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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
How to Daisy-Chain 2 Serato Boxes
4:57 PM
Each month, The Librarian and I use two laptops and two Serato boxes so that both of us can use the same two turntables and one mixer. Enough people have asked me how to do this that I made this quick diagram.

Note that to do it this way you need a 4-channel mixer, but you do not need any additional cables and you don't need to split the signal either.

On this diagram, "t" refers to the "through" channel of the Serato box.

__mixer__
| |
___________________________________|ch1 line |
| _______________ _________|ch1 phono|
| | | | | |
| | ___________|_______|_________|ch2 line |
| | | ______ | | _____|ch2 phono|
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | _|____|____|ch3 line |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | __|____|ch4 line |
| | | | | | | | | | |_________|
_|_|__|_|__ | | _|_|__|_|_
| 1 t1 2 t2 | | | |1 t1 2 t2|
| serato | | | | serato |
| a | | | | b |
|___________| | | |__________|
| | | |______| |
| | |_____________|
| |_______________
| |
| |
__|______ ____|____
| | | |
| deck 1 | | deck 2 |
| | | |
|_________| |_________|


With this setup, mixer channels 1 & 2 have both line & phono, so DJ #1 can use those as he normally would.

DJ #2 *can* also do vinyl, but he needs to remember that the vinyl is still on the first two channels.

If you *do* want, you can split the phono signals right before the mixer, putting phono 1 also into phono 3 (and phono 2 also into phono 4), but that just weakens the signal and is unnecessary.

Regarding power:
If you have zero power supplies, *both* Serato box USBs need to be plugged into the laptops.

If you have *one* power supply, you can unplug the USB for that box. So, for example, if you do need to switch laptops (e.g. if you have 3 Serato dj's), then it's easy to move the power supply from one Serato to another.

UPDATE: Thanks to the folks on the ScratchLive forum, here's a pic someone else did of a similar setup.

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