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Topic: My Sound levels drop on the song that is playing when start second track

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My Sound levels drop on the song that is playing when start second track. Anybody know why. I have tried many settings within FAME.

To explain: I am playing a song on deck A. I hit play on Deck B and the volume drops on Deck A.

Please advice ASAP as I have a huge gig this weekend.
 
Posted Wed 22 Jun 05 @ 5:33 pm
do you have connected it to a mixer or what ?

maybe there is a limiter (outside of your pc/not software)

please try to set volume of the deck B to 0 and repeat the test.
 
Just a thought : Are you using keyboard shortcuts?
If so, maybe check that a key hasn't been assigned twice....

Just my two cents... :)
 
Thanks for the comments. No I dont have an outside mixer. Its direct to my soundcard and from there direct to my speakers. (PC type)
 
Hmm I think I may have it. I set the FAME Auto Gain to "Always Match" and it seemed to work so far. Problem is I Think I changed this for another reason and I can't remember why. Oh well. If anybody has any other thoughts please let me know but it seems to be fixed for now.

Thanks!
 
Yes, other thought is that you have some weird setup in the vDJ Soundcard config,
 
Second that, it does some pretty strange stuff if set up wrong.
 
I take back what I said. It is still doing it. This time I had the levels all the way down and as soon as I was bringing them up fro the mix the levels dropped significantly on Deck A
 
Auto gain off?
 
- LIMITER: off
- keep the gain below 0.0 (with both decks)!!

Should work.
 
Also VDJ gain recognition isn't the best, I play with everything matched in software (gain,vol) and both channels at the mixer identicle, and there are major differences in volumes between tracks, this problem is not to be associated with VDJ (completely, although gain recognition could be better), I have recentely started monitoring levels more strictly through the headphones at the mixer, and adjusting accordingly to get a match as accurate as possible, the differences can be extreme, whether loud or quite, this is also true regarding tracks that have been derived from the same source, like a CD, third party software can help here, to set the track volumes at a certain DB, personally, I think manual mix works better (watch for distortion on some tracks).

I suggest, that you don't take everything displayed on the VDJ screen as 100% fact, this can be said for the waveform (beat indicators)and BPM calculation also, VDJ can be right, and when it is, you have it easy, but also it can be wrong, when it is, make sure your observing the manual mix, particuarly if your proffesional, in which case, you should know this.

I am looking forward to the future, when hopefully some inaccuracies in VDJ will be arighted, but I am happy with manual mix for now, but those who's circumstances/set-up don't permit manual mix, then their is a problem to be solved.

Good mix, Bagpuss.
 
"This time I had the levels all the way down and as soon as I was bringing them up fro the mix the levels dropped significantly on Deck A"

sorry i did not get it.

So deck A is playing at full volume, deck B was stopped and at 0 volume.
Starting deck B did not affect the volume of deck A.
But changing volume of B affected deck A ?????


Is this happening if you play a quiet song ?(song with some very very quit intro)
 
maybe its the curve of his exteral mixer?
 
@cyder "Thanks for the comments. No I dont have an outside mixer. Its direct to my soundcard and from there direct to my speakers. (PC type)"

:-(
 
I use a mac, i was able to fix this by raising both volumes on both sound cards. Not in Virtual dj, in mac settings, go to sound, then select each card under output, and make sure the volume levels are the same.
 


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