Why does my rig never work right in a club (X1’s specifically)
So every time I setup in a proper club my rig never wants to work properly. Usually I’m using 2 X1’s with native mappings and an A6 running to the clubs mixer. Either neither of the x1’s will be recognized by tsp, or if I’m lucky only 1 will work. If I don’t use my USB hub and plug the a6 and one X1 directly into my computer then it’s all good. But as soon as I plug both X1’s into the hub shit hits the fan. When I take it home and set it up everything works flawlessly, but take it to the club the next night and the same issues pop up.
For the record I am using a cheap hub. But if it works fine at home, why not a club environment?
Do you bring your own conditioned power strip or are you plugging into whatever you find at the club? Are ANY of the lights on the same leg of power? Are the Amps?
I’ve only ever seen dirty power being an issue with Mains powered devices (e.g. CDJ’s, Mixers, Amps) never power bricked ones which have a very wide voltage range (normally 100-240v). Even at that 2 X1’s should not even draw enough power for that to make a difference.
Moving on from that though, is it a powered or unpowered Hub ?
Welcome to being a dj. The gods of bad luck have it out for us big time…
But seriously make sure all your USB cables have a ferrite interference filter on them. It actually makes a difference if you get your rig too close to an amp or something, those things put out serious magnetic interference.
do not ever bring your non-powered usb hub to the club. it will disconnect your device anytime when usb provides lack of powers. you need a powered hub, this is a must.
non powered hub = for keyboard and mouse. should not be anyting else.
Sounds like I should be using a powered USB hub hahahaha. Thanks for the input everyone.
But this leads me to another question. Should I still plug the soundcard directly into my MacBook and the X1’s to the USB hub, or run everything into the hub??
buy a good powered hub(check reviews before order) and you are good to go with all those equipments into a hub.(unless you are connecting 5 smartphones to charge the battery ),
I would plug the card into the computer directly and the controllers into the hub, if I could, also as silly as this sounds, you are plugging in your macbook right?
Run the sound card straight into the computer and the x1s into the hub. A buddy of mine ran his A6 into his powered hub once and it kept screwing up the sound. Running straight into your laptop cuts out the “middle man” basically and won’t force the audio to try to go through the hub first then out.
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