SwingDJs

Not sure exactly which thread this fits in, but this seems to work... Last night I tried my first gig using a laptop instead of CDs. My setup is a brand new MacBook Pro, a Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro USB for main output, along with Disco XT for playback. I was using the onboard audio for prev...

Is this song getting common in the lindy scene? I don't think I've even heard of the song... Well then Katie, I'll play Mora's version just for you if you promise to come out dancing tomorrow. :) Heh. I just found I have an identically titled song by Lightnin' Hopkins off of a blues compilation. It...

No particular suggestions myself, but at 8 o'clock PM (US Central) on Saturdays, there's the show "Bing Shift" on www.jazz88fm.com . The host usually focuses on some particular central topic from week to week. If you listen to the show enough you may pick up some Bing tunes that catch your...

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. I hope to pick up a pair for myself sometime ...

There can also be a problem for DJ's who use a lot of 50's stuff and Rockabilly because most of those tunes are based on a 12 bar blues progression. Everything starts to sound the same after a while. I have little more to say on this front than "Amen!" I enjoy the occasional rockabilly or...

I have to agree with Reuben, it's a really disappointing piece of kit. It's expansion options (with 1 USB port) are pretty limited. As I read about this single USB port, a question came to mind. If you connect a USB hub and use both an external sound device and an external hard drive, do you run in...

Eyeball wrote:What frequency range does hiss occupy?

Generally around 8 kHz, give or take 2 kHz, though there certainly are exceptions. It's right in the same neighborhood as the sibilance of "S" sounds.

Brent

It's not exactly a stellar combination, and I unfortunately am still limited to CDs as I don't own a laptop, but... On my desktop I use a combination of Amarok and XMMS. Amarok gives you iTunes-like search and database capabilities, and I'm sure you're already familiar with XMMS. It appears you can ...

I've toyed with the idea of playing In The Mood, Sing Sing Sing, and Stray Cat Strut as the first three songs of an evening after a beginner lesson (i.e. before Lindy Hoppers show up), just so that I can get them out of the way and tell anyone who requests them later "Sorry, you must have misse...

... and Mora's Modern Rhythmists.

To be honest I normally give preference to better recordings over original artists with old recordings. However swinging hard is a prerequisite for both.

Brent

Sometimes your little sister can be cool. Just got this link in my inbox.

The 1920's Network

I've only listened to about four songs from their stream so far, but I haven't been disappointed. Not everything swings, but it definitely puts me in the right frame of mind.

Brent

Maybe I'm just hungover and pissy today but I think you probably could've made your point without the "ROFL" part which, to me, seems a tad insulting to the person to whom you responded. Well, no offense intended. Apologies to anyone who was. The original comment really did make me chuckl...

3) Three chord rock and roll -- Think about it. An entire decade before the phrase was coined, this song had the elements of it: 12-bar blues. One thing that's very interesting about In The Mood is that is uses both blues and jazz choruses (but without the jazz AABA structure). I just went back and...

Minor keys have all those annoying sharps and flats to worry about ROFL! Minor versus major has nothing to do with the number of sharps and flats. The following chart (stolen from Wikipedia) sums it up pretty well. # of Flats Sharps 0 C (Major), a (minor) 1 F d G e 2 B♭ g D b 3 E♭ c A f♯ 4 A♭ f E c...

I tried out the demos of all three apps, and CuePhase, the cheapest, is the one that I actually like best for swingdj use, with its simplicity, playlist like iTunes, but with the most important addition of a preview possibility, and also the possibility cue the next song some some seconds into a tr...