Fintan Moloney
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Fintan Moloney
ParticipantFlying into Birmingham airport here also on Saturday morning, doesn’t help I’ll be DJing the night before and have to get a bus up to Dublin airport (about 2.5 hour journey) and then the flight over from Ireland. I noticed on the NEC website that it says there is a free train to the nearby train station from the airport and the NEC entrance is in there, didn’t realize it was quite a walk to the back though if its on back there this year as mentioned.
ParticipantI had a look there and saw the Digital DJ Tips lineup for the Saturday, will definitely drop into the workshops 🙂
ParticipantThe NI audio 6 is a fantastic interface so your levels out of that are fine. Same with the sound quality. Next time you are in that situation I’d say look mate your levels are at +6 or whatever how do you expect me to mix into that. I think the only way you can resolve that situation then is chat to the guy before the set and say look can we keep levels around the 0 mark on the mixer. If there needs to be more volume let the club turn their amps up.
ParticipantOne other thing, on your point there about people criticising Digital DJ controllers compared to Pioneer CDJs. That makes no sense so I wouldn’t worry about that, any half way decent controller now runs on a 24 Bit 96Khz sound card on par with CDJs – as long as its hooked up on Balanced Connectors (XLR or Jack) you are up in the same quality.
ParticipantI know this problem, but really DJs pushing things into the red are only making themselves sound bad anyway. Pioneer mixers have a lot of headroom so they can probably pull it off but overall its simple DJ manners. If you are on before somebody else you don’t as I call it ‘redline’ the mixer. In a lot of cases if they are really driving it they are going to hit the limiter in the club which is going make them sound terrible anyway.
Go on after them, you might sound lower but the the dynamic range in your sound will sound way better than a guy hitting the limiter.
ParticipantVCI 400 came with Virtual DJ in the box also so the mapping is built into VDJ for it however I haven’t used that. Its also natively mapped to Serato DJ and I didn’t have to change anything the Serato mapping is fine, once you plug in the controller Serato will detect it and you are all set. I like the integration of the effects with the controller – its very tightly mapped to Serato and I’ve heard good things about VDJ with it also so either should be fine. Try them both out and see which you prefer. I think you can get a free trial of Serato DJ the full version once you have Intro installed but best check the Serato website on that – or someone here might know.
Either way both programs are part of what I call ‘the big 3’ which is Serato, Traktor and VDJ. Incidentally there is Traktor mappings you can download for the controller if you wanted to try Traktor.
ParticipantI use a 13″ rMBP for DJing and I find it nice and handy to carry around to gigs. At work in my day job I often have to service 15″ Macbooks and I find them a bit too big to have to carry to a gig. What you can do if you go for the 13″ rMBP is change the resolution so you get more real estate in Serato.
ParticipantI have a VCI 400 and its been running solid for about 6 months. I use it with Serato DJ which was a free upgrade from Serato Intro in the box. I have also used it with DJay Pro however the inbuilt mapping for that is not great and I’m in process of remapping the whole thing. No complaints with the controller however had to really fine tune the platter sensitivity to get it right for scratching. I’ve done club nights and mobile gigs with the VCI 400 and in scenarios where I use a Microphone the Mic channel works great. The ability to run two external sources through it via the line input is cool also, I run an iPad through there just in case I have PC issues. I’m running Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) and it works fine. So far no issues with drivers or anything like that.
Any questions give me a shout. Have fun !
ParticipantI agree with the above also. I too have a VCI 400 and think its a fantastic controller but I’m aware at some stage something will happen where it won’t be of use anymore due to software changes etc. So in terms of that I’m saving up for a DDJ SX 2 and as your budget is $1000 I’d recommend go for that as I’m sure if you shop around you will get it for just under that.
ParticipantI usually test out my mixes with Serato and see what works well. I then put the mix together in Ableton Live. I master the mix then in Adobe Audition, if its a podcast and I have a few voiceovers / jingles to drop in I do that in Audition, mixdown and then master.
ParticipantI gave up posting mashups on YouTube. Usually when I do a mashup I mashup the videos also so I was getting takedown notices for video content and music content. It was getting to the stage where I’d upload something and literally 10 seconds later there would be 6 or 7 copyright claims. Anyway if you are doing mashups I recommend using Vimeo, they stay up there no problem at all as I have a bunch of them on there.
ParticipantI’d like to head over to that – must check out ticket prices and flights. Phil / Steve / Joey are any of you lads going to be there?
ParticipantApple updates its OS each year to add new features and the fact each new OS is free is awesome. But its always best to stay one generation behind till the audio software catches up. I run Mavericks with Serato and never have a problem with it, but granted it was only officially supported in Serato recently. It seems software is not too much a problem with new OS X updates but watch out for audio hardware, that is where you might run into trouble.
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