The Furious Angels

FA Discussion => Off Topic => Topic started by: Fuse on May 06, 2005, 11:46:59 pm

Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 06, 2005, 11:46:59 pm
(http://www.followtheangel.org/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10292/Dsc00484.jpg)
DJM-909.
God I love this mixer. Unfortunatly, I still have to deal with shitty tables for a few more weeks until I grab a pair of TTX1s. So yeah, if I'm not one much, this is where I'll be.
(http://www.followtheangel.org/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10292/Dsc00483.jpg)
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 06, 2005, 11:50:33 pm
I've played on that mixer a few times, it's pretty sweet.  I haven't really used the effects module though.  As for turntables, get Technics 1200s yo!

Is that scratch notation on the wall?
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 07, 2005, 12:14:42 am
1200s are standard, but over-hyped I think...

The TTXs have more torque (Tech MK2s and MK3s 1.5kg/cm vs. TTXs 3.7 peak), faster startup and break times which are adjustable, digital outs, more options than the 1200s, plus they are a bit cheaper.
It's not that I don't like 1200s, I absolutly love spinning on them, but there are a few other great tables out there that beat the 1200s.

Scratch Notation? It's a chord poster for guitar.
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It was a tossup between the 909, or waiting for the new Numark 5000FX.
(http://www.bananas.com/multimedia/1912/FullImage/1912.jpg)

and GOD IF I HAD THE MONEY I'd love to get a pair, or even one pioneer DMP-555.

ok, I'm done.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 03:22:56 am
O_o

oooo pretty toys :)
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Ketamininja on May 07, 2005, 07:07:35 am
gemini decks?? :(

for those interested, I was on stage with DJ Format and Abdominal on Tuesday :)
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 09:30:06 am
Lol boys with there Toys...
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 09:51:38 am
youre the first person ive heard to talk about numarks being better than 1200s. i have been trying to talk myself into getting back into mixing. have to admit that those ttx1's are nice.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 10:42:43 am
very pretty ^_^ Have fun with them! In the meantime ill wait for my new toy....my car..YUM!
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 07, 2005, 01:06:32 pm
Keta, I used a friends 1200s when I was into it, but those have been long gone. Had to pull these from my atic just so I can pipe something through.
And I think as far as the 1200 vs. ttxs thing it's a lot of personal taste. As I said, I love 1200s, butthe price, torque, and extras kinda tp it for me.

ANd while this thread is attracting DJs and the like, anyone going to DEMF this year? They called it "Fuse" this year, so I may have to make an appearance.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 01:08:06 pm
This is my toy:

(http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/dj/img10351714866.jpeg)

Just the essentials.. no extra buttons, switches or knobs from features you probably won't ever use to get in your way.  The cleanest fader ever.

As for Technics, in my opinion there has never been a better turntable.  There is a reason why it is still the standard after all these years.  Did you know it is 30 years years old?  The first ones came out in the early 70s.

I have the same pair I started DJing with in 1995.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 07, 2005, 01:21:32 pm
I was considering a few ranes, also wanted an A&H  rotary xone 92. If I really get back into DJing I'll probably grab one up eventually.
http://www.allen-heath.com/DisplayProduct.asp?pview=45
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Ketamininja on May 07, 2005, 01:49:22 pm
^ whoa that looks tasty!

(http://www.numark.com/images/products/large/tt200_large.jpg)
Found em to be very sturdy, long lasting, of course get some nice carts on there too.
TTX1's are the next in range, so they should be really nice, comparing to this.

(http://www.numark.com/images/products/large/dm3001x_large.jpg)
Nice fun kill switches, plus swappable x-fader. Clean looks, very clean sound - comes in gold too.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 05:07:46 pm
*drools*
If only I had the money......
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 07, 2005, 08:03:19 pm
So, Fuse, are you going to be using these for your DJing on Radio Free Zion? Just pipe that shit straight into your PC, man
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 07, 2005, 09:46:46 pm
well...
I haven't spun in about 2 years, and only have like one crate of classic house tracks I couldn't get rid of. So it'll be a while till I get the new tables, the hang of things again and enough records to do a few decent sets. I wasn't all the great when I had spun before-just a few house parties, adn as a hobby-plus it was primaraly only house. I think I may want to change my style up a bit now.

ok short answer: Yes, but not now.

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I'm in the middle of setting it up where I can do this. Only problem so far is that I can't monitor my DJing, the outgoing stream, the incomming stream, and chats/TS at the same time. I'm setting my laptop to help with some of this though.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 08, 2005, 01:00:22 am
The Xone:92 is GOD.  If I had the money, it would be mine.

Is there anyone on RFZ doing actual live mixing with turntables?

//edit:Oops, I meant the Xone:62 is GOD.  The X:92 has too many buttons and knobs for my taste.  The things thing I like about it are the headphone amp.. clear and loud and the 4 eq knobs.

http://www.allen-heath.com/xone62.asp
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 08, 2005, 01:17:49 am
You know how much that thing runs now? I never really did look into A&H prices.

I only know like 2 other rfz djs that do some form of electronic music-but I'm the only one who plays full mixes. The others just play track [pause] track [talk a bit] track...
There was one night i had to setup for a LAN party at a buddies place so I brought my comp with and I had to DJ that night. I set up his mixer into my systems and he did a 50 or so minute mix. That's the only time I've done it, and the only time I'm aware of that its has been done on rfz.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 08, 2005, 02:38:14 am
Well, at the very least Fuse, you could use the mixer to put digital streams through to pipe out of. That is assuming you have a card that can handle it (Or an adapter to make the Stereo L&R into Stereo 1/8"), or something like the EMU-0404 (Mmmmm...tasty), which I'll be getting soon. It could really make your show rather interesting.

Just on a side note, I highly, highly recommend you get this card. I can refer you to a guy who can get you one at a decent price, and even mod it for better sound (bigger better everything, basically (I forget the specifics)). If you're interested, just let me know.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 08, 2005, 06:50:19 am
this is my new toy














nothing
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 08, 2005, 08:57:19 am
I'm not much into making music, and to be honest, I have no idea what most of that stuff does....so instead, I'll show you all my latest toy.

(http://img56.echo.cx/img56/5283/p229rdaklarge8gt.jpg)

Yes, I know, Guns aren't toys....But in the "Expensive things that people buy" category, its a toy
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 08, 2005, 12:42:45 pm
Quote from: "KaydaNocturnum"
Well, at the very least Fuse, you could use the mixer to put digital streams through to pipe out of. That is assuming you have a card that can handle it (Or an adapter to make the Stereo L&R into Stereo 1/8")



This is what I'm doing right now. I am using onboard sound, so I have some limitations, but I have always found ways to make this work. I was streaming some of my records to Lelyel last night while testing. I have my microphone into my mic of the mixer, mixer master out into linein of comp, Booth monitor into aux2 of amp, phones from comp split between my aux1 of amp and my headphones (for non-mix listening-TS), amp out to speakers, plus I setup my laptop near my tables so when I do stream the mix my main comp just handles streaming and my laptop handles TS, monitoring the current stream (the one everyone hears), and my chats.

I split the master and booth outputs because when I stream there is about a half second delay between when it enters my cop, gets processed by SAM3 and spits it tou to the stream, and also my speakers. So using aux2 I can hear myself live, on aux1 I can hear whats going out of the stream, or any other sound from my computer.

And as far as guns, yeah they're not toys, but I do anjoy shooting. Currently have a beretta 9mm 92fs with side laser grips. I wish to get a 9000s F when I move out.
http://products.berettausa.com/images/immagini_maxi/9000S_Type_F_S_maxi.jpg
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 08, 2005, 02:27:11 pm
Last I checked, the Xones were both over $1000.. way outta my range.  I lurked ebay for a couple of weeks hoping to find a used 62 but no luck.  I ended up getting the Rane for about $700 and I am totally happy with it.

I used to stream alot a couple of years ago through shoutcast.  I only monitored what was coming out of the mixer because of the second or so delay.  I'd check it every so often just to make sure it wasnt distorted or anything.  I also had people on ICQ who would let me know if something was going wrong.  I have separate sound systems for my comp and my DJ equipment... are you splitting everthing up that way because you've got only one?

Sounds like you are doing everything right. I would suggest a better soundcard, one of the audigys with the front input panel makes it alot easier to hook things up.  But I'm pretty sure your onboard sound is fine.  I was using a 16bit soundcard when I first started 'casting with no problems.

What does RFZ use for streaming?
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 08, 2005, 02:40:56 pm
You know, for a computer graduate, I really should know how to type better than that last post I made.

We use SAM3 for the streaming. I would like to setup my own shoutcast server sometime-for the faction and for org parties. I've played with the idea before, but never really figured it out. Think you could help me out with it? I want to do it comepletely based on my computer-no outside server help. The reason I'm doing it through my computer like that is so I can also record . I do have a separate 80watt amp, but I like to plug everything through my receiver, plus I can't find the power plug for it. I was going to grab one of the audigys, but my cash supply was limited. When I did get money I spent a grand of it on this mixer. I would actually end up getting the platinum pro version because I don't have any 5.25 drive bays left and that one is an external device with the PCI card.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 08, 2005, 03:51:56 pm
By the way, I just set it up... if you wanan listen to me trying to tweak it, the IP is http://67.175.125.74:8000
I'm not sure hwo to setup the web for it right now, I'll deal with that another time. The listener max is set to 25, paste that into your winamp/windowsmedia. Let me know how it streams.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Ketamininja on May 08, 2005, 03:54:39 pm
absolutely perfect through iTunes... not that its my preferred player
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 08, 2005, 04:10:20 pm
huh... ok, buffers a LITTLE bit with 5 people connected...
I'll look on how to tweak it a bit more. I'm new to this thing.
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 08, 2005, 11:21:49 pm
oh boy, the poster in the back, rocks. I had that one when I was a kid, made a nice quick reference for chords

btw fuse,I've done streaming between sam3 and shoutcast a few times, if ya need any help, lemme know
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Fuse on May 09, 2005, 08:26:23 am
The main problem is that my upload speed is arround 300kb/s. SO I can't handle many without buffering...
=(
Title: My New Toy...
Post by: Anonymous on May 09, 2005, 02:02:49 pm
Waa no Toys for mwa
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