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I use a PC and there's no volume meter on the software I use. I'm saving to buy a controller though. Want to get proper.

not saying that mixing with a controller is "proper" but it's a first step

no volume meter on the software I use

o_O

that seems like some basic level of functionality shit

I'm about to buy a controller, primarily so I can easily record mixes at home...maybe I'll take it to gigs w/ my laptop but I'm still wary of bringing a laptop because I don't want to lose my cred.

Actually because it's expensive and I can't imagine it not getting destroyed.

I'm looking at the Novation Twitch, I played with it at Guitar Center and am not sure I can get used to using the touch strip in place of the platters. I don't scratch or anything, I'm just so accustomed to setting my cue poing and adjusting pitch that way.

If I decide I need platters there's the Traktor Kontrol S2, but I think I'm leaning towards Serato/Itch over Traktor.

There's also the Vestax VCI-300 mk II and VCI-100 mk II. Used, the price isn't so bad. Twitch I've seen loval for as low as 340.

Or I may hold out for the VCI-380 which is $$$ and not out yet, but is basically a VCI-300 with a Twitch attached to it PLUS it's a real mixer so I can connect my 1200s to it.

but it will indeed make you lose your cred.

jk.

I have a $125 bcd3000 that I've been using to play gigs for ~4 years. Nothing fancy but it gets the job done.

I have zero cred tho

want a traktor kontrol s1 so bad

http://soundcloud.com/pushingit/april2012

pocz ft dj yirvin - verde vintage
siyoung - ykk
bass tandem feat lhasslo - frozen ocean
planas feat ed thomas - breathtaking (dbridge steppers soul mix)
krueger - this is sick
jubilee - overtown
wool + vortex - erotic dancer (b-ju remix)
ena - use your imagination (elemental remix)
dj haus - needin' u (capracara remix)
regality ft corrine - celebrate
spoonface ft heba - flashback
zero g - what must i do
bunny on acid - blown away
royal sapien - war
somepoe - if u got
cone - krooked zions (yellowtail remix)
sometimessean - batty boy
anna love - skip a beat (ldfd mix)
dam mantle - her woes
3 play - rio

also, no reason to muck about with audacity anymore: http://reaper.fm/

(only availble for win + osx tho)

lolling at the video game analogies because my friend Brian and I have had the exact same discussion

"making a mix is like getting past this one super hard board of Mario ... if you mess up and go back and fix the transition later that's where you saved your game"

http://d1lolb6yyp8wyu.cloudfront.net/w/300/h/300/q/85/upload/images/extaudio/e562e08b-3923-438d-8288-0fcfdbfc2400.jpg

http://soundcloud.com/wearekjs/kjs-may-2012-promo-mix

http://www.mixcloud.com/knobjockeys/kjs-may-2012-promo-mix/

Mixes from us are a bit like buses. You wait months with nothing, then two come along at once!

So here to celebrate the start of Spring, a mix of both new and classic bass, house, techno, garage and electro tunes as heard at our recent gig at Joshua Brooks, Manchester.

Check out our other recent mix for Immersed Audio: http://www.immersedaudio.com/2012/03/ia-mix-sereis-026-kjs.html

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/wearekjs
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wearekjs
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wearekjs
Website: http://knobjockeys.org/

Tracklist:

1. Baxter Beez - Bring That Shit Back (Flore Remix) - Chateau Bruyant
2. Marco Del Horno v DJ Swerve - Just Rewind (Woz Remix) - Black Butter Records
3. Dave Spoon - Lummox (Plump DJs Remix) - Televizion Records
4. Savage Skulls - Lorimer - Enchufada
5. Crookers - Dushi - Southern Fried Records
6. Mz Bratt - Selecta (2 Bit Thugs ReRub) - 2 Bit Thugs
7. MJ Cole ft Serocee - AO (Zed Bias Wind-Up Mix) - Prolific Recordings
8. Kry Wolf - Begging You - Sounds Of Sumo
9. The Living Graham Bond - Premier - partylikeusrecords
10. Jack Beats - Deeper - Jack Beats
11. Double 99 - Rip Groove (Run Riot Remix) - RuN RiOT
12. Djedjotronic - Walk With Me - BNR TRAX
13. Basement Jaxx - Wheres Your Head At - XL
14. 2 Bit Thugs - Hacienda - Corrupt Records
15. Technotronic ft Felly - Pump Up The Jam (accapella) - BCM Records
16. Autokratz - Splinters - Bad Life Records
17. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ft Riko - Blood Pressure - Greco-Roman
18. The Loops of Fury - I Need - U&A Recordings / Finetunes
19. Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (Original Tweekin' Acid Funk Mix) - Manifesto
20. Baobinga and Randomer - Crom2 - Build Recordings
21. SL2 - On a Ragga Tip - XL
22. Rusko - Somebody to Love (Skreamix) - Mad Decent
23. Freestylers and Wizard - Killasound - Freestyler Reco

Yes, we've all been waiting for mixes from someone who's clearly posting here for the first time in order to just spam message boards.

As far as mixes you don't want go, I've spent the last week piecing this together in an attempt (whether successful or not I do not know) to make a really tight, many-tracked mix of generally decent tracks.

SOUNDCLOUD

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000022050079-30q43i-crop.jpg?639a060

73:22

bicep - lover
john talabot feat. ekhi - journeys
alex smoke - passing through
dinky - anemik
dj sprinkles - the occasional feel good
rndm - no beginning
zero 7 - today (pepe bradock WTF hppnd mix)
massimiliano pagliara - feel so real
tobias. - skippy
kemeticjust - for your love (pepe bradock's tendre pieprade)
blondes - water (bicep remix)
fridge - anglepoised
burial - loner
josh one - contemplation (king britt funke mix)
stephen hitchell - for convextion
plaid - blah
xhin - foxes and wolves
sticky feat. kele le roc - things we do
porter ricks - nautical dub
autechre - eutow
boddika - acid jackson
outkast feat. big rube & sleepy brown - stankonia (stanklove)
isan - scraph

that looks r dope

love that blondes track esp

cosign on reaper, it IS the program you always thought should exist

fauxmarc do you actually put together mixes with it? i use it for chopping and editing speech and putting together radio packages, which it really excels at. i see it as like an audacity that actually works, a replacement for Deck II (oldies will get the reference) or similar.

I can't remember if I've posted this before, but I really like this mix. It's all vinyl, one take, recorded directly to minidisc. (minidisc!) It was one of those mixes that I made and forgot about, and surprisingly when I rediscovered it I found it was really good. Here it is, the long lost Tracer Hand mix which I'm calling Human Made.

http://soundcloud.com/tracerhand/human-made

Wanna talk oldies? When Deck was introduced, I recognized the original version as an update on the mid-priced MIDI sequencer I used to run on my Mac Plus...Dr. T's Beyond.

SR x Hivemind.fm – Xpldr Session 22.04.2012

DJ Sotofett – Stå Opp Med Sola (Chiang Mai Versjon) [Wania]
Madteo – Scream Seq.2 [Hinge Finger]
Hype Williams – Break4love [Hippos In Tanks]
Fhloston Paradigm – The Chase [Hyperdub]
MM / KM – MM KM End To Funk [The Trilogy Tapes]
Omar-S – The White Castle Song [FXHE]
MM/KM – Birds Flying In The Sun Like You Know How [The Trilogy Tapes]
FaltyDL – Mean Streets pt.2 [Swamp 81]
Samoyed – Cherry Ripe [Glum]
Panther Modern – Howl [Immerse]
October – String Theory [Simple]
Sanys – Daily Situation [Downfall Theory]
Steevio – Tywynnu Pt.1 [Mindtours]
Aroy Dee – Mr. Floyd [M>O>S Deep]
Funkineven – Beat Crash [Apron]
Round One – I’m Your Brother (Chicago’s Twisted Mix) [Main Street]
Elgato – Zones [Hessle Audio]
Levon Vincent – Late Night Jam [Ostgut Ton]
Jus-Ed – The Wind Up [Underground Quality]
Alex Coulton – Brooklyn [Idle Hands]
Conforce – 24 (Gesloten Cirkel Remix) [Clone Basement Series]
Presk – Kook [Fourth Wave]
Gerry Read – Yeh Come Dance [Delsin]
Kowton – Jam01 [Livity Sound]
Lowtec – A1 [Workshop 01]
Jus-Ed – Some More Shit Dub Pt.2 [Underground Quality]
Kowton – More Games [Livity Sound]
Alex Coulton – Candy Flip [Idle Hands]
Altered Natives – No Mortgage [Bosconi]
Beneath – Trouble [No Symbols]
Special Request – Lolita (Warehouse Dub) [Special Request]
DJ Assassin – A Face In The Crown (Intellidread Mix) [Cross Section]
Presk – Hesitate [Fourth Wave]
Elgato – Luv Zombie [Hessle Audio]

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2012/04/radio-sr-x-hivemind-fm-xpldr-session-22-04-2012/

Really nice looking mix, EDB.

Tracer, for those of us slightly overwhelmed by how many options/etc Reaper presents, any guides/etc to lead us through the zone?

tracklist looks sick, jimi. gonna listen to it now

@etc - there's a PDF user guide on the Reaper site which gets you up to speed. If you've ever used Audacity, Protools, etc you'll find it familiar. If not that's almost helpful because you won't have to relearn your own hardcoded muscle-memory keyboard shortcuts, etc.

fauxmarc do you actually put together mixes with it? i use it for chopping and editing speech and putting together radio packages, which it really excels at. i see it as like an audacity that actually works, a replacement for Deck II (oldies will get the reference) or similar.

yeah i put together mixes with it if i'm feeling pressed for time on other projects (which is all the time lately of course) - it's great for chopping and editing but with a simple holding of the alt-button (in windows) the same tool is a great time stretcher you can use for arbitrary stretching or to snap to whichever interval of a bar.

i haven't really used any guides and don't know anything about music but i just play around and always end up learning a bit more about it as i go along. love that visually on the track you can also see/modify whichever fx parameter or panning/volume envelope, as well as assign them to an arbitrary midi controls, record the controlling in real-time, etc.

it's really good about multi-channel handling/mapping as well, like i can have 16 channels from maschine be a different sound/instrument/sample each mapped and recorded to it's own track in reaper

It's not mixed, and it's all very obvious, but I put this together for blog. Music to drift off to innit:

http://www.mixcloud.com/blankcassettes/diverge-mix-pseudo-sonambulance/

Pastels/Tenniscoats - Vivid Youth
Martin Denny - Exotica
Jan Jelinek - Vibraphonspulen
Ducktails - Friends
Dolphins into the Future - On the High Seas
Actress - Supreme Cunnilingus
Triola - AG Penthouse
Fennesz - Caecilia
William Basinski - Melancholia
Chris Watson - Chiuaua

http://soundcloud.com/newtownradio/wtbs-with-dj-speculator-2

arthur russell this is how we walk on the moon
savage a love again
plastic sleeves down low
drexciya wavejumper
the stickmen strictly rhythm
resistance-d
jeff mills the good robot
transfix remarque records
ultradyne war drum
beverly hills 808303
brown acid WR09
acid 101 fast cash
dj flint dance mania
dj fatten dance mania
r.t. & the rockmen unlimited i want to go to chicago
teengirl fantasy john talabot mix
pet shop boys domino dancing remix
simoncino ocean
jack frost te adore acido
acid wave ( i think its black merlin )
cybersyn poste de crystal
unreleased from voiski
unreleased from voiski
unreleased willie burns
woz upcoming on WT

oooooh

speculator yer last mix was great, happy 4 this

I'm on the radio right now at http://bboxradio.com/

pre-recorded, it will be archived later. it's really sloppy but there's some good music.

really sloppy but there's some good music

name of my new DJ night.

ha ha no that's the name of my dj night

dan you are not sloppy!

an old friend from highschool had a show on bbox but their last one was this/last week i think

did you really ride around in the container-thingy

we did it tuesday at my friend's apt.

http://soundcloud.com/newtownradio/wtbs-with-dj-speculator-3

tolouse low trax
harmonious thelonious
african bros. (int.) band
dr. hook and the medicine show penicillin penny
revolution compared to what go to work
herbie hancock tell everybody
maxine singleton dont you love it instr
raw elements lost in time
ten city suspicious
jay williams dance track
alex party umm
osacar g. of murk
bluejean's regime untrue affection
live IV life do you know?
unique 3 weight for the bass
undercover elephant psycho sounds remix
coil panic
pailhead i will refuse
glass candy metal gods
toto dune soundtrack 3 songs
bookworms side B LIES
sendex bunker
bookworms side A LIES
paul rutherford happy face
sax fet elan funny bone popi
mk feat alana love changes
club vibes kick it strictly rhythm
cashflow its the game eecheeban

http://soundcloud.com/limabear/everyday

Alone (paradise)- don Carlos)
Back - FCL
Sun Goddess- Mr Beatnick
Humbling Love - Moomin
Onion Smell- Christopher Rau
never knew love - James Duncan
Transfiguration - Artuu
Cherry ripe- Samoyed
Take it to the house (dub2) -Jine
Like some Dream - Daniel Wang
champagne dancer - Shatrax
Shady Nook - Zoolook
a choice _ Ron n Trent
persciption of love - Marcelo Napolitano
jvm - Vakula
Come This Far - Fred P
My Angels - Dj Deep

woo

and all new tracks to me also (other than the schatrax and don carlos)

"ron n trent"

i Know.. oops , Chez and Trent obviously. also right before that is The Fourth Dimension - John Heckle

Just bought a controller. Any concerns about controller and software making mixes too slick is easy to take care of. Just don't use auto sync. There you go, sloppy and "live" as before! (haven't quite gotten the handle on how this thing uses beat grids and syncs correctly.

What did you get Dan? And what software does it hook up to?

dsb thanks for putting it up in AIFF!

I got a Novation Twitch, which is an Itch controller.

Pros:
Cheap
Small
Light
Many pads for cues and "slice" effect I will use twice

Cons:
People say the output volume is too low, which is only a problem if you're at a shitty club where everything is totally maxed out and you go on after someone with a hotter level CDJ
No platters

Basically, I wanted something for home use and occasional mobile type thing. I probably won't use this in clubs/bars. Maybe sometimes.

I never really used the platters for scratching, just more intuitive scratch cue-ing, and this thing with the touch strip basically accomplishes the same thing. And I think one of the reasons it's so relatively cheap is because there's no platter, which, to do well, probably costs a bit. And when done poorly, you may as well not even have them.

If I get really into using controllers, I'll probably replace this with the Vestax VCI-380 that comes out in a few weeks, which is basically this, PLUS two good platters, PLUS the ability to act as an independent mixer. So that's like 1000 dollars, whereas I got this for $350 from some guy on craigslist who had it for 2 weeks.

So I can see selling this and my Rane mixer and getting the Vestax eventually, but for now, this is great. Great for sitting at my computer and recording mixes. And I'm djing a friend's bday party in a few weeks so not having to lug turntables and many crates of records, especially when you don't know what people are going to want to hear, this set-up should be cool.

Sorry, figured soundcloud would compress it, re-uploading if you still want to dl.

dude i was serious!! i like the full-fat versions always

when a dj cuts out the bass, what effect do they generally use? or do they just kill the low EQ (or whatever you call the knob with the word "low")?

They usually just kill the low EQ. There's more possibilites. Sometimes it's using a high pass filter. Some mixers have "kill" switches on each band of EQ. The latest/greatest pioneer has a switch so you can define if the EQ's lower the level of that band or cut it out altogether. And old-school house style and big systems often have a separate "isolater" with is like a master EQ for the crossover that can be used.

But usually they just kill the low EQ.

I tried killing the low eq on my software and it sounds like crap. Using filter sounds so much better. Must be the software, yes?

could be a virus

could be file compression, are you using lossless flac?