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It’s not too bad but they are ‘ALWAYS’ on sale. I think I paid £28 for mine.

You can add the LED strips around pretty much anything like frames, boxes, stands… the list goes on. Each individual strip in SoundSwitch can be set to ‘wash’, ‘primary’, ‘secondary’ & ‘tertiary’ so I grouped them together into different types of light output so I get a different show depending on what part of the track is on. I’m going to put three LED strips horizontal across the Kallax set to secondary so the vertical strips do one thing and the horizontal strip do another.

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Awesome setup! What name brand did you use for the LED strips? Also, do you have the link of where you purchased your LED strips? TIA

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It was just standard 12v RGB LED tape with a black PCB. It was five meters of 50/50 for around £12. It’s out of stock now but Amazon and Ebay are full of them and as long as you use 12v LED tape it will work. Here is the stuff that I used: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BJY2XL1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here is the aluminium profile strips: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08F9P5JB9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A few extensions and connectors (depending on what you want to do with them): Amazon.co.uk : led rgb connector

Here was the power supply that i used: UK Plug AC100-240V DC 12V 2A -10A Power Supply Transformer Adapter For LED Strip | eBay But there is more here if you are getting the DMX decoder from the same place: Power Supply – BTF-LIGHTING

Just remember to get a 12v one if you’re using 12v LEDs (the DMX decoder from BTF doesn’t do 5v LED strips).

I think I used a 120W which you can also get in this style: https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-240VAC-Switching-Converter-Transformer-Computer/dp/B092VK6NVW/ref=sr_1_29?crid=IAT9J9Z3UJ91&keywords=led%2Bpower%2Bsupply%2B12v&qid=1637346673&sprefix=led%2Bpower%2Caps%2C247&sr=8-29&th=1

You will need an LED strip power calculation and it will tell you the supply to use. Here is an explanation: https://www.instyleled.co.uk/calculating-led-tape-power/ Here is a calculator: https://lamphq.com/led-power-supply-guide/

You could probably get really creative and substitute the LED tape for LED neon like this by cutting the little connector off and connecting the wires directly onto the DMX decoder terminals https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185117672428?hash=item2b19df83ec:g:FBUAAOSwx~tg9TUy

I’m sure there is something that I missed but I thought I would put it all together for you!

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Thank you. I’m sure you’re going to inspire many more people,

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I hope so. LED lighting isn’t too expensive and if people are competent in LED strip experimentation then £100/$100/€100 will get you a pretty cool lightship and be a fun project to play with.

Either that or for many people a Black Friday sale on some Philips Hue stuff would be suffice!

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Stereo Dreamer, IMO you have the best mixer. What is the weight on the center of the turntables for and where did you get it?

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Outstanding sound proofing, very detailed.

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Yes, there are. What info You want to know?

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I’m looking at getting the genelecs for my Mac as I have the same set up as you for my DJ rig.

How do they sound? I love how compact they are.

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Crystal clear and would consider them “industry Standard” for music production.

Low end could be a bit deceiving as bass don’t sound as strong as the Adam Audio speakers I’ve got for the Dj set up.

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Xone:96 user here! And I previous owned a PX:5. Both are great mixers. I swapped to a 96 because the 4 band eq and extra filter.

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The Vibe was a great mixer, but simply needed some little tweaks/updates to make it perfect, which never came. First Dateq I had was the Styx on the left. The last Dateq I had was an XTC2 with serialnumber 013 (handmade unit).

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Dateq…one of a kind…

I had the Lpm 7.3, 7,4 and the now the styx and the vibe…little to muh?

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In the club where I used to play we had the good old Dateq Apollo, 3 technics tt’s and 2 cdj’s 800’s. Whoa… these were fun times :smile:

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We also had an Apollo. 2 or 3 Technics, 2 DN-2500F’s etc. We had a Pulsar Masterpiece for DMX and several Clay Paky scanners. Okay stuff back in the day.

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Pffffrt, Dateq is a toy compared to my Rodec MX180 :smiley:

Funny how, while technics sl1200 where and international thing, mixers where really local hypes: while the whole of Belgium played on Rodec, The Netherlands sweared by its Dateq mixers :wink:

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I think simply because they were local companies.

Dateq is Dutch (like D&R). Rodec is Belgian. Ecler is Spanish.

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Rodec was also great. I loved the Scratchbox. That was the history, times have changed… we move on…

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Thank you Stereo Dreamer. You are very knowledgeable on various DJ topics and always give respectful and non-condescending responses. Thank you for informing me my friend.

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Actually I see “blackavenger” on here is using a Xone 96. I was mainly interested in the DJ setup since many Xone users run external effects units and to get ideas for my setup. Thanks.