Everyone's a DJ nowadays

Plus one for deck dr, he did an amazing job on my friends set

How much was that?

£185 per deck.

£90 service/cleaning, £50 new pitch unit, £25 new RCA cables and internal grounding, £20 new LED pop up target lights.

This was in 2019, though, so prices are probably a bit higher now.

95 for basic service now

Dad house 30 minutes of vinyl bits

https://www.mixcloud.com/collie27/250524-30-mins/

Steve Silk Hurley - The word is love
Shadow Pressings Chicago EP - It started in Chicago
Cinthie - Together
Prince - 17 Days East Coast Love Affair remix
Chez Damier -Take me away
Talaboman - Brutal Chugga Chugga (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)
Divine Who - Never Turn Back (Jaegerossa remix)

Do any of you folks have a better way of extracting stems than the (terrible sounding) rekordbox functions?

I tried this gaudio studio tool (https://studio.gaudiolab.io/) and the results are better but it charges by the minute of music.

Any other suggestions?

Has anyone ever used a field recorder? I'm after one I can plug a couple of Omni directional mics into to record a bit of ambient noise, it looks like a toss up between tascam and zoom, but god knows which one

The Zoom ones with the mics built in are great, used to use one at work all the time.

I'm in love with the Teenage Engineering TP-7, possibly the most beautiful gadget I've ever laid eyes on.

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Thanks. I'm thinking about an h4e

Your dream one is a bit over my budget!

Your dream one is a bit over my budget!

And mine!

I went for a Zoom H4Essential in the end, £163 from Amazon. Sounds like a good one

I'm cataloguing all my records from scratch. These are the ones to do, the small amount on the top shelves have been done

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Are you using the discogs mobile app barcode scanner?

Fun times! I really enjoyed doing that. It felt a little daunting at first, but you get into a flow with it. From memory I was using my phone for the app, and the desktop version. The app was good for speedily adding stuff, but needed to resort to desktop for finding some stuff that was more obscure and needed some verification. It can be really annoying when you’re looking for something and there’s hundreds of versions. But it’s usually just a pain with mainstream CD albums

I haven't, but I think I will. I've done 260 by manually searching on a laptop, loads are old white labels / bootlegs / mashups so far.

This is going to take some time.....

I've also got an annoying problem with my amp - every so often, the sound quietens for a split second, just enough to be audible.

I've redone all the cabling from the amp to the speakers (cut the old ends off and put the cleaner cable into the terminals) but it's still doing it. It doesn't do it with headphones from the mixer, so that side of it is alright. I wonder if i need to ditch the amp and get some powered monitors instead

Worth try the app, i found barcode scan the difference between doing it & just forgetting about it. There'll be exceptions but if 80% becomes a simple scan & confirm then that helps loads.

Re: amp, is it worth opening it up & giving it a blast of compressed air at the speaker terminals? Might be dust or there be an obvious connection issue that side of the case?

This is an example: around 5 second mark
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mHhng84fNCQAvod98

Not sure, I'd clean all the things, likely then get stumped by it not working still so then box it up in the attic, forget about it, find it ten years later and discover it works fine once more...

I shall be playing some records at this tomorrow night, for any Bristol denizens who fancy it. I’ll be playing a hotch-potch of funk, weird stuff with drums, hip hop and maybe even a bit of prog.

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Does anyone have a 'first principles' guide to mastering their mixes? Mine tend to come out nastily over-compressed with the occasional bit of distortion. Example of what I'm talking about:
https://www.mixcloud.com/owlz84/summers-gone/

I think it's because I'm guessing at what combination of compression, limiting and normalisation to apply and to what degree. I use audacity but I guess there are tools that are more designed for this task?

I badly put one record after another for about an hour on Sunday.
My skills (ha) have got worse, I definitely couldn't hear over the studio monitor so everything was guessed or clanged in.

@Skülly had the first hour.

https://www.mixcloud.com/MusicBoxRadioUK/bright-times-dark-times-sunday-1st-september-2024/?action=login

I have a copy of "Dance Music Manual" which probably covers the stuff you need to know about.

When I rip stuff I just do the fades and then Normalize: Remove DC offset, -1dB, Normalize stereo channels independently.

Mastering stuff properly is a much more complex ballgame that I never got into and have since stopped making my own "noise".

Why do you want to compress a mix? All tracks are compressed to start with, not sure what even more compression would do?

To make it smaller?

Teeny tiny dj mixes.