 1 school dance (6th 7th and 8th) and 1 rising 6th grade dance (5th graders). Which should be off the hook /sarcasm.

Phil Morse, post: 14843, member: 2 wrote: Back to the instruction manual, it sounds like a sound setup issue.

Looks like there is a problem with the crossfader, I will have to send it back to stanton for repair /:

Phil Morse, post: 12499, member: 2 wrote: The headphones are MEANT to play you only one deck and different from the main output, as this is how they’re used for cueing.

So if I had speakers it would play both decks like I would want it too?

Yuki Sorrelwood, post: 12108, member: 1092 wrote: Well let me tell you this, beat matching is a skill you MUST have. I went to a club with a friend to DJ with him and the first thing i noticed is that there was no BPM counter or display with waveforms to show if my tracks were synced. But because I know how to beat match by ear I was 100% fine. Well first off you might be able to learn with your MIDI you had before you got the SCS 4 DJ. I use Virtual DJ to refine my beat matching skills, your able to see the waveforms and control both decks like vinyl. The best way to really learn with a MIDI controller is to set up a song you know on deck 1 and then have someone pick a random song to mix into. Place that on deck 2 and randomly start the song. With out looking at the computer at all, work the pitch until you notice that they sound to be at the same speed. Once you have them around the same speed either turn deck 2 forwards or slow it until you hear one bass kick. Now don’t think you will get it right on the first time, or even the 10th time. Every DJ out there can tell you that beat matching with out digital displays is not an exact art, you can be 0.3% off on the pitch and your tracks will fall out of beat. Heck, even I will notice when I am fading out that my track happen to fall very slightly behind. But that is the human element, its what makes us DJs and not a computer. Your very young and you might get tired of trying and failing, but dont worry. In the long run beat matching is one of the primal skills you will use. And no one likes watching a DJ push one button and have his computer do all the work, you will end up looking like your checking your e-mail not DJing. I have messed with they Sync buttons, they make beat matching easy. They do not work out all the problems. Beat matching goes farther then just getting the bass kicks in sync, you also have to adjust the sound to keep from droping the volume from one track to the next, or blasting the floor when you hit that crossfader. You also have to adjust the EQ settings to keep one bass kick from “eating” the other. But that is all second skills you will learn from beat matching. Oh and a very handy tip is to turn your entire DJ set up around, stop facing the wall. 90% of all bedroom DJs I have seen are facing walls! WHY?!?!?! When you get up on a stage your not facing a wall, your looking at a crowd. Your best bet to fix it is to get a L-shaped desk. No need to be fancy, I picked on up at target for just over $60, and its big enough that I can set up 2 CD decks, a mixer, and a laptop or iMac all on it and have PLENTY of room. But the point is that you need to stop facing a wall, you dont see DJs facing walls in clubs, so why do it at home?

Once again thanks for responding, I will definitely try to to learn to beat match properly.