SwingDJs

Sorry to be anal, but wow this sounds weird to me. Late Basie or 50s-60s piano trios would be my choice for laying back of the beat and hot jazz would be my choice for Charleston (on top of the beat). Yeah, I guess Charleston and Basie can be ambiguous terms, my bad. I was referring to Lindy Charle...

The onboard sound is a good suspect, most PCs have crappy on-board. If you have a line-out and headphone-out, use line-out and let the amp do the amplifying. The other thing you can do is make sure all the connectors are clean and making good electrical and mechanical contact and the cables are in g...

Yeah, Bryan you're the biggest a**hole on the board :wink: I hear what you're saying. I think it's more than that, bars/clubs are trying to sell booze. Bands, food and even designated driver programs are just loss-leaders to get drinking people in the door, that's the business model. Usually this me...

I figured I'd bump this topic to the top with my recent experience. A new swing dance club just started in January University (College for the U.S. folks) with bi-weekly lesson/dance and practice sessions on alternate weeks (basically no lesson, less ambiance). Our local scene was practically dead (...

Make that one of three

Unlike some of the Americal Idol try-outs, I know I have no musical talent. But I'll volunteer as roadie

The band loves playing for dancers; they have a lot more energy when we dance than when we don't. This is a really good observation. This is common when some of us go out to a local club or lounge where there is live music. It doesn't matter if they are playing swing, blues, jump blues or even lati...

I've just started teaching a little in the last couple months, I generally select stuff that fits well with what I'm trying to emphaisize in class. For example if I'm trying to teach students to not dance on top of the beat, then I play something a little more layed back like some Rhythm and Blues. ...

julius wrote:play "groove" music and see what the westies do as an experiment.

heh heh heh. just kidding. mostly.

No joking, that's the kind of stuff Gary and Lisa MacIntyre are doing westie to these days. It fits classic westie a lot better than the hip-hop-ish stuff.

If the NT loader is getting corrupted repeatedly, I'd still suspect hardware. First, make sure all the fans are working, the heatsinks are making good contact with the CPU or video chips and are not hot (they should be warm). Overheating processors can cause very bad things to happen that are not im...

Last time I got a quote from a non-basement CD duplicator, it was about CAD$3.50/ea for qty 500, including two-color silkscreening, jewel case and shring wrap. That was about 6 years ago. It's undoubtendly cheaper now. The quality of pressed media is also superior. A band flogging burned CD's is def...

To rephrase what Julius said (it's all good advice), simply copying or moving a file is not lossy. If you use software to compress a file or recompress a file using mp3, wma, ogg or similar compression schemes, you will lose some information (quality). Uncompressing and recompressing will also be lo...

Adding a couple of suggestions to the brainstorming session:

Madhouse - Benny Goodman - Avid Box set
Hot Mallets - Lionel Hampton - The Lionel Hampton Story (Proper Box)
No Soap - Erskine Hawkins - Complete Erskine Hawkins 1938-1939

It sounds like a software problem, whatever software does the indexing (PJDJ?) is borken. Check if there is a patch/update/fix or if it is a known issue. Contact their support people if you can't find anything, they're the best bet with commercial software. Also, I'd roll W2K back to about service p...

You can simply by an external enclosure and slam your off-the-shelf IDE hard drive into it. The typically come USB2 (I think this is backward compatible with USB 1.1, just slower) or Firewire or both. As far as the drives, if you are going to be dragging it around on DJ gigs, go with a more shock re...

Don't get me wrong, I'm still learning, and I don't think I'll ever stop, as the crowd is growing and changing. One trap I did fell in, and I'm sure I'm not the only one: that of getting bored with the songs that are tried and true. The other would be that to address the feedback from audience. If ...