The downside of being a DJ

[Erich Zann]

using abelton THATS the way i'm gonna go now. mp3 the vinyls and ebay the bloody things while there's enough idiots out there willing to pay a fortune for them hahahahaha < evil cackle!!

that's what i'm doing atm. not being pedantic but ableton prefers .wav. Mp3's seem to mess us the warping. and wav's take a whole load more space than shitty mp3, but they sound much more like the original. ABLETON roxcks.

 

[topaz]

that's what i'm doing atm. not being pedantic but ableton prefers .wav. Mp3's seem to mess us the warping. and wav's take a whole load more space than shitty mp3, but they sound much more like the original. ABLETON roxcks.

ta for the tip.. i can't wait to get going on it

 

[H.Dot]

Fu*1&ng moving

This lot has to go down one flight and up 3 flights at the new place *sigh*

heheheh... CDR and Ebay is you.

it works for me.

 

[Dj TAB]

It's gotta be vinyl all the way!

Anyway it turned out to be six sets of stairs up at the other end, and I can assuredly say apart from 2 or 3 boxes I got them all up to the top floor!!

Hope you happy in your new gaff Tendril - see you soon!

 

[sir.clip]

The downside to being a DJ....



... people laughing behind your back at your attempts to be trendy and vibrant.

Ha Ha.. This is so true..

I think even mbe dj spectacular sir Norman Jay suffers from this..

I saw him riding along portabello road in a pith helmet, on a chopper with a load of kids laughing at him...

 

[urbaniser]

This is more like what you need.Well, bigger of course, seen all the vinyls you got to store!This one's got a capacity of 135 vinyls perrow, that makes it 270 in all.

 

[ck]

Get one of these

The worst thing about being a D.J is that every other fucker is a D.J. So once you get to the party, the room is full of record boxes & plastic crates full of wack tracks from 88 & a load of moody D.js sitting around (cos they cant dance) thinking their on after the next track...

horse-shit. The good thing about being a DJ is not having to believe in compressed audio on i-Pod's , and actually being able to feel the music. (I know some people use these to DJ with , but it's like putting on woollen headphones)
some DJ's can and DO dance ; have you ever seen Pinky Chukkles getting his swerve on for one ?! I give it some as well.
Not all DJ's are moody ; I remember this one time when I smiled...

 

[sir.clip]

horse-shit. The good thing about being a DJ is not having to believe in compressed audio on i-Pod's , and actually being able to feel the music. (I know some people use these to DJ with , but it's like putting on woollen headphones).

Horse shit.. Feel the music ? Belive in Ipods ?...

Horse shit.. !
The good thing about being a DJ is a completely different topic..


I'd say the pay checks are pretty good.
I'd say the view is normally pretty good.
I'd say the minge is pretty good too.
I'd say not beliving in compresses audio on I-pods Is horse shit.. as a D.J every form of recorded audio is fine as long as the dance floor is bumping & jumping & the audience is happy. it dont matter a shite what is spinning, Records CD'S MP3'S 78's Cassettes 8-track video...

 

[marksl]

Downside to being a dj or a trance dj i seen in clubs a few times. Getting so high on coke punching the air in estatic joy while forgetting where you are.

 

[ck]

Horse shit.. Feel the music ? Belive in Ipods ?...

Horse shit.. !
The good thing about being a DJ is a completely different topic..


I'd say the pay checks are pretty good.
I'd say the view is normally pretty good.
I'd say the minge is pretty good too.
I'd say not beliving in compresses audio on I-pods Is horse shit.. as a D.J every form of recorded audio is fine as long as the dance floor is bumping & jumping & the audience is happy. it dont matter a shite what is spinning, Records CD'S MP3'S 78's Cassettes 8-track video...

I play all formats BUT MP3 sounds pony...

 

[Keniff]

How long do you think it'll take to turn my collection into mp3's and then stick em' on an iPod?

 

[lights.out.london]

Not often I say I'm impressed on a BB, but that is one heck of a collection. Mind you...it could all be Ktel or Pickwick re-releases of Val Doonican and Guns n Roses.

 

[sir.clip]

How long do you think it'll take to turn my collection into mp3's and then stick em' on an iPod?

Well with a library of that scale i dont think it would be worth re-recording as a digital format..

But if you really wantted..
I reckon there is around 4000 records there in that photo..
so lets say they are all albums at 50 minutes a piece..
50x4000= 200,000 minutes of real time audio..

So there are 1440 minutes in a 24 hour day..

200,000 divided by 1440 = 138.888888888888888888888888889
lets call it 139. days (thats 24 hours a day)
So times it by 2 to make a 12 hour day..

Thats 139 x 2 = 278 twelve hour days..

So it would be around 9 to 10 months of solid 12 hour days not allowing for tea breaks.. just continously recording analog signals into a digital format..

Transferring it all onto ipod would take say half that time lets say 5 months..

So lets call it 10 months for real time audio transfer..
5 months for recording onto your i-pod (or Pods)
1 month extra time for tea breaks..


= 16 months.. 1 year 4 months... maybe

 

[ck]

reckon there's more than 4000 records there.

what if one track is included on more than one record though ? And if you are recording a 12" would you want all mixes or just the one that you like the most (at the time of recording...) ???

Sorry to rub it in ; you're done for !!

 

[William of Walworth]

No wonder John Peel never moved in over 25 years, and for most his last two decades or so, he did his R1 shows from home!

 

[hiccup]

Fu*1&ng moving

This lot has to go down one flight and up 3 flights at the new place *sigh*

I had bruises on my arms for weeks after moving a similar amount of records in similar boxes earlier this year. Have now invested in 12 (so far) of these:

They look pretty cool stacked up I reckon.

 

[topaz]

WAY more than 4000 in that picture... closer to 20,000...if not more.. and i don't know whether to be jealous or glad i don't hafta move 'em!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

No wonder John Peel never moved in over 25 years, and for most his last two decades or so, he did his R1 shows from home!

I remember reading somewhere that JP didn't think about his records in numbers but rather described them according to the total weight, which was in the region of 24 tons or something He'd had to reinforce the foundations and structural supports of the barn that he kept them in.

I (heart) my records, all this talk of mp3s is heresy, i tell you, heresy....

 

[fannypad]

WAY more than 4000 in that picture... closer to 20,000...if not more.. and i don't know whether to be jealous or glad i don't hafta move 'em!

Not a chance, those shelves might carry on for another corridor's length but there's about 4-6000 tunes in the actual picture.

That lot on the floor in the left pic I posted come to around 1500 and there's about 3/4 times that in Keniff's photo.

Now excuse me whilst I lodge my scalp back between my sphincter.

 

[ringo]

I build 6 cube cabinets outof plywood, but if you stack them up they need a wall at each end or can start to lean dangerously.

 

[Notorious J.I.M]

I have to move soon and I have 30 of those plastic crates in the first pic to transport. I am going to have to sell about a third of them once I can get them up on Discogs. I will use the money to get a laptop and additional hard drive and start converting the rest into WAVs. I still plan on keeping the majority of my vinyl although I won't miss the ones I sell as it's stuff I no longer play.

 

[Dj TAB]

The downside of being a Dj is currently playing the worst set o' sh*te I have ever heard RIGHT NOW!

Currently running a Client Christmas party and I don't know where they found him but I think it was in the cd section of HMV......

Never mind attempts at vibrant humour and bad dancing - someone needs to take this guy outside and shoot him.....

 

[hiccup]

I had bruises on my arms for weeks after moving a similar amount of records in similar boxes earlier this year. Have now invested in 12 (so far) of these:

They look pretty cool stacked up I reckon.

They look like this:

Have a vague plan to build a deck stand out of them at some point.

 

[Tricky Mickey]

Fu*1&ng moving

This lot has to go down one flight and up 3 flights at the new place *sigh*

Schoolboy error: most boxes are full. Lots of half full boxes, willing friends, and stella artois are the only way.

I used to get books for free. They're a bastard too.