Todd Oddity
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Todd Oddity
ParticipantOverpriced – absolutely. I refuse to play along with the Pioneer tax game, and have no problem smacking down anyone who blindly goes on about “the quality”.
Overrated – that’s more of a debate. Others will pipe in here quickly calling CDJs outdated and whatnot. I view them a little differently – I think they are lovely control units to play on. Nice big weight adjustable jogs, clear displays, good selection of buttons that I can map out as I need them with my software, and on the newest incarnation we’re even getting closer to them having “pads”. I like playing on them. They feel nice. So in that regard I can’t really say they are overrated.
However I would never even consider buying a pair* because of the price of the stupid things. WAAAAY too much money to spend on what I use as a controller. Can’t really recommend them to anyone else either. For significantly less money you can get similar features elsewhere.
That’s my input. Now bring on the haters. lol
* Okay I considered it once, but came to my senses.
ParticipantNot sure where this would fall with exchange rates, but on the budget you’re talking about your options for new gear are a little limited. Phono preamps tend to be the stuff of the more high end gear.
That said, the American Audio VMS4.1 would tick most of your boxes. I’m personally not a fan, but I do have a couple of friends with them and they’ve been very happy with the units.
ParticipantIt’s a full nickle now here in Canada. We dumped the penny a few years ago! lol
ParticipantHi Mark – need a little more info from you. Are you using a controller? What are your headphones plugged into?
ParticipantI don’t think I agree with your laptop pros and cons – my laptop has 1.5 tb of solid state storage, and is expandable to 4 (not that I would ever need close to that much), so internal storage is hardly limited. No external drives are needed. It also has far more memory than any DJ package could possibly need (16gigs), and has more than enough graphics capability to handle any video task I might throw at it.
ParticipantI agree with Grant, if you really feel the Denon unit has the features you want, then that is the direction you should go. The MCX8000 looks frickin’ sweet too. It might just be the all-in-one that wins me back from my modular setup. But I digress… When you get a booking, one of two things is likely to happen:
– If the venue you want to play at has a modern setup, then you’d be able to connect your laptop to it and keep on using Serato (complete with any cue points you’ve set).
– If the venue you want to play at does not have a modern setup, then you bring in your own controller and just ignore their equipment.ParticipantI have two computers in my studio – one with my DJ software that is connected to all my DJ gear, and the second is just connected to the master outputs from my mixer. This second computer has software for recording and editing, as well as a program for broadcasting.
The biggest issue is what type of system the station is using. In my case the station is using ShoutCast technology and I connect with a program called EdCast. Once you know what they are using, it will narrow down how to go about connecting.
ParticipantGenerally speaking you can have different audio programs on the same machine, just don’t try and use them at the same time or you risk crashes due to device conflicts.
ParticipantIf it’s at a club they likely have some kind of mixer or sound board for DJs to connect to – so just both plug into an open channel on that and have at ‘er!
If they don’t, track down either a small live board that has two stereo input channels (or four mono) and plug each controller into that, or track down an extra DJ mixer and use two line-ins to get the job done.
Failing all of that, daisy chain – S4 into a line-in on your SX, then your SX into the master PA. This is not the best solution, but it will work in a pinch.
Good luck!
ParticipantIf you catch your error while live recording…
Step One:
– If you bugger a mix up, pause recording on Audacity
– rewind your deck to about 30 seconds before your mix point
– unpause Audacity, record a few seconds of silence, then restart your deck
– continue with your mixStep Two:
– when done recording, find the blank space you inserted after the bad mix
– find a spot before mix starts that has a distinct looking waveform
– delete everything after that spot through to the blank space
– now go into your second attempt at the mix, find that distinct part of the waveform
– zoom in a lot, pick a point that you can see on both waveforms
– cut each one at that point, delete all the part in the middle, stick the two sides of the blank together and give it a listenFirst few times will seem like a huge pain, but once you get the hang of it you’ll be able to splice things in and out pretty quickly. I used to have to do this a lot to shorten mixes down for the radio (pull out an extra verse here and there). Remember to save your project before you start with the slicing & dicing in case it doesn’t go well, and again after you are happy with it.
Hope that all made sense. Good luck!
ParticipantAs I said, it should have caught it. It may have been a wonky install. Try this:
– do a complete uninstall of 8 from your system
– double check that everything is how you like it in 7
– back up your version 7 database file (don’t want to lose that if everything goes off the rails)
– do a full clean install of version 8If that doesn’t catch it then there may be something wonky in your 7 database and I’d suggest opening a support ticket with Atomix and have a tech look into it (they have ways they can force a database scan).
Let us know how it goes.
Participant^ Hilary, that’s for pulling Serato cue points. Virtual 7 cue points are all stored in the database file, not in tags on the mp3 file.
ParticipantHi Tony.
The process should be automatic. So first a few questions: What do you mean by “I set cue points on my songs in iTunes on my Numark N4 using VirtualDJ LE”? Virtual and iTunes are completely different programs so what you’re saying doesn’t quite make sense.
ParticipantYou sound like you are describing the cue-mix feature found on a lot of mixers. It should work as you described.
It might have just been broken on the mixer you were using, or possibly you had levels set incorrectly? If you have channels cranked and master down (or vice-versa) the cue-mix feature wouldn’t work properly.
ParticipantI never realize anything. Ever. It’s part of my charm. 😉
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