Daryl Northrop
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ParticipantSounds great! I’ll start getting the set put together and promoting to my friends and contacts. Looking forward to seeing the flyer! Thanks for all your hard work on this. REALLY appreciate it!
ParticipantGreat to hear! Can’t wait to start promoting this 🙂
ParticipantTry this site – it has genre links across the top, and you can sample a huge array of music. WARNING: this site may cause you to go broke 🙂
Participantclub managers shouldn’t have a problem, because all it takes is switching RCA or XLR’s to your controller, unless they are absolutely militant about not having 30 seconds of dead air.
CDJ’s are good, from what I have heard. I’ve never actually used them, personally. I skipped from analog to full digital – never did end up using cdj’s.
ParticipantMy experience is that most DJ’s never speak. That being said, if you DJ for a club or bar, the owner/manager may ask you to make announcements, or shout out the drink special a few times, whatever.
There’s no real “need” for a DJ to speak, unless you want that to be part of your show such as hyping the crowd, etc.
ParticipantMy wife has come with me to my first gig in the DC area. She helped carry a few things, made sure I had all my gear. Helped keep me calm – I was a bundle of nerves 🙂
Really helped!
ParticipantI mixed 3 tracks (two vocal, one music) into my “intro track” for my dj set. Am I using a partially prerecorded set? I suppose I could set up the 2 vocal tracks in my serato sample decks and trigger them manually. Hmmmm……
January 8, 2013 at 5:25 pm in reply to: OT but not really : How do you guys/girls handle relationships as a DJ #34682ParticipantLots of good advice in this thread. From my experience, it comes down to this: you have to take care of you first, before you can be a good partner/spouse/boyfriend to someone else. Part of that is being true to your art of DJ’ing. If you cut back, or curtail your art because of your girlfriend, you will eventually come to resent yourself and her, and that is poison for your well being and for the well being of your relationship.
Be open and honest about how important dj’ing is to you, beyond the money. Tell her how it makes you feel (the music and act of dj’ing, not the attention it garners you). She will hopefully understand and be less suspicious.
Does this guarantee everything will work out and you’ll both live happily ever after? No. But, you will at least be true to yourself and truthful to her.
Participant99.9% of people cannot hear the difference between a wav file and a 320kps mp3. That being said, since the cost of hard drives is going down and the size keeps going up, there is less and less reason not to just use .wav or flac.
ParticipantI see big time DJ’s doing this all the time. Mix Mag’s DJ video’s they have are full of this stuff. If you, the listener, can’t hear the difference, then they shouldn’t be doing it. Period.
What you, the DJ should be doing, is reading the crowd, listening to the music, and getting your next track/sample/fx ready. That matters 1000% more than these DJ’s who appear to be pressing buttons every second they are in the booth even though there is not a bit of change in the track.
ParticipantGood points. But…….
People can spend too much time on chat rooms and message boards, but in many cases they provide the vital social space for budding and experienced dj’s to mingle. I started DJ’ing in Des Moines Iowa in 1992. Let that sink in. There were about 3 people DJ’ing that I knew of. The chance to interact with other DJ”s of different styles and experience levels was very limited.
Beginners ask these questions not neccesarily because they want to be Guetta 2.0 (although some do), but because they want to apply hard-learned lessons to their craft and use the tools more effectively.
There will never be a substitute to playing live, with people present, but often those opportunities are not as plentiful as we would like. The online space can provide a great service by helping create and augment that space.
ParticipantI agree with the others, aim to mix the two songs together during the break. Melody mixing or harmonic mixing sounds effing magical when it’s done right, but it is difficult to do.
Participantadit, post: 34552, member: 2099 wrote: is there any article or video of how and when to play effects? I can’t find any detailed ones.
Effects can be used to get out of a crappy beatmix http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2012/10/beatmasking-5-ways-to-get-out-of-a-terrible-mix/ (I use this often!)
ParticipantLapdance by NERD – Team Scoop Moohmatrap bootyleg remix (thissongissick.com has it for dl)
Don’t hold back – Niezo (remix of the chemical brothers/q-tip collaboration)ParticipantNietzSKY, post: 34417, member: 4553 wrote: If you’ve got the funds, tossing a maschine, f1, or x1 into your set can give your performances an extra kick and I’ve found the crowd loves when you play around with the song and add a live performance aspect. Also, just toying around with fx can be great (assuming you stay on beat). I think I’d fall asleep mixing top40 if it weren’t for traktor and the selection of fx.
If there’s a quieter/lesser energy part of the set, maybe you can try hyping on the mic.
Good idea’s. I like to set as many cue points as possible in a song and juggle the phrasing around sometimes.
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