bob6397

24 bit is now the “industry standard” – it’s what studios record in and what they output as. BUT unless you are mixing (As in studio mixing) 10’s (or 100’s) of tracks together, you won’t notice the difference when DJing.

What 24bit or 16bit refers to is the amount of different levels each sample of audio can be at – the higher the bitrate and the higher the sample rate then the closer you get to the original, analogue, sound. When DJing however, no one will be able to tell the difference between a decent 16bit soundcard and a decent 24bit soundcard.

The bitdepth has nothing to do with output volume.

bob6397

When talking about sound quality, I would not play anything less than a 320kbps MP3 or a 256kbps AAC file when DJing… Lower than that, over a half-decent PA system is not gonna sound it’s best..

My experience with Soundcloud though is that if the artists offers a download it tends to be a 320kbps MP3.. Not seen any which are lower..

Here at DDJT fully recommend that you pay for all your tracks – unless specifically offered by the Artist themselves as a free download. Any other form of downloading is illegal and is considered to be beyond bad practice as a DJ – you make money from their music do you not? Then pay for it (at 99p per track there are no excuses..).

bob6397

It will reset once the 30 days is up – it will use the built in calendar in your pc to work it out – but it as actually 30 different days on which you open it – so if you only open it every other day it will last 60 days.

BUT I cannot offer anything (unfortunately) to help further as I am now on VDJ8 and I rebuilt a couple of months ago so I don’t even still have my old install handy to check things… I suspect this is where your problems are coming from though. And, whilst it is fine to use it whilst you are DJing at home, you are not allowed to use it when you Dj out properly (btw how are you using your controller? Do you restart it every 10 mins?)

bob6397

My CD’s are all on a huge shelf in the front room… hidden up high getting in the way..

I have ripped them all into my personal (not my DJ) itunes library so I don’t use them any more…

bob6397

I believe that is what he said in the video, Brian.. Turns out that even Phil makes an occasional typo!! 😉

First of all, whereabouts in the world are you? This is a multi-national forum and the word “Prom” means different things depending on where you are – for me, here in the UK, a prom means a bit of background music for a meal followed by some loud banging pop tunes interspersed with a few disco classics (S Club 7, YMCA, Macarena etc,) – in which case I wouldn’t be too worried. Everyone there is there to dance and have a good time.

I would play a variety of genre’s of music – as a general rule of thumb, try changing genre every 15 mins (even if it is subtle changes each time, it needs to be noticeable), with a few of the “Classics” – even if they haven’t mentioned any, there will be some – and keep the flow going, up, down, up, down, bpm and genre wise (IE go from a bit of club house to some deep house to drop the atmosphere a bit as well as giving the bpm’s some flow (in many ways changing genre deals with the bpm’s for you) – this gives your next drop into some louder more in-your-face music a bit more of a punch!

Having said that though, I have never actually done a Prom over here – not even my own – as I already had a date in the diar when they asked me to – but I have a fairly good idea of what one (over here at least) involves…

bob6397

I doubt that there is a mapping already out there for the orbit (as I understand it, it hasn’t sold much in the pro world) but if you can get your head round the mappers in Traktor, it should be possible.

The only issue which may arise is if the controllers are set to use the same midi channels for different controls – thi may cause interference but Traktor should be able to deal with it.

So, yes, but only if you program the orbit yourself (the mapping section in Traktor, although notoriously hard to use, should let you do this.

bob6397

Depends on what kind of a DJ you are and how much beatmatching you do and if large bpm changed are expected in your given genre.

For example, I work as a (sort-of-it’s a very specific audience) mobile DJ – in an hour, I would be expected to go from 115bpm to 160bpm and back down again – but I don’t have to beatmatch anything so it’s easier to move up and down bpms.

Alternatively, some DJ’s (particularly in very specific genre scenes) would expect to go from 120bpm to 125 in a 2 hr set!!

So it depends on your genre.

BUT a few tips would be to:

– Never speed up/slow down a track by more than 2/3% if you can help it (tracks start to sound weird after this point)
– If you want to beatmatch a 120bpm track into one which is 123 and then into one which is 125, remember that you can speed up/slow down track whilst they are playing (do it slowly though!) in order to make it work. So, in this case, I would speed the 120 up to 122 for the first mix, then speed the 123 up to 124 for the 2nd mix, and so on. (If that makes sense)

So it doesn’t matter what bpm range you have in your crates – I actually arrange my tracks by bpm as opposed to genre anyway as I cover from 80 all the way to 160 and it is easy to find the tracks I want to play next that way – but rather it matters what you are expected to play. If you are a house club DJ, I wouldn’t expect you to have anything below 120 bpm but if you were a deep house DJ I wouldn’t expect you necessarily to have anything above 120..

bob6397