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OK Helpful Aussies. I've just set rekord box up to analyse my whole collection again... But in the meantime I had an extra peak in the preferences pages. This how the ones I think would be relevant look. If there is anything wrong or there is anything more relevant in the other preferences panes which I should be looking at please let me know: Cheers lads.

^This true. But also OXY: From what I know of you, you have the attitude and experience to do this type of work. Just maybe not using HipHop skills. The thing is the organisers will think they want HIPHOP because they've been sold the idea or told by kids (who think 50 cent is hiphop). If you were into this kind of work you could easily get it and use DnB or any EDM. The fact you are teaching skills and keeping kids busy is what gets you paid. Hiphop works well because of it's associated artforms of Graf, MCing and Breaking... but I often get booked for these events and then work with the music the kids actually want. Which is currently skrill-step and Bass-shite. The organisers don't normally care what genre music you use as long as the kids are getting structured activity from a role model. Maybe you two could team up, one do beat-matching the other do turntable skills?

Behringer sux. NI audio cards are safe. BUT: Are you sure the buzz in your headphones is the soundcard and not the headphones? Try a different pair and if that helps you saved heaps. If it is the soundcard I would always choose to keep the number of units I use to a minimum to keep setup/connection distortion to a minimum. So I would go for a new unit with internal soundcard. However Wazza knows what he's talking about an if he's offering a deal it's prob ok.

^this thread is so full of gold for someone in your situ. I've done weddings for 6/7 years now, DJ'd bars and clubs etc for 15 before that. But as others have said, maybe worth getting some more dj experience and wedding experience before you put them together and try and dj at a wedding. Many people think it's the biggest day of their lives, you don't want to get the blame if it isn't quite the disney fantasy the bride has dreamt up since she was 6. my biggest tip if you do go for it - talk to the bride and groom, get them to give you an idea of the music, how they want you to deal with requests, and if you need to be prepared for anything eg lead in songs for fireworks, announcing buffet, first dance song. (I was once expected to have the theme to Jaws just to back up some guests crap idea of joke). If the bride and groom are too busy to plan with you then they deserve a £40 google DJ who hurts everyones ears. Couples who want a good party will want to spend the time sorting it.

chances are this will be outside office hours in some youth club. chk them to be sure. real love for the artform is more important than real dj experience. and being a role model is more important than either. no swearing by you or in the songs you play, love for music, keeping a steady job, no drug talk, no prejudices, never judge the kids, heaps of patience, and maybe a rocky teenage past of your own so you can relate to some of the kids' daily struggle. but above all - the ability to plan what you want to do, and the ability to move away from the plan if it isnt working - this is what makes a good workshop facilitator. I'm so down with these sessions i spend 75% of my time buzzing of tunes and letting the kids get on. But i do know what i'm doing. EDIT: nearly forgot - one of the reasons hiphop works so well with kids is because it concentrates so hard on self-discipline and progressing your skills. That is the mantra people want kids to learn through these workshops. You don't have to make them corporate androids ready to flip burgers - you need to give them self-confidence and the knowledge they can choose their own path and achieve it. Also hiphop was invented as a way of settling fights between gangs. Skills are used in front of an audience to settle beef, not guns. Youth work scenarios love this aspect. FIEND: you surely know this already but in case you dont read up on the history of afrika bambaata and what his crew were all about in the very early days in New York.

This has been my main line of work for 9 years now. If any of you guys in the right location want to go for this but aren't sure how to approach it feel free to hit me up for info, tips, workshop plans etc.

classic shuffle from the bottom of the barrel:

LOL Gremm1s u Whale. I have cdj1000mkIIs and Technics SL1210s which all fell of a dinosaur last century. I also have a Numark NS6, 2 macbookpros both running Itch, Ableton 8.2 and Traktor Scratch Pro 2.6. I am sponsored by a shop who have given me a native instruments S2, F1 and X1 plus a Z2 mixer. My venue uses cdj900s which I maintain and use whenever I like. My business partner has CDJ 1000 MK3s which are in our studio. One of the youth work organisations I work for bought these cdj850s, and now I am discovering they need to neck up, just like you mate

^agreed. re analyse check complain .... profit?

that makes sense Mattus. If he had two samples he would need to set them on hot cues, nothing else would work. I just didnt notice there were two different samples... crappy laptop speakers.

OK, I did set up my own aggregate device too after the pioneer software failed a few times. Still only gave me two audio outputs available in the traktor pref, and yep I am def selecting the correct device in traktor. It's good to know that what you think are all the things I have tried already as I am slowly thinking that a few users on other forums may be right - a few think it is an issue only with traktor 2.6 and the HID mode. I'm gonna keep on researching and see where i get to. Cheers tho bruv

exactly what i thought mitch. Which is why i have done it 3 times, double checking every step. When you had it set up can you remember if you set the audio output traktor pref as: internal or external output? and do you remember how many cdj outputs you had to assign in traktor? I get only 2 which seems wierd when I need to stereo pairs. NB - some threads on djtooltips think this may be due to traktor 2.6 update and that they had it working before. I cannot rollback so really hope there is workaround.

oh yeah, sols first nightmare... so sol, remind me, what was wrong with them? this kid keeps telling me he can't play two songs at once to blend or sumthin. He;s pretty young and isnt very good at explaining, plus hasnt brought the thing to me so I dont know what's up myself.

Legend. Will be able to get on with searching tmrw.

I'm not having much fun here. Trying to setup HID mode on cdj850s to control traktor scratch pro 2.6 850 firmware updated. CDJ aggregator successfully achieved. .tsi imported successfully. Control of traktor by using cdjs achieved. BUT ALL THE AUDIO COMES THROUGH ONE CHANNEL! and yes I have checked my audio preferences and output routing. It only gives me two options for the cdj outputs not two pairs of stereo as I was expecting. I've researched on google and people have had same problem but no one has posted a solution. Anyone got any ideas? Can anyone say they have actually had 850s working satisfactorily?

okely dokely ausserinos... my cdj 850s are on firmware version 1.08 now. They were on 1.06. BUT: I just played one of the dullest edm tracks i know with the straightest 4 on the floor audible kick drum. When browsing the track I can see that it has a BPM of 125.0 BPM set on the id3 tag. The track has been playing for 3 minutes and it still has not given me a BPM readout. I could have timed it and calculated it myself by now! Anyone got any magic button I press to make these 850s calculate BPM? (mitch I hope you still got an eye on this)

One of my students has bought a 2nd had set of decks. I cannot see a brandname or model number anywhere so I can't find a manual for him. anyone any idea what this is? cheers in advance

ez

fark my collection is too big and varied, always feel like i'm throwing you curveballs but anyway... keeping in the spirit of the friday shuffle... here's a whinging pom:

LOL! not my organisation mate. It's one of the many departments I do work for. These are in a secure psychiatric hospital full of the criminally insane. The in-house occupational therapy team spend a fortune on kit then don't maintain it. Big hearts, wrong approach! I should have checked firmware really 1st but I always forget these employed whales don't think beyond their next fag break. I should get chance to get the decks into my studio on sat eve and do firmware while nr an internet connection and with all necessary resources available. If it works I will then decide wether to charge them for my time or not Files are all mp3. I'm guessing if they weren't it would be slower, but why do you ask?

good question... they're not mine but knowing the organisation that bought them I bet they are exactly as they were when they left the factory. I see there is an update available on the pioneer site so I'll chk if these need it and do it nxt time I'm using them.

Aye mitch. Tested on 900's and all is good. Thoughts?

So I'm using rekord box to populate my USB sticks. I have analysed all tracks in rekord box collection before dragging them from the collection to the USB playlists. I can see the BPM in the rekord box GUI. On the CDJ 850 I can sort by BPM and all the tracks clearly have the info with them. But when I sort by playlist and load a track to the CDJ850 - It either takes ages to display a BPM or it never actually shows one. Y LIKE DIS? Using the BPM counter is a valuable tool when teaching beginners (not that I teach people to rely on them) and I have grown accustomed to the BPM detection on CDJ 1000s and CDJ 900s. Is there some setting on the 850? Is it known for being slow? Is there something I'm missing? All info welcome...

Had my hands on a demo Z2 and found a problem. Successfully solved the issue but thought I would post my findings here in case anyone else's unit has a similar issue, which seems to have come with it from the factory. The problem was: No audio would play through the Left Hand Channel in standalone mode. My solution: I installed the Traktor software successfully. Once I was running the unit through the software I still could not get audio through the left hand channel. I could see that the software was receiving timecode signal though. I checked and double checked everything and after an hour of methodical testing I finally noticed that the software gain as shown on the GUI mixer on the left hand channel was at -infinity db. I started moving the rotary gain pot on the left hand channel and could see on the software GUI that the pot had a calibration issue. This had not been able to see when using the mixer in standalone mode. It also wasnt immediatley obvious when using the software as I don't normally have the mixer view onscreen on my GUI. I don't need to becasue I use an external mixer. I recalibrated all the pots using the z2 page of the preferences in Traktor and instantly everything worked ok. FYI: any unit with this problem will not play audio through the left hand channel until recalibration has taken place. No one using the unit in standalone mode will be able to realise the issue without using the software. No one using the software will notice the problem unless they have activated the mixer view on their GUI as this is the only view that shows the relative position of the rotary gain pot. Hope that info comes in handy to you sometime.