NewportDJ Drew

Great tip bro.

Rokits are fine for bedroom and production.

I use cruise control as my ‘warm up dj’ in a sense. Dj Cruise runs the mealtime music set (most of my gigs usually start with guests sitting down and eating)

No worries. I have got used to it mostly. Keeps me on my toes!

No there isn’t!! I have already contacted NI over this! They claim it is a feature. It makes me irate if I forget the rules of cruise mode……
Here are the rules.

Turn up only 1 fader to the max, which will be most current deck playing BEFORE turning cruise mode on. Even if you don’t the software fader will max out so you may as well replicate in hardware and compensate with gain and master volume controls at the same time so crowd doesn’t notice.
Only adjust master volume while in cruise mode.
Do not touch ANY faders while in cruise mode.
Turn off cruise mode BEFORE you touch any fader.
All deck faders in traktor software WILL MAX OUT when you turn cruise mode off!

One thing new ‘night shifters’ don’t realise is you need to make your routine as close to a daytime one as you can get. If you start work at 9pm then it is easy to reverse your day! Lets start at your wake up time. Wake at 7pm and follow a morning routine, eg the 3 s’s (shower shave), then breakfast. When midnight comes it’s lunchtime! When you finish at 4am, *and this is very important* do not go straight to bed. Stay up for a few hours Have dinner at 6-7 am. Goto bed at around 10-11 am. Sleep til 7pm.

Yep good old tandy! and I had two of these… One was a diamond pick up the other was a sapphire. I also custom built a coffin, using a jigsaw and template so I could mount the turntables directly. Also built my own amp (from a kit) , speaker boxes and a lights controller(also a kit-musicolor4).

I use the sm58, But my voice sounds great with it. Maybe try the beta 58 for it’s neodymium magnet that gives a stronger output.