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ParticipantIf you’re using DVS then get jiggy with loops. They’re incredibly helpful.
ParticipantDell Latitude E5520, i5-2520m @ 2.5 Ghz, 1080p screen, 8gb RAM, 240gb SSD, 4 x USB 2 ports and HDMI out. It boots to Windows in around 10 seconds and I’m considering sticking a back lit keyboard in it at some point. It’s fast, sturdy, reliable and runs fairly cool. Plus the 4 USB 2.0 ports add extra win.
ParticipantAdding my tuppence,
I’m using a Dell also, Latitude e5520, and it’s pretty top notch. An i5 CPU, 1080p screen and 4 usb2 slots. Better spec and half the price of a Mac. I added a ssd just because I can 🙂
Yes Windows machines need a touch of configuration magic as opposed to Macs, but they’re equally as reliable and the configuration thing is only an issue if you plan on plugging something different into it every gig. As for looks, do you want to showcase your laptop or actually play music and make ladies gyrate suggestively? 😉ParticipantA friend of mine in the know phoned me up at half 9 in the evening offering me an emergency gig at a local club coz their resident had gone off sick. I needed to get my skates on and be there for 10pm, finish at 3am. Bearing in mind *they* needed me and I was also cosy on the sofa with the missus at that precise moment, I asked how much they were paying.
£10 an hour came the reply.
I lol’d and turned the tv volume back up. Gentlemen, the moral of this story is that your good lady is always worth more than £10 an hour 😉
November 15, 2012 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Do you think digital djing makes djs play out to soon??? #31925ParticipantD-Jam, post: 32056, member: 3 wrote:
I’ve seen guys who learn the basics of beatmatching and they run out to play. They have no clue how to open or even how to play to a crowd. They just want their moment to be in the booth and pretend it’s like the fantasies they make of DJing.Good grief, this ^
ParticipantI use a 500gb aData SH93 external drive for storage and it’s nowhere near full. They do a usb 3 flavour of that drive, different designation though. I never DJ off my external, that simply mirrors my internal had and is for back up only. Every DJ I know with large capacity external drives that they filled never has a clue what’s on them 🙂
ParticipantNice work, more practise and you will feel the beats flowing into each other no problem. Using a monitor speaker isn’t a prerequisite, some venues don’t have them but using split cue on your cans is a big help if your mixer supports it. Left deck in left ear, right deck in the right ear.
Has saved me no end of times.ParticipantAnd lucky. Every single big name DJ has been fantastically lucky, regardless of whether or not they’re any good. There is also the factor of it’s not what you know, but who you know.
ParticipantThere are a lot more variables involved with regard to how good music will sound in a club environment than simply the source file format. On a good set of studio reference monitors or headphones you might notice the difference between lossy and lossless formats, on 99% of club sound installations you will not.
Participant*shrug *
My lappy was old news when I bought it and I can buy at least two much better quality Windows laptops than the one I got for the price of one bog standard Mac in any case, which should last me about 8 years in total of hardcore use. An 8 year old Mac’s resale value is largely due to its museum piece status. I’m not a windows fanboi, never really liked it if I’m honest, but tweaking a Win7 install takes a couple of hours tops and I just do not see the point in paying twice the price for something unless it does a particular task. Case in point, my mate went for a Mac but he uses it to write music and the prog he uses, Logic, only works Mac’s.
I agree that it’s down to personal preference, but I don’t buy people thinking they can do more than I can just because they have a Mac. They’re no more bug, accident or crash free than any other computer.ParticipantMacs are supposed to be technically better and if you have that amount of cash to burn then fair play. However I have yet to see a Mac do anything a much cheaper windows lappy can do. It all depends if you feel that paying twice the price is worth what an hour or so of research online for windows configuration can do.
Personally I’m getting a reconditioned Dell machine for my next laptop. My last windows machine has lasted me 3 years of solid weekend gigging without issue.
October 21, 2012 at 7:54 am in reply to: Getting better sound in your dj sets (Tony Andrews interview) #1014106Participant320kbps MP3’s are sufficient for playing on virtually any sound system on the planet. 99% of the the punters aren’t going to notice, plus you also have to factor in room acoustics and stuff. Besides, the chances of any of us playing on such an expensive and perfect setup that someone with ears like a bat *might* notice the difference are limited at best.
ParticipantThe problem with club and bar owners is that the majority of them are complete idiots. I had one club owner storm into the DJ booth screaming “play rnb nobody wants to listen to this play rnb now!!!”. The 400 people I had pogo dancing to the Prodigy were obviously just a figment of my imagination. It’s very rare to play in a club or bar were the owner(s) will actually let you judge the crowd for yourself.
ParticipantStarted on a pair of Terralec belt drive decks with a cheap mixer in ’94, upgraded to my sl1200’s with an Intimidation Blue mixer in ’97, upgraded the mixer to a Vestax PMC35 Pro a few years after that. By that time I was using CD’s and vinyl to gig with, and in 2009 I watched a bloke DJ on Technics decks with Traktor and that was me sold. The biggest pain in the arse was ripping my entire CD collection to MP3, took me the summer of ’09 to do it.
ParticipantI got hired to DJ 7 nights a week at a club round the corner from where I lived. Got paid £180 a week for that, more money than I had ever seen before at that point.
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