[montarbo]

I just go new equipment. I just need to know what? format of music to get .
I will like to know the deferent on this 2 formats

[grinloki]

montarbo first off welcome to ph.com...... second off you might want to check the dj hideout forum... there is a topic identical to this one where you'll find all there is to know on the subject.

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[Nephew]

ADAT is the way to go

[SYATIKA]

grinloki wrote:

montarbo first off welcome to ph.com...... second off you might want to check the dj hideout forum... there is a topic identical to this one where you'll find all there is to know on the subject.

dido........

[Kuzimoto]

montarbo wrote:

I just go new equipment. I just need to know what?

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[jono_h]

depends on how much your playing out with the files.

wav is the way to go, i know they're a £1 more expensive and take up more room on hdd but storage is peanuts nowadays and you'll be glad you opted for wavs if your going to play out.

[Kuzimoto]

jono_h wrote:

depends on how much your playing out with the files. wav is the way to go, i know they're a £1 more expensive and take up more room on hdd but storage is peanuts nowadays and you'll be glad you opted for wavs if your going to play out.

storage is peanuts,but the sending via yousendit or sendspace takes ages.
i've once sent three tracks in wav format and it took almost 6 hours.

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[grinloki]

tell me about it took me all night to send my masters to BIT records. sendmix doesnt take wavs

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[Nephew]

To be honest it won't make much difference. Just remember to pick one format and stay with it. When you start mixing wavs with mp3s is when things get dicey.

[thyran]

Well i always use 320K and i must say it sounds great! Përhaps if you are resident or something in a big club, wavs can be worht the while...But i don't see how it could be a huge difference since it allready sounds great in 320 k

[jono_h]

its makes quite a bit of difference on a decent system.

[simon9191]

I too for MP3 320K.

could just be me but ive never noticed the difference, even in bigger clubs

Course anything under this bitrate is not a good plan!!

[pauldigweed]

320 is the way to go!wavs take up so much room!i play out and have had no bother with them!

[Coalescence]

WAV's

[Nephew]

Coalescence wrote:

WAV's

if you have a couple spare TB's laying around then yeah, go for it

[Novus]

Nephew wrote:

Coalescence wrote: WAV's if you have a couple spare TB's laying around then yeah, go for it

I know I don't.... And don't forget to pick up some spare gigs of RAM along the way..

But the listener has to be paying pretty close attention, AND have a very good ear to be able to hear the difference. Especially if they don't have side-by-side reference, or familiarity with the track. With many recordings, the original fidelity aint that great anyways.
You could do .wav's, but it really doesn't seem worth the hassle, to me. Not enough return on your invested time, money, or effort.

[Coalescence]

You can pick up a TB for £100 nowadays, plus the price is coming down.. you'd want to have a backup though, maybe another TB disk in RAID or a NAS.

You could always compress them down to FLAC if you were that way inclined (well, if you were burning to CD.. Maybe Ableton / Traktor supports it, if they don't they should!)

Some shops sell FLACs anyway... that's the way to go really. Lossless compression ahoy!

Getting cheaper to do it everyday.. if you've got the outlay to spend that much on tunes, you should have the outlay to have a storage/backup plan

[Coalescence]

Why would you need a couple of extra gigs of RAM?

[Novus]

Some programs load the song into ram, I think. That's a lot of usage.

[Nephew]

Novus wrote:

Some programs load the song into ram, I think. That's a lot of usage.

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