@djandyhughes
Mad scientist DJ who has been DJing underground house/techno/alternative since 1985! With a record collection of over 15,000 pieces of wax, Andy specializes in vinyl sets of various styles of old skool EDM! And ALSO takes deep dives in to the new sounds of House/Techno/Breaks - Please Enjoy :)
Donations
**Venmo @Andy-Hughes-14** **CashApp $Denver1234** **PayPal @andyghughes**
Equipment In Andy Hughes' Setup
**DJ Equipment** 2 CDJ2000 Nexus 2 Technics 1200MKII (black) from 1996 each with a Stanton 680HP cartridge 1 Shure SM58 Microphone Sony MDR-7506 Headphones **Mixer** Rane MP-2016 Rotary Mixer w/ XP-2016 expander (extra tone controls incl cut off for the EQ and a crossfader) from 1997 - Booth Out goes to my monitor setup - Main Outs (labeled "House" on the mixer) goes to my soundcard **Monitor Setup** 2 EAW JF-260 (top end) powered by a QSC-MX1500a 2 EAW SB-150 (subs) powered by a Crown Macrotech 5000i 1 Rane AC22 Active Crossover 1 dBX 166a Compressor/Limiter (helps save my hearing and helps me not piss off my neighbors lol!) 1 Rane ME-60 1/3rd Octave EQ **Computers** 1 Lenovo 16" Laptop w/ Intel i7 for Twitch Chat monitoring connected to a Samsung 27" monitor 1 MacBook Pro 16" (2023) with M2 Pro processor & 16 gig ram which does all the audio/video processing and transmits the stream itself. **Soundcard** Focusrite Scarlett 8i18 **Cameras** 3 NexiGo N60 HD cameras Plus I use the Facetime camera on the MacBook Pro **Signal Processing for the stream** The MacBook Pro runs Pro Tools Studio (latest veriosn) where I run the mixer main outs (left & right) in to channels 1 & 2 of my soundcard. I run my mic in to channel 3. OBS only accepts 2 channel audio so I live process the audio in Pro Tools which allows me to add several Waves Plugins to process the audio for both the music & mic. I run several plugins on the mic. For the music I run a combination of the Waves L3 Multimaximizer plugins which allows me to tightly control the audio output level and add some EQ where necessary. I also use the several Waves C1 Compressor/Gate plugins which allows the mic to "punch-in" to the music signal - basically it creates room for the mic signal by dropping down the level of the music every time I talk. This allows me to talk without having to manually drop down the music signal on the mixer. I also use a C1 plugin for the mic as a gate to cut out the background noise from the monitors. Using Pro Tools also allows me to record the stream with CD quality with all 3 channels (mixer L&R + mic). This is cool in the case I decide to master and release just the audio from a stream since I'm able to mute the mic track during the mastering process.