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who's providing the warranty on these? certainly isn't pioneer if you bought them o/s. and if it's you paying for that yourself, you are going to have to make a lot more per unit to cover the expense of funding a warranty

s-torm.com has all the ASOT, GDJB and the like

depends on whether the cd player works only through time code or via HID. HID means the player acts as a midi controller not an audio device. so you plug the cd deck into the computer. Also means you can run traktor pro, not the more expensive taktor scratch pro, as really you are controlling everything internally in the software. not sure if the reloop decks do this, the cdj400 can. but if you want to use external mixer, you still need a mutli-channel sound card, just not necessairly the audio4 or 8

and you get no warranty on ebay for pioneer stuff. I wouldn't want to spend that much on a pretty complex bit of gear with no warranty

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F33NLQIX a couple of friends had their 30th b'day parties together at the burdekin last weekend. I played first, before 4 hours of trance anthems so progrgy set here.

even at that price, you need $540 to get 2. wait a little longer and for the $7-800 range you can pick up some used 1200's which wlil be 100 times better. or keep checking out cash converters, they sometimes have bargains there, I got my 1200's for $550, I've seen AA HTD4.5's for $400 a pair.

what do you define as cheap? you get pretty good monitors around $500, but if you are not into production you can get good results from a decent hifi system. the behringers are good for the price, and the 8 inch ones give a good kick. you can also look into the new raneg (3030/3031) that have ribbon tweeters, not heard them yet tho. krk rp5, 6 are around that price, the 8 inch model is up around $800. there's quite a few all around the $500 mark. If you are in sydney I'd suggest going to dj warehouse, they have plenty of monitors hooked up so you can see what sounds best to you. if you are looking at 300 watt systems, are you sure you really want monitors?

I used to have a cmx3000- great piece of kit, wave displays, hot cues/loops, if you don't scratch it's basically a dual cdj1000

does the soundcard have a phono-cd setting? and the input to your deck, you have that set to cd/line? in the settings have you defined traktors timecode inputs? have you selected scratch control rather than internal or through play on each deck? not a lot of info provided here, hell have you plugged in your cd decks?

our price has always been at least 25% more than the us price directly converted though.

RRP is 3599, compared to 2699 for the 1000mk3. so i would guess street pirce is going to be over 2500 each still. nice player but really not offering anything much over cdj with dvs.

first part of a 7 hour blake jarrell set. seems i only really listen to dj sets i download now, so it's nice to get one recorded in good quality and decent bit rate for a change

it's just a game. shoud guitar players have got peeved about guitar hero? and hardly new, there were versions of this around for PS1 at least 10 years ago

hmmm, this might make a good backup when I don't want to haul the mixer out, will think about it

just remember with audacity you also need to get the lame encoder download to save as mp3. it's free too

vote in, good luck

maybe no software uses that much ram now, but it would make sense for next generation o/s's to be able to cater for more than we use now, after all the life cycle of an o/s has to cover a few years beyond it's release date.

this one came back from the dead by coincidence, am recording on traktor now, and it's being it's typical random self one deck is not receiving timecode properly today, nopthing has changed since last time I used it. and checking normal record, that's getting both channels just fine. I just come to expect this shit from traktor now edit: just messed about swapping decks/mixer channels, carts etc. now I have swapped the rca's around (ie swapped left and right rca going into the mixer) and it's working. so now my left and right deck have the rca's different ways, and that works when it worked the other way on saturday. that's just life with traktor

rule #1 - go and listen and see what you like. 8" monitors might be louder and give better bass, but also might not sound as good at lower volumes. also keep in mind monitors are normally positioned only 1-2 metres away from you so most will be plenty loud for practicing, and they're not meant to be used for parties.

how much gear are you bringing? speakers, lights etc? how much time to setup and breakdown out side the play time itself.

yep, multicore is just a nicely presented set of RCA's

1tb drives aren't that expensive compared to what you are backing up on them. 1tb of movies, let alone music, has to be worth less than $200 to backup up.

not really limited by the cd deck, all those extra options are within the software. the limitation by the cd deck would be pitch accuracy and scratch control eg cdj100 at 0.1, is still going to be 0.1 through the software. but you can still loop in the software (in relative mode) even when you can't on the deck itself.

bought a toshiba laptop for my wife not too long ago after a long search. We paid about $2500, well spec's comp and very nice to use. I use it as an alternate for dvs, works much better than my computer, but that is using external soundcards. keep in mind you'd get one kick -ass tower for the price of an average laptop, but if you need it for uni too, that forces you the laptop route. external soundcard would be recommended. you could use on-board but for producing you really want to get honest sound, which an on=board card really won't do all that well

you didn't hear about all the bitching last year when microsoft put a decent licence check in their o/s that turns screens black when it detects unauthorised software? it didn't do it right away either, so you never know when your computer may suffer from it I doubt it had much effect in oz as almost all pc's are sold with genuine ms o/s's installed, but caused a heap of problems in other countries. just head to your local computer shop, the comp nerds in there probably have spare copies they'll install for you, and your original licence could probably be tracked by the processors serial number so you'd be ok.