This is where Stems comes into its own:
Loop the intro and with stems you can start with just the drums, then add bass line, instrumental, the bring in the vocal as you release the loop.
Do the reverse at the end of the track, and you’ve created an extended mix on the fly.
I just measured my 41mm. Corner to corner the body of the watch is 45mm. So fitting a 45mm screen without making the watch larger isn’t impossible.
Maybe the 10 will boast a new edge to edge screen with zero boarder.
I’m the same height as you and find I need my decks around 1M high. Those decks look much lower than the door handle. (Door handles are normally around 80-90 cm high.)
Edit: IKEA website tells me that Kallax is 77cm high.
My back hurts just looking at the height of your decks and mixer!
You could add legs to your unit to raise everything up, or add an additional slim unit/riser on top (as DJ Ollie has done here or u/pascalack has done here ) which would also allow you to move your CD player(?) and other stuff at the back to under the decks.
You could then push the whole unit back and have more space in your room.
If you can afford to swap out the mixer for a Serato compatible mixer, you could go DVS, and loose the controller.
(You could use the “more space” thing to justify the cost of a new mixer to your other half!)
Yes, you can buy the motorised leg assembly separately (I brought mine for around £80) then get a top cut to 60x150cm to perfectly fill the space.
Looks great!😍
Is the acrylic frosted or sand blasted? Did you use LED tape/strip? Is it mounted behind or underneath?
Could you post some pictures of how you did them?
I used to like regularly changing them (by twisting the crown).
But since they gave the crown a new use, I’m not sure how you easily change them on the fly?
I’m using a Tascam DR-40X, which allows the two line inputs to be switched between mic or LINE level (so no clipping).
It also has two built in mics to record both live and mics to four tracks. Then, in post production, I can choose how much to mix in the mic mix for ambience, as I normalise the overall volume. It’s give great results so far. I power it from USB, as a set of batteries will run out in less than two gigs.
Yep, those were the days.
I started in a club that only had belt driven decks with no vari-speed (I think the brand was Garrard), so spindle twisting and platter dragging were the only way to keep anything in sync. Most tracks also had live drums (varying tempo) and mixers didn’t have channel eq or trims.
Gear was too expensive to have any home set up to practice on, so the only practice was at the club.
It certainly forces you to learn quickly and know every single beat of every track.
Love the ease of modern gear and music, but I still get a real buzz from manually mixing non-gridded 70’s funk/soul/disco the hard way.
If you’re a pro, and getting paid for gigs, just buy the pro version.
You never know if your going to be in a club or at an event that won’t unlock Serato Pro.
Interested to know your reasoning behind this view?
I’ve used both extensively, and my experience is that Rane is generally better built (and in the past was better suited to creative & scratch DJ’s, although less difference now) but Pioneer is more popular amongst house DJ’s and industry standard in the clubs.
I don’t use sync as I also play a lot of tracks with live drummers.
It's tedious to manually place grid markers and align new sections, …. Once that's done sync works perfectly with them.
For me, it’s easier just to manually mix tracks the way I’ve done for 45 years, rather than spend time manually gridding every track. (I did a few and was just far to much effort, when you can just drag and push on the fly.)
Rotating the dance floor isn’t about filling the floor, then clearing it to the bar (who can’t cope with the mass rush all at once).
It is about keeping a constant revolving flow. Moving through tracks/styles/ genres to intentionally “loose” a small proportion of dancers (to the bar) as you replace them with new dancers - so that no one person spends more than 30-40 minutes on the dancefloor.
It is possible to do this without playing “shit”. But you do need variety/variation.
I just don't have the storage
Nowadays storage costs a small percentage of the cost of the tracks.
I buy WAV, as that’s it’s pure lossless format. FLAC is very, very good, but can still hear the subtle difference.
FLAC is a lossless format and will sound identical to WAV.
mp3 is a lossy format that throws away 90% of the data - admittedly the 90% that an “average” person won’t notice on an “average” sound system.
20 years ago I might have agreed with you. But now storage is so cheap.
As I said in my other post:
Why limit yourself?
Unless you’re sure you will never need better quality.
mo3 is fine if you are only playing at home, in bars, small clubs.
But why limit yourself?
One day you might be playing on top notch sound systems in big clubs, or doing stem mixing, or your own re-edits, or radio shows.
Lossless (AIFF, WAV, FLAC) will make a small, but noticeable difference in those applications.
Just buy a MP3 then upsample it as a WAV in a DAW. That way you have both the quality of a WAV and its massive file size at half the cost! Talk about a win win!
Up-sampling mp3 to WAV will give you a WAV size large file, but only mp3 quality.
Loose Loose!
All the info will be released soon.
Yoshi, do you have a date for when all the info is released? If not, which month?
Pete Tong didn’t mix at all in the early days of his career. He started mixing in the early 90’s when it started to become the default for club DJ’s in the UK. (Was almost scared to reply due to your user name!)
Don’t do any whilst you are working. You’ll feel your performance is better, but it will actually be worse.
I would go the other way. Mixer technology and features move forward every year. You will never need to upgrade a good set of turntables once you have them.
That’s the beauty of mixing: You can blend in a track that people don’t know, and they keep dancing (when an abrupt change might clear the floor). If the dancefloor starts thinning out, mix back in to something they know again.
If this is a regular gig/venue, you can slowly introduce more and more variation over the weeks. For one off parties, just do the above to drop in maybe 10-20% of new music.
Another way to keep the “same old music” fresher, is to seek out different edits to play.
Do any LED’s light up on the mixer?
If not, is the power supply connector the correct size and right polarity ( + / - on the ring or center)?
No sound on mixer (reloop rmx22i) rp7000mk2
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