SwingDJs

I use a 10" tablet and it is a little small most of the time. I would prefer something larger and am looking at a 12" HP Tablet. Also the processor speed is a bit anemic on the EEE. It will probably do what you want but maybe not as fast you would like. I have a friend who DJs WCS on a Sam...

Here is my set list. And, Yes, I know there are two versions of "I Won't Dance", I couldn't decide. I hope you enjoy it! -jerry 1 Sweet Georgia Brown Alberta Hunter - amtrak blues 2 Sent for You Yesterday Count Basie and His Orchestra - Swingsation Sampler 3 I'm Coming Virginia Jimmy Rushi...

Martin, I know you have already gotten your equipment, but one thing to consider is having a seperate external mixer for a band and then passing that thru your smaller everyday mixer. I don't know about you but we have very few bands that we need to provide for and lugging anything around when you d...

I do not know the exact details of it, but i was looking a new Traktor software and they have a new version which appears to work on both Windows and Intel Macs. You might want to checking that.

http://www.native-instruments.com/index ... raktor3_us

Oh, now that product might be just what I have been looking for. I have been wanting a remote solution for my laptop for a while so that I can teach and not have to run back and forth to the DJ booth or PA to control a song. hmmmmmm..... I wish it was an RF remote.

Has anyone experimented with the new Mac dual boot yet. so you can have both a Mac and a PC in one box?

I have just started playing with JRMC and I must be doing something wrong on the BPM detection. It will rarely go above 160bpm (yes, I do have music above 160 BPM) , the fastest it detected any song was 171 BPM. In general the problem seems to be that it cuts the BPM in ~half. But I did see a versio...

Some of you may have heard that Dawn Hampton is celebrating her birthday this year in Dallas June 9-11. We have made arrangments to have Wycliff Gordon come to Dallas and play two nights, Friday and Saturday. He will be playing with one of Dallas best quartets, The James Gilyard Quartet. It should b...

One night I made an effort to make little comments between songs about who the artist is, the era that is was recorded, etc. Little things to 'educate' the dancers, since I feel most dancers have no clue as to who they are listening to. I got quite a bit of positive feedback from the dancers, but I ...

Great Great info guys. I will definitely look for a few of those recordings. I didn't even really think of trying to find big band recordings. But I can understand how if mic'd recorded and mastered correctly, it would be amazing. And Paul I may take you up on your offer... Anyone have any trio/quar...

Okay, here is a question about swing music from another perspective. I have recently gone to work for a home entertainment company and have as part of my responsibilities, selling higher end stereo gear. In this process, I have many occasions to demonstrate high quality material and I would like to ...

Bob the Builder wrote:what size backup drive do you have.
I'm looking at getting a 250G USB2 external drive.

I have a 200GB that is getting a little full.... may need to go plop down another $50 at Fry's.

I also make a backup of my laptop drive occasionally to an external drive so if I did have to recover I could just resore the backup copy not pick and choose again from the master set. With the price of disk drives now days, what's 30-40 GB of duplicate files???

I keep all of my complete CDs on my big hard drives at home and only keep a subest of stuff I might actually Dj on my laptop. That way I can keep it to a managable number of songs. Even at that i still have ~4000 songs on my laptop.

Verve Records is having a $7.99 sale at Tower.com on the Finest Hour series and their Diva series. Pretty good price for these 'Greatest Hits' collections.

Verve $7.99 Sale