what do you need for your first gig?

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Posted by movingincircles on Jun-17-2008 19:40:

what do you need for your first gig?

I'm an ableton live user
This is what I have:

PC w/ableton live
M-Audio AXIOM 49
M-Audio Fast Track Pro

Will the m-audio fast track pro be enough to hook up my system to the big speakers?
What else do I need?

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jun-17-2008 20:31:

Talent.

Posted by nefardec on Jun-17-2008 21:07:

Insight

Posted by wotyzoid on Jun-17-2008 21:08:

LOLOWNED!!

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 21:20:

You're gonna take a PC to your gig?

Posted by adi_hanson on Jun-17-2008 21:27:

seriously , you need to research this more and tag along to gigs to see how they work and you need hard records or cds on decks not your pc ,plus as mr JBJ said you have to be good and show you can do it first

Posted by bas on Jun-17-2008 21:29:

quote:
Originally posted by adi_hanson
you need hard records or cds on decks not your pc

No you don't

Posted by adi_hanson on Jun-17-2008 21:32:

eh?? please enlighten me Bas , i know ive seen a few djs use a pc for intros and a few effects here and there but what else?????

Posted by idoru on Jun-17-2008 21:42:

quote:
Originally posted by adi_hanson
eh?? please enlighten me Bas , i know ive seen a few djs use a pc for intros and a few effects here and there but what else?????

Go learn just how extensively Ableton can be used. Most people don't use it to even half of its potential, but you really should go look into it.

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 21:42:

quote:
Originally posted by adi_hanson
eh?? please enlighten me Bas , i know ive seen a few djs use a pc for intros and a few effects here and there but what else?????

What?

You've never seen ONE of the thousands of DJs who play their music off a laptop using various methods?

Posted by adi_hanson on Jun-17-2008 21:46:

obviously not? ive have ever only seen yoji with a laptop and that was for his intro , and im honestly shocked, so the art of dj'ing with vinyl and cds is under threat from laptops?

and to the other poster , ive never seen ableton so i would had to look into it

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 21:49:

quote:
Originally posted by adi_hanson
obviously not? ive have ever only seen yoji with a laptop and that was for his intro , and im honestly shocked, so the art of dj'ing with vinyl and cds is under threat from laptops?

and to the other poster , ive never seen ableton so i would had to look into it

You have a very, very narrow and limited experience of what DJing is.

Get out more. Lots of people are djing using records in conjunction with laptops. (google "traktor scratch" and "serato")

The art of DJing is only under threat from people who are not good at DJing, medium used is largely irrelevant.

Posted by adi_hanson on Jun-17-2008 21:54:

quote:
You're gonna take a PC to your gig?

why did you come out with this comment then?????

i have not spent as much time on dj at the moment as i have production but my basic knowledge is very basic it seems

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jun-17-2008 21:58:

quote:
Originally posted by adi_hanson
why did you come out with this comment then?????

I think that was a dig at the reliability of PCs versus Macs.

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 22:07:

quote:
Originally posted by adi_hanson
why did you come out with this comment then?????

i have not spent as much time on dj at the moment as i have production but my basic knowledge is very basic it seems

Because taking a PC to a gig is dumb.

Buy a laptop.

Posted by adi_hanson on Jun-17-2008 22:10:

im going to go away and study loads and loads like in the movies and read about production, dj'ing and replying to a multiple meaning tranceaddict post and have a soundtrack overplaying and then i will come back and beat the bad guys in true hollywood style

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 22:13:

It's gonna take you a while.

Posted by bas on Jun-17-2008 22:14:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I think that was a dig at the reliability of PCs versus Macs.

I think the OP is referring to a PC vs a Mac, but I believe Clovis is thinking PC vs laptop

And adi, djing isn't "under attack" by any means, but with Ableton one doesn't need cds and/or records to play music. Especially off of a computer. The software with the computer would be interfaced with some kind of MIDI controller and connected into a mixer, or if you have the money, some kind of MIDI controller/mixer hybrid.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jun-17-2008 22:25:

IMO CDs have more soul than a computer.

Posted by iammesol on Jun-17-2008 22:26:

lol

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 22:33:

I think control vinyls + laptop is the best we've come to in terms of a balance between new technology and an old school art.

Posted by a98 on Jun-17-2008 22:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
Because taking a PC to a gig is dumb.
Buy a laptop.

for your information pc doesn't mean a desktop computer..

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 23:00:

quote:
Originally posted by a98
for your information pc doesn't mean a desktop computer..

And what exactly does that change?

Posted by Gauss on Jun-17-2008 23:04:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
And what exactly does that change?

Maybe he wasn't talking about PC as in desktop, but laptop after all.

Posted by Clovis on Jun-17-2008 23:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Gauss
Maybe he wasn't talking about PC as in desktop, but laptop after all.

And that would be great...somehow I don't think that is the case...

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