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Final Scratcheven kerry chandler describes his own setup...
Kerry il utilise un cellule a 1500$ pour passer du vinyl au mp3 : c'est clair qu'il a un bon son!!!
Sinon je crois que le coeur du systeme c'est surtout d'avoir un portable stable avec du tres bon materiel et soft (linux ou mac) et aussi 1 ou 2 back up sur des disques dur portable ou ipod au cas ou...
kerry's quote:
Hi, to Recap: Final scratch Has NEVER crashed on my laptop . I had 1 tech problem in LA: The monitors were louder than the dance floor. I got pissed off, Picked the needle up off the record, walked over and told the sound-man to turn it up. Also the channel on the Urei I was using would keep dying out. It was NEVER Final Scratch. But to be safe I always Bring a bag of about 50 to 75 records, And 6 cartridges: 2 stanton 890's, 2 Shure White lables, and 2 Grado Labs DJ200's. And all have two backup needles. The only problem so far I have had was to keep the records clean. They need to be VERY clean to sync properly and sample everything at a high bit rate; everything is over 256KBPS / 44.100 MHZ. Certain files are wav files. I also use digital Needles to transfer over my records: ADC's Digital series and Dynavector XX-2. The pros of having Final Scratch, for me, outweigh not having it with me.
1. In my travels I have lost so many records.
2. There is no turntable feedback.
3. I can test out things Im working on in the studio at the clubs right away to change eq's, arrangements, and/or add or subtract things.
4.I have doubles of everything now.
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5.I have a and b'd lots of people during soundchecks (compared vinal vs computer)and fooled everyone.
In one club I pulled a prank on a friend. We had four decks set up and I mixed in the same record he was playing from FS. Then I took his channel down on his mixer. I Stumbled over like I was drunk and stopped his record like it was an accident. He panicked, but the record was still going! It freaked him out! He's a really good DJ, and he couldn't even tell where and when I mixed it in. In some case's(album cuts)they sound is even better! It's all in how you put them into your machine. Just be sure to get a big hard drive!
Hope this helps. Kerri
Hi the Laptop Im using is a sony vaio Grz 530. 2.4 Mhz 512 meg. 40 gig drive. I also use another machine to put the audio into this machine from and external backup drive. That sound card is a Layla by echo. Also to keep the records clean I use a HUNT/EDA Brush. When I get home I use a mix of distilled water and this machine. Nitty Gritty.
http://www.nittygrittyinc.com/page1.htm Hope this helps, KERRI
Chip E is right, about the cartridges, Also the age of the 1200's vs 1210 Output is everything. They change from place to place or GOD knows what else for the calibration and tracking. And I use the other cartridges to get the full range of the recordings when putting them on the hardrive.(ADC and Dynavector)For home. The dj200's I take with me have an amazing bandwidth range for harmonics (10 to 50khz)It's like pulling the cotton out of your ears. Most clubs cant pick up the bandwidth but I like to have it just in case because there is no coloration at all with these just very clean signal. The 890 are just heavy duty(20Hz to 20kHz)and loud, and the whitelables track like nobodys business(20-20kHz). Again I like to be very prepared. Kerri.
From Chip_e
I'd suggest an external FireWire drive in addition to your system drive. The thing is, from time to time the application needs to make requests to the operating system. While the audio stream is buffered, there could be a case where the interuption from the OS will last longer than the amount of data/audio in the buffer.
NOTE: This has never happened to me or anyone I know, but since external drives are a part of my practice with video editing, I adopted it for my Final Scratch system.
I actually take along 2 external backups (as well as having a copy of my music on my internal drive. One backup is on an 80gb SmartDisk PocketDrive, and the other is on my iPod.
The nice thing about having all my music on my iPod, is that I can listen to it when I'm on the plane (or wherever). Sometimes you hear new things when you're just sittin' back listenin' on a set of headphones. Absolutely helps me make better decisions on mix points.
Peace