Page 3 of my extra stuff/FAQ page. Remember the menu from the first page? Guess what? It's on this one too!! you'll probably jump between the two pages, but it'll be easier for you I hope.

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Articles:- (PAGE 1)

1) Bad Dj'ing Habits (From Dj Magazine)
2) A Hierarchy of the many levels of Dj'ing (from Wax magazine)
3) How To Be A SuperStar DJ (Satire)

Answers to Emails:-

1) Calculating Bpm's
2) What are those dimples and the red light at the side of my decks for?
3) If I leave two records playing together for a long time, they always seem to go off a bit. I try to give a push or brake to record B, but I don't know which one to do. Do you have a technique for realising whether it's faster or slower?!?
4) I don't have separate equalisation for the two channels so when they are even the slightest out of sync I get a BOBOOM as opposed to a nice solid thumpin' BOOM. What's with this?
5) How do I hook my decks up to my computer?
6) I'm often confused on when I've got a perfect match, i.e the beat may stay together and i think right, I've got it on and then it starts to drift
7) Also i often find myself correcting the tunes when I'm mixing and they aren't really that much out of line and it sounds worse in the end, any advice?
8) Can I get good decks (and a mixer) for under £200?
9) Why does the record not slip right when using the slip-mats?
10) How do I set up the tonearm on my decks?

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Next you need to get a copy of Real Producer. (There's other Real encoding progs out there, but this one is the best I've seen) Go to www.real.com to get a copy. From time to time, people ask me about this and tell me they can't find it. IT'S THERE PEOPLE!!! Look for Real Producer Beta. You'll find it along with the proper retail program, you don't want the retail one (it costs money). There IS a link to it on there - believe me. When i get time, I'll try to find the exact URL for it, but I don't have that time right now.

So, you've downloaded it. Great. Now follow the instructions to encode your mix into the .rm (or .ra) media.

Once you're done, look for the button that says "Create Web Page". Click it.

What you're interested in is the .ram file that it makes for you. You can ignore the .html file it makes, unless you want to use that to hold the link to start your mix.

Open NOTEPAD (or similar simple text editor - NOT WORD or any word processing prog, you want it to be a simple ascii editor like NOTEPAD). Locate the .ram file on your hard-drive (it's where you put it) and open it.

What you'll see is a line which shoes you where the .rm (or .ra) file on your hardrive is.

If you double click the actual .ram file (not the line in notepad) then the mix will start on your computer. What you need to do is change the line in this file to show where the mix will be on the internet, not on your hard-drive

So, assuming you named the mix "mymix" and you saved it simply to your C:\ folder, then the line should look something like this:-

file:\\C:\mymix.rm

This is the line you need to change (the only line in the file.) Highlight this line, and press delete (or whatever you do to remove stuff)

Change this line to where the .rm (or.ra) file will be. Ie, if you have your space with freeserve, and your user name is asswipe, then you'll put in this line.

http://www.asswipe.freeserve.co.uk/mymix.rm

Or (best to give two examples) if you're space is at http://www.djmagnifico.com, then the line looks like this:-

http://www.djmagnifico.com/mymix.rm

Do you get me?

Anyway, JUST TYPE IN THIS LINE. DO NOT ADD ANY CHARACTERS, DO NOT PRESS ENTER, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT £200 FOR PASSING GO!! Seriously, leave the line as just the line.

Now save this file. Rename it if you like, just make sure to remember what you called it, and keep it as a .ram format.

Now, upload your mix media, and the .ram file you've just altered.

While you're waiting for hours while the mix uploads, work on your HTML file to start the mix. Remember NOT to link to the actual mix, this just makes it download to your hard-drive. Link to the .ram file.

Once everything (including your HTML file) is up there, you should be sorted. It's an idea to give visitors the option of downloading the mix anyway (just link to the .rm (or .ra) media) for this to happen.

Any problems, don't ask me......;-)

1) Check that your anti-skate isn't way off, set it at 0, then see if that helps, set it full one way, then full the other way, see if either of them help.

2) Make sure that you're cueing the record back and forth in the curved direction of the record. If you push and pull in a horizontal, rather than a curve, this'll make the needle jump.

3) (I said two - oops) Don't be too heavy handed, have a light touch.

4) (I'm on a roll) How old are your needles? If they're really old, then that might be the cause.

5) If you're using Stanton 500's, they're prone to skipping becasue of the angle the needle comes down from the cart. I know a lot of people who'll bend the needle back so it's almost flat with the cart - but that's dangerous.

Any more info on this one, then please get in touch.