serato itch - potentially dumb question ahead

[Gandy]

i'll pass it on man, they'll buzz of that.

/star struck

[Ravni]

so...jealous...wow. BIG BIG fan been following them for over a decade now

yeh top dj's never checked them out live

maybe wen i get to the uk dim ha ha

[dim]

wow, it's all good guys,

i feel like a nobhead name-dropper now lol.

[hoddi]

back on track for what the purpose of this thread was; thankyou so much love you guys got it working now now just gotta connect the speakers properly and it will all be working properly!

[CapFive]

and you gotta get some propper speakers!!

http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/acce ... sku-66521/

[hoddi]

gimme a couple months haha cant afford anything atm

[CapFive]

got a job>?

[Gandy]

back on track for what the purpose of this thread was; thankyou so much love you guys got it working now now just gotta connect the speakers properly and it will all be working properly!

hey stop hijacking my thread about my fanboyism for utah saints

[hoddi]

ha sorry gandy ... :/ but no i dont and i NEED one so fucking bad its not funny

[Gandy]

i might have some work for you hoddi, nome sayin'

[Ravni]

ha sorry gandy ... :/ but no i dont and i NEED one so fucking bad its not funny

just pimp urself out to cupe im sure he is up for it

[hoddi]

unfortunatly i do ^^

[hoddi]

ok not that badly ravni

[dim]

^ haha, unfortunate post timings and that reads so bad now...

cupe you dogg!

on srs topic hoddi: you know you can mix in headphones until you get speakers dont you? you use the pgm/cue selector.

[hoddi]

and how exactalyy does that happen? ha no i didnt no that, im bad at computers and stuff i mean once i no wat to do its all good but yea, how does that work? (i am a noob remember at this)

[wazza]

and how exactalyy does that happen? ha no i didnt no that, im bad at computers and stuff i mean once i no wat to do its all good but yea, how does that work? (i am a noob remember at this)

on your DDJ-s1 ,you have 3 knob that sit Above the the seven-band VU meters....one is master output {the volume for the amp/speakers} ,one is headphonos cue {the volume for your headphonos } one is headphono mix ..............use headphonos mix

[dim]

^yer, headphones mix lets you choose wether you hear what you have set to play in your headphones or wether you hear what would be playing out of the master out to speakers.

i use it when kids are in bed. Not the same as feeling the bass but it gets you going without speakers. and can be an essential skill to learn in case you ever have to play a silent disco or dodgy room with terrible delays.

if you dont understand the genius of wazza and the waffle of dim remember the golden rule:

"play with it and you'll work it out"

[hoddi]

ok that does help thankyou and haha that is the plan really

[Ravni]

tip is hoddi use your headphones as much as you can

if you get used to mixing with your headphones and not your speakers and recording ur mixes it a better way to go imo, you get alot of delays in clubs, some clubs dont have monitors so having this skill is good

i do all of my mixing with my headphones even wen i gig sometimes give my ears a rest wen a gig out and use the monitor

[andyman]

tip is hoddi use your headphones as much as you can

This.

You might get stuck in a shitty booth where you cant hear a thing out of the monitors, do your cans will be your saving grace.

[CapFive]

i have never used monitors, only headphones, they can be so much more precise imo, and no detractions either

[hoddi]

ok explain bit more how this works, kinda thought i had it then tried again yesterday and was like 'fuck' sorry can u explain how it works and how u manage this feat?

[imadje]

normally:

you use the headphones to hear whichever track you have selected to cue.

at the same time you listen to the music that people would be hearing in an audience through the same speakers they do. This is called "front of house"

in headphone mixing:

you use a rotary pot which lets you decide whether you can hear the cue channel or the front of house output in your headphones.

so you listen to the front of house in your phones by having the pgm/cue selector all the way over to pgm. then when you want to cue up you turn the pgm/cue control towards cue. then you use your phones to prep the track you are cueing as usual.

then you turn back to pgm to mix.

In practice you may find a preffered position for the pgm/cue mix which lets you concentrate on the "front of house" so you can hear what the audience hears, but that also lets just you hear what you are cueng up too.

this technique works really well but if no one is controlling the "front of house" output you must occasionally take of your phones to check the sound quality that the punters can hear is reasonable. this wont matter to you hoddi until you are in a club or gig.

[imadje]

great link for itch users:

watch this space to discover how to midi map your controller to hot keys.

http://www.djtechtools.com/2010/06/09/3-hidden-tricks-in-itch/

courtesy of lloydc (+rep)

[tommykesh]

No sink but you can still cheat match using part of the display.

But it took me less time to learn beat matching properly on a proper vinyl then it did working the display thing.