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I'd love to come for a holiday but I may have no cash flow soon

traktor pros for me HID with cdjs without the use of an sound card like serato. ^what does that mean? Lol Great answer. So it's looking like it's all preference i'll have a crack at both get used to both then pick one to use and keep the other as backup. so HID basically means you can use the CDJ's as controllers with traktor and serato. with traktor you can just plug the CDJ's into your laptop via usb. with serato, you need to run the cdjs into the sound card.

traktor pros for me HID with cdjs without the use of an sound card like serato. the remix decks make for some cool live shit traktor cons its a fucking ballache when something goes wrong it's a pain in the ass to map 3rd party controllers traktor scratch vinyl control can be a bit unstable sometimes sound cards take too long to set up with a mixer compared to serato interface is a mess serato pros it's build for idiots. extremely simple to use interface is cleaner simple amount of effects easy to map controllers serato is basically plug and play serato cons sound cards are too expensive you need the sound card for everything otherwise serato just becomes an audio player with no functionality reason for me opting to use traktor i got it dirt cheap and i needed to it for the gay little pub gigs that had no decks. my Traktor rating out of 10 7/10 when traktor is working at 100% it's great but i've always had some kind of problem everytime i fire up traktor. the remix decks are a slight pain in the ass for me and if i was using it full time i'd likely opt for the launch pad with abelton. Serato rating out of 10 8/10 it's just stupidly expensive for the sound card. other than that, the pioneer controllers that come with it are pretty snazzy and are perfect for mixing. it's stupidly simple to use, plug and play and you're away. everyone is entitled to their opinion, this is mine

serato..........

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I used a verbatim at HQ did notice it was bit slow loading the waveforms and details on some tracks, will a better usb make that process load quicker? Note it was the first time I'd used CDJs with a usb I think if you process your tunes through rekordbox it should be ok. My made had a tdk USB and rekordbox just didn't respond to it. It crashed every time. That's probably the worst I've seen so stay clear of them

i use sandisk, and most of my buddies do too. in my experiences, they're bulletproof for the CDJs

When you've been a DJ for a while, you can find that your moods and actions have been "hardwired" in a way that may not altogether please you... or those who have to put up with you! Being a DJ is awesome, but boy can it change you! You suddenly find yourself behaving in certain ways, almost involuntarily, and doing things that many "normal" people think are crazy. I'm not talking about going deaf, developing a drug habit and hanging out with people half your age (these are all things you can definitely control, if you want/need to), but more about the subtle behavioural changes that kind of sneak up on you, until they're totally ingrained in who you are! Like... You can never go to a nightclub and have fun - Oh, no. Even if you can get over the secret jealousy of wanting to be DJing, you're hyper-critical of everything, from the DJs to the sound system to the way the door is being run... the lot. The more you DJ out, the more this one creeps up on you, until going out simply becomes research/checking out the competition. You, in short, become a not very fun person to go out with You spot instantly when a CD loops in a bar, cafe etc... You feel you are generally the only person who notices background music anyway, and so naturally, you're the only one who gets upset when you hear a CD play on loop. It's especially annoying in nice restaurants, where you can't help yourself thinking: "Why did they pay so much attention to everything apart from the music?" Saying this out loud, though, usually gets you a kick under the table from your other half for being so miserable You can spot instantly when a speaker is distorting, even at 50 yards! - Picture this: You're on a lovely beach with friends or partner, sun shining, cold drink, and in the distance, a little beach shack plays top 40 radio... through a distorted old speaker. Can you relax? No chance. That little plastic speaker becomes the bane of your life until you are finally out of earshot. Even the crap they're playing becomes secondary to the quality! You can no longer count past four - Crazy but true, you find yourself counting any rhythm anywhere or just an imaginary rhythm in your head, and naturally, you go "one, two, three, four" round and round. (At least you're not a microphone roadie with a rock band, they get stuck at "one-two! one-TWO!") You can't hear a song that you know played in full, without hearing "your" transitions - "Why isn't song X coming in?" you think, until you remember that this isn't actually your mix but just one of "your" songs being played somewhere else. Related: Not liking the speed a song is being played at, because you play it at a different speed... You hear mistakes when everyone else thinks the DJ is awesome - Smart DJs learn not to point out train wrecks and other DJing errors to their friends, who - we learn - are not afflicted like us and generally happy to dance through even appalling errors. Related: Spotting mixes that aren't in key You get annoyed when TV commercials brutally edit songs - ...and what really annoys you is that they are not respecting the underlying song structure (see point 4 - see, you can't help it! You're subconsciously counting those beats and bars in fours...) When someone asks you "what's your favourite music?" you reply "for what purpose?" - Being unable to separate what you like from what you think any given dancefloor might like is bad, but it's hard to stop this developing from the necessary skill of simply separating the two things in your head Instantly spotting when your windscreen wipers, indicator lights or even a loud clock are in time with the music you're playing - This one really does feel close to madness sometimes (for me anyway), spotting a beatmatch between car hardware and car stereo... Related: Beatmatching your strides to the songs on your headphones when our running You can't help yourself frantically trying to remember snippets of song lyrics in order to Google them later - ...normally when Shazam fails to recognise a new song you know you've got to have... You are utterly unable to keep yourself away from DJ booths - Mainly this is to see the equipment the DJ is using, hopefully it isn't to make requests, although I am personally fond of just shaking the DJ's hand on the way out if I've enjoyed his or her music... after all, we all know how much that means, don't we? Having the sudden urge to go and adjust the sound when another DJ is playing - Right, I've actually done this (in fact, it was the pitch). Some dude was playing 80s megamixes at +8 and he slipped off to the toilet, so I marched up and set it all to the right speed... only to slink away like a coward when I saw him returning! True story You turn anything with a volume fader into DJ equipment - ...and so get irrationally annoyed at any kind of audio gear that has electronic up/down volume controls instead of a knob you can use to cut the music in and out quickly with! You are the only person who spots the odd song from the 90s at a "so-called" 80s night - I mean, we can all hopefully understand why no normal, sane person would care about this... but it's wrong, isn't it? Seriously, I do hope you can still go out and have fun at least sometimes, and that you can see how us DJs maybe can be just a little annoying to everyone else, at least every now and then! I wanted to end with a true story from our friends over at Tuff Covers. One of that gang went to a pre-natal appointment and when the nurse scanned their tiny unborn baby, and its little heartbeat echoed through the examination room... I quote: "I knew the BPM of the baby's heartbeat before the machine even worked it out"! There really is no hope for some people... Source:http://www.digitaldjtips.com/

can't take it away from them. they saw an opening, had the contacts to push the product and made a fucking killing along the way. cudos to them and their shit, but somehow amazing product

Soldering is a pretty basic job to someone that's done it before. You could even do it with some practise. Investigate the insides and if you know a sparky or something get them to help. It's just another option before spending all that money

Could be an issue with dust or dirt inside the fader. I had an issue on one of my DJ mixers and this was the case. You can get a cleaner for you faders but it's been so long I can't remember what it's called or where to get it from. Give your local music shop a buzz and ask about it. They should know the stuff

same. lets buy matching queensland tshirts lols some I <3 cairns shirts? yeah or something more corny. then get utterly rekt Make it happen!!

same. lets buy matching queensland tshirts lols some I <3 cairns shirts?

and so it begins... never been to Queensland so this should be fun

Hey buddy. Welcome to the family

currently blasting this one. love this!

i don't see a need to use a record output on a mixer. i personally use the booth as an output, so i can control the master of the recording (if i need to) without it affecting the master output. if you don't have a booth output, just come out of the master into any soundcard / external input from your laptop / computer using a twin RCA > 3.5mm cable into audacity

I'm one of those "if it ain't broke, don't fix" guys. I'm still in 10.8 and it's stable for me. No plans to update anytime soon but I have heard a few people having dramas with the new update, not so much web browsers though…

Mine looks like this (latest update available for me)

The unread tab was always there. The previous version of tapatalk was a bit fucked for that. I had to look around for the functions but it's much better now than the previous update

So far it seems ok. Haven't experienced any speed differences. It looks the same (as of recent update). Will stay vigilant

All good mate. I use behringer truths because I got them cheap and I needed something smallish for my workspace. They do the job pretty well Good luck!

i'm assuming your looking to spend somewhat around that price, i guess if that's the case then those mackies should be ok, compared to the others in a 3" range. otherwise, i'd suggest look into these KRK ROKIT: https://www.storedj.com.au/products/KRK-RP5G3 JBL: https://www.storedj.com.au/products/JBL-LSR305 Pioneer (i'd say that price is each): http://kosmic.com.au/recording/studio-m ... aker-each/ Behringer have some pretty good, and cheap monitors. not sure what size these are but could be worth looking into http://kosmic.com.au/recording/studio-m ... itor-pair/

sounds like a phaser with a quick rate

Probably not. For that price you could get a good deal on some bigger speakers. Try your luck and see how you go