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  • November 9, 2016 at 9:30 pm in reply to: Choosing a controller #2463931
    Rob S
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    Out of the two I’ve only owned a Mixtrack Pro, and while the pitch adjustment (in Serato at least) is quite limited, it does everything it says on the tin effectively.

    November 9, 2016 at 9:21 pm in reply to: pioneer ddj sx or ddj rr #2463921
    Rob S
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    x2 on the SX.

    Very well built. The mixer is great, same as a DJM in look and feel. Filter is good. EQs are what you’d expect.

    The jog wheels aren’t up to CDJ standards but they do the job well enough.

    November 9, 2016 at 9:10 pm in reply to: Another Question But Reguarding Edits #2463911
    Rob S
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    Can you expand/better describe what it is you want to achieve? Are you wanting to basically re-arrange songs?

    November 5, 2016 at 9:05 pm in reply to: Musicologist at Oxford Hoping to study copyright and DJing practices #2462771
    Rob S
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    I don’t really have anything to offer, but it’s an interesting post.

    I imagine it’s a lot rarer these days than in the past. Powerful production software is available to anyone nowadays and re-creating a sound heard in a popular record isn’t beyond most experienced producers if they really wanted to. There are even websites that offer the service of re-creating sounds for artists which are technically royalty free but sound the same.

    Taking musical/melodic/harmonic content is presumably a different matter altogether? Because while you’re not taking the recorded sound, you are taking the writers musical notation?

    November 5, 2016 at 8:58 pm in reply to: pioneer ddj sx or ddj rr #2462761
    Rob S
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    I have a Mk1 SX (gonna sell it soon coincidentally!) and it’s a nice bit of kit.

    With those two options, it really comes down to whether you will get more use out of 4 channels + 2 mics or the fancy extras on the RR (DVS support, sequencer). I personally would choose the SX as the standalone mixer is more useful to me.

    November 5, 2016 at 12:48 am in reply to: Which Controller? DDJ-SX2 / DDJ-SZ / Mixon 4 #2462711
    Rob S
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    Another thing is that Traktor is more and more closing it’s ecosystem. This might mean (assumption, but based on signals from Traktor) that a next major software upgrade MIGHT stop supporting third-party hardware altogether.

    ^this

    There seem to be divisions happening with manufactures aligning (or divorcing) themselves with certain software.

    I’ve not yet had the pleasure of playing with this, but a wildcard if you fancy an all-in-one: http://www.denondj.com/mcx8000

    November 5, 2016 at 12:44 am in reply to: Gear Protection and Cable Management #2462701
    Rob S
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    Zip-tie the common ends together perhaps? The mixer ends of your XLRs for example.

    November 5, 2016 at 12:42 am in reply to: Mixer along Traktor X1 mk2 #2462691
    Rob S
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    If you’re in it for Traktor long-haul, then the Z2 would be an obvious catch-all.

    https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/traktor/dj-mixer/traktor-kontrol-z2/

    November 5, 2016 at 12:41 am in reply to: Mixer along Traktor X1 mk2 #2462681
    Rob S
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    As above, you need an interface between your controller – mixer – laptop.

    I have an X1 and it’s a lovely piece of kit, barely used it though as like you I’ve not currently got a mixer I want to use it with. I have the NI Audio 2 soundcard into the mixer on my controller, which does its job but I instantly regretted not getting a proper one; it’s like a crappy little plastic thing designed for people who want to DJ with an iPad really.

    Tale Of Us use (predominantly from what I’ve seen) a Xone 92 with Traktor X1s and CDJ timecode CDs, connected up with an NI Audio 8 (bear in mind there’s two of them so 2 channels each, an X1 each, and a laptop (presumably midi clocked to each other) each. This would probably be my ideal setup, but I’m forever experimenting and saving for/buying new gear.

    November 5, 2016 at 12:34 am in reply to: Small Mixer with Dj Gear??? #2462671
    Rob S
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    Not sure on this one, I feel like I’d need to play with the setup to understand what was what.

    Where are the gains at?

    November 5, 2016 at 12:31 am in reply to: First (impromptu) gig #2462661
    Rob S
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    The photos don’t do it the slightest justice, it was absolutely packed from back to front, with everyone facing us and dancing like lunatics.
    Bergen

    November 5, 2016 at 12:27 am in reply to: First (impromptu) gig #2462651
    Rob S
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    Thanks for the reply! I was definitely over-thinking it, I had a ball.

    They were silver CDJs with the very basic bar-like waveform, 850s perhaps? They had a USB slot. But luckily for me, someone had left an XDJ-RX controller in the booth so I used that, which is as close to modern CDJs as I know and the mixer even has the same effects as the DJM900, so it was easy in that sense. I also Rekordbox’d my tunes and I am literally wondering why I’ve never done that before!

    I ended up warming up for about 3 hours, 9-midnight, half of that to an almost empty room and played largely mellow, deep house records and it was probably about right, before throwing down some more techy house stuff as people were entering.

    The main DJ was very good and the crowd were amazing, really into it and we really partied along with them. I played another half hour at peak time and my little set absolutely ignited the place, then we played a few back to back. We got shut down at 3am and were getting chanted at “one more song!” and everyone coming up to us asking for Facebook/Soundcloud. Easily the most fun I’ve had behind the decks.

    I recorded it but I must not have set it up right as sadly it’s a squawky mess.

    tl;dr: smashed it, loved every minute of it, going back in 2 weeks to play again.

    November 5, 2016 at 12:18 am in reply to: making that transition #2462631
    Rob S
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    EQ is your friend. I barely use the channel faders (I don’t use the x-fader ever, even though I learned that way back in the day). The easiest (simplest) method is to bring in the incoming track with the lows removed, then pick an opportune time to “swap” the lows from the outgoing out as your bring the lows of the other in. A lot of tunes I mix have a little 4 or 8 beat break just before the “main” outro begins which is perfect for this. You can extend this to the mids and highs too. There is an art to it though.

    I’d love to see a DJ mixer with 5 EQs or a parametric EQ, but perhaps that would be overc-complicating

    Who remembers a mixer back in the early 00s with a “tri-fader”?!

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    November 5, 2016 at 12:12 am in reply to: music organization #2462621
    Rob S
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    I collect the odd piece of vinyl, but my music is pretty much all digital and I’m guilty of not backing it up now you come to mention it.

    As for organising it, I have a constant battle trying to decide how to do it. I use regular Windows files and folders and generally make up a playlist per specific event (I don’t play out often, sadly). It’s a bit of a mess of duplicates though unfortunately as I copy songs into “mix” folders for monthly online mixes, and I rename with with a letter at the beginning to sort them into the order I want to play them, but these tend to get all the tags and hot cues and updated tags, etc, but I still tend to go back to my core library when I play out, so it’s all disjointed.

    I will have to settle on a better method soon…

    November 5, 2016 at 12:08 am in reply to: School DJ Club Events #2462611
    Rob S
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    Broadcasting video live is popular, maybe get a few people together on a regular night and throw a little Facebook live session to garner additional interest?

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