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<blockquote data-quote="Jiglo" data-source="post: 846140" data-attributes="member: 3953"><p>If your mixer has phono and line ins for each channel (and you only need 2 channels, so that pretty much covers just about any decent mixer made in the last 2 decades), then you're sorted with your mixer for Scratch Live. So just to clarify, yes, your mixer is fine/fit for the purpose. </p><p></p><p>I think SL2's can be picked up for £350 new and SL1 boxes seem to be holding their value second hand, so might not be worth pursuing one unless you can find one really cheap. The advantage with SL1 over SL2,3 & 4 is that you can plug it in and leave it plugged into your mixer without your computer attached and still play your records just by flicking the switches on you mixer to Phono, and then obviously back to Line if you want to play a digital track. With SL 2,3 & 4 you have to click Thru in the Scratch Live software - when you switch to regular vinyl. Just seems better to me to be able to play records without your computer attached. That said I sold my SL1 box after upgrading to SL2.</p><p></p><p>SL1 is usb 1.1 though and possibly prone to the occasional drop out of sound when playing mp3, wavs, flac or whatever and also the sound isn't quite as good as the 3 newer versions.</p><p></p><p>Depending on your budget and how you want to use it then, SL2,3 & 4 would be most people's best bets and with your mac, you don't have to wait too long for it to boot up and be ready to play. Both your macs should easily be able to run the software without a hitch. That said, if you do buy an S1 box on ebay and don't take to it, or want to upgrade then you should be able to sell it for what you paid for it. I sold mine to a mate of Benny's for 180, but i just had a quick look at the prices on ebay and they're looking like £250 for one.</p><p></p><p>If you're serious about buying Scratch Live, then don't waste another minute and get over to the Serato website to download the Scratch Live software and start analyzing your music for playing in the software, that way when you do buy it you're almost road ready (after a few simple performance tweaks).</p><p></p><p>It's piss easy to get going. You can either let Serato read your iTunes music, or just drag and drop any music, or collection of music into the software and let it analyse them. Depending on the speed of your mac, you could analyze a large collection of say 20,000 tunes in anything from 3 hours to 3 days (which is why I suggest downloading the software now and getting started with the analyzing). After that it's just plug and play. You just connect the box, open the software (doesn't have to be in that order) and drop a tune onto one of the decks. Put a Scratch Live vinyl on the turntable, drop the stylus and it'll play the tune through your mixer and out of your speakers. Simples!</p><p></p><p>If aren't selling your vinyl, then why rip it? Just play it! That's what I do. The only time it might become an issue for home use (which is what you said you're using it for) is if you're shit at keeping check of your records. There's no point wasting your time ripping vinyl otherwise. The only people that need to do that is people using a digital controller, (or dicers to fuck about with the tunes) as it offers little benefit to pure vinyl emulation.</p><p></p><p>Is it worth going the digital route? Well only you can answer that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jiglo, post: 846140, member: 3953"] If your mixer has phono and line ins for each channel (and you only need 2 channels, so that pretty much covers just about any decent mixer made in the last 2 decades), then you're sorted with your mixer for Scratch Live. So just to clarify, yes, your mixer is fine/fit for the purpose. I think SL2's can be picked up for £350 new and SL1 boxes seem to be holding their value second hand, so might not be worth pursuing one unless you can find one really cheap. The advantage with SL1 over SL2,3 & 4 is that you can plug it in and leave it plugged into your mixer without your computer attached and still play your records just by flicking the switches on you mixer to Phono, and then obviously back to Line if you want to play a digital track. With SL 2,3 & 4 you have to click Thru in the Scratch Live software - when you switch to regular vinyl. Just seems better to me to be able to play records without your computer attached. That said I sold my SL1 box after upgrading to SL2. SL1 is usb 1.1 though and possibly prone to the occasional drop out of sound when playing mp3, wavs, flac or whatever and also the sound isn't quite as good as the 3 newer versions. Depending on your budget and how you want to use it then, SL2,3 & 4 would be most people's best bets and with your mac, you don't have to wait too long for it to boot up and be ready to play. Both your macs should easily be able to run the software without a hitch. That said, if you do buy an S1 box on ebay and don't take to it, or want to upgrade then you should be able to sell it for what you paid for it. I sold mine to a mate of Benny's for 180, but i just had a quick look at the prices on ebay and they're looking like £250 for one. If you're serious about buying Scratch Live, then don't waste another minute and get over to the Serato website to download the Scratch Live software and start analyzing your music for playing in the software, that way when you do buy it you're almost road ready (after a few simple performance tweaks). It's piss easy to get going. You can either let Serato read your iTunes music, or just drag and drop any music, or collection of music into the software and let it analyse them. Depending on the speed of your mac, you could analyze a large collection of say 20,000 tunes in anything from 3 hours to 3 days (which is why I suggest downloading the software now and getting started with the analyzing). After that it's just plug and play. You just connect the box, open the software (doesn't have to be in that order) and drop a tune onto one of the decks. Put a Scratch Live vinyl on the turntable, drop the stylus and it'll play the tune through your mixer and out of your speakers. Simples! If aren't selling your vinyl, then why rip it? Just play it! That's what I do. The only time it might become an issue for home use (which is what you said you're using it for) is if you're shit at keeping check of your records. There's no point wasting your time ripping vinyl otherwise. The only people that need to do that is people using a digital controller, (or dicers to fuck about with the tunes) as it offers little benefit to pure vinyl emulation. Is it worth going the digital route? Well only you can answer that. [/QUOTE]
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