Milos Djordjevic

Don’t worry about English my friend, you have better English than some of my posts and I’m a native speaker.

Take for instance filters , most commonly you have +- 100%. with standard 7 bit midi you have 127 cc notes to send to the software, that means you have 63 increments to control 100 degrees of change in one direction, see the problem? This logic goes for EQs, FXs, pitch control, and even jog wheels were its the easiest to notice.

the iTunes integration is a breeze, it only comes with vdj and serato dj intro , you can pick up traktor pro for about $80 whhich is about less than hald of the price of other “Pro” sowftware

I’m usually one to cut before I boost an EQ but bringing the mids out to 1-2 o’clock could help you make vocals stand out during a mix, you could also just increase your channel gain if you feel it doesn’t have enough “presence”. Just as you cut some bass in one track to make room for the other the same idea can apply to the highs, sometimes rhythms will be set by a clap or something up in that frequency range so be mindful of both extremes of the spectrum.

Really sorry to hear how much you got screwed over, it could have happened to anybody. I work as a sound guy at a local place in Philly and it seems to me that if I’m assuming this correctly that he hooked 2 of your RCAs into 1 mic lead, there are 2 problems with that scenario, if it was a mic lead and not line level XLR then automatically 1 RCA would clip the preamp as RCA is line level, 2 would drive that into the red even if it was a line level XLR. There are a few ways to get around that on his end but seem lazy and just unprofessional. Now since your running with a controller most likely your volume knob controls the master volume in your software, you want that to be up a good amount so that your signal gets the full dynamic range since your sound card is converting a digital signal to an analog one, just don’t clip your digital signal, it sounds really bad!
To kind of relate, at one of my first gigs my school gave me gear was wasn’t even usable, good thing I came early and knew how to set-up a mixing board or i would have done for. Got the music going just as people were walking in, Traktor then froze on me a few minutes later but thats another story.

In personally wouldn’t have Christmas music be more than 30 – 50% of your set, people will get tired of the tunes just like shoppers do in when they’re in stores around the holidays for too long. Definatley interactive song always go well at these type of gigs ie electric sldie, cupid shuffle, possibly “The wobble”

Maybe be a bit old but forever young by jay-z could fit, i just remember that being at my prom back in high school. Don’t stop believing can never do you wrong also.

Watch out for the corners getting “boomy” as a lot of the low frequencies can get trapped there as they’re less directional than the mids and tops. I did a bar the other night and preferred one headphone and one open ear (I was setup next to one of my speakers) to hear my mixes. The headphone served to basically let me hear the upper end as the woofer was maybe 4 feet from my head!