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DJ Chris Bush

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  • August 23, 2015 at 12:01 am in reply to: Djay Pro resetting sound effects #2244121
    DJ Chris Bush
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    Check if you selected the right deck in the midi mapping.

    August 6, 2015 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Easiest program to learn DJ + Newbie questions. #2235941
    DJ Chris Bush
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    If you have a Mac try Djay Pro. It has a 14 day trial period and I can recommend it especially to beginners. You won’t get confused by too many options and can mix right away. For me it doesn’t lack any features compared to other software. It also natively supports the Mixtrack II. Hook it up and you’re ready to go.

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    August 6, 2015 at 2:49 pm in reply to: Headphones #2235921
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    I bought a pair of HD-25 II and never made up my mind about headphones again.

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    August 6, 2015 at 2:45 pm in reply to: switching from mobile #2235911
    DJ Chris Bush
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    Simple question. Do you write invoices?

    August 6, 2015 at 10:50 am in reply to: switching from mobile #2235441
    DJ Chris Bush
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    About the promoters who booked you and didn’t pay.

    Always write a short email to the person/company who books you:

    “Thanks you for your booking. I repeat our verbal agreement. I will DJ on the “date” at “place” from “start time” until “end time” The agreed on fee will be XXX€. Please confirm this booking via email.

    I’m not an English speaker, but you get the point.

    You play the gig and send the invoice. The promoter has to pay now if he doesn’t you can start sending reminders and consider legal actions. It doesn’t matter how many people come to the event, what kind of music you play or how good or bad your mixing is. You made a contract and you delivered the service. Your fee is completely independent from the success of the event. If you sucked you won’t get booked again, but they still owe you the fee.

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    August 6, 2015 at 10:14 am in reply to: Difference between Mixtape & Podcast? #2235281
    DJ Chris Bush
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    What’s funny is that the name “podcasts” stuck but very few people use iPods to listen to them any more.

    August 5, 2015 at 9:15 pm in reply to: Beer Spilled/Projectiles: How to Protect your Macbook/Laptop and Gears #2234751
    DJ Chris Bush
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    I have a contract where it says the organizer of the venue is liable for damages to my equipment by guests.
    Other than that I always put my MacBook on a stand so at least table spills won’t cause any damage.
    Talk to the guy whose responsible for the event. If you rock the crowd for free the least he can do is vouch for your laptop.

    I had a high class, well paid event where a drunk lady wanted to pour champagne into my controller because she didn’t like the song I was playing. I could stop her, but in case of any damage I would have held the bar owner responsible.

    August 2, 2015 at 2:22 am in reply to: Any quality difference of tracks between DJ pools and online stores? #2232411
    DJ Chris Bush
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    You can always do a spectral analysis of the track. If you have cut-offs at 16khz or 18khz it’s usually a transcode and not lossless.

    I use a little app called Spek http://spek.cc to identify transcodes.

    July 23, 2015 at 5:37 pm in reply to: Why do you publish my email? #2228401
    DJ Chris Bush
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    Thanks for the support. I sent you a full screenshot with the issue.

    July 23, 2015 at 10:17 am in reply to: mp3/aac/flac/ %#$! #2228061
    DJ Chris Bush
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    When you record something it’s always good to use a lossless copy (FLAC, ALAC) because at some point the recording will be encoded to a mp3 or aac. Never transcode lossy to lossy because you can actually hear the difference.

    For playback V0, 256AAC or 320 is all fine. It’s transparent to the lossless master. People will tell you that they have better equipment or golden ears and can hear a difference. The same people who claim they can hear 24Bit or 96khz.
    It’s all rubbish and all of them fail in ABX tests
    So iTunes tracks are perfectly fine on any(!) system as long as you don’t reencode them in a recording.

    Don’t play 128 Soundcloud or Youtube rips though.

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