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  • November 18, 2016 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Controller for Ipad #2467151
    DJ Tucker
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    Wego 3 or 4 will do you perfectly. I used a wego 3 for a year on both my ipad and my macbook and was always happy with the sound quality and performance. If you want a crazy supercharged verson, look at the beatpad.

    June 24, 2016 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Really Seth Troxler? #2412081
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    I guess my own bias is that I don’t get to mix house sets (or mini sets) too often so, when I do, I always have fun beatmatching, and even trainwrecking, by ear. I still buy new cars with manual gearboxes though…

    June 24, 2016 at 3:56 am in reply to: First gig #2411461
    DJ Tucker
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    Spin Northern Soul all night.

    June 24, 2016 at 3:55 am in reply to: Really Seth Troxler? #2411451
    DJ Tucker
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    It’s so easy to learn to beatmatch with digital gear I don’t understand why someone wouldn’t bother. I’ve been in clubs where the dj is using sync and pitch lock and it’s terrible. The songs sound wrong because they’re too fast and the dj is too stupid to realize it. I hate that. I don’t bother him about it but I do keep the club in mind in case I feel like gigging there. Problem is that many gigs come from popularity contests over skill and selection. Either way, to me, sync is wack.

    June 24, 2016 at 3:36 am in reply to: When Can You Call Yourself a DJ? #2411441
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    I mean, you gotta attempt to have nice transitions, even if you’re just dropping on the 1. Lately there’s an outbreak of producers mixing Boiler Room sets and they don’t even pretend to follow any of the rules of basic song structure. It’s maddening.

    June 22, 2016 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Recording Mixes… #2411171
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    I had a similar situation with one of my dj programs (VDJ) while trying to record line signal from my mixer. I had to go into the software settings and lower the output. That’s all it took. Recordbox is new (and foreign to me) so I’m not sure they’ll let you adjust that. About your recorder, I’d send that thing back and grab a TASCAM DR-40. There’s a great tutorial on using it to record sets along with crowd noise on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_PEn5chbK0

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    June 22, 2016 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Best laptop for dj'ing ? (besides apple) #2411161
    DJ Tucker
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    If money was no option, the only non-mac I would want is a Panasonic Toughbook. On a budget, any reliable i5 proc windows laptop will do fine. Most important to the situation is adding an SSD (they’re cheap now) and some ram. If you have some money to spend, I’d look for an older gaming laptop.

    May 17, 2016 at 3:28 pm in reply to: Structure of the song #2396031
    DJ Tucker
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    Word. Both replies are solid.

    May 16, 2016 at 7:14 pm in reply to: What's your favourite blend? #2395501
    DJ Tucker
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    Daft Punk – “Robot Rock”
    PE – “Welcome to the Terrordome”
    They mix well together and you can chop back and forth.

    May 16, 2016 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Which external hardware recorder from mixer #2395491
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    TASCAM DR-40 all day! http://www.digitaldjtips.com/topic/i-used-my-new-tascam-dr-40-to-record-my-gig-friday/

    April 21, 2016 at 2:12 pm in reply to: Club Unnecessarily Loud #2387391
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    It’s loud everywhere. The worst is when you are in a restaurant/bar (in the US think brewpub, or sports bar) that has horrible sounding speakers combined with high volumes. For that reason, I buy boxes of 3M yellow earplugs and keep handfuls of them everywhere. I even mix with them in too. I always wonder why the bartenders in my city don’t wear earplugs.

    April 14, 2016 at 3:06 pm in reply to: Equipment for Beginner #2384451
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    I would highly recommend sticking to a laptop. If you are in college you can get one for school and mixing. If you really want to avoid the laptop, definitely get an iPad like DJ Vintage suggested. I’ve done both but find it way easier to use a laptop. I’m spoiled and can choose from a few combinations of rigs, unlike you (though I’d trade being a poor college kid for a middleclass 40-year-old on most days). I had a wego3 and liked it. I used it with a laptop and with my iOS devices and it sounded great. I think the Beatpad2 is a wego3 on steroids so I’d grab that. Problem is, once you have one of those controllers, and an iPad, you’ve spent $1000-$1200.

    April 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm in reply to: What iPad with BeatPad 2? #2384441
    DJ Tucker
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    I’ve been conditioned by the moderators not to make rage-filled replies to questions like this. I’ve come a long way from my Counter-Strike clan days. Might I recommend you reference the specs of the Beatpad2, the iOS dj app you prefer, along with utilizing the Google?

    March 24, 2016 at 1:44 pm in reply to: What method MIK "Energy" tag or BPM is better to choose Warmup or Main Song. #2374221
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    MIK is part of my workflow because it’s useful to know the bpm and key when I’m making a playlist but beyond that I never could understand how that energy stuff was supposed to work. Make a playlist then freestyle off it. Trust your ears and play the tunes you know.

    March 21, 2016 at 4:48 am in reply to: New mixer (Denon DN-X600) lesson learned #2372421
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    Im definitely gonna have to disagree that mixers are going to fade away. I’ve been using nice all-in-ones for 4 years and I ended up seeking out a proper mixer so I could have more flexible input options. At the time, the only affordable option I could find with a built-in sound card was the 23C. After using it for awhile, I really wanted some more effects and then was flabbergasted to realize that this Denon mixer had everything I was looking for and its been out there since 2010 or 2011, crazy! I actually bought a Stanton t.92 so I can use timecode vinyl. I just plugged the USB into my computer and set up a timecode channel in VDJ. I mix a song in then clone it to the other deck and keep it moving. At the top 40 gig where I do all the drop mixing it’s a bit frustrating just using the keyboard but I picked up a KB keyboard cover that corresponds with my DJ program. I think for my style, I’m much more into manipulating the up-faders than the tempo faders when I mix anyway. I’m succumbing to the anti-controller hate by switching to timecode and a proper mixer but that’s what’s popular in the clubs no matter how much nicer life is with a good controller like the MC4000.

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