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- Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:35 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Swing DJ’s Album & Song Data Base
- Replies: 53
- Views: 141586
Rob, your discussion sounds like you're advocating we build a monster system that solves all problems for everyone. No, I'm advocating a flexible system that doesn't build invalid and limiting assumptions about the data into the design so it can be used to solve a range of problems; not that we act...
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:21 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Dynamic Range Compression
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6580
I use a compressor/limiter in my sound system, with some fairly gentle settings. My aim is mostly to keep the recordings with a huge dynamic range from scaring the crap out of the dancers and/or killing my speakers when the horns kick in really hard. A radio station or techno DJ would typically use ...
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:10 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Wireless Microphones
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8541
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:53 pm
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: CTLX 2005
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3785
CTLX 2005
Just a quick note that the dates for the second CT Lindy Exchange are June 9-12, 2005. Please save room on your calendar! Folks who DJed for us last year, I'll be in touch. Or drop me an email so I know I have your latest.... We're also aiming for a small benefit dance on Friday, March 11th. If anyo...
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:47 pm
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: "Poor"/"Mediocre" DJing at Basie100 Week
- Replies: 30
- Views: 37067
Well, I was only there for Saturday, so I don't have much to say about the DJing. Overcrowding on the Saturday night dance floor would be my one complaint. That and the temperature, since I was actually dancing in a suit jacket for the first time in my life. ;) I do want to say, though, that the eve...
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:39 pm
- Forum: Other Music
- Topic: Lyle Lovett song?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21640
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:34 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Purpose of this board
- Replies: 22
- Views: 68187
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:32 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Swing DJ’s Album & Song Data Base
- Replies: 53
- Views: 141586
I've been involved with software design at a number of companies and the one thing that has been consistent among the end users that get involved with the design process is that often requests for complicated functionality end up becoming unused when the software is released. Yes. But the opposite ...
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:10 am
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Purpose of this board
- Replies: 22
- Views: 68187
Link please?JesseMiner wrote: This is not a discussion board focused on DJs who play primarily for West Coast Swing dancers. Those DJs have a very healthy discussion group on Yahoo.
(Yeah, like I have time to read another list. In fact, I should be preparing for a meeting with a client right now... LOL!)
- Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:07 am
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Swing DJ’s Album & Song Data Base
- Replies: 53
- Views: 141586
My initial reaction from rateyourmusic was good. There are lots of neat ideas there, paticularly cross referencing information eg, go from looking at an album's rating and comments to a list of reviews/ratings of other albums from one of the reviewers and so on. I like this because it's relatively ...
- Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:51 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Swing DJ’s Album & Song Data Base
- Replies: 53
- Views: 141586
I've given a lot of thought to the idea of a specialized Swing DJ database over the past couple of years. Here are some of my general thoughts: 1. It's crucial to separate the concept of a track on an album from, say. the concept of a particular composition or a particular recording of that composit...
- Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:03 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Swing DJ’s Album & Song Data Base
- Replies: 53
- Views: 141586
First, some existing resources worth knowing about: rateyourmusic.com is a place to catalog your collection, rate albums (but not songs), and post reviews. and a bunch of other fun stuff. the design is imperfect, but there's a large/growing community of users. it's fun, though not the tool you're lo...
- Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:52 pm
- Forum: Other Music
- Topic: Favorite waltz tunes?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 28103
- Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:51 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: eMusic Song/Album recomendations
- Replies: 210
- Views: 159464
- Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:07 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: gimme
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17241
Re: gimme
This past month I am all about Dany Doriz' This One's for Basie, which I find bouncy and up-tempo but which some of the local dancers thought was "mellow", so your mileage may vary.mousethief wrote: i need more instrumentals with definite bounce, more up-tempo post-war pieces and some more male vocals.