Show Your Setup Part II

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Originally Posted by MrPopinjay

Slight side note- you planning on explaining how you're using maschine in detail once you've got more comfortable with it? I'd certainly be interested. I don't know much about the maschine or how you could use it live.

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Sure.

I could explain it now…I just still kind of suck at making beats (esp. melodies), so the audio would kind of suck if I took the time to record a video or something…which I'll probably do at some point.

Picture adding a 3rd deck that happens to be a groove box instead of a normal DJ deck. Then give it a sync button that actually works. The technical side of it was actually pretty easy so far…I just have to find a decent limiter with a gain stage to put on it so what comes out of Maschine actually competes with mastered full tracks a little better, and the technical side is basically done apart from selling a bit of equipment to finance the mixer and audio interface I want.

The artistic side might take a little while. I can use is as a drum machine right now…using it as a groove box is going to take a while because I still suck at melodies.

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Originally Posted by DJKeyWee

Carefull with computer sitting on any magnetic fields source like an amplifier... if your hard drive is not an SSD...

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thanks for the tip off! didnt think of that! :-)

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Originally Posted by samjl

The mixers brilliant but I think I've had a dodgy one sent. The 1st channel is constantly distorted and even with the volume low it's clipping and red lining :confused: I've tried everything thinking I'd connected it up wrong but the rest sound fine, guess I'll have to contact them tomorrow.

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Happydan's right - the top row of RCAs on the Xone 42 are PHONO inputs on channel 1 and 4. Your picture shows you've rewired to the top 2/3 which are all line. If you want to plug the CDJs (or any line-level equipment) on channel 1/4, you've gotta use the lower row of RCAs. :)

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Originally Posted by Nathan

Hi all, this is my first post, thought id show my setup!...just awaiting my S4 now, which is in the post and will replace the numark mixtrack.

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2312/img0990h.jpg

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Are those the new knobs and faders I see?:)
How do they feel on the mixtrack?

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Originally Posted by Zhao

Are those the new knobs and faders I see?:)
How do they feel on the mixtrack?

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pretty good actually, used the fatties on the headphone controls, feels perfect, the knobs are also a perfect fit on the effect selectors and parameters, faders all round are amazing and the eq knobs only just touch the controller so if pushed right down theres a little friction, ive just lifted it up a mm or two.

very good quality knobs though, would recommend for sure. a great improvement to numarks plastic effort!

Glad to hear it! I'll definitely be picking some up and yeah numark's stock knobs are absolutely horrific.

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finally finished my desk

Nice Steeevo.

O.o eh?

Nice setup, any reason for not upgrading to traktor 2?