[wplug] Linux is going to DJ my wedding

[Robert Coutch]

Don't laugh but I did this once.

I'm a keyboard ( the C# D E F kind, not the QWERTY kind) player
and basically carry around a stereo PA system as part of my rig.

I used a rack box with mixer/eq (Rolls) and power amp (QSC) connected to my 
Linux PC ( Athlon 1.4 GHz running SuSE 7.3)
and a Sony Playstation 2 (DVD anc CD player).
Two Peavey DJ-1115 cabinets also.

XMMS played the MP3 files and wmcdplay took care of the audio CD's on the PC.
The playstation audio went to the mixer and the video to the S-Video in jack 
on the PC's TV card.

I also had an RCA DVD/CD player on hand run to the mixer.

I don't have a lot of CD's so I borrowed a bunch and bought a couple of those 
party mix CD's.  99% of all requests came off those CD's. I got lucky.

I borrowed some stage lights from the band and got a cheap strobe light from 
Radio Shack.  I had a fog machine in the basement from halloween too.

Linux didn't let me down as it performed flawlessly ( which is more that I can 
say about my keyboard playing ), the crowd was young ( elementary school 
crowd) and was easily impressed by the fog machine and the "What a goom" 
plug-in for XMMS.


I say go for it and borrow one of those VGA presentation projectors
for displaying some of XMMS' plug-ins.

-Bob


On Monday 07 July 2003 09:09 am, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> I've decided to set up a Linux media box to act as the DJ for my wedding. 
> I've read several stories of people who have done the DIY DJ with varying
> degrees of success.   My question for the list is:  What is the best sound
> card with good Linux support that I can get?  I plan to pipe the music into
> a PA system, but I want something that will have decent quality, the
> machine I am going to use has onboard sound and I just don't think it's of
> the caliber need for this.
>
> Also, the machine I have is an AMD k2 266mhz (if memory serves correctly)
> with 256 megs of RAM (this is the max it will hold).  I plan on using
> RedHat because I am most comfortable with it.  What would be the best
> desktop environment to use?  I think that gnome might be too big of a drain
> on the system.
>
> Any assistance is appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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