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2StepSteve = 2 step garage = dance (albeit 15 years ago), should know better than using over driven speakers 
Need to burn flac to CD for DJing - any advice
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Still carrying the torch for 2 step garage, barely. I do think it could be time for a nick change sooner or later 
genuine question... have you ever been to a 'proper' club ? not one that plays chart hits to yobs but one of the many clubs of the noughteens that take pride upon their sound ?
Unless the club is actually 6 people sat in a room with a pair of studio monitors at the front it's just too loud an environment to be able to hear differences between bitrates once you get past 'ripped off youtube' as the quality level.
If DJs cared about audio quality they would still be playing vinyl.
Ah yes, that frequency limited format that degrades each time it's played
Yes of course we are, even more so when playing a Funktion-One system.
What made you think us DJ's are not bothered about the quality of our music we play out
Because most people (not DJs) go to clubs get drunk lol. The speakers are overdriven and clip so badly that you would never hear quality anyway
Wrong type of clubs you most go to then, i am on about venues that people go to for the purpose of real dance music.
Right, but that just means they have an emphasis on quality audio that others lack. It's not going to make a large system have anywhere near the fidelity you'd need to be able to hear different bitrates of music once it got past "decent enough".
That's not true, people take drugs as well... and still manage to complain about the sound the next day if it's rubbish. Any club where people go to acts/DJs rather than places like Liquid and Oceana, people do care about sound. People don't go to places like Fabric and pay £20 on the door and a tenner a drink to get drunk.
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First of all are you going to be using CDJ's?
If so use cue cards (SD cards essentially) if possible, so you can jump to certain points in the track.
Make sure the mixer is in Stereo not Mono.
With regards to what format, WAV or FLAC is good.
320kbps MP3 is acceptable.
You might have to redline the **** out of it, there is a loudness war and louder is better
Depending on genre/where you're performing, if it's dance music then please don't play animals.
I am just going to be using two CD players and a mixer, the music is heavy metal.
What do you mean 16Bit 44.1/48khz?
Just burn as a standard audio CD format. Most media players have the ability.
Indeed. I go to Fabric every fortnight and have never had tinnitus after, even when spending all night in room 3 which has immense sound for the size of the room. Spent a couple hours in a Walkabout or Oceana and my ears are ringing for days after.
A properly calibrated system in a proper club and you can pick out the instruments and nuances in the music rather than just a brash mishmosh of sound.
The other problem with somewhere like Walkabout or Oceana is people try to talk over the music all night, and there's nothing like people shouting in your ear to give you ringing ears. Music's there to be heard, not talked over!
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Two random questions; I have had to abandon flacs and go for other methods of obtaining the tracks. The tracks that I have managed to get are 320kbit, 320kbit is ok, but is there a way to verify that the quality is efficient rather then just low bitrate lossless, in other words to make sure that it is actually 320kbit quality. Also when I burn 320kbit onto a CD will it actually be 320kbit on the disc or will it be upscaled to CD bitrate size?