Hooking Ableton up to a club system...

Dee Cee · Post by **Dee Cee** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:13 pm

Quite a quick one this one...

The scenario is I turn up to my local club along with my laptop running Ableton for dj'ing, with my MIDI controller, External HD/Soundcard etc etc, and I'm ready 2 play...

Where do you connect your equipment to 2 run it through the clubs (all ready running due to the previous dj(s)) sound system? Will the volume levels remain the same?

Thanks in advance...

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:16 pm

plug your headphones output into the back the mixer.
thats it.
works fine

Dee Cee · Post by **Dee Cee** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:46 pm

jeskola wrote:plug your headphones output into the back the mixer.
thats it.
works fine

...Comprende?

Sorry I don't understand that, that would enable the laptop and all equipment etc to run through the main mixer? How?

dj_statikfire · Post by **dj_statikfire** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:55 pm

dood, it's just as easy as setting up any cd player

buy a Y-CABLE, available at ANY store, it's got a 1/8" jack (headphone), and a RCA for left and right

it plugs into the same input for the cd players, but be careful, DO NOT plug it into the phono input! it's different!

look at your home stereo... it's the same thing as plugging in a playstation or cd player

goodluck

THX,
Jason D

drush · Post by **drush** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:59 pm

if you're in a club bigger than a breadbox there ought to be a sound guy there. just tell him you need a line level input. bring RCA and 1/4" cables that can come out of your soundcard.

Dee Cee · Post by **Dee Cee** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:16 pm

Sorry guys of course thats how you do it...

The fact that you could have many tracks etc playing at one time running through ableton which is being played via 1 channel on the mixer effect anything at all? Normally you would have each device on each channel in the mixer, with Ableton there would be more then one... True?

onyxashanti · Post by **onyxashanti** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:02 pm

i use one of the spare line in's on the back of the dj mixer. there is usually at least one. make sure what ever cable you have for your sound card terminates to rca on the other end. best thing to do is o get one of the small beringer ub502 mixers [approx 30quid]. they are tiny, and you can create a submix so that you can hear yourself from the house system [by running the rec out from the back of the dj mixer into the [tape in] of th behringer].

drush · Post by **drush** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:13 pm

Dee Cee wrote:Sorry guys of course thats how you do it...

The fact that you could have many tracks etc playing at one time running through ableton which is being played via 1 channel on the mixer effect anything at all? Normally you would have each device on each channel in the mixer, with Ableton there would be more then one... True?

no, your computer is the mixer. you could be playing 20 tracks at once but by the time it comes out of the computer it's all been bussed to 1 stereo signal.

Dee Cee · Post by **Dee Cee** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:15 pm

drush wrote:
Dee Cee wrote:Sorry guys of course thats how you do it...

The fact that you could have many tracks etc playing at one time running through ableton which is being played via 1 channel on the mixer effect anything at all? Normally you would have each device on each channel in the mixer, with Ableton there would be more then one... True?
no, your computer is the mixer. you could be playing 20 tracks at once but by the time it comes out of the computer it's all been bussed to 1 stereo signal.

Fair enough... Question answered thanks chaps!