Connecting Audio4 without multicore cables - help please!
This might be really simple but I can’t get my head around it! I’ve bought an audio4 and it’s only come with 1 multicore cable (the mixer end). I’ve seen where I can get replacements but they are at least £20 each deck and I’m sure there must be a cheaper way.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
All you need is rca cables, I used the audio 4 with 2 cdjs and just had 4 standard rcas. 1 to each cdj & 2 from each channel to the mixer.
Hope this helps
so would the decks go to the input of the audio 4 and then the outputs of the audio 4 go to the mixer?
Pretty simple. All you need is 4 sets of standard RCA cables.
CDJ 1 to input 1/2
CDJ 2 to input 3/4
Audio 4 output 1/2 to mixer line-in 1
Audio 4 ouput 3/4 to mixer line-in 2
This is going to sound really really blunt.. but damn man, this stuff has been covered a million times before and is covered in your manual. Why not put in at least half a minute of effort to fix your problem? Just google it next time.
But ok. Here. I know this helps. He uses Serato but that doesn’t make a difference for the cable.
This is going to sound really blunt even more…
Damn man! A million times is too exaggerated. How sure are you about figure in numbers that this exact topic has been covered? Connecting the A4DJ in manual does not show the specific connection using RCA. For beginners, that may not be easy. Lastly, you advised him to put at least half a minute of his effort and yet post a 6-minute video with a Serato box and not an AUDIO4DJ. WTF man? Give the OP a break. The reason why he came here is because he wants to learn about the A4DJ so he asked a simple question. Besides, forums like this is the best place to learn. The best you could do was give him a good advice or shut up! 
Now now…girls!
Sorry guys, I just had to teach Audeo a doze of his own rudeness. 
Page 22 of the Audio 4 DJ describes using control vinyl for Traktor and how to hook it up. Using a healthy dose of common sense you’d figure out that if you set the input signal to “line” instead of “phono”, it’d work.
Second, it took me a few seconds to type “how to connect control CD to traktor” and voila. The answer in under 30 seconds.
Third, I gave him a video to watch. Never said it was going to be under 30 seconds. I just said that putting at least 30 seconds in MIGHT get him the answer. And guess what. It did.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a Serato box or a Traktor box.. really. The CDJ’s nor the cables feel are like “omg wrong box, we shall forfeit to work for this dictator!”.
All it does is “move” the input/output to a more convenient location for ease-of-use.
And during that lovely story he also explains how to hook up CDJ’s to any DVS box.
And what do you mean by “manual does not show the specific connection using RCA”?
At step 3 it says: “Connect the RCA cable of your turntable to the input pair of channel A or B of the Audio 4 DJ, e.g. Audio 4 DJ (CH. A, In 1/2).”
I might be rude but I’m also right.
Just want to say thanks to those that pointed me in the right direction. I’m not normally a big fan of forums but in the main I’ve found the members of DJTT to be nothing but helpfull.
Didn’t realise that a fairly innocuous question would attract such a negative response.
Can’t win them all.
Hey, please understand that I have nothing personal against you nor do I want to feel uncomfortable starting a new thread.
So yeah, my first response in this thread was kinda dick-ish. My apologies for that.
My main concern is that this forum, which I really like for the information it contains, doesn’t turn into a spoon feeding forum for complete newbies who want everything to be as easy as it can get.
Playing and mixing music with a computer becomes a bit more difficult and technical because a computer is involved, I know that.
But it’s also way cheaper than getting a pair of SL1200’s or a decent set of CDJ’s.
And because it’s cheaper, the entry point for someone who wants to DJ becomes way lower than it used to be and because of that it also attracts way more people with zero knowledge and zero effort to achieve something, just wanting to get some phone numbers from the local girls or some streetcred by saying they’re a DJ.
Something like figuring it out yourself or even picking up a manual every once in a while seems impossible to do these days. Even in the Google generation, people become too lazy to actually google it..
And I hope that you can pull this off, even if I don’t know you. More creative people doing amazing stuff is always good.
The main thing, in my opinion, is that this forum can be your goldmine if you put in a little effort of your own and if you hit a brick wall, ask an educated question and sky is the limit
Appreciate where you’re coming from dude and no hard feelings.
Just for info though, I had 1210’s and 1200’s for the best part of 13 years. I had to sell them when we had a kid but I’ve always kept my eye in with the laptop. I don’t do it for girls numbers. I do it because I love doing it. It’s my hobby. Yeah, I play in my bedroom and I put stuff on mixcloud and soundcloud. I even like it when people comment etc. Who doesn’t? But that’s not why I do it.
DJ’ing shouldn’t be elitist. I agree some people do it for popularity but you shouldn’t make an assumption that because somebody has asked a fairly straightforward question, that they are too lazy to search for themselves. I have spent hours trawling the web for tutorials on music production, midi maps and different ways of dj’ing amongst many other things.
I asked the question because I needed to know yesterday, whether I needed to buy any more equipment to make sure I could get it in time for this weekend.
Anyway, like I said no hard feelings man! 
Since the original question has already been answered and there hasn’t been much going on besides finger pointing about how people responded I’m closing this thread.
Leaving this vid as well for future reference. It’s the same procedure for the Audio 4.
