2SHAE!

Cool mix. you’ve really nailed the effects on your controller well. Critique-wise, one thing you should work on is the timing of beatmatching transitions in relevance to song structure. I find it important (especially in house music) to beat match for 8, 16, or 32 bars depending on the structure of the specific song. In my experience, commercial house music typically runs in intervals of 16 bars (64 beats), so dropping 1-beat of the incoming track on the 1-beat of the track your fading out of, will produce a better timed beatmatch. By the way how did you upload a video to youtube thats more then 15 minutes long?

BigChipsHI, post: 18164, member: 853 wrote: yeah man poker is literally such a grind. after 4 years of playing online it lost that fun feeling. I stopped caring about the money and wanted nothing more than to get out of my office and into the real world. and even though im working a 9-5 bulls**t job currently, im still much happier than i typically was playing poker. thinking about it I really only enjoyed my time playing poker after i got a big score from playing mtts (multi table tournaments for those not familiar). And that wasnt very often lol.

I cant wait till I can start dj’ing semi professionally and start making money back on this hobby I really enjoy. 😀

I cant imagine doing it for even that long. I got sick of it after 6 months, and after a while, win, lose, or draw, it became depressing. I think it would of been a better experience if I was on the ride with someone else. You would think making 10k over a summer would make anyone happy, but in a way, it wasnt worth abandoning friends, and missing most of my senior year at college. Either way, I can still play cards with friends and have a good time, but with DJing, I feel that I would have fun doing it both professionally, and part time on weekends

Id say it depends on the venue. If they have everything in place, and all you need to bring is CDs or a midi controller, then 150 is good for a 4 hour set. However, if you have to supply the venue with speakers, lights, mixer/TT/Controller, and your entire mobile set up, you could fairly get 200-250. Another scenario I know alot of people use is getting a guaranteed base pay of, say, 150, and a promotional bonus depending on how the night goes. Before the event make a deal with the management saying, if ‘X’ amount of people show up, or the venue makes ‘X’ amount of sales, then you get paid an additional bonus at the end of the night. This way, if you bring in say, 40 people, and fill the venue, you can get a bonus for a good show, and good sales to the bar. However, even if no one shows up, or you trainwreck the entire night, you’re still guaranteed the original 150.

also….I tend to do alot more cue jumping then using effects in transitions. alot of hip hop has no intro that you can easily beatmatch the outro of the song on the opposite deck. jumping cue points works well for hip hop mixing, you just have to know your music down to the smallest details (bar/beat counts, EQ qualities etc)

I keep mine organized by month. since alot of music i download are also classic tracks, all the new tunes i download in the current month are not forgotten by putting them into current month playlists. through most of the month i will only listen to the songs in the current months playlist, for both enjoyment, as well as learning them. By months end im typically ready to separate the tunes into both DJ playlists, or my Unqualified list (songs that wouldnt go so well with what ever crowd your dealing with).

That is also true. (This is a top-40 venue remember) By playing more variety of music early, I can find out when building up the set, whether I should be playing more of, say…

Rap-style hip hop (Notorious BIG/Jay-Z),
Club-hop (Flo-Rida/Pitbull),
Pop (Katy Perry/Nicki Minaj….weak lol)
etc.

Typically Id play ALL the chart toppers at peak hour (1 1/2 hour before closing), no matter how they reacted to these early tunes, simply because I’m confident the majority of the venue goers would perfer to hear these. After doing this, Im confident ill have a full floor, and at this point (45 minutes before closing), I can get away with playing newer music that has yet to reach the charts, and some of my own personal style (Prog house/Electro/Mashups), and of course ending the night with a smasher.

BigChipsHI, post: 10450, member: 853 wrote: .

My story was that I used to be a professional poker player for a solid four years, and at the time I was living the dream. I worked from home, made my own schedule, took a ton of vacations, traveled, was my own boss, challenged myself, supported myself, and made great money doing it. Alot more than I ever could have imagined with only a HS degree, being a prior restaurant employee, and making more money than friends and family members working their tails off.

I thought I had it made and would do that for the rest of my life. Just cruising along, living the good life. But long story short… I was young and naive. I got tired and bored with it which eventually lead me into “early retirement.” Eventually I ended up moving back home and having to get a real job.

Needless to say I hate it 😮

Just looking and keeping my eyes open to make my next move now 😉

“if your not living your own dream, then your living in someone elses”

Funny you say that, I was doing the same thing. I never played online poker seriously, because at first it was just a hobby (like DJing) and I was always a much better live NLH/PLO player. Foxwoods was also 40 minutes from my college so it was convenient enough to take advantage of alot of the tourists that came in daily. I was grinding 60-70 hrs/week and had limited expenses since everything most of everything was comped. After I graduated I moved further north and now its hard to find a consistent game so Ive been focusing more on my DJ skills. And I gotta say, IMO DJing is much more enjoyable, and not nearly as stressful as grinding it out, day by day at the tables, in the same seat watching the sun go up and down. Now if Im lucky I get to watch the sun come up when Im in the booth.