McCardle

Being a DJ obviously means playing something for everybody and perhaps even the types of music which you are not familiar with, so if you are doing general family functions and weddings then you are going to have to start building a vast music collection covering everything from Rock and Roll, Motown, 60's - 2000's as well as whatever is in the charts at the time. Do a search of the forum for the world "playlist" it will bring up lots of discussions on the subject and give you an idea of what other DJ's play. Its also good business practice as well, to ask the client / bride and groo

Sounds normal, especially if they haven't been used for some time the smell is probably dust burning off similar to when you first turn on an electric heater after a period of storage. 60 Watt lamps do get hot, far too hot to touch, and so another thing to keep in mind if the bulbs are uncovered you should also be careful to keep the units off floor level - out of the way of crawling toddlers and spilled drinks

Just be careful that you buy something that is reasonable, condition wise. Like I said, age isn't really on their side and spares can sometimes be difficult to obtain for the older end of the Audio market. A few years ago, for example, I had a helluva job getting some replacement faders for a Cloud Discomaster mixer http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24765&hl= Cloud couldn't help me as it was an obsolete product and non of the distributors had stock either. In the end I ordered 12 from Mouser on a special order. It took 12 weeks for them to arrive, but I did event

Unfortunately auto talkovers seem to be very rare these days, and I can only recall the older Cloud and Citronic mixers ever having a proper automatic variable talkover, where you can vary the depth and sensitivity of the AVO, as opposed to a toggle switch which ducked the music by a fixed level. I certainly can't ever recall seeing an AVO on a mixer with more than two mic channels, other than perhaps the cloud CXM modular series mixers, http://www.cloud.co.uk/products/detail.php?id=53 however these are no longer made, and second hand ones can be anything upto 15+ years old now

Playlists of course, change week in - week out as new music is released and the charts change, however there are of course the older classics for functions with mixed aged groups which will generally always work for events such as Weddings. Here are a few examples of other members' playlists posted over the years which include a wide genre of music from the last 40 years - the classic timeless stuff which generally works for all functions with young and old attending, perhaps you can get some ideas from them? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18237 http://www.dj-forum.c

Gemini aquired Cortex back in 2006, and renamed itself to GCI Technologies. This was the press release:- http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/go...amp;newsLang=en Should the product need servicing / spares in the future then GCI (Gemini) should be able to help.

Welcome to the forum :djuhi: Is there any particular question you want to ask regarding PA / Mixer / Speakers?. The forum knowledgebase still seems to be up and running and these articles may help you a bit http://www.djsite.info/idx/0/030/article/C...d-Speakers.html http://www.djsite.info/idx/0/027/article/C...-Equipment.html (download documents on right hand side) http://www.djsite.info/idx/7/001/article/U...Impedances.html http://www.djsite.info/idx/7/002/article/R...-Explained.html

Sorry I have no personal experience of the products you are looking for advice on, but I didn't want to cut and run without saying welcome to the forum

Does this look like Craigslist to you?. SPAM OFF!

I don't have any experience of this particular model, but I believe in most Mono based amplifiers, that the L & R channels are just linked via a resistor or 'mixed' together electronically at the input stage. So you can probably connect either channel without any ill effect.

Assuming its just a rotating mirror dish, rather than a stepper motor, then pretty much all of the mirror motors used on lighting effects of that era were all pretty similar, so the chances are that a spare for a similar effect would work fine. A standard motor will just have two wires going to it, whilst a stepper motor will have several wires feeding it. Constella never made their own motors, they were often supplied by various UK motor manufacturers, one of the main suppliers was a company called Rotalink, who are still pretty much up and running. http://www.rotalink.com/

Maximum figures are pretty meaningless on their own and a realm generally reserved for speakers in the parcel shelves of Boy Racers' Corsa's and home cinema equipment, always go off any RMS figures, if RMS figures aren't published then always be very careful of what you drive through them on the basis of why aren't continuous power handling figures being given?, is the manufacturer embarassed by how puny they are. As you can see, there is often a huge variation in how Maximum figures are interpreted, a bit like MPG figures given by the car manufacturers, they may often look good on pap

You shouldn't be keen on doing this either, you are not only risking your own life but those of your audience too. I've discussed this in some depths on threads like this previously, especially as the earth can also have some physical function within the PSU design, such as playing a role in overvoltage protection circuitry protecting against if the PSU fails or suffers flashover (you really don't want 240v AC going into a laptop designed for 18v DC) IMO, removing the Earth to prevent hum / earth loops is akin to disconnecting your cars' braking system just because you have a seized calip

Most of the Agencies in my area are suffering the effects of the recession like most other companies, and are struggling to find enough work for their existing artists, and haven't taken on new acts / DJ's now for a number of years. They also have plenty of DJ's to choose from, as they seriously outnumber the number of agencies so you need to really have a show which offers something different / unique or many years' experience in order to jump the queue It might be different in other areas of course, but getting on an Agents' books never was an easy task, and its even harder these days.

Welcome :djuhi:

Eh?

This has previously been covered to death when the Pro-Dub fiasco was first announced, and a quick forum search will bring up the more indepth / heated discussions from both sides of the 'for' and 'against' brigade. If you download a legal MP3 onto the laptop / pc you use for playing out then, no, you don't need a pro-dub license, however if you burned them to CD then you would, because you have technically engaged in format shifting from one format (MP3) to another (CD)!. But your point is moot anyway, because unless you are downloading from a dedicated DJ based download site, then

Amazon aren't unique in asking for an Engineers Report, some computer distributors and high end hi-fi equipment distributors do so as well. All an engineers report does is to ascertain whether the damage is caused by mis-use or genuine component failure. Any Electronics Engineer can do this for you, even the local TV repair shop, it doesn't have to be specialised, and its reasonable to expect any engineer qualified to repair a £3000 home cinema system, is equally qualified enough to determine whether a product has failed due to legit component failure or ingesting a pint of beer. Jus

Gear4Music are certainly not alone in showing stock, where stock doesn't exist. Consumer Direct and CAB get inundated with complaints like this all of the time, whether its Disco Equipment, Washing Machines or Sofa's, and as commercial credit gets withdrawn and stock holding decreases and profit margins tighten it will get worse before it gets better. I appreciate that you placed the order believing that the item was in stock, and that G4M was clearly in the wrong for advertising as such, however when you were told that this was no longer the case and stock wasn't available then the impli

Thanks for the review . This is slightly incorrect no matter what Behringer would have you believe. Under the sale of goods act, your contract always lies with the vendor of the goods and not the manufacturer, and so your first port of call for returning any faulty goods would be with the shop / mail order entity who sold it to you, and they would have to comply with the relevant laws regardless of whether they are Authorised or not. If they fob you off, direct them to the relevant legislation. http://whatconsumer.co.uk/is-the-guarantee...99s-written-on/ These laws hav

First question, did Gear4Music take / process any payment from your credit card?. If not, then no contract exists between you and them, implied or otherwise. Second question, have you complained directly to Behingers' head office?, if not why not?. It would serve two purposes, first it would highlight the fact that they have a poorly performing distributor, who are acting as an agent for them and second, I suspect that part of the problem was Behringer not getting stock out of the door fast enough Look at it this way, Gear4music makes money from selling other people's goods, if they

You can't run true balanced throughout this system, for a start the audio outputs from the mixtrack pro and the stereo inputs on the mixer both appear to use phono / rca jacks. All that you can do is use Phono to Mono Jack leads for each channel when connecting between the Mixtrack and the HD400, and then the same again to output from the HD400 into the Stereo line input of the mixer. Using a mono jack instead of a stereo (TRS) will run as unbalanced.

Tri-Sonics - you made a post regarding oil wheel projectors HERE Unfortunately the section you posted in is for classified ad's and is a 'no reply' area, which means nobody can reply to your question , hence i'm posting this reply to you here My advice is not to go for a Soundlab Oil wheel projector, I had one and it was extremely cheaply made and basically fell apart after several months, it was also seriously underpowered using a 50w / 100w lamp and just wasn't able to brightly project its image on a wall / ceiling more than a few feet away Far more suitable is an Optikineti

Unfortunately todays heavy reliance on 'virtual' correspondence (email, facebook, twitter) also means its made it much easier for those on the other end to ignore or overlook it. Face to Face or over the phone situations are a lot stronger because its harder to fob off the customer and usually results in getting direct answers to your direct questions, even if they don't know then you can always wait whilst the go off to find out, by email its just easier for them to click 'delete' if they don't know the answer and are too lazy to go off to ask a colleague! Unfortunately, even in

The original A1/259 has a lumen light output of 3600, so I suspect it may be a long time before LED technology catches up with those levels of output. Given that the LED Lighting industry is still struggling to reproduce a decent quality alternative to replace the GU10 reflector lamps used within the domestic household environment, and they are only around 500 lumens. The closest to the 24v 250w lamps at the moment are the LED floodlights available which replace the 150w and 300w halogen outdoor floodlights, unfortunately the led 'chip' used within these is far too large to fit the foo