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- Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:00 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: The "Removing The CD Player" Debate
- Replies: 128
- Views: 108332
There is one huge disadvantage of laptop DJ'ing though. It encourages irresponsible DJ'ing. It's way too easy to set up a playlist and go off and have a few dances. The number of times I have seen unattended laptops just sitting there chugging away while the DJ cuts a rug.... Although there are cas...
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:07 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: DJing Software.
- Replies: 113
- Views: 100846
I downloaded the demo and poked around, and it seemed like a nice program (I did this before I looked at the price). After giving it a test spin I thought, it is probably a program that I would pay around $80 for (still hadn't looked at the price). Yeow. $249??? Out of my price range, for sure. Sti...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: DJing Software.
- Replies: 113
- Views: 100846
Deejay (disliked intensely) Andy, What was it that you disliked so much about DJay? If you insist ;) (and bearing in mind that a glorified playlist manager is pretty much what I need - which DJay isn't intended to be) HUGE amount of wasted space in the interface. I don't need or want those turntabl...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:59 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: DJing Software.
- Replies: 113
- Views: 100846
CuePhase was suggested in the Laptop DJing thread, but it's not located on the apple website anymore (that I could find). I did find it here though: CuePhase The iTunes integration seems like a convenient thing for someone who's already been using iTunes, but I haven't heard/read much about it. Doe...
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:09 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Playing 60-90 seconds of songs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10771
In my experience, if you burn a CD it WILL burn it based on your edited start-finish times. ie: if you make it end after 1:30 in iTunes even after you have ripped it, it will burn it to 1:30 on the disc. The burned disc will not contain the end of the song, but your iTunes file remains editable. Se...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:40 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Music Editing Software
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29471
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:00 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Woody Herman - now overlooked Swing band
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9330
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:44 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Traktor and the right set-up
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5998
Hey there, I have an intel MBP and use traktor. So here's my setup. OSX 10.4 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB memory Native Instrument Audio Kontrol for audio interface I also run smcFancontrol to cool down my MBP since my version of Traktor is not native intel binary version. It does tend to run hot on ...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:40 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Music Editing Software
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29471
So a little late to the game but I'm finally checking out Audacity. My question is, if I already have my files LAME encoded the way I like into MP3s, then want to do some simple clipping of intros/outtros, how do I do that without changing the quality of the MP3 file - it looks like Audacity re-exp...
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:58 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Music that Swings HARD!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20638
This one's a little faster (just a bit)Toon Town Dave wrote:Do you mean this 1941 recording of Deep River - VICTOR 36396? It's not very fast, just shy of 4 minutes.
http://www.emusic.com/album/Tommy-Dorse ... 13934.html
Nice track.
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:18 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Music that Swings HARD!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20638
As Nate says - this is all pretty subjective, and there's not a lot on your list which I'd put in my own 'swings hard' list. Reading through though, a couple of associations kick in for me, so a few personal favourites of mine you might try (if you don't already have 'em, which you may well do) You ...
- Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:54 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Portable PA systems
- Replies: 83
- Views: 200370
For self-powered speakers, I've used Mackie SRM450 units or their smaller bretheren (or older versions) from time to time for both DJ'd and live sound gigs (not all dances, mind you). I have absolutely no complaints about them, and heartily endorse them. Another endorsement from me for Mackies - we...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:01 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: When I get a laptop
- Replies: 36
- Views: 30745
But see, this is exactly why I started this thread in the first place - please correct me if I'm wrong. I would hate to copy thousands and thousands of songs onto the laptop only to find that oops, can't see the BPM:s, or something. I do something similar to what you want to do - sort all my music ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:41 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Oops.. I guess
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5154
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:28 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Tips for finding the right 'next song' in the heat of DJing
- Replies: 71
- Views: 57744
This has been a fascinating thread so far, and very very helpful. (even with the tagging systems in place, how some of you guys cope with such huge and varied music collections is impressing me no end) I posted earlier that I was starting to tag my collection - I was working on this again last night...