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Originally Posted by superburtm DJ's that don't understand signal flow drive me out of my fricking mind.  |
So True... I work at a nightclub here in Vegas, and its a challenge everytime... some guys don't care if they are slamming +22dbu from a Pioneer Mixer (which sounds like dogs*it) that it is going to sound like crap on an amplified system which in itself is introducing its own distortion.... artificially or induced....
We use a SteveDashAudio SDX3700, kinda like re-incarnation of the Urei 1620 mixer, but IMHO sounds warmer, smoother and louder....
The SDX3700 mixer rocks.
On Topic,
I'm on the same boat as far as Dance and HipHop stuff...
I would just like to add that you need to make your desicion based on what you are trying to accomplish and not so much the hype of any on particualr model. For dance music (vinyl) you do want to cut a nice hot record for club use so that your song will sound good on an amplified system with subs... and also to fit as much music as possible before transmitting on FM radio as your audio will have to modulated to FM for broadcast....
For me it was character, punch, glue, then finally loudness which is not done in the compressor...not the compressors job...duh... for loud you want something like a L3 or L2 hardware or Manley Slam! or similar.
So to truley answer your question you will need a good compressor for your application and then a strong, clean limiter.
I went Thermionic Culture Phoenix and Manley Slam!.
The idea here for was to have a certain signature sound...