Category: Life of Blake

I will write things that are going on in my life here.

Crossfader on Behringer DX 1000

Blake

Now that I have my computer up and running I have been messing around with a program called Virtual DJ. If your into making your own mixes and DJing then this might be a program you want to check out.

Virtual DJ is really cool and feature packed. One of the features is it lets you set 2 sound cards to be the output for Decks A and B allowing you to use a external mixer as your control for your crossfading and main mix output.

After doing this and playing some songs I noticed that the Crossfader on my DJ board (Behringer DX 1000) was cutting the sound out to soon so by the time the slider had made it to the middle both tracks were at half volume. What I wanted was to have Deck A be on full volume till the slider hit half way and then have the volume decline but all of this happening while Desk B’s volume is coming up.

I remember reading in the instructions that you could adjust the slop and overlap of the crossfader. I figured it would be like two knobs on the back or something but the adjustment is on the main motherboard inside of the case. This sounded like a great excuse to take it apart šŸ˜€

After removing all the back screws I came to this.

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Looking closer down need the Crossfader I found the two potentiometers.

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According to the instructions it says not to mess with the overlap but to turn the Slop potentiometers all the way to the right to get what I wanted. (Make sure you check the instructions before doing this to your board) So then after putting all 10 screws back in I hooked the board up and away it went. PERFECT!

That was a fairly simple adjustment and I hope this will help you tune your board to what you want.

I Blake Miller do not take responsibility for damages you might cause to your equipment.

Computer Issues? Your telling me!

Blake

I have not been around many of my local online community’s recently do to major computer issues I have been suffering through.

In my last post I made you all aware that I had ordered a new bare bones kit from TigerDirect.ca. Well I received all the parts, put it together, turned it on… install Windows XP Pro… Install drivers then bam… random reboot. So I ran it for about a week. Very fast bur random reboots. I ran the great utility “Dr Watson” that’s built into Windows to see what was going on. Checking through logs I found that every reboot was caused by the nVidea driver taking a dump.

My first thought was the video cards so I took on of the XFX nVidea 8400 GS’s out. Again, still the same problem. So then my second thought was RAM… Took 3GB of the OCZ RAM out. Still same issue. Last thought was power supply… changed that… still same issue.

My calm father called MSI and gave them the situation of what was going on. They gave us a tag number and we shipped the board back.

A week later we were starting to get concerned about where the board had gone because we had herd nothing from MSI. That Friday a package showed up from MSI with a brand new mother board.

Again, hooked it up, installed Windows XP… still same problem.

Well I was pissed by this point. (Who wouldn’t be)

So me and my dad were talking about the MSI mother board. All of our computers we have ever built we always used AMD processor, ASUS mother boards and ATI graphics cards. Having a MSI mother board and nVidea graphics cards was a new realm but we figured it wouldn’t be a big deal. Every thing pointed back to the motherboard.

We order a nice ASUS N2M-SLI from ShadowTech Computer Services. (There located a few blocks away from my house) The next day the motherboard was in and still the same problem but this time when we went to install Window s we would get a memory flow error… something witched I have never seen before. This time we called up our friend Tim from ShadowTech and asked him about the problem.

Tim nicely tolled us that OCZ RAM needs to have voltage bumped up for it to run stable. Sure enough, bumped up the voltage and away it went. 4GB of RAM… AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 2.81 GHz and XFX 8400+ GS running software SLI.

Not bad for a months worth of screwing around… Now I just need to find where the Christmas video’s went šŸ˜›

 

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I guess it’s time…

Blake

I know it has been a while since I communicated with some of you and I bet your wondering where I have been. I guess it’s time to fill you in. Just after Christmas I lost the love of my life to someone else. (Nice way of saying merry Christmas and Happy 3 year anniversary) Same night I had a nice chat with every ones most loved MyBB developer, Tiki.

I guess he didn’t like my comment about how MyBB Games new about the security vulnerability before MyBB made us aware. So after the security vulnerability was fixed we had a nice little chat on IRC. I’ll sum it up for you. Basically he wanted someone to feel sorry for him for the fact that he stayed up until 2:00AM fixing the problem and trying to get a hold of Chris? And then he had to deal with me? Well… He tolled me he expected more from me as a MyBB user and a long time member of the forums.

The next day (still a little pissed) I have PM waiting for me from DennisTT. He was politely telling me that my comment was out of line (which I think it was). I had no problem with this but it’s the fact that Tiki tolled me the same fucking thing just the night before. Great communications guys!!!!

Well guess what…. I expected more from MyBB. I have been there since 2003 (I think) I was part of the MyBB 1.2 Beta (witch was fun) but the 1.4 beta me and a few other locals were “for gotten” in the whole selection process. No biggy we still got it but that beta round was over.

I find MyBB’s team is kinda of a two man show now. It seems like allot of the developers and mod’s are leaving because of “other things in there lives” but thats not the case. In most cases it seems to be one person causing most of the issue between staff. (I will not mention any names) I think cretin individuals think they might almost own the place. Kind of like a “teachers pet” that won’t flake off.

So what happen to MyBB Games you ask? Well after a great post made about this whole thing, the whole domain is now for sale. Click here for more details.

A while ago I was in communication with Mike (Complicated) and I am now helping the Imperial BB project. Currently Version 1 is being worked on and is in private beta. The next version is looking good. You can check out screen shots here. If you are interested in the project please register on our forums and leave your suggestions. New members are always welcome! We won’t tell you to “use search before posting”. šŸ˜›

Anyways thats whats going on right now. When the next version of Imperial BB is released I will be changing the board here over to it, then I will be creating some video tutorials on different parts of the software and operating it etc.

So thats whats new with me. I will post more now I do have allot more time on my hands so expect more soon.

Have a good one!

Poor computer

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Well yesterday my poor old AMD 3500+ Asus AV8 – Delux motherboard gave up the ghost and died. Me and it were together for 5 greatfull years but now it has moved onto a better place.

SoĀ it’sĀ replacmentĀ isĀ goingĀ toĀ beĀ aĀ bareĀ bonesĀ kitĀ fromĀ Tigerdirect. ClickĀ hereĀ forĀ moreĀ details. It’sĀ notĀ theĀ bestĀ thingĀ everĀ butĀ itĀ willĀ doĀ exactlyĀ whatĀ IĀ needĀ itĀ toĀ do.

In the mean time I’m using a AMD Duron 1Ghz with 256 MB of ram running Kubuntu. I have to say. It sucks really bad. šŸ˜›