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After 12 years of using a mixed CD as a backup I thought I'd move on to an mp3 player as backup. Sprung for a Sansa Fuze 8gb yesterday £50, tried it last night and can't get enough volume to be able to use it. I noticed in the manual that there used to be a volume control in the System Menu that had Normal & High Volume, it's not there now. Any suggestions?
Anyone use something like this???
Anyone use something like this???
发表时间 Sat 24 Apr 10 @ 5:52 am
GadgetMan
MP3 player outputs are not usually line level (My Nokia 5800 phone asks me what level I need when I plug a mini-jack in - nice touch).
I also have an American Audio SDJ-1. This is a twin SD card player that looks like the control panel of a twin CD player.
http://www.americandj.eu/product_info.php?products_id=1630
Can be bought online for about £145 and will feed nicely in to your mixer. Plus, with most laptops having SD card readers in now, you can transfer tracks at short notice ;-)
My other two favourite uses of the SD Card player are:
1) If guests want to bring their own music, they can bring an SD card along and the music dosn't even need to touch your gig machine..
2) I always try and play the last track of the night from the SD card player. That way the laptop is powered down and packed away before the song has finished..
I'm currently using the SD card player in my American Audio Q-SD mixer, not the SDJ-1. However I will be returning to the SDJ-1 if I end up getting the VMS4.
Cheers,
Roy
I also have an American Audio SDJ-1. This is a twin SD card player that looks like the control panel of a twin CD player.
http://www.americandj.eu/product_info.php?products_id=1630
Can be bought online for about £145 and will feed nicely in to your mixer. Plus, with most laptops having SD card readers in now, you can transfer tracks at short notice ;-)
My other two favourite uses of the SD Card player are:
1) If guests want to bring their own music, they can bring an SD card along and the music dosn't even need to touch your gig machine..
2) I always try and play the last track of the night from the SD card player. That way the laptop is powered down and packed away before the song has finished..
I'm currently using the SD card player in my American Audio Q-SD mixer, not the SDJ-1. However I will be returning to the SDJ-1 if I end up getting the VMS4.
Cheers,
Roy
发表时间 Sat 24 Apr 10 @ 7:10 am
djles.co.uk
Interesting bit of kit Roy.
Don't want to spend that kind of money on something that is just a backup in case the computer crashes. Will be cheaper just burning another backup CDR, current backup CDR was burned in May last year. Trying to keep it small and simple, might look at MiniDisk players, got a domestic one at home with tons of MiniDisks.
At least I can use the mp3 player on the flight to Ibiza and not get grief from the air stewards for using my phone in 'flight mode'. ;-)
Don't want to spend that kind of money on something that is just a backup in case the computer crashes. Will be cheaper just burning another backup CDR, current backup CDR was burned in May last year. Trying to keep it small and simple, might look at MiniDisk players, got a domestic one at home with tons of MiniDisks.
At least I can use the mp3 player on the flight to Ibiza and not get grief from the air stewards for using my phone in 'flight mode'. ;-)
发表时间 Sat 24 Apr 10 @ 8:24 am
Made In Breizh
Soulman,
You can also amplify the output level of your MP3 player with
- headphones amplifier as Behringer HA400 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/HA400.aspx or MA 400 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/MA400.aspx, Art Headamp 4 http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?cat=13&type=90&id=129, Sansom S-Amp http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1698
- a mixer, either a standard one, or a compact mixer as Behringer Xenyx 502 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/502.aspx, Mackie 402 http://www.mackie.com/products/402vlz3/index.html or an equivalent.
You can also amplify the output level of your MP3 player with
- headphones amplifier as Behringer HA400 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/HA400.aspx or MA 400 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/MA400.aspx, Art Headamp 4 http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?cat=13&type=90&id=129, Sansom S-Amp http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1698
- a mixer, either a standard one, or a compact mixer as Behringer Xenyx 502 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/502.aspx, Mackie 402 http://www.mackie.com/products/402vlz3/index.html or an equivalent.
发表时间 Sat 24 Apr 10 @ 2:51 pm
discjockeydoc
I use an iPod plugged directly into my mixer for backup...Seems to do the trick in a pinch, but, admittedly, doesn't "look" real professional. I'm looking into other solutions, but budgetary limitations have forced me to stick with this for now.
发表时间 Sat 24 Apr 10 @ 7:18 pm
djles.co.uk
@Made In Breizh - don't want to use anymore bits of kit, it's either mp3 player or stick with a CDR. Trying to keep it simple.
Got a better result tonight with the mp3 player. There is a selection of eq settings in the System Setting of the mp3 player. One of them is a custom eq setting, I increased everything to max to get a bit more volume. Managed to get the channel lights displaying a little with the channel gain at max and all the mixer eq's at max. Gonna try experimenting with boosting the recorded volume of the backup track too.
Got a better result tonight with the mp3 player. There is a selection of eq settings in the System Setting of the mp3 player. One of them is a custom eq setting, I increased everything to max to get a bit more volume. Managed to get the channel lights displaying a little with the channel gain at max and all the mixer eq's at max. Gonna try experimenting with boosting the recorded volume of the backup track too.
发表时间 Sun 25 Apr 10 @ 8:59 pm