Audio 2 DJ & Reloop DJ Controller
Audio 2 DJ & Reloop DJ Controller Posted on: 17.12.2010 by Georgene Schlagenhaft newbie here. ok so im looking at buying a digital controller, im believeing about the reloop digital jockey 2 interface edition, but i wanted to know if people would recommend getting the reloop digital jockey 2 controller (no built-in soundcard) and Audio 2 DJ with this?an improvement of sound? may even save me money. but the real query is about the outputs, the fact it has jack outputs works for me as my monitors are the same, but i want to know how can i connect my monitors up to the A2 sound card and still get a headphone cue, when it has only 2 outputs, is there a way to do it? cable splitter? cheers | |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by lozwaring
You either buy a splitter and 2 6.3 (male) to 6.3 (male) cables, or you buy a cable which directly splits into 2 mono cables. When you go for the splitter, make sure it splits in 2 mono channels, not 2 stereo, that's not optimal. If you buy a decent brand (no need to buy gold-plated either, just decent stuff) you won't have quality loss. Again, cables are relatively cheap, no need to buy new monitors if your old ones are still doing fine. |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by lozwaring
still abit confused about the outputs, so the 2 outputs of the audio2 are stereo outputs. so channel a is in stereo and output b is in stereo too, i can understand that. but using 1 output to link it to 2 speakers, will i need a specific cable?
so heres the monitors i have i dont believe they can be linked, i thought they had to have separate jacks/xlr's to each speaker. dyou know about this? know if the audio2 will come with all the cables i will need? cheers If you're mixing externally, 1 output will be used for channel A, the other one for channel B, both with aforementioned cables. This means you don't have an output left for your headphones, and that's logical. You're mixing externally, so you just plugin your headphones to the external mixer and again you're good to go. Can't help you on the monitors, I am an absolute noob in that area. |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by lozwaring
The RDJ Controller edition doesn't have touch-sensitive jogs though. I don't have it on my RDJ1 either, and unless you wanna do scratching - in which case you shouldn't be buying an RDJ either way, it sure is manageable with regular jogs too. But still, touch-sensitive can be very handy at times, and sometimes I wish I'd have them too. |
| Georgene Schlagenhaft 17.12.2010 | newbie here. ok so im looking at buying a digital controller, im believeing about the reloop digital jockey 2 interface edition, but i wanted to know if people would recommend getting the reloop digital jockey 2 controller (no built-in soundcard) and Audio 2 DJ with this? an improvement of sound? may even save me money. but the real query is about the outputs, the fact it has jack outputs works for me as my monitors are the same, but i want to know how can i connect my monitors up to the A2 sound card and still get a headphone cue, when it has only 2 outputs, is there a way to do it? cable splitter? cheers |
| Pansy Shiveley 19.12.2010 | Anytime, have fun with them! |
| Georgene Schlagenhaft 19.12.2010 | controller and audio 2 and correct cables ordered and on there way cheers for your help on clearing things up stephanv |
| Georgene Schlagenhaft 17.12.2010 | yer ive said outputs where i mean inputs. yep thats the plan, now to just decide on controller and audio2 or interface and new speakers thanks for the help, cleared a lot up for me |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by lozwaring
You either buy a splitter and 2 6.3 (male) to 6.3 (male) cables, or you buy a cable which directly splits into 2 mono cables. When you go for the splitter, make sure it splits in 2 mono channels, not 2 stereo, that's not optimal. If you buy a decent brand (no need to buy gold-plated either, just decent stuff) you won't have quality loss. Again, cables are relatively cheap, no need to buy new monitors if your old ones are still doing fine. |
| Georgene Schlagenhaft 17.12.2010 | was a little confused at first but im with you now, it makes sense, my problem is my connection, the common connection would be a 6.3mm to 2 Rca (which do come with the audio2) plugged into two monitors that have rca outputs, but my problem is i dont have rca outputs on the monitors i currently have, instead i have 6.3mm (jack) outputs my two options are, get a jack (6.3mm) splitter. my query of this is will it output it in stereo and will it loose any quality when doing so? and the other option is to get some new monitors/speakers with the rca output (which i was considering doing over time) but that means forking out more money |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by lozwaring
still abit confused about the outputs, so the 2 outputs of the audio2 are stereo outputs. so channel a is in stereo and output b is in stereo too, i can understand that. but using 1 output to link it to 2 speakers, will i need a specific cable?
so heres the monitors i have i dont believe they can be linked, i thought they had to have separate jacks/xlr's to each speaker. dyou know about this? know if the audio2 will come with all the cables i will need? cheers If you're mixing externally, 1 output will be used for channel A, the other one for channel B, both with aforementioned cables. This means you don't have an output left for your headphones, and that's logical. You're mixing externally, so you just plugin your headphones to the external mixer and again you're good to go. Can't help you on the monitors, I am an absolute noob in that area. |
| Georgene Schlagenhaft 17.12.2010 | cool, both rdj ie and rdj controller + audio2, sound pretty equal still abit confused about the outputs, so the 2 outputs of the audio2 are stereo outputs. so channel a is in stereo and output b is in stereo too, i can understand that. but using 1 output to link it to 2 speakers, will i need a specific cable? so heres the monitors i have i dont believe they can be linked, i thought they had to have separate jacks/xlr's to each speaker. dyou know about this? know if the audio2 will come with all the cables i will need? cheers |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 | Audio2DJ is about the best you can get (provided you only need 2 outputs, i.e. a digital-only setup), so yes you'll really be set. From what I've read the RDJ's built-in is good enough to gig the club. Once you get to play at the big clubs I suppose you'll have the cash to buy some upgrades anyway huh. Yup it's a nice addition, and a shame it's been left out on the controller edition. You get 2 outputs on both cards, headphones + master out, no need for splitters. |
| Georgene Schlagenhaft 17.12.2010 | thanks for the response, i hear the audio 2 dj has enough kick to run a big club system whereas an inbuilt soundcard may not, although ive not read of any complaints of the reloop's sound card. yer scratching isnt the most important area to me, but touch sensitives would be nice for that and does anyone know about the outputs? how to wire up a stereo output and still get a headphone mix just found this cable splitter, is this how people are connecting it up? will it loose quality? http://www.inta-audio.com/cables-con...mpaign=froogle |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by lozwaring
The RDJ Controller edition doesn't have touch-sensitive jogs though. I don't have it on my RDJ1 either, and unless you wanna do scratching - in which case you shouldn't be buying an RDJ either way, it sure is manageable with regular jogs too. But still, touch-sensitive can be very handy at times, and sometimes I wish I'd have them too. |
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