EMD What Electronic Music r YOU listenin' to? v. Watch your bass bins! I'm tellin' yah.

What's rarely understood is that tracks are minimally understaded so that DJ's can spin each record on top of each other.
All that is need is to have a pioneer or a technics with a mixer that blanks out the beats from one tune to the other.
A CD-J will do it for you; even a USB stick stuck into the side. Serato, Albeton.. make you choise.
The only choise you have to make is do you want tempo, and or pitch. Serato's new plug in does tempo really well, but it's a null tempo so it'll sit in the middle exactly like a technics, however it will stay at the same pitch but not change the tempo.
They made it side exactly like the newer technics. You can change the pitch, but then the tempo speeds up or slow's down. The 'null' point can be controlled as it's voltage driven.
 
What's rarely understood is that tracks are minimally understaded so that DJ's can spin each record on top of each other.
All that is need is to have a pioneer or a technics with a mixer that blanks out the beats from one tune to the other.
A CD-J will do it for you; even a USB stick stuck into the side. Serato, Albeton.. make you choise.
The only choise you have to make is do you want tempo, and or pitch. Serato's new plug in does tempo really well, but it's a null tempo so it'll sit in the middle exactly like a technics, however it will stay at the same pitch but not change the tempo.
They made it side exactly like the newer technics. You can change the pitch, but then the tempo speeds up or slow's down. The 'null' point can be controlled as it's voltage driven.
Serato was always expected to have a pitch and tempo driven drive; as the RTAS pitch system was much better than other VST algorithms or the Logic equivalents. However they weren't in 'real-time'.
The serato forums will verify this, however they know that each upgrade will come at a cost.
Native Instruments have this facity under there own real-time algorithm, but it's slices in the same way as Ableton live does; so as you go faster the sections get closer together, but as it slows down there are gaps that need to be compensaded for.
It's fine for higher pitches (autotune or celemony) but for a mix in real-time won't work, unless you have traktor or serato live; each of which will pay a premium to do this is real-time.
In conclusion, we are talking about mixing two tracks in real time, with beat-matching and pitch shifit; on-the-fly.
 
Sorry, I'd much rather keep it more basic.
You can mix two tunes on one laptop easily with hardware from serato, pioneer, native instruments and many other companies that can be found on soundonsound.
If your using it for a gig however you really need realiabitly (honestly), this is why you'll often see high end pioneer CD'J or vinyl in vivo as a back up for each other.
This is another reason why there is often a four or sometimes a five channel mixer stuck inbetween those suckers.
Each of these channels will have a line and phono input switch. phono is for high impedence turntables, low impedence is for line level CD players or perhaps tape machines. Don't been afraid to switch inbetween. Try to keep the red to the red and the white to the white when you buy the phono wires.
You should try to buy a mixer with a grouding wire (if buying turntables) this will cut out any hum as the two wires will meet each other at the end of the chain as oposing sine waves and cancel out any hum.
This is really important if you don't want to destroy the PA system. Keep it clean.
At this point no power shoud be on to anything.
Wire up the turntables to the 'ground' on the mixer with all the faders turned down. make sure the master is also turned down.
Please remember this is for a basic x2 turntable and mixer with phono inputs if you like to play CD's.
Now you have to the master outputs to content with. These tend to be red faders at the end of the desk, or the master outputs.
Sometimes they come in pairs as you have to record them. These should be at the same level as set, but not going above 0dbv.
Zero decibel levels, this basically means 16 bit or CD standard. The bit rate means the level (loudness)) 44.1k is CD standard. If you like AKAI 8-bit samplers you'll see that this machine takes 8100 samples per second; or 96k takes 96000 samples per second.
The only reason they went to 44.1k I can't go into now.
The bit rate if for volume and quietness, so if you have a track that has whats callled 'amplitute' get 32 bit.
If you have a track that has low bass to high pitch get apoggee; I mean can you listen from 11hz to 20 thousand.
The best sound card is still RME for, umm pretty much everything
 
^^^Nice! I love EBTG.

Here's a blast from the past. This compilation was so fresh sounding in 2002. I think it still holds up to this day.

 
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I like music like this sometimes so that I can pretend I'm on a tropical island somewhere even tho that's far from the truth. Ha!

 
I didn't get the beach reference until 1:08. It gets a little prancy with the synth work a little later in.

Interesting, very interesting.

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Man With No Name is a friggin legend.

The next several posts from me will be dedicated to discussing his enigmatic career in the world of psytrance.

Let's kick it off with an Eat Static remix by him who has no name, two psy acts I am currently exploring in depth %)
 
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