My First Gig - This Saturday!

[Polygon]

hahahah I remember these...and also attempting to make my first tracks on dance eJay!

HAHAHAH i remember i once got several ejay discs inside cereal boxes xD Being used to cubase i was excited about this "djing" thing at the time, i rememeber my disappointment when i installed the things :P

[Nitrotix]

Thanks for the advice! I'm gonna take a chance with her sound system... I told her that the music won't be extremely loud, and she's fine with that, Hopefully all goes well Thanks!

[loverocket]

Watch the drinks over the gear. Don't let people hold there beers/cocktails over the gear as they drunkenly try to talk to you.

If someone makes a request say:

ROUND 1: "Yes. I think I have that."
ROUND 2: "It's coming up."
ROUND 3: "You didn't hear it?"

Don't tell people "No" unless you have a bouncer/security guard/MMA friend withing 10 feet.

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[Nitrotix]

Great way to ignore requests! ^_^

Also, concerning my set-up. I already have another Graduation Party in July, and i was able to borrow unpowered JBL speakers... But no mixer.
What would I need to run a successful set-up... (Specific gear)
I have a 4Trak, do I need another mixer? And what type of XLR cables? I have no clue

[tokenasianguy]

she has a Bose Surround Sound system...

Have you ever tried to mix on a surround sound system?

I used to have one, and it was impossible to beatmatch while using one of the surround speakers as a monitor. I assume it had something to do with the latency in the sound waves since it was a 5.1 system.

I've never been able to confirm this, but I would consider this before stepping into this situation and realizing you can't beatmatch because of a delay.

However all this was in the days of manual beatmatching, so I guess with Traktor's "sync" it doesn't matter.

[Nitrotix]

How much Latency can it produce? If Its not nearly instant, I just won't do sudden drops...

[tokenasianguy]

How much Latency can it produce? If Its not nearly instant, I just won't do sudden drops...

Enough to make it impossible to manually beatmatch.

Again, I haven't been able to confirm this, as my system is the only surround system I've played on.

[mdcdesign]

"Latency in the sound waves"... wut?

[tokenasianguy]

"Latency in the sound waves"... wut?

Yeah.

BTW "latency" is a general term that can be used for anything...

[mdcdesign]

Yeah.

BTW "latency" is a general term that can be used for anything...

Yes, but only if it's used sensibly/in accordance with the laws of physics

To clarify, the ONLY way this would even make the smallest bit of sense is if you were outputting S/PDIF and the surround processor had a DSP in it which took its sweet ass time decoding the signal. Sound waves themselves have a latency of 0.3ms/m, incidentally.