russell

thats a nice tidy looking set up. Well in.

more kudos for doing it without your teachers permission

thats pretty cool. Does the 700 have an open filter effect? ie. you coul dleave it open for as long as you wanted?

I agree with you completely BUT i'd practice on CDJs first because off CDs. If i had a chance, i would. buy turntables but then i'd have to buy records and they aren't cheap. i saw a record that was like $100. If i buy CDJs first not only i can a) hone my DJ-ing skills and practice some scratching aswell but also I'd save money. Like i said, i'm only 16 and i don't have a lot off money on me. plus, as i said, my friend owns a pair of turnies (as he likes to call them) and i can practice off them aswell. i can also probably get a "friendly" discount if he wants to get rid off them someday. also, scratching is just something i'm putting aside. something i'll use if i wanna make my sets abit interesting or for showing off to my friends. not planning on doing it profesionally... yet and wouldn't it be easier to move my equipment around when i get hired? Fair enough if you can get a shot of them somewhere. Although mst records don't cost $100. Rare records might cost this. Most expensive record in my collection is worth around $130 but thats because there's not many around. if you dig through second hand shops (or even better discogs) you get some cracking records on the cheap. some for the price on an mp3. It's all about diggin....

welcome. Will check your tracks when I ever get a chance. (no sound in office and no internet in camp)

curtis mayfield - so in love

Phenomenal show. I don't know if there could be a better setting than where i saw them though.

If this is the case would you not be better starting out with vinyl? save on double expense when you want to get turtables? CDj's and turntables are pretty different beasts so if you intend to move to turntables you'd be as well starting on them. Should be able to get a decent set of direct drive tables for a good price. my set of numark TT 2 pro's only sold for $230.

i actually watched a documentary yesterday called 'Scratch'... (available to watch here http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/scratch/ ) All about the history of scratching funnily enough. Intersting watch if you like that kind of thing. Really looks at the history of the whole subculture. If you wanna scratch you wanna scratch on vinyl after watching this.

I saw Thomas Bangalter DJ'n at a southport weekender some 10 years ago (doesn't seem that long ) I obviously had pretty high expectations of him. I'm sure he was playing for 3hrs and the first 2hrs were rubbish... good tracks being played but killing it after just about every other track and building again... then he dropped the instrumental of 'Music Sounds Better With You' and destroyed the place for the last hour. It was almost as if he knew he could kill it so he just wanted to piss about and make the last hour that bit more special. also Daft Punk are the greatest live act i've ever seen.

Nice amount of gear there.

Member name: Russell Producer name: Russell Ventilla Where the fuck he comes from: Glasgow, Scotland Makes: Deep House, Techno, Downtempo, Ambient amongst other dabbelings. Weapons Of Choice: Pro Tools, Abelton, Elektron Machinedrum, Dave Smith Tetra, MicroKorg (don't use this so much) + various VST's. A brief bio on this producer: DJ first and foremost then took a hiatus and began producing 4 years ago. Accomplishments: Won a competition to remix Milton Jackson's 1998 for tronicsole in 2009. Various remixes on Scenic Tones label. LINKS http://www.soundcloud.com/russellventilla

funny thing is u wouldnt be able to tell it was him Yeah exactly so I don't know how they knew haha. Thomas Bangalter; Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo (He's a lot more camera shy (Doesn't DJ) so any pics are from years ago);

Exactly what I was going to say. Scroll to the track and hit the shortcut. In saying that the X1 doesn make it a little easier to load tracks as you dont actually have to go near the laptop. This is handy if your playing somewhere that doesn't allow your laptop to sit in a particularly great position (I've played a few). I still haven't bought one myself right enough.

welcome

I've read this 3 times now and stil have no idea what you thought I meant. i do agree that whatever it is your on about sounds very impractical.

this

It does the job when working away from home anyway. Working through headphones isn't ideal though. mightbe pushin it hauling my KRK's over i reckon though.

they should add that feature... and give me kudos for the idea.

on a side note... does mixed in key only work for digital files or can you route external audio through it?

Not my DJ set-up but my on the road studio.

this ^^^

There's better festivals than this in Europe. Garden Festival in Croatia, Melt festival in germany, Exit festival in Serbia to name a few.