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    Default Traktor DVS users, GO!

    You roll up to a gig, plug in your soundcard with the TT's 'n all that, get the midi controllers setup somewhere. No time to soundcheck.

    Here comes your timeslot, control vinyl on, track loaded. Needle on record and all you get is traktor complaining; A wild oscilloscope and the signal level all over the shop.

    What do YOU do? (Aside from panic)
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    take a step back and let my sound techs sort it out ... oh wait.
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    Use the backup MIDI controller I've brought with me
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    switch the decks to internal playback and play with midi while i sort it.

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    slap some real vinyl on the deck and rock the crowd
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    Quote Originally Posted by padi_04 View Post
    switch the decks to internal playback and play with midi while i sort it.
    What would you do to sort it? Your checklist if you will.

    Quote Originally Posted by djproben View Post
    slap some real vinyl on the deck and rock the crowd
    If the needle's not giving good signal, do you not think that would impact the sound coming from your vinyl just as much?
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    It would affect regular vinyl, just not as much (you wouldn't get reverse song playback or anything along those lines).

    Dust off records and needle/switch out needles and possibly the head shell.

    Look at tonearm connections for oxidation.

    Take a look at the turntable RCA's and see how worn out they are. If they look like they haven't been replaced in about 10 years then your better off syncing with your X1 for the rest of the night.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lethal_pizzle View Post
    Use the backup MIDI controller I've brought with me
    Always in my bag.

    Quote Originally Posted by padi_04 View Post
    switch the decks to internal playback and play with midi while i sort it.
    Absolutely the first thing to do. No question. Doesn't even have to be midi, it can be the keyboard.tsi. It can still be in external Mixer mode as well.


    Quote Originally Posted by djproben View Post
    slap some real vinyl on the deck and rock the crowd
    That will prevent you trouble-shooting the timecode issue but, you put a at the end of your post so I know you realise that

    Quote Originally Posted by Flash101uk View Post
    If the needle's not giving good signal, do you not think that would impact the sound coming from your vinyl just as much?
    The sound is not coming from the vinyl ... but a shitty timecode signal is as bad as a shitty audio signal.

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnv View Post
    It would affect regular vinyl, just not as much (you wouldn't get reverse song playback or anything along those lines).

    Dust off records and needle/switch out needles and possibly the head shell.

    Look at tonearm connections for oxidation.

    Take a look at the turntable RCA's and see how worn out they are. If they look like they haven't been replaced in about 10 years then your better off syncing with your X1 for the rest of the night.
    Totally agree.
    Theres nothing in the short term you can do about crappy carts/contacts/headshells etc
    Revert to Plan B

    (and by Plan B i dont mean that guy thats makes records and looks like a fat kid at a wedding)

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    Buy serato
    /fanboy post.

    Bring your own carts (make sure and actually take them home again)

    Shitty TTs are not your fault so not much you can do after that, just sync with your x1 the whole night
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash101uk View Post
    If the needle's not giving good signal, do you not think that would impact the sound coming from your vinyl just as much?
    I've seen it happen a number of times; cart plays vinyl fine but is borked on timecode. But yeah if the cart is the only problem I'm golden. Extra cart in the box, play the other deck while I switch carts, and boom, done. Always carry an extra cart.

    But yeah if I didn't have an extra cart, it's internal mixing time. But there's always a crisis you can't just recover from. What do you do if the electricity goes out? Carry a Victrola to every gig?
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