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if were talking "at any cost" i've got the hots for this stuff: http://www.rme-audio.de/en_index.php really a soundcard is all about the drivers. rme have top class linux drivers. even if you don't care about linux then look for a card with good linux drivers, if the vendor cares about linux then it means they arent bastards, and won't leave you out in the cold when you upgrade your os.

i'm using one of these: http://www.mixvibes.com/content/products/u-mix44 its giving me decent latency (2.9ms) on an old netbook, on your new mac you should get even better results, 4 rca ins and 4 rca outs, a mic input and a headphones out. cheap as chips too, i paid 100 euros for mine on ebay.(new)

handbrake, a thousand times handbrake! you need more pineapples in your life man! if handbrake doesn’t cut it, its because your doing something that you can only do with command line tools and a lot of time reading docs. or maybe you'll manage with winff there are loads of different video ripper/encoder programs that are based on opensource software like mplayer ffmeg etc, except they break the gpl licence by refusing to distribute the source code. and people who do that are cunts. there is a fantastic peice of software called 'transcode' that turns all the computers you have into a renderfarm for converting your files, (gpl, based on ffmpeg and only works on linux) but it's really fucking hard to use.

hi all, i just make a short and verry amaturish video showing live mic scratching and cue points using a m-audio trigger finger in xwax. i didn't do a verry good job of demonstrating just how realtime live mic input is, maybe i'll make annother video. it'll be online here as soon as it finishes uploading:

i second that, sewing machine oil is fine for anything that dosen't have rubber components, and wd40 is for unsticking things, not for lubricating them. if you can't get calilube, then go to your local electronics shop and ask them for something to clean potentiometers with. just get your hands dirty! the biggest advice i can give you about taking apart equipment without a service manual is this: get some sort of container with multiple compartments, and keep all the screws in separate compartments depending on where they came from, this goes some way to avoiding the "left over screw problem". if things look complicated, and you think you might forget where they go, label them with bits of paper masking tape. or take photos and don't use shity old screwdrivers! its worth googling for service manuals though. even though most of the time you'll come up empty.

you lucky git! blast away the dust with compressed air, lube the fader rails with silicon lube spray and clean any pots or faders that are bleeding or crackling with switch cleaner. you'll probably want to take the faders apart to clean them out properly.

ok i get you, change the power supply for one without a ground.

i'll pick up a pair when the bubble bursts. untill then vestax and numark are the best deals second hand. if your buying new you might as well get the superOEMs after thinking about this for a while then i've come to the conclusion that technics are worth it only for battling. which i don't do because i still suck.

depends really, the whole concept of monitors is that you have a solid reference so you can judge what your mix actual sounds like. the best monitors are the one you've been using for 5 years, because you know them. sure there are technical reasons why one set of monitors is better than another. but for a home studio its pretty irrelevant as long as they aren't shit.

deft ? you mean cut the ground wire? it does work but it normaly means that you end up with your laptop ground at a nonzero voltage. lots of people do this, but you shouldn't because in (very) rare circumstances you can get nasty electric shocks..... the right way is to cut the ground at one end of the audio cables. or use an audio isolation transformer. some laptops have bad power supplies which introduce noise whatever you do though, if all else fails try another laptop. its probably something really simple like your turntable grounds aren't connected to your mixer though. often the only way to resolve earth loop problems is to make sure that everything is earthed to the same point, then if it still happens, try unearthing each bit of kit one at a time untill you find the problem. you can use a multimeter to check for differences in earth potential on the chassis of all the different bits of kit, and check for earth continuity.

relisting is a danger sign, there's got to be a catch. but there might not be, maybe he was asking too much the last time. the tannoy 6.5s were the first choice reasonable priced monitor in the 90s, untill everybody got KRKs, never heard them though.

i have a bit of music that i used for a the last 7 years for a circus number i do, i know that music so well that whenever i check a soundsystem, a new pair of speakers, headphones, whatever i just put it on and i instantly know EXACTLY what the piece of equipment is doing to my sound. i heard that tune probably more than a thousand times, on all sorts of systems from big stadium pa systems to opera theaters to shitty battery powered busker amps. i know that tune inside out. sure beats listening to a 440hz sine wave.

it is possibleto run dvs without an approved soundcard, but it isn't legal. i don't use cracked software myself, since there are good enough open source versions of everything, but if you actualy have a licence why the hell not download a cracked version of the same soft? like back in the old days when the cracked verion of cubase on the atari st actually fixed some bugs that stienberg hadn't dealt with? why you'd want to do this if you actualy had an aprooved traktor interface i'm not sure tho. naughty boy!

here, all the clubs have cdjs and the nicer ones have technics too. loads of places here in italy only have cdj100s's...... agree with what everybody is saying about mp3 cds tho, i wouldn't risk it. real audio cd's are the way to go, if nothing else then for the fact thet it's easier to remember what 100 diferent cds look like than to remember the names of 600 individual tracks. cd's are better than mp3s just for this, they are physical objects and if one breaks then you aren't screwed. my ex was cd only dj, really its a great way to dj (especialy if your a 'selecta', not a mixer), every week or so she would burn a new cd give it a stupid but easy to remember name and add it to the collection. that way she new her track really well, because she had loads of different ways of remembering a track, name, date added to collection and which physical cd it was on. a couple of times i lent her my controller, she was happy to only have to take a laptop and a controller, instead of hundreds of cds, but she hated it, not because of the feel or the look, or how the software worked but because she had to search for her tracks in the file browser, which i have to agree is much less intuitive than thumbing through a case of cds.

sounds you got grounding problems or worse, power suppy noise. does it do them same thing with the laptop on battery power? do you have the ground cables on your decks connected? try adding and removing ground connections between the laptop and the mixer and the decks until you find the culprit (if it is a grounding problem) try adding a cable between the laptops on board audio ground and the mixer some laptops have nasty power issues that can only be cured with isolation transformers, macs tend to have decent power supplies but other laptops can be hit or miss. i have one shitty old laptop that always makes a nasty digital hiss whenever i use it for audio and have to use an isolation transformer (aka hum destroyer) luckily the one i use for dvs is fine. nah, its down to cpu spikes from my usb ports as there's software to test for it in real time while its running and ive tried pretty much everything suggested to fix it and it hasnt helped. i can use it on me pc though so i dont mind so much. still poop for gigging but im gonna save for a new laptop soon that sucks, are you sure you tried everything though? here's a good article from avid http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/en401407?retURL=%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2Ffaq%2Fen389595&popup=true

exactly. a balanced audio connection carries a mono signal and a phase inverted copy of the same signal, the input circuit finds the similarity between the two and cancels it from the mono signal (the similarity is obviously noise introduced in the cable run) balanced audio can be found on xlr3(canon) or TRS 3/4 inch jacks. often people who are trying to plug a computer into a mixer use a 3.5mm stereo jack to 3/4inch STEREO TRS jack adapter, which is meant for headphones. what happens is that the similarity between the left and right signals is removed from the signal, often the music sound like its is underwater, or is mysteriously missing the vocals (vocals are often panned to the middle of the stereo image.) i've seen people use all sorts of adapters to make things fit into a 3/4 inch TRS jack.

sounds you got grounding problems or worse, power suppy noise. does it do them same thing with the laptop on battery power? do you have the ground cables on your decks connected? try adding and removing ground connections between the laptop and the mixer and the decks until you find the culprit (if it is a grounding problem) try adding a cable between the laptops on board audio ground and the mixer some laptops have nasty power issues that can only be cured with isolation transformers, macs tend to have decent power supplies but other laptops can be hit or miss. i have one shitty old laptop that always makes a nasty digital hiss whenever i use it for audio and have to use an isolation transformer (aka hum destroyer) luckily the one i use for dvs is fine.

limiting the tools people can use seems a bit extreme, why doesn’t he just stop booking people who he's never heard play out? i totally agree with what he says about people who don't know how to set up their gear though. i've lost count of how many times i've seen fuckwitts plug stereo quarter inch jacks into balanced inputs. you want to work with soundsystems but you've never even read the Wikipedia article about mixers? fuck off.

i had a look around to see if there was any way of getting the samples out of scratch loopers without recording them but no luck, it seems that its not worth the bother. i saw i few apps like motek said that let you turn a flash .exe into a .swf, didn't try any though.

yeah, if your dvs is set up right, you shouldn't be able to hear the difference. the sweet spot is under 3ms of latency. a couple of tips for when you tuning you latency: different usb ports can vary wildly in their ability to be used with a low latency sound card.(they often share interrupts with other devices, are attached to and internal hub, etc.) try all the different ports on your laptop. network cards can be bad news, (interrupt sharing again)if you have problems getting a decent latency, turn them off. your computer is probably full of evil daemons ( programs that run in the background are really called daemons, i kid you not.) disinstall or disable the fuckers. there are other things you can do but it quickly gets into hardcore nerd territory.

man , you got skills, you could try doing slow things once in a while though. its all so fast that it dosen't seem to change rhythm. in theater they have this idea about ten levels of energy, 1 being complete stillness and 10 being total 'go for it' my theater teach told me, "don't start at level 10, otherwise you'll have no way of building a crescendo " i feels like a pleb, giving advice to the guy who's video tutorials i'm watching on loop

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vekked vs chile? probably the two most different people on dv.

its not really that much more than soldering things together, i've done quite a few of these things in the past, theres a few diferent options for where to start. midibox and other open source projects. nice stuff, you just need to source the parts and solder it together, and good community support. but for some reason every design relies on a difficult to get part that i can't seem to find localy. arduino and other microcontroller development platforms, you get to build the firmware and hardware yourself, copying large chunks of examples you find online. i like doing this! modifying existing controlers. you just open it up, rip out the pots and buttons and wire them to your own. easy, but a sad experience when you fuck up. modifying joysticks. cheap and satisfying, just open it up and take out the circuit board, take off the buttons and axis pots the wire up your own. the you need some software like glovepie (windows) or aseqjoy (linux) to convert the joystick to midi. have fun and don't be afraid to ask any questions here.

great job! you might want to put some electrical tape on the connections on the switch, or even better, heat shrink tubing.