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- Fri Dec 06, 2013 3:35 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: How to be a better Swing DJ
- Replies: 10
- Views: 47867
Re: How to be a better Swing DJ
I think the "Learn to love Swing" section is really important and I couldn't agree more. The only exception I'd make is Buddy Rich. I'd take Jimmy Crawford or Big Sid or Papa Jo or Cozy over Buddy or the less traveled Louis Barbarin. Regarding flow, I think it should be the norm but not ex...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:09 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Winamp users: winamp is no more
- Replies: 2
- Views: 27721
Winamp users: winamp is no more
Last ever Winamp release was yesterday. There will be no new releases and the web site will be going away next month. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/winamp_to_disappear/ I'm running a now ancient version and it works just fine in my DJ set-up but it might be worth grabbing and saving a copy...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:27 am
- Forum: Song IDs
- Topic: [Answered] Alva's Baby Blues, Walter T Higgs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9864
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:47 pm
- Forum: Song IDs
- Topic: [Answered] Alva's Baby Blues, Walter T Higgs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9864
Alva's Baby Blues is what he said, by Ray Sharpe. Here's another video featuring Mario Robau: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50FUohEQNow There's also a video of Myles and Tessa improvising to it. It shows up on lots of westie music top-n lists and forums. I hadn't heard of Ray Sharpe. I don't can't ...
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:04 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: What was your worst djing experience?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 74449
Re: What was your worst djing experience?
After a few more times, the promoter yelled at me to turn the laptop down as I was 'overloading the sound system'. I think I tried turning the laptop output sound down, but whatever I did made little difference anyway as by this time, I couldn't get more than about 30 seconds of music to play at on...
- Wed May 16, 2012 11:54 am
- Forum: Song IDs
- Topic: [Answered] Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Kid Ory
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7745
- Wed May 16, 2012 11:46 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: The Evolution of Working as a Swing DJ
- Replies: 16
- Views: 62559
Something I've noticed is the effect of more live music in the scene in recent years. Most of my out of town gigs at special events have been band breaks/end of the night or contest prelims. It's quite different than the old days when I could settle in for a 1-2 hour or longer shift. Even at PLEX ba...
- Wed May 16, 2012 11:27 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Audio Quality When DJing?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 38628
I have noticed a difference on many recordings back when I started converting my collection from CD. I eventually settled on VBR encoding using lame with a medium quality setting (3 or 5, I forget which). Some of the scratchy old stuff effectively ends up at 128 or lower. Some of the better sounding...
- Wed May 16, 2012 11:15 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: External Sound Cards for Laptop DJing
- Replies: 152
- Views: 270186
- Wed May 16, 2012 11:09 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Portable PA systems
- Replies: 83
- Views: 198417
We finally have our new gear. A pair of QSC K10s. Great clarity and lots of power. Worth spending substantially more than we budgeted. The K12 would have been nice but those are way more than we could afford right now. I can see some bass bins being necessary if we were playing different music. The ...
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Looking for some LONG competition songs.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17476
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:51 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: External Sound Cards for Laptop DJing
- Replies: 152
- Views: 270186
As long as there's nothing interfering with inserting the connectors or simply worn out connectors, I doubt that's your problem. I'd suspect a software problem on the computer. Make sure you have only the bare minimum software running when you're DJ'ing. Something as simple as your anti-virus softwa...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:09 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Portable PA systems
- Replies: 83
- Views: 198417
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:23 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Portable PA systems
- Replies: 83
- Views: 198417
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:42 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Looking for some LONG competition songs.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17476
turin, what sort of tempo are you looking for? From your math I'm guessing something in the 180-240-ish range. I'd echo the hire a band sentiment. I have very little in my collection that swings in that tempo range and is that long. Most of what I have is live concert recordings with audience noise,...