LabRat

So I'm putting a stint on the old, but new side project. I got some tunes I might share under this name but we'll see what happens. Still finding it hard to be motivated and make music after the break

SM58 is a good PA and stage mic. I wouldn't use it for recording but for anything live is perfect

Yeah they do but you need a shit load of it to set one off. She’s obviously had some trigger happy people in there

Maybe time to close and open a Facebook group instead

You're not the only one. There's been heaps of posts that regulars and newcomers alike have ignored over quite a long period of time now. A good year, if not, longer

Maybe the new gen DJ's don't really care. There's plentiful groups on Facebook and some of them aren't holding up either. Depends on certain posts but there might only be 2 or 3 groups that people go to for advice. I know for one, most of our generation are well and truly over it. I've had the headphones hung up for a while and the whole time I've just stayed away from the scene. I don't even teach

You should have all those groups linked with all those social media accounts

you and your social media presence hey lol i'm surprised you don't have a separate account for other things

Run that comp. Good start to get some engagement

That's all good mate. We're not saying you shouldn't be doing this. Personally for us, sorting our playlists in iTunes then bridging to record box is much less time consuming with the same result. Flac isn't supported but I don't have a need to use a format that doesn't benefit me. Besides, in the grand scheme of things, 99 out of 100 people I use to play to never knew the difference so importing MP3, AAC, wav and aiff into iTunes was all I needed and it served its purpose. Now I stream from Spotify so I don't have a reason to worry about sorting music anymore, which is actually quite nice

I may do.. I think I've backed up 2 or 3 times since then so it should be on there. Good idea that one

Thank you kind sir

Lads, I've entered a remix comp after so long away from the production tables. Trying to motivate myself to write some more tunes after all the bullshit over the last 2ish years. Anyways, could I please get some spam on this?! As most comps nowdays, they're taking public interest into consideration; plays, likes, reposts etc. Any help would be delightful <3

1. You would usually give the invoice when you rock up to do the gig. A few things to consider because people are getting so much worse at paying invoices now; - [If this is for a house party / private function] Require a deposit before the gig. This (usually) helps keep people honest. Require a certain percentage before the gig and then full amount after the gig. If you work for an agency then just invoice them and they'll usually pay you within the week, or what you've agreed to. - [If you're invoicing a club] You can try the deposit thing otherwise invoice them once you've played the gig or send it the day after. I sent my invoices the day after because my hours would fluctuate. Put on the invoice that you are to be paid within 7 days. If not, keep invoicing them until you get paid. If they fail to pay after a certain amount of time (2-4 weeks overdue) you will be able to take action but it's best to speak to your accountant or give a lawyer a call so they can help you with the terms of payment. You don't want to keep chasing money so have a chat with them and they'll guide you in the right direction. Also, yes, you do require an ABN to invoice. 2. There's heaps of free excel templates out there that have the formulas ready so you just fill in the blanks. It's by far the simplest way to start. 3. Bank transfer is best. I haven't seen too many people require you pay via PayPal but I'm sure they're out there. 4. You can claim travel and usually anything else that is required to perform your work. It might be worth having a chat to an accountant, or someone that's established in the industry. I never claimed that much because I was working in clubs. Just my headphones (amongst other equipment), USB's and travel.

Looking at this turns my stomach haha when I think I've stayed on top of mine I always end up redoing it and it sucks wang. I use to create playlists in iTunes and bridge it across to Recordbox or Traktor / Serato. It made my life much, much easier than having them in folders

Yeah throw it in the too hard basket haha I'm not saying you shouldn't do it but most of the times in these house party situations it gets a bit more complicated than it should. Unfortunately, those LED ones are the best to have at these things.

There's definitely stuff out there. Probably checking in with your local hire place will be best place to start. You will need to hang it somewhere and to get the best effect out of it it'll be better if it's rotating but if there's nowhere decent to hang I can't see it being worth the hassle and I agree with you on those LED ones - bit garbage. Few on StoreDJ to consider but if it's only for 1 gig just speak to a hire shop https://www.storedj.com.au/search?ProductSearch=mirror ball

SM58. Old faithful and strong as an ox. Not sure about wireless stuff though. Ive never used a mic while playing anywhere

Most clubs shouldn't be but let's not open that can again ?

You won't see them in clubs because most venue managers don't wanna make room to set it up, amongst other reasons. It's easier for them if you use the gear they have. It's no issue taking your gear in but it's worth chatting the the VM first so you're prepared

Ableton has a seperate file (that's essentially a copy of the original file) that stores the information so if you're dragging samples from your hard drive you need to have it connected in order to open the project again. There's a function called collect and save which locals the files and saves them in the ableton project folder. Logic for example, automatically stores those files in the logic project folder so logic reads all the information from the 1 folder rather than sourcing all its info from a million different places

nah it's not worth doing it if the samples are lost. Very bizarre

Welcome bud!

So if anyone gets into this situation you're pretty well stuffed. I'm not even sure what to do to avoid this happening. I had to redo everything and that was quite annoying. I never moved my samples from their original location from import so it's got stumped… If I open the project today (or whenever) and it's don't it again, I guess the project is just bugged and even then I don't have an answer to how that could be