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I agree now that the only complaints I've seen about this have been in this forum and that is probably because....we're in the wrong forum commenting about non-SDJ stuff so that comment cannot be taken too seriously....
Different headphones, players, head shells/carts/stylus, and the standard loudness of the original recorded audio as a source before applying gain will vary from DJ to DJ and environment to environment..no one here is testing playback with the same audiophile reference disc so who know how significant the claim is...your ear will tell you where "clear" is and if you find it with the headphone volume near max, you've got a real problem. Above 6 (0r the 1 o'clock) position seems to be fine without pushing into the harsh or driver killing distortion you might experience when above 6.
I say try the boost in the editor. I haven't needed to yet so I won't comment but I did try Traktor with this mixer over the last week and the burning to digits is back on. I'm currently looking for a controller to assist with the DVS but the more I played with it, the more I lusted for more control over everything. I had to pull myself off it but it is nice to think about the possibilities once you have your tracks at the ready.
"like a Nerd alone in a brothel with a $1000 dollars, mid-day on a Tuesday"
just wondering where you are from. ive never heard any of this slang or phrases. just wondered so if i end up there i can use some of these terms
i specifically liked
''the burning to digits is back on''
i assume this means something like you hands are on fire to dj again or something?
Ha ha...I hope you understood most of it but I'll break it down. I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, I left there in 1993 after a fellow schoolmate name Felix Stalling (AKA da Housekat) took me into his studio and showed me what he had and told me about what he was doing over seas with opportunities that existed in the world outside of Chicago...it was almost a year later before I left, spent my first 3 years in NYC, 5 years West Coast near SF, then down SD before moving to Central London in 2003 ... went back to SD between 2006-2009, returned to London in October 2010 and left there in December 2014 for Northern Italy. I've always collected records but I didn't experience the real side of Chicago House until EXACTLY June 1989. I knew about it back in 1985 and even attended parties with kids who became the 2nd Wave of House, but in the scene, I didn't start actually DJ'ing until 1997 - four years after leaving Chicago. TBH, the one thing that stifled me getting into House is that a local could attend parties, be a regular in the scene, but if you were trying to come-up or do something like get into it...very few would let you pass the invisible brick wall. Not everyone was tight, but I simply couldn't get good records to develop my own style and no one in those days would mentor a young hopeful like myself. I had to learn through observation and develop outside of my home....which you can read this story about how much hasn't changed. Anyway, that is a personal story - good enough to tell you my path to today.
Anyway, the way I write in forums can be problematic. You can't edit and I don't find all of the issues but as challenging as it is, I hope you can understand most of it without feeling like an English teacher.
The "Burning to Digits" means: Recording tracks on vinyls to individual digital files. I have a love-hate relationship with this task, I dread it so much...it feels like I actually find a way to not do it by simply just making a mix and forgetting about it. Since guys like Sven Väth and Ricardo Villalobos are keeping "All-Vinyl" sets alive, I use this as justification for continuing to make mixes the old fashioned way.
On the HP Cue volume claims: I'm not doubting or denying but, who knows? There are so many set-ups and sound source variables that only your ear will tell you where Cue clarity is found within your playing environment. So, if you're raising the Cue volume up near max to achieve that, something may be wrong with many things. I know that if you mix with Mastered WAV/AIFF digital tracks through the mixer's sound card or with SPDIF on a CDJ, the sound should be consistent enough to rule-out many things. In my use, Cue volume is always near 6 (or the 1 o'clock position). I agree that 6 seems to be high but considering my channel volume faders are usually raised to around 7 (2 o'clock position), the right sound I find has volume positions which make me believe it is normal. So who knows???? Everything is fine so to say it.
I saw the ability to raise the volume in the editor but it wasn't specifically for the Headphone only.
