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Final Scratch Laptop
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| Pointy |
| Question to the poll: Do you own a laptop which is capable of running Final Scratch? |
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| Nemesis44 |
Nope, and we may well see the gentleman downstairs ice skating before I use FS. (Ironically the FS intitials are the same as my last names... God must have a weird sense of humour ;))
Cheers
Nem |
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| Freak |
Yes my laptop can run it (according to specs)
but..
i would rather cut off my penis with a rusty spoon than use it...... |
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| venomdx |
| What are the minimum specs? |
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| opianstate |
Why is everyone so opposed to using this program?
Upon browsing djmart.com, I found this, which looks like a final scratch lookalike with some more options. check it out:
Serato Scratch Live |
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| Narcissus |
| I own FS but don't have a laptop yet... using it off a pc atm. They're releasing a windows xp version in few days so those who needed this can now get it. It's a mindblowing system!! |
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| dartman |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Kibon
I was a little suprised to see recent issue of Wired talking about Paul Van Dyk .
According to the mag, he's now doing all of his livesets with Final Scratch and a laptop.
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there was alittle blurb about him using final scratch in macaddict too.
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| Spin Doctor |
| quote: | Originally posted by opianstate
Why is everyone so opposed to using this program? |
Because, simply put, records are better. |
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| Nemesis44 |
Final Scratch... and DJs who don't use it.
It was all about PvD vs Tiesto at Gatecrasher's December the 1st night. Apparently there was quite a fus about who would get the last slot etc although both camps are denying that outwardly.
In the end Tiesto went on after PvD. But what they didn't do was remove final scratch. This caused sound problems for Tiesto as apparently the sound from vinyl doesn't work too well with FS,
The one thing you never see talked about on this forums about FS is the effect it has on a vinyl on a big system if it's left on, can anyone give some input? The sound quality on this night was rubbish until someone actually unplugged the FS stuff.
The article that I read made it seem like you needed to be a sound engineer to change over.
What I don't get is this... I actually thought that FS was quite easy to remove, both from what I heard and having seen MIKE set up a similar set up with his laptop recently.
Tiesto actually had to stop his set but I get the impression that he was being a bit of a gimp... can anyone clear my question up?
Cheers
Nem |
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| Nemesis44 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Yea Nem, it will sound like rubish, because Stanton is a bunch of cheap bastards and the ScratchAmp (the main peice of hardware) is basically 2 USB soundcards with no sheilding whatsoever to electromagnetic interferance, so you get horrible ground loops if the electrical system that its plugged into is not that well grounded. Usually DJ's run GLI's (Ground Loop Isolaters) on the input lines to cut out this low frequency hum, but that colors the sound, and I personally (and from what you said) think it sounds like when vinyl runs through it, you lose alot of fidelity.
FS has some major flaws, but it is the only thing out there like this right now. Rane is releasing a peice of kit like FS pretty soon, it looks alot better hardware wise, and the software issues should have been taken care of with the system running on XP, tho stability now becomes an issue.
Hope that helped.
BTW, FS is very easy to intergrate mid night, and take off midnight, it just involves unplugin the phono ins to the mixer and then pluging them into the scratchamp, then pluging the phono thru back to the phono inputs on the mixer, and the line outs to the line ins on the mixer, takes like 2-3 minutes at most. If midnight, you just do one deck first, let the DJ before you's last track to be totally in, then switch the deck, mix in your track, then switch out the other deck. |
Thanks Nou,
That made things crystal clear.
So in other words Tiesto is a gimp for a couple of reasons.
1, for not hearing the bad sound earlier and 2 for actually stopping 'traffic' halfway to get an engineer to do it for him.
Thanks again Nou
Cheers
Nem |
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| Spin Doctor |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Now if you mean fidelity, then yes nothing can beat vinyl |
That was one of the things I was getting at. The other was that cultivating a collection of shiny black slabs of vinyl is a thousand times more satisfying that periodically having to upgrade the size of your HDD so you can put on more MP3’s, WAV’s, AIFF’s or whatever. |
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