Benny Mackney

StoreDJ.com.au

They have physical stores in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. I live in Canberra, so I’ve been dealing with them via Internet and sometimes phone. The staff (in the Mel and Syd stores at least, don’t think I’ve talked to Bris) are the most helpful and friendly guys I’ve ever talked to. I’m not even exaggerating, they are just so awesome. They’ll give you tech support, advise you on what sort of gear you might need (they saved me from all kinds of trouble by suggesting I buy some some TS cables as well as RCA, which I hadn’t even considered). They were more than happy to replace my headphones when one side randomly died mid-use, I just mailed them up and they mailed a working pair back.

10/10 for them!

Emma Partnow, post: 2126 wrote: SoundCloud is my Main Source for Audio these days as I like to Promote New Producers; and the ‘Discovery’ of Audio ‘Outside Of The Mainstream’ is something I find Really Exciting 🙂

I understand that one! I love some of the less well known stuff. There’s always some really unique sounds out there.

I also buy a lot of tunes off Beatport (only recently started buying music legitimately, so about half of my purchases thus far have been rebuying tracks I love).

My IT teacher let us listen to music (headphones/ear buds, of course) during class, which is pretty awesome. We aren’t even supposed to have phones/iPods out of our lockers at school. Unfortunately, we’re getting a new teacher next semester (next time I go back to class, basically. Just finished exams).

You’ll find a use for them once you have them to play with. You can throw loops in there too. As for the waveforms, they obviously can’t show you everything that’s going on. There’s no replacement for knowing your tracks.

There is no such thing as a stupid question 😛 As far as any audio routing questions go, the answer is usually “Yes, you can do that”, though it might also involve some tricky cabling or software. I know that VDJ has a mode for this (the idea being that you use a splitter cable to run audio to headphones and a sound system). No idea about Serato, but if it doesn’t have a mode for this, you could use some splitters to build that sort of signal externally. I can draw diagrams for you if you have trouble figuring it out 😛

Yeah, the case is HEAVY. Definitely solid though. The laptop stand will slide right off unless you flip down this plastic clip thingy to hold it steady. You’ll want to keep it with you though, because it has a piece of foam velcro’d under it to hold the S4 in all the foam padding it sits in down the bottom. The “bottom” has rubber feet on it, so it’ll stand on the lid pretty firmly. I’d be worried about what the lid is sitting on. The rim of the lid isn’t exactly designed for sitting firmly like the rubber feet are.

If you want any detailed pics of the case, just ask and I’ll get some for you.

Gadabout, post: 1337 wrote: “Can you play the ‘Birthday’ song!!…..you know….the one with 50 Cent”

Ohh, “In Da Club”. That took me a minute of frantic mental searching.

U31, post: 1280 wrote: Defected accapellas do a really good selection… Google ‘Em

Thanks =) All seems to be commercial though. I was thinking freebies.

Emma Partnow, post: 1282 wrote: this 3rd Source of Audio can even come from a Games Console; or even a Portable CD Player (as long as it connects to your Mixer);
And on your 2nd Question regarding Vocals; I use a site called Acapellas4u
acapellas4u.co.uk

I’ve got Traktor Pro 2 and a Kontrol S4, so I have plenty of decks/sample decks available. Good ideas though! I can take in live audio, I have a few inputs on the back of the S4. I’ll keep an eye out for “interesting” sources.

The URL you gave me isn’t working 🙁 I Googled them, and you’ve definitely given me the right address. I suspect that their site might be donw. I’ll try later 🙂