Posner cueing task Puns

I play on a 10ftx5ft on a regular basis in my complex, and the authorities haven't maintained it too well. The baize cloth keeps getting pimples because of the buildup of the fibres. A lot of kids don't treat it too well and we keep brushing rubbish off it. We complained to the authorities once but they haven't done much.

Anyway, the real thing now - I haven't been able to cue in a completely straight line. I am pretty sure it's my technique that's flawed and I'm trying to fix it. Many a times, the cue ball never goes exactly where I want it to. I don't know if it's more to do with my technique or the condition of the table. Do you have any tips I can use?

What’s up gangg. I’ve attempted to use the MK2 as an audio interface for DJing using both djayPRO (iPad) and Ableton. A problem I’ve found is that when trying to pre-cue something through channels 3/4 (headphones) the sound also gets routed to 1/2 (main output). So basically, I can’t play audio out to a crowd from the main outputs and have another channel of audio go only to my headphones for pre-cueing.

Not sure if this is a bug or what, but it just doesn’t make sense to me at all. As an audio interface, the audio should get routed accordingly for channels 1/2 and 3/4 if set that way.

I’ve messed around with settings on the MK2 and haven’t had any luck either.

In DJ mode on the MK2 pre-cueing works as expected.

So, I've been playing for around 3 months flat out. Its going pretty well and I have seen a lot of progress. The only thing stopping me from improving is my ability to cue straight. I'm noticing that there is slight shake in my cue from side to side. Does this go away with time? I've tried correcting my grip, my stance and my bridge but still seem to sway

A couple days ago, I was engaging in reckless gun usage out in the Badlands back at that place where you rescue Saul, to go hunt down the Problem Solver. As I was wildly emptying it to gawk at its insane rate of fire, I noticed something: Along the last third of the magazine, you hear a progressively louder rattly clack sound each time it fires until you hit the bottom of the mag. You're hearing the magazine spring rattling about as its tension eases from a low mag.

And just now as I was playing, I semiconsciously cued in on that sound and reloaded with 2 rounds left in my Ajax just now.

Anybody have any tips when recording by yourself to optimize cueing tracks to record so you can comfortably begin to play in time?

Edit: I do use a metronome count in, but my problem stems from how the count starts when I press record and not when I’m ready to start counting in, if you get what I’m saying

Here's the situation. I have a friend who likes to fall asleep to Friends on her iPad at night. Right now she watches it through a streaming subscription, but it's literally the only thing she uses the service for.

If she just purchases the show from Apple, do the episodes stream one after another like on streaming, or do you have to manually select each episode to watch it. I don't want her to shell out the money if it doesn't keep playing episodes continually

After I read Posner’s book, it kind of turned me off of JFK theories for a while, until I relatively recently learned of a couple of flaws in his book. For starters, he never confidently nails a motivation for LHO killing JFK. Secondly, he notes that when Oliver Stone was filming “JFK” he needed to use special effects to create the proper smoke effects for the grassy knoll shooting because none of their guns would create the smoke effects they were looking for. A clever argument against the notion of a knoll shooter, until I found out that there were several cigarette butts found behind the picket fence. And anyone who has spent enough time around smokers knows that cigarettes create a LOT of smoke, and very easily created the smoke people saw that day. I don’t think Posner ever addressed that. Needless to say that I’ve been turned on to the theories again.

I’m asking for recommendations on books that everyone should read in the asssasinstion, as well as articles/books that take a critical approach to Posner’s book.

I've been working on cueing straight up and down the table at a medium pace, slower pace, and draw shots.

For slow medium pace, I'm usually within 1/4 - 1/3 of the CB coming back to my right side, hitting the tip. Draw shots are terrible, I can miss my tip by a full or two from the rebound.

How much more accurately should I get? Of course I'd like it to be zero, and it happens 2 or 3 out of 10. Maybe 1 or 2 don't hit the tip, and the CB passes by.

How do you guys make sure you're cueing straight? I find my backhand is the cause to be offline a small amount. Any other suggestions?

I remember watching this clear as day. Mike Posner got his start on X-Factor and sang an original song in his audition. He had a daughter like am I crazy?? I can’t find any trace of this whatsoever.

Why do the vast majority of DJs using the Xone 92/96 series mixers only have one channel at-a-time (usually the one sending the track that is being mixed in) cued, instead activating the cue button on all channels that are outputting signals that they wish to sample? I personally prefer to activate the cue button for any live channels I want to send/sample in my headphones rather than using 'Cue/Add Mix' knob on the 'Monitor' section of the mixer. The main reason for this simultaneous cueing of any channels currently sending signal out is so that I can monitor whether or not the mix is clipping pre-fader. I've been told by some veteran techno DJs in my circle that live-cueing every channel outputting a signal is both inefficient for work flow and a faux-pas among DJs who prefer analogue mixers. However, I don't understand why that is the case?

From what I understand, an elliptical stylus goes deeper into the grooves of the record and picks up a richer sound (wider range of frequencies), but is more prone to jumping out and wears out faster. A spherical stylus has better tracking, but not as rich sound and lasts longer. Also is if the record is old or dusty, a spherical stylus won't pop as much as an elliptical stylus.

My main question is, if you do a lot of back cueing, will an elliptical stylus actually wear the record and the stylus out more than a spherical stylus, precisely because it is tracking so deep?

This thread goes into some detail and this post is helpful but doesn't address my question specifically:

> Conical or Spherical. This tip shape resembles the tip on a ball point pen. Because of the symmetrical design, needles with conical design are the least costly to manufacture. However, they also produce the lowest level of fidelity and the greatest record wear. This is because the contact area of the diamond is restricted to two very small points, one on each side of the diamond. This places the entire downward pressure (commonly referred to as tracking force) on the two very small areas of contact, resulting in increased record wear. Conical needles are also not conducive to accurately retrieving the smaller groove modulations that represent the higher frequencies.* Conical tipped needles are best used when ruggedness and economy are the deciding factors. This type of stylus cut also minimizes the amount of surface noise, ticks, and pops that you will hear and is a good choice for those who are playing very old and beat up records.

> Elliptical. Also called bi-radial, this tip shape presents a knife edge to the record. This very popular tip shape provides a good balance between performance and cost. In the elliptical cut, the diamond's contact area is elongated vertically and made more narrow front to back. The greater vertical contact area distributes the tracking force over a larger area of the groove wall. This results in less pressure per square inch — hence less record wear compared to a conical shaped tip. The narrower front to back facing provides the diamond with a shape better suited to recovering smaller high frequency* groove modulations.

> * smaller groove modulation = deep in the groove (pit) = high frequency > * bigger groove modulation = top of the groove = bass frequency

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