Yeah.. I just passed out for about 5 hours.. om nom nom nom.

At 11/23/09 10:31 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote:

At 11/23/09 10:29 PM, DanceNation wrote: NOOOO THE SECRET IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!

So CKC2009 is really Lady Gaga?

And Lady Gaga is really ParagonX9!?

At least you can mix lol. But still... why add the "DJ" in front of it?

If you are a DJ, people generally can imply that. Notice how most of the top DJs nowadays don't bother adding it in front of whatever name they choose. Armin Van Buuren, Deadmau5, Ferry Corsten, David Guetta... shit.. even Tiesto just goes by.. well.. "Tiesto" anymore.

Plus, Mindsweeper by itself sounds badass. Like some type of dark psy DJ/producer. I don't understand why people feel the need to cheese up the name they produce or DJ under by adding DJ in front of it.

About $400

LAZORRRZZZZ

Holy shit I just got mah lazorz in the mail. I can't wait to see them cut through the fog at the club.

(I just set them up in the living room and aimed em at the wall.)

At 11/20/09 04:35 AM, Box-Killa wrote: look what I found lol

Lulz. And your point?

Look what I found lol

xD

At 11/20/09 03:04 AM, SolusLunes wrote: My job > All your jobs.

Just sayin'.

I get to throw things out of airplanes.

Yeah... that's a pretty awesome job.

At 11/19/09 08:25 PM, DJ-Chilvan wrote: *Looks at name*
But you know, if i called myself "Producer-Chilvan," that would sound very lame, wouldn't it?
But ya, I'm no DJ. I'm a producer. The DJ title is just for kicks ;)

Yooooooooouuuu..
Are more or less what this topic is about lol.

You don't have to call yourself DJ or producer anyway. Why not just produce under "Chilvan"?

I'm a DJ, and I don't even put DJ in front of my name.

Just saying.

Then again, you could always learn how to DJ. It's not too hard to pick up, especially if you are a decent producer to start with.

At 11/18/09 05:59 AM, Sealander wrote:

At 11/18/09 05:39 AM, EchozAurora wrote:
INNNTTEEERRRCOOOUURRRSSEEE.

Told you guys, he's the sex addict :P

and dude, why don't you turn off your phone when you have buttfuck? lol

Lol you douche. Vaginal secks. You know... with a vagina. =P

I think I may've been inbetween rounds.. and damn.. it was like 5AM. Most of the time I get a text at 5AM it's fairly important. Well.. maybe only some of the time.. but even still.. it's not like I get a whole lot of texts at that hour.

At 11/18/09 12:27 AM, SymbolCymbal wrote: i say we find the bastards ......

And we find the bastards ....... we have ourselves a good ole' fashion raped with a knife party.

whos down?

Totally down.

Those motherfuckers are constantly pinging my Gmail attempting to get the password.. so I keep getting notifications at my phone. At the MOST inconvenient times.

They interrupted me during intercourse. INNNTTEEERRRCOOOUURRRSSEEE.

Yesh. The gift of rhythm is KEY to so many things... I'd say most people that attempt musical arts, whether it be DJing, producing, playing an instrument.. hell.. even dancing.. well without rhythm.. fail horribly.

And if you don't have it.. well.. it's not exactly something that can be taught. At least as far as I know.

Developed? Yes. Taught from scratch? Eh.. not so much

At 11/16/09 07:10 PM, Reaper93 wrote: I would personally think that learning to DJ with a background in composition would be much easier than learning to compose with a background in DJing, but that may just be me (and my admittedly biased point of view).

There could be a lot of truth in this.. but that's a narrow angle to approach it from. I'm sure it would be a lot easier for a DJ that plays instruments and/or has a decent knowledge of musical theory to compose music than for a mediocre composer with no sense of rhythm attempt to DJ.

But for a composer and DJ at comparative skill levels to attempt the other's trade.. well.. I would imagine it would be easier for the composer than for the DJ.

Personally, I started as an instrumentalist, went to producing and then started DJing. Let me put it this way... it outright shocks some DJs that have been at it for 5-10 years that I can spin at the level I do after only doing it for a year.

Some people I imagine though are just naturally better at some things than others. So it really depends a lot on the person and the related skillsets they have.

At 11/15/09 08:39 PM, Sealander wrote:

The sex addict

I think that would be Echoz Aurora....

Bahahahahaha. Damn.. I guess my reputation precedes me..

I should've scrolled all the way down the page.

At 11/15/09 08:15 PM, Stupor wrote:

At 11/15/09 05:54 PM, Convex wrote: Yay.

Hey there! I'm Stupor, let me introduce you to the gang:

The drunk
The sex addict
The sarcastic twit
The grammar Nazi (or the lolcat, depending on the day)
The actually cool one

Okay, now everybody guesses which one they are.

I believe all selected above apply. =P

At 11/16/09 12:57 PM, Quarl wrote:

At 11/15/09 09:50 PM, GarageBand wrote: Isn't a dj like... a kind of sandwich?

At 11/15/09 09:53 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote:

Basically, DJ = butter. Producer = Toast. You can't have a DJ without a producer. And buttertoast doesn't sound all that bad.

Quoted because I'm hungry.

Next time I'm talking to a producer about spinning their music in a club

I believe the conversation will go something like this:

"Baby, I'm a DJ. I just wanna butter yo bread"
;D

At 11/12/09 09:52 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: Sampling is the technique used by every fake DJ in order to try to create some pride in themselves to call themselves skilled by throwing beats and effects on an already good sound. Yes, microsampling (I don't know, but I can guess that means truly going into the sample and editing it) is an art, and achieving it is just as much a talent. Otherwise, sampling is just a cheapy run over and watering down of a truly original piece. That is mainly for people who don't have a musical talent.

(Sampling is the same thing as remixing, right?)

You haz a brain yes?

Sampling in regards to copyright has nothing to do with DJing. It's production. And sampling is just taking a piece of something else and using it in your own work. It can be a specific sound, random noise, loop, vocals, talking... any sound at all really. It just can cause problems with copyright.

Music producers make original tracks, remixes, work with bands, etc.

DJs take tracks that have already been produced and mix them. Depending on skill level this can be anything from just playing music right after each other (shit/radio DJs), to people that can beatmatch and line up songs, to people that do live mashups, sampling, and full on mixes.

Some people do both, but they are two completely separate things.

Friday the 13th

Yeah.. bad luck element definitely doesn't apply here.

I just got paid for three gigs, plus my day job.. and I'm finally unsick. This has turned out to be quite a good day actually.

First off.. hellz yesh!

Always welcome more blogs in that field... in general.. the more info the better!

I will say though, I'd recommend running a WordPress-powered site for ease of installation and well.. it's just so damn good looking with minimal effort!

I decided to rebuild my website from the ground up... blog, forum, etc.. and in minutes the thing was online.. and hours into working on it.. I've almost got a completely set and already plenty functional site.

Might I add, this is a great spot to whore out the new EchozAurora.com =D

I figure at least that's a good example for ya. I'm still trying to figure out what all I want (or need) on mine, but if you have any questions, I can definitely help!

At 11/10/09 06:08 AM, ParagonX9 wrote: LOL @ 4.33

Hoh shit, you exist! =O

Yeah... I looked through that...

The JBLs you linked were rated at 250/1000.. which would be cool if I got four of them.. but..

The amps.. yeah.. I'm just flat-out retarded with signal amplification. When it comes to linking up wattage to Ohms and running dual channel vs. bridging mono..

I can't even brain that sober. Perhaps I should have a conversation with my friend that used to do a lot of car audio stuff on amplification.

As I said before, if you have any suggestions to a passive setup with similar and/or better specs to what I'm looking at with the active stuff... fire away! I'm not locked into going with an active setup, but mainly going with it for ease of setup and so I don't have to deal with matching up components.

At 11/10/09 02:08 AM, nathanallenpinard wrote:
Agree, and that even goes for the studio as well. There are powerful bi-amplified setups by Dynaudio (probably the best of the best) that are great for studios.

And this.... is one of the main reasons I'm really thinking on getting the B415 DSPs, as they are bi-amped... with separate amps running the woofer and compression driver.

I guess it depends on use to some extent. I'm sure there are some valid reasons to that... but unfortunately, the main reason seems to always be the almighty $. Greed is some nasty business.

It'd be nice to have some sort of flexible copyright law that allowed for a bit more room in creative works.

Work, yes. But the amps in active PAs are designed specifically for the speakers and enclosure they are powering. You tend to get much better sound with less EQ work by running an active setup, at least from my experience so far and talking to other people in the field.

At 11/10/09 01:55 AM, jarrydn wrote:
Indeed. But if someone doesn't want you to cut up their tracks and rearrange them into a new product, I think that's a right they should be entitled to.

Agreed, if it is into a product that results in financial gain.

If someone wants to chop something up and release it for no benefit on their own accord.. well.. there shouldn't be any restrictions against that. It kinda follows along the thoughts of free speech.

Then again, most of the time... things like that are never prosecuted or even messed with.. because there's no money attached.

At 11/10/09 01:54 AM, nathanallenpinard wrote: A sub with as low as only 40hz?

Why does that seem not suitable for a club environment to me? (which I'm assuming)

Thus why I really want to add a floor-sub to the mix to kick in the lower frequencies.

At 11/10/09 01:48 AM, jarrydn wrote:
Sorry to say this, but I'm pretty sure that Behringer (quite deceptively) references their peak power, not their RMS. Those 400w speakers are probably going to pump out about half of that.

I know. The RMS is 200 for those.

4x200=800

The beefier ones rated at 600 watts sit at 400 RMS.

3x400=1200 ;3

Yeh.. but you see what I'm looking at now at least.

Passive Speakers

I've thought about going that route.. but I generally avoid the passive route as you have to make sure to match an amp well to the speakers you are using.

And as for a powered mixer setup... most of the packages that include them seem to not have enough power for the speakers they are included with.

If you have a good suggestion that pairs up amps and speakers for a price similar to the active ones I'm looking at though, I'd definitely be interested.

Legal or illegal doesn't necessarily equate right or wrong. (In fact, I'd go as far to say that most of the time it doesn't)

Anywho, as for sampling.. if it is done in a manner that puts a new spin on a song (remixing) or is used to create something entirely new (slicing beats, hip hop stuff, etc).

Unfortunately, the disease that is copyright law doesn't agree with that, and thus legality varies depending on use and location.

So maybe the next thought should be:

Copyright Laws: Right or Wrong?

I'd definitely argue favorably for copyright when it comes to attributing the original artist of a work, invention, production... whatever. If you make something, you should be properly credited and compensated for it.

Unfortunately, copyright laws nowadays have expanded to the point where they can heavily suppress creative thought and forward movement in society.

RMS mainly.. And yes, unfortunately the pack of 200 series models would only hit about 800W total RMS, but I can live with that until I add on a floor sub, which would bump it over 1000.

Well, my thought is that I absolutely have to have at least 1000 watts or power.

The more, the better with me. I just need a lot for cheap.

There are much cheaper packages out there, but you don't get the type of kick you do with these.