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  1. Acoustics is very important if you use full range monitors or a sub. If you are on a budget though it's possible to get good results with a pair of nearfields, and since you will sit close to them the direct sound will mask problems with the room, so acoustics become less of an issue. As long as they are well positioned and you don't have a very small room or extremely reflective walls you will manage fine without acoustic treatment. I guess the Altecs have absolutely no bass without the sub, but otherwise I would simply turn it off when mixing if it causes trouble. Generally if you have speakers that go down to 50hz or so you do hear the frequencies that really matter. PA's generally have a high pass around 38hz and even with a very deep bass the main area of interest hardly ever is below 60hz. To be able to monitor precisely below 50hz as well is nice, but unless you can spend at least some €4000-5000 on a really good pair of nearfields as well as a good pair of full range monitors and acoustic treatment that will not happen and I would just focus on getting maximum accuracy with nearfields. With your current setup I would probably reduce the sub frequencies if they are overpowering and troublesome. Usually it's not recommended, but with a pair of Altecs that hardly is flat to start with it's probably the best option. Just make sure you leave your EQ on the same settings all the time so you can get used to the response.
  2. I don't think women is generally bad with music, but generally I think they have different abilities than most men. Why is there many great female singers but hardly any decent female drummers? There is many possible reasons. Drumming can be seen as a masculine adrenaline-filled kind of activity. It could be the more masculine image that made it harder for women to get in to it or to become accepted. Personally I think the reason has to do with general differences in how our brains work. I do think that females are better in multitasking, and that multitasking comes at the expense of ability to focus really hard on one thing. As a drummer focus is a very important factor. Drifting away doesn't work to well in most tracks so you have to keep focus on the beat and lead the rest of the band. As a singer on the other hand you have to be able to deal with many things. You have to convey a feeling from the lyrics with all the audience attention and be much more attentive to what the rest of the band is doing. In many cases also move and/or smile. The ability to analyse individual sounds in a mix is very important as a producer and it's also very much about your focusing ability. And to be able to on your own produce full tracks with all what that entails means you have to seriously dedicate yourself if you like to become successful. Girls I know who who use computers just don't sit endless hours fanatically focused on learning how to use a complex system as a DAW. But I know many guys who get an idea some day "hey I want to produce" and then proceed to invest lots of time and money on it not even knowing if he will anything out of it whatsoever. Today it's a lot easier and cheaper to start making music and I hope that could mean that more girls get in to producing. I think a lot of the music today have a bit too much focus on the details and could do with a bit more "holistic" approach to the result. And I do think that most people like to hear more females, I only ever heard positive comments about the fact that a producer or DJ is a girl. Of course when you have a crowd dominated by young males, like most forums, you can expect a lot of responses about tits this or ass that as soon as the word girl is mentioned :wank: But most people really seem interested in hearing music from girls, it's just that very few girls seem interested in making it so far.
  3. Hi man! Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder....to me it just looks dumb on a computer controller.
  4. What do you actually use the jogwheels for when DJ'ing on a laptop? At least with Live or Traktor they seem superfluous to me since you warp or beat grid the tracks in advance. Also I don't use crossfaders....but maybe if your a scratch DJ it's a nice unit if you cannot afford serato and a pair of decks. It of course depends on what software you'll use and how you will use it, but I'd go for a BCR2000, UC-33e or bitstream instead...much more flexible and less space wasted with useless controls.
  5. For long filtered delays you have to try Dr. Device from Audio Damage
  6. I think you should spend some more time with it and dive in more to the manual before you get disappointed. Drag over an instrument on the plugin display for a MIDI track and you have VST instruments ready to play. Or pull a bunch in different chains in an instrument rack and choose what one should play when by modulating a controller. Drag a MIDI file from the file browser onto an empty slot in session view or on to the arrange page and it will play on the instrument on that track. The MIDI editor can seem a bit simple when you first try it out, but if you learn all the keyboard commands and learn your way around it I find it quite good. The implementation of controller drawing the really good. As for building up a live set with Live, there is many approaches. One way is to bounce down most parts as audio and leave just a few as MIDI that you want to tweak in realtime. then make different scenes of the different parts of the song. Then you have a premade order or the arrangement of the track to fall back on but you have freedom to manipulate it as you see fit. Or you could even trigger all elements of the track in realtime by triggering with a controller. The possibilities is quite endless and you will for sure have to spend some time with it before you will find the way you will use it.
  7. The needs is so different from person so it's very personal what controllers you like. I never use a crossfader, always preferred to use the channel faders instead, and I need more buttons and not really any faders. On top of that the LED's is really extremely useful IMO. VST's and MIDI playback always worked for me on all my Live installs so I have no idea what could be up with your system.
  8. I do think Decadence looks very good feature wise, but I still would not switch from Live. Live can do everything that decadence can and there is some things like effect racks I would find it hard to be without. Also with the mouseless control I hardly use the GUI when I play, otherwise decadance could maybe make sense due to it's more specialized interface. And I don't use the BCD2000....for my liking it would be too limiting. I use the BCR2000. I also looked at the Bitstream, Novation ReMote's and the UC33-e, but for me the layout on neither would really work without switching presets. The LED's around the knobs on the BCR is great for DJ use. If nothing else it's a great first controller to get to figure out what your needs are. It can take a while to find exactly what you like to include in your setup and for around €129 you get one of the most flexible controllers you can find apart from modular or DIY.
  9. I haven't tried it, but Decadance seems to be the best specialized DJ software since it at least have VST support and a sampler. Personally I stick with Ableton since it just gives so much more possibilities than the traditional DJ software can do. There is no specialized DJ software that gives you unlimited number of tracks and loops triggered in sync and you can do a lot of creative stuff with for example effect racks and dummy clips. If you simply like to emulate a pair of CDJ's, dedicated DJ controllers and software might be a good idea since they have a familiar layout, otherwise you really need more knobs and buttons. I would for sure stay away from using the BCD for audio output but I do have a BCR2000 as controller for Ableton and much as I dislike Behringer I must say that it's simply an awesome product. Really well thought out and decent quality, especially considering the ridiculously low price. If you override the function buttons you'll have 26 buttons and 32 rotary encoders without any switching so you will not run out of controllers easily. Unfortunately for my needs it's still 6 buttons too less so I have to make use of two groups for the top row on encoders. On top of that I use a keypad to be able to browse, load, cue, play, loop tracks and trigger loops. If your laptop has a PCMCIA port the Echo Indigo DJ is really good value for a soundcard....cheap, good sound, great drivers and small and practical.
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    VA -Take Over

    Compilation: Take Over Label: Resonant Earth ( http://www.resonantearth.com ) Tracklist: 1. partickle - introspection (6:56) 2. skeletone - roots (6:46) 3. dosage - congo (7:13) 4. skallstars - cyclopcybin (6:47) 5. dosage - shuma (8:04) 6. svemirko - LSD 500 (9:18) 7. illusionary vizions - stone age (8:33) 8. dosage - fensy trolls (7:40) 9. skallstars - trepanation (6:24) 10. psoma - synthetic (7:59) The review: The latest compilation in the Resonant Earth catalogue is this: Take Over. The promo says this: Do you like the playfulness and funkiness of soumi, but also the heaviness and depth of old-school and the energy of full-on? Then you better get ready for Take Over! A collection of exclusively Macedonian morning trance with a unique sound that will make feet move and faces smile. Ok promo's are mostly smart talk about how something is supposed to be so good. Let's just cut to the chase then. Track 1: We start off with this track from Partickle. It starts off immediately with some strange sounds and a dry muffled kick which gets clearer and then a simple bassline comes in and you're off. A nice simple melody progresses you further into the song and the bassline gets more trippy like. When the acidic loops start to come in it's tripping all through to the end. Nice track, although it took some listens for me to get into this, but it might be because I've been listening too much progressive, ambient and hardcore lately. Track 2: A loop starts off this one and at about 15 secs the bassline comes in which immediately gets my interest because it sounds pretty fat. This definately has an old school vibe to it for sure. It proceeds in an old school manner too, working towards a big psychedelic climax. All in all, this is a stormer, and far more 'in there' than track 1. Great stuff. Track 3: More in the vein of track 1 again, a simple dark bassline, a little slower, sounds flying all over the place, not as much coherence as say track 2. Proceeds to end pretty trippy though and I like the effects in this one. Good track. Track 4: Typical forest trance with a standard bassline, and a high weirdness factor. Like the melody at 5:30 and onwards which sounds a little muffled but makes a nice change. Ok track, but not one of the best here. Track 5: Dosage takes it up a notch compared to the previous track and this stuff is pretty good. More acidic and coherent and it has that old school kinda feeling to it again. Pretty psychedelic and pretty good. Track 6: The longest track on here and it shows because this takes time to build. It sounds a little slower than some other tracks but it might just be imagination. Not as wild and psychedelic as some other tracks before, but still this is not bad. Track 7: Starts off immediately with bass and kick and this one is more into the wild and psychedelic territory again. Doesn't really work towards a climax but there's a satisfying amount of psy-tinted flavour in here to keep your minds busy. Ok track. Track 8: Dosage again and this is fatter sounding once more and a little slower. Works towards a nice finale, not too psychedelic and those dark pads and pounding bassline make this a more darker track than some that have gone before. A sample saying something about 'extraterrestrials' takes your mind back to the good old days. Nice track. Track 9: Quite standard track with some acidic flavour but not much surprises. Ok stuff, but certainly not one of the better tracks. Track 10: The last track is pretty fat sounding, it has a pounding kickdrum and bassline and it all sounds pretty dark and psychedelic. Finishes off with some nice acidic sounds and good percussion work. Good track. Conclusion: If you like compilations from a label like say: Stone Age Records, then you're all set with this. This is nice acidic, dark and most of all psychedelic forest trance and no mistake. There are some standard tracks here, but for the most part this compilation manages to keep me interested all the way through. In a time where there are a lot of average compilations released this is pretty good stuff. Thumbs up to Resonant Earth for releasing this. 8/10 from me here. My advice: listen to some of the samples online, you might be surprised. Get it here: http://www.resonantearth.com (That's basically all you need to know)
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