James Willmott

Thank you guys. As ever preparation is the key I guess. I find it very hard with those sort of situations where you really don’t know what’s going to work until you get there. For example I had built up to a full dance floor at around 12 at which point I thought some contemporary pop would go down well – uptown funk etc. they were not into it at all so I had to change direction but it meant there was a very big chunk of music I had been relying upon that was now gone.

Found a solution on the serato forum. You have to set the beat marker at the last correct point, not the first incorrect one and then adjust forward. All pretty simple after a little practice.

Sorry, thank you bhy as well!

I guess if nothing else I could have a laptop and twitch going into the 3rd channel on the mixer and he could have channels 1 and 2 hooked up to his laptop and 1210s. But you are saying with a faderfox (will have to find out what that is) we could both control the same laptop – him with 1210s and me with the Twitch? It’s not the path I was originally considering but must admit now I’ve seen it, the portability, size, affordability and most importantly simplicity of the twitch are very appealing. Maybe I should pursuade my dj partner to ditch the 1210s too – we could sell them all and buy some good speakers with the money!

Thanks Terry, good points, as I’ve said i’m not married to the 1210s and think a solution involving them is possibly too expensive and frankly unnecessary.

I have a completely irrational dislike for controllers with jogwheels – they always look like toys to me. So I’m thinking second hand Novation Twitch – have seen them on ebay for £250. That’s within budget, doesn’t seem like a compromise either – it’ll do everything I need and more at home AND will be a really nice addition to my friend’s Serato setup. And to my mind it looks very cool and like it’s a lot of fun to play with, which is important of course! Think this is a reasonable choice?