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Posted by Wild Card on Sun May 30th at 6:34pm 2004

Ok, for cadet dances, myself and a friend always do the DJ work. But since the squadron dosent own any sound equipment worthy of a dance (cause we have a 5.1 80Watt speaker system) we rent our equipment every time. Our dances are overnighters so we rent for 2 days. And this costs us 100$ everytime. And considering we have to fund-raise our money thats a tad expensive.

We rent 2 speakers, 1 powered mixed, and 2 5disk players (dont ask me why 5 disks, we just do lol)

I was thinking that instead of renting all that, and having to make new CD's almost every dance, we could make do with the 2 speakers and then use my computer since I've got quite a huge (634songs and growing) library of songs and I've got AtomixMP3 which is a virtual mixer pretty much.

My question is, can my computer produce the sound?

Here's what we have:

http://www.roland.com/worldwide/products/AUDIO/sound_reinforcement/PA-410.html

or this one

http://www.roland.com/worldwide/products/AUDIO/sound_reinforcement/CPM-300.html

speakers=

http://www.rolandus.com/products/details.asp?catid=14&subcatid=58&prodid=SST%2D151

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Posted by Forceflow on Sun May 30th at 7:43pm 2004

Usually you can get a cable which can fit in the signal-out port on the sound card or a headphone port on some PC-speakers ... it's a "jack".

This cable splits into two channels (L-R), which you can plug in the mixer/amplifier.

Unless you own a top-notch soundcard, that's the first thing I thought about.

I'm throwing a party in June too, and that's how I'm going to do it ... 2 cd-players, 1 computer, mixer, amplifier and speakers. All connected with that type of cable

*edit*

Made some crappy paint sketch of the type of cable, since I don't know the name





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Posted by Biological Component on Mon May 31st at 6:57am 2004

RCA cable.

That picture looks like an RCA cable "Y-Adapter" which plugs into the 1/8" stereo jack on the sound card.

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Posted by Forceflow on Mon May 31st at 9:48am 2004

? posted by Biological Component

RCA cable.

That picture looks like an RCA cable "Y-Adapter" which plugs into the 1/8" stereo jack on the sound card.

gotta write that down thx !





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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 31st at 8:28pm 2004

Yea but Im wondering if I would like need a amp or something... or if its even possible. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon May 31st at 8:40pm 2004

It depends what kind of output you're looking for and the size of the room. I have my pc connected to my stereo, 2 100watt speakers and it's really really loud up full.



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Posted by Myrk- on Mon May 31st at 8:40pm 2004

You need your laptop, an Amp, speakers and a single cable. Its the type that u have on the back to plug a tape deck into your amp or something. You have one of those that goes from those 2 plugs into a headphone port cable. Thats all you need.

I do a similar thing at home and uni. I plug my PC into my uber l337 hi fi to get amazing quality sound [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 31st at 8:50pm 2004

The speakers are 450Watts and the room is half a school gym [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon May 31st at 9:01pm 2004

Never been in a standard size canadian gym, sorry. Seems like it'd be enough though, you yound fellows don't want to go deaf!



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 31st at 9:06pm 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Never been in a standard size canadian gym, sorry.

Im talking a Gymnasium here.. Just like every other country.. Not a overly large igloo

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Seems like it'd be enough though, you yound fellows don't want to go deaf!

Say What??

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon May 31st at 9:08pm 2004

Judging from my 100watts, 450x2 should do a GYMNASIUM nicely.



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 31st at 9:15pm 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Judging from my 100watts, 450x2 should do a GYMNASIUM nicely.

Trust me it most definatly does.

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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 31st at 9:19pm 2004

Is 8ohms compatible? lol Im just reading this off the tech chart... [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Tue Jun 1st at 9:43am 2004

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huge (634songs and growing)


We all start somewhere

8 ohms is the standard. You have to look at the 'tech chart' for the amp, and see what the rated load is - it will almost always be 8 ohms, but even if it says 6 or 4, it should work fine anyway.



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 1st at 10:39am 2004

music is free on the airways, i waste no bandwidth of note downloading any..

my MP3 collection consists predominately of audio books and christmas music.

never understood the allure of downloading songs :/

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Jun 1st at 11:01am 2004

? quote:
never understood the allure of downloading songs :/


Tthe advantage of having the songs as files on your computer, is so you can listen to one song as many times as you like, or create your own playlists out of them. Unlike say radio or TV, where you have to listen to a set playlist. Also, you can't choose to listen to whole albums on the radio can you? [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 1st at 11:07am 2004

? posted by Kage_Prototype
? quote:
never understood the allure of downloading songs :/


Tthe advantage of having the songs as files on your computer, is so you can listen to one song as many times as you like, or create your own playlists out of them. Unlike say radio or TV, where you have to listen to a set playlist. Also, you can't choose to listen to whole albums on the radio can you?

LOL

i didn't say there was anything wrong with it kage, just that i don't understand the allure..

every "positive" point you just said, are all reasons why i listen to the radio, i don't listen to a song in loop, and i rarely listen to albums, listening to one group for an hour is not my idea of pleasure.

the key words is "allure"

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Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jun 1st at 11:44am 2004

Well, just to keep on the safe side, about half of the songs come from CD's which either I or friends own that I ripped onto the computer. The rest are downloaded. But for the most part, the songs are only played during dances.

A_S, I know if we use our normal mixer, the speakers will run fine, but Im talking about plugging the speakers directly into the computer, without a amp.

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Jun 1st at 11:47am 2004

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LOL

i didn't say there was anything wrong with it kage, just that i don't understand the allure..

every "positive" point you just said, are all reasons why i listen to the radio, i don't listen to a song in loop, and i rarely listen to albums, listening to one group for an hour is not my idea of pleasure.

the key words is "allure"


I know what you said, and I was explaining why it was such an attractive way of obtaining music. You were the one who didn't understand what was so alluring about it, and I explained. What made you assume I was blindly defending it? [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 1st at 11:59am 2004

? posted by Kage_Prototype
? quote:
never understood the allure of downloading songs :/


Tthe advantage of having the songs as files on your computer, is so you can listen to one song as many times as you like, or create your own playlists out of them. Unlike say radio or TV, where you have to listen to a set playlist. Also, you can't choose to listen to whole albums on the radio can you?

blindly is a bit stronger word than i would use.. but it sounded as if you wanted me very clear on your position..

no harm done bud

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