Forum: MAC Version Technical Support - Topic: PLEASE HELP ME !!! PLEASE !!

Hi

Before i start please excuse my ignorance, i am the owner of a club and not very technical.

I have just bought Virtual Dj Pro today and love it !!

It sounds Great on my macbook pro but i bought it to replace the Double Mini Disc players we use in the club at the moment.

We have a massive sound system in the club and when i connect my Laptop with Virtual DJ it sounds great when low but when its really loud it distorts where the Cd players and Mini Disc player on the other channels of the mixer are fine.

This is how i am connecting my macbook pro to the Pioneer Mixer :

I have a jack going into the headphone socket of the Macbook that splits into a RCA ( Red and White ) on the other side that i simply have put into one of the channels on the Pioneer DJM 500 mixer.

All my settings are still factory settings.

Do i need to buy something to improve the sound or change any settings ?

I hear talk of a soundcard , what is that and do i need one and will it help. ?

Just really need to sort this.

Please Help

Thanks
Greg

Perhaps you plugged the Y-adapter from the Macbook into the "phono" input of the mixer (maybe because the mini-disc players were already occupying the "line in" inputs). That might explain why it sounds okay at low volume levels but distorted at high levels. If there is a "phono/line" switch at the back of the mixer for the jack you've plugged into then make sure it's switched to "line". Or, just unplug one of the mini-disc players and plug your Mac into that input. Mini-disc players though lol, I take it you were a bit overdue for new technology, what were you playing on those mini-discs? C & C Music Factory, Roxette, MC Hammer?

Hi

Thanks , yes we are overdue a change lol.

No, i have checked and we are plugged into the (Line-in ) inputs.

have unplugged the mini-disc players and still not that good.

What is an external sound card ? would this help ?

I should note this is a 5K rig i am hooking into so HUGE sound system.

Thanks
greg

Even though playing audio through the headphone jack of the macbook is not ideal it should still be fine. Try setting the output volume of your Mac at about 3/4 and make sure the gain on your mixer isn't too cranked. The gain knob should be a knob at the top of each channel on your mixer. If it's you're using the term "distorted" correctly to describe your problem (many people use 'distorted' to describe something else entirely) then it might be as simple as making sure your levels are all set properly. It could be that the output level from your Mac is waaaay higher than the output from your mini-disc players, so you need to adjust levels accordingly. Hope this helps.

Could be a bad Y cable or something on the channel you're using on the mixer. Try getting another Y cable to test with. Also try plugging the mini disc player into the channel you're trying to run VDJ through to test that channel of the mixer.

I can not use the headphone jack for output on my MBpro unless i go into settings and move the balance over to the left or the right... If its kept in the middle, the sound is too loud, distorted, and sounds like your playing in a tunnel...

Its been this way since it was brand new... I never had it looked at because the only time i needed it was the time i discovered the problem... I was djing aboard a ship in the harbor of Santorini, we had just had a brown out that fried the power supply on my USB mixer... I tried to use headphone out but...

I dont know if anyone else has had this problem with the MBpro headphone jack, or maybe it was the brown out...