The gig

[Gert van Santen]

Hey, Declan,

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you had a great time!

As for the probs you encountered - sounds all too familiar. Somehow it  
can be just too much for many laptops at certain moments to even play  
an mp3 without hickups. I even find there's problems with my pc setup.  
The only computers that never gave me any problems like that are my  
Macs, but I always used/use good sound cards on them (Delta 1010 and  
fireface).

I hope we can get to hear some recordings soon :-)

Happy Days!!!!

Gert
www.gertvansanten.nl

Op 21 dec 2009 om 15:56 heeft declan at degomusic.net het volgende  
geschreven:\

> Finally getting around to writing about the gig over one week ago.
>
> Earlier in the day during set up and initial sound checks etc. we
> experienced some minor technical difficulties with my setup and the  
> other
> dj setup.  Both seemed to be related to latency as there were audio  
> drop
> outs and crackles when the scroll buttons on the Akai APC-40 were  
> used.
> All very strange as these issue did not occur during the week or so of
> practicing.  A bit of tweaking and figuring out work arounds did as  
> good a
> job as we could although there were still audio drop outs coming  
> from my
> setup which was Lenovo SL300 laptop, M-Audio Audiophile sound card,  
> Yamaha
> AN1x used as a controller to play some VST synths, Roland SPD-S for
> playing some percussion and various sounds and a Korg Kaoss Pad for
> effects.
>
> My final sound check revealed that for some reason the midi was not
> working on the soundcard so I had to use a separate midi interface.  I
> should have seen this as a sign of things to come as right in the  
> middle
> of my set the sound card died.  The only thing left to do was to use  
> the
> on board sound card which while it did not sound as good I was ale to
> continue.  There were still come occasional audio drop outs so I'm a  
> bit
> stumped as to what the issue was as at the latter part of the set I  
> was
> just mixing MP3's and this is something I will have to iron out for  
> the
> next gig.
>
> Anyway, besides the above mentioned issues I thoroughly enjoyed  
> myself and
> think I rocked it.  Feedback was very positive and I am looking  
> forward to
> doing it all again very soon. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Declan.
>
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