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Audacity. the best part off audacity is that its available on all major platforms, so you never need to learn another program again. i'd say use audacity, if audacity can't do it then you're probably not doing it right not sure if they come preinstalled on the mac version but my audacity on linux has a load of crazy analysis plugins for, bpm, beats, key, note onsets etc http://www.vamp-plugins.org/

so much of what you said is exactly the same as when i started performing as a juggler.(not beats, crystal balls) obviously battling is even more stressfull because you might win or loose depending on your performance, i just get to rock or suck. i think i made a big step forward when i realised that the audience don't really mind if you make an error or two, as long as you don't generaly suck. i saw a video of roc raida the other day where he just smashes into a tonearm and knocks it of the reccord, puts it straigth back on and keeps rocking withough missing a heartbeat. and i thought he was even better for it. sometimes if i have a big show i prefer to think about something completely different before going onstage, talk bulshit with other performers, read my email on my cellphone, flirt with the ladies. etc. othertimes i do get nervous, but i calm myself with the thought that it's too late to turn back and that i must just humbly accept the consequences, never vomited though. thats pretty hardcore, i have to give you guys props for actualy doing something so scary it makes you puke! and i always think i need to piss before going on stage, then as soon as i get there i forget about it completely. i think its true that everybody suffers from stage fright, but it's much worse when you don't know what to expect, if you've already had it a thousand times, then its just a slight concern for your ability to do your best. that said though i know people who been performing for decades who still have a bad day sometimes. a performer friend of mine says "you're only as good as your last show" so don't think your out of the woods yet vekked, you're only as good as your last battle!

pretty impressive, shame theres no premiere, a legit copy of photoshop is sweet though.

There are in many parks Except when they try to jump you. You'd be alright in certain parks but not in ghetto ass London Fields which is in "full of character" east London. i'm starting to remember why i don't live in the uk anymore. just do it though guys! all of the above are just reasons why london needs people to do interesting stuff there.

theres no rules about taking a ghetto blaster to the park, so whats the difference? my only words of caution were about busking, london is a notoriously hard place to busk. but seriously, its incredibly rare that you get into trouble for doing this kind of stuff as long as you are polite to old people and coppers. even wideboys arent a problem as long as you dont get into any sort of competition with them.

just take the adapter to a good electronics shop and tell them you need a us style adapter to replace it with. electricity is electricity it dosent matter what brand name is written on the adapter, if it is a universal 110/220 adapter it will say so on the label. if it dosent say so, then it won't work (and will probably fry) if your really paranoid, i'm sure native instruments will supply a replacement adaptor.

us street performers say "its easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission" couldn't agree more. montreal is much more laidback than london though, in montreal i lived in a house with no lock on the front door, no fucking way i'd do that in london.

might actualy be worth trying, you can't just rock up and start performing in covent garden though, you have to audition and have public liability insurance on south bank you can just arrive and do your thing but i think they have limits on how powerfull your amp is. the rest of london is totaly off limits for street performing and you can get arrested or fined on the spot. Darcyd, did you guys take this thing to the tam tam on sundays in parc mont royal? that would have been sweet! i lived in montreal about 8 years ago, but mostly hung out with circus people. maybe you know a circus company called Les 7 doigts de la main? they had a scratch dj in the show. i'd totaly help out, but unfortunatly i live in italy.

haha whaat? I don't think so... I've only gotten dubplates from 1 place over seas and it was UK have a look! on the seccond image that flashes up on the home page. http://www.vinilificio.com/

i'm in the process of editing some beats for juggling, for beats thaty are originaly closer to 100bpm it dosent make sense to take them all the way to 133bpm, then pitch them down again (~24%) so i'm putting them at 100bpm. i'll try 100bpm and three stickers and see how i get on. i saw you mentioned on the site of vinilificio in bologna, do you really get your dubs cut here in italy?

i'm starting to juggle at the moment, so i'm interested in this, as far as i understand, with three stickers they line up with the beats @100bpm. i've been juggling beats that i have pitched up to 133.33bpm in the audio file then pitched down again on the turntable, that way i get a sticker at the beggining of each bar. but i suppose you can't go verry far down on technics. i have ttx. (is that actualy cheating or just sneaky?)

basicly when i was studying at circus school, every so often a tv company would get in contact with the director and as him to send a few talented people, sometimes the tv company rented room at the circus school to do their casting, You saying you went on this shit? Isn't all the above REALLY obvious? maybe not obvious to everybody, only to cynics and realists, i would never have done these crappy programs if it wasn't for the fact that the director of the circus school kept asking me. i have a juggling number with a crystal ball that's fairly clean, so they wanted me to do that number. here in italy they like circus quite a lot and all the circus artists have been on tv WHOAH! More on this please. you know those guys in covent garden who juggle with chainsaws and ride big tall unicycles? thats what i do for a living. i used to do trapeeze and other stuff too though. heres a vid of me on a crappy tv show in italy:(this is one where some artists were paid an some not, i was.) not to derail the thread though.....the tv people are desparate for material, they are going through our culture systematicly looking for stuff that might be entertaining in an x-factor type show. it was only a matter of time before they got to circus, and it's only a matter of time before they get to scratching. don't worry though, afew a few shows they'll leave scratching alone again.

love this guy, no idea what the fuck he's doing technicaly, but it looks great!

stylus sticker master race!

i did a few of these things when i was starting out as a circus performer, basicly its a rip-off, you won't get any gigs of the back of it unless you win* (see below) the only thing you get which is worth having is a video of you on tv, (which you have to rip from youtube or streaming by yourself) they just want talented people for free, and a few talentless people to laugh at. at the casting they choose especialy talentless or unfortunate looking people, because the makes good tv. you might not know this but some of the contestants are paid and some are not. those who are paid are under strict instructions not to tell you this! (i've done both) *sometimes the whole thing is rigged (here in italy anyway). see if you can swindle them on the travel expenses, tell them you have a gig in brazil the next day. they seem to have an inexhaustable supply of monney for travel expenses. its not going to help your dj carreer in any way, it might even damage it! i can only see it being an good idea for some wide eyed bedroom dj with no real world contacts and a whole shitload of technical skill, who cares only for his 5 miniutes of fame and not for any long term carrer in djing. remember, its not suposed to be a "fair competition" its suposed to be entertaining tv. so when you lose against some embarassing kid with a cute gimmick, don't take it personaly! i'm never going on tv without getting paid, ever again...and this time i mean it.

i thought about this when i was washing the dishes the other day. genere is all to do with who made the reccord and who their mates are, not what it actualy sounds like. which is why genere naming is crazy, because music is by definition about what it sounds like.

i line it up with the actual needle so its always the same. even if i switch to between straight and s-shaped tone arms. if you sticker at 12-oclock there must be a bit of a change between straight arm decks and technics.

from the beginning i just stickered mine at the stylus, it seemed logical, since it physicaly corresponds with the sound, but now i've been seeing videos of people with stickers at 12'oclock and asking myself why? 3 O'clock is just too crazy for me to even comprehend. i hope i'm not missing some subtle secret.

nice, not much room to put your soundcard in though. it'd be nice if it was a bit longer so your cound have the soundcard behind the mixer. marathon is a big company http://www.marathonpro.com/laptopcases.html but i can't see a uk dealer on their site.

where do you sticker?

don't get me wrong, i'm no dubstep hater, 140bpm is one of my favourite tempos maybe cliche is a harsh word 'distinctive' might be better you don't need to be an expert on dubstep to recognise a dubstep tune, thats what i'm saying. now i think about it though i don't know if i can tell the difference between death metal and black metal. i think that to recognize a witch house tune, you'd have to know who made it, because it might be some random tune that just sounds a bit spooky. thats where it gets pointless.

must be hard with all those people watching............ better go back to the bedroom. nice video projections on the decks though.

this!!!!! i'm organizing all my music at the moment, which is a real pain in the ass. i just don't know what genre most of my music is, and i'm getting to the point where i really don't care anymore, i'm basicly breaking it down into quantized and non quantized in different folders and searching by bpm. i can understand that its useful to have names for cliche based genres like dubstep and deathmetal, but 'trap' and 'witch house'? really? your just getting put in the electronic folder, fuck you.

i'm learning tons of stuff for the first time at the moment and i just can't help looking at the waveforms, every time you look at the waveforms, god kills a kitten

somebody needs to ask the Winstons what they think. then again maybe not, the idea of getting royalties to nearly every drum and bass reccord ever produced might cloud their minds a bit.