I am going to be playing my first live set this Saturday at my friend’s Graduation Party. I have my music all set up but I don’t have all the equipment needed to DJ live yet.
I am going to be playing in my friends basement, and she has a Bose Surround Sound system… Now I know it’s not the best choice to DJ on home theater systems but that’s all she has has and she doesn’t want to rent speakers. Is it OK if I connect and play a gig on her system? I don’t want to blow them out.
If you’re doing a house party, be prepared to slap a bitch at some point. You WILL get people coming over to you (men and women) trying to screw with your gear; the whole “oh let me DJ” thing. Either take a couple of mates with you to act as a barrier between you and them, or warm up your pimp hand !
i used mouse, keyboard and a creaky old desktop at my first parties mate. you will be fine
(not too may controllers around back in the day)
Suggestion: make it clear before you start that you have no responisbility whatsoever for the stereo. that way your ass is covered when the inevitable occurs. which it will.
This. Even better, let the host be in control over the volume levels. That way there’s NO way they can blame you whatsoever. I even do this - to a certain extent - in clubs. I ask the venue to pre-set the maximum volume for the night during sound check / system test, then start off lower and raise it throughout the night, never beyond that maximum. If something blows, that way it’s not my fault.
All great advice from everyone above - have an amazing time mate, but be careful and make sure you keep your eye on your equipment at all times, regardless of how trustworthy everyone looks at a party the pretty-pretty-shiny-shiny things will grab someones eye.
Make sure the BOSE isn’t doing any fancy digital processing to your audio, as this’ll introduce latency into your master output and force you to mix entirely in your headphones.
Those things are meant for home cinema. There’s minimal DSP processing and even then it’s a matter of a couple of milliseconds max.
So latency shouldn’t be a problem really. Just check your levels.
Well, there’s no requirement for home cinema audio systems to be low latency because video typically takes a lot longer to decode than audio. I’ve had them catch me out before, thought the OP should know.
Wut? What do you mean? You mean the processing of the video? Because with the last 3-4 generations of panels that has gone down to very, very low. Take gaming for example. You’re talking about something like 30ms from input to output, depending on the panel and the processing. Considering some home cinemas have considerable distance between the speakers, speed of sound also comes in the equation. So i believe that audio has to be low latency even with this kind of products.
AFAIK bose doesn’t use anything more than just an eq on most of their range except the ADAPTiQ stuff, which has phase and delay compensation in software. I still don’t believe that would add so much latency that he could not do basic mixing (it’s his first time, come on, do you think he’s going to scratch and cuejuggle? )
Also, isn’t audio delay a function that can be applied to different speakers placed at different distances from the listener differently to make timing coherent between the speakers?
I’m not familiar with Bose a/v. I’m just saying I’ve used home theatre equipment that has added enough latency that has made it impossible to mix with one ear in, one ear out, that I’ve remedied this by changing the a/v to a source direct mode. This has happened on more than one occassion, and I thought it might be of use to the OP.
I am because i have a system home and it’s the third one i’ve had (not of the aforementioned adaptiq range tho, so i cannot comment on that)
I know i can game perfectly on my old 40" samsung via hdmi with no seeable latency at all
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