Boghead Ben

Hi guys - not 100% sure if this is the right forum for this question. Anyhoo, here goes. After faffing around with various ways of going digital for the last 18 months or so, I've settled on using the cheap as chips Numark IDJ for iPods. Now, no slagging here ladies and gentlemen ; for my work, this is ideal and has saved me a lot of time and effort, I can assure you! Here's my question ; the mixer work fine with iPod classics devices and also the nano, except for the nano, the dock won't charge it (a right pain in the bahookie) as it says it should. All other functionality is A1.

Thanks for your reply. I don't want to make that kind of purchase I'm afraid. Ach well, 2 months of trial and error and its back to wheels of steel. Anyone want to buy a (very) new soundcard??!?

OK folks, back again. Determined to make this digital thing work. Need some advice again, and this time it's a really daft question. I've now got great sound - external sound card did the trick, but to get the sound I'm after I need to bypass the mixer and go straight to the amp. Trouble is, I've now lost any mic ! Going bacl thru' the mixer, even with the sound card, makes the sound all crap again! How do I use the mike!!! The sound card is a UCA202. Help!

Ach, there's a lot of snobbery around when it comes to equipment, especially amps and speakers. Having just got back into the industry over the last two years (after a looooong time away - wife, weans, divorce, etc, etc) and my budget purchase of equipment included Skytronic amps and speakers. Perfectly adequate kit in my humble opinion, albeit I do agree that the sound could be a wee bit better, but, really, at a party where the guests are just out for a good time, who really notices? Ben

Thanks troops. All good advice. I'm not using the laptop yet. Tower PC with plenty RAM and disc space. There is no hum, just, from time to time, bloody awful sound! Downloaded PCDJ as a trial too, but same effect.

Yup, that's the way I've got it. Red to Red, Black to Black into soundcard output on back of PC. After playing around with various levels, I'm getting there. Popped into my local dj superstore this morning and listened to the guys play PCDJ Red through the headphone socket from their laptop via an amp and mixer and it sounded just brilliant. Ben

Getting there. OK, here's the set-up so far. Amp to Mixer Mixer to PC Channel 1 Phono Ben

Thanks Jason. Yes, all tracks are ripped CD's and a few purchased mp3's to try it out. With a bit of trial and error, things are improving, but it still does not sound as good as my decks. I'm using the speaker output jack socket on the PC in question through a mixer and a fiddle around with the levels is improving the sound. PC I'm using is more than OK for the job, so I'm still posing the question relating to an external sound card ; would it make a difference? Ben

OK guys, bear with me here. I've been playing around with the notion of going digital. Or at the very least doing my stuff from a PC/Laptop. I've been roadtesting various software packages, namely SAM Party DJ and PCDJ. In terms of functionality and what i do, the AM package is far more friendly to use. It sounds great through the PC external speakers, as does the PCDJ (blue), but when I rig it up via mixer and amp, it sounds, well, er crap! Distortion all over the place, with levels just crap. Of the tracks I've been using, I downloaded MP3Gain and levellled them all out, but s

Thanks guys, all advice appreciated. I've popped the unit into my friendly Numark repair shop here in Glasgow ; apparently it's a fault with some of CD 1 units and it's an easy repair. £25.

Guys Looking for some sound advice. I have a Numark CD Mix 1 CD Player, which of late, I've not been using. To be honest I retired from the gigging scene but am doing a party for a friend next week. well, I was until I road tested the deck tonight. Basically my problem is that the CD tray in disc B will not open. At all. It did when I hooked up at first tonight and I thought "hey, magic". But it's now stuck and basically jiggered. does anyone know if this is a common fault with this deck and if it can be repaired easily enough? Ben

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Guys Don't know if you can help or point me in the right direction. I'm looking for details on a party game called Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. I saw it performed recently at a holiday camp with an excellent reaction. I forgot, at the time, to get more details, and I've been surfing the 'net, with great frustration, trying to find it. Has anyone seen or heard what I'm enquiring after?