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I can understand your concerns. If you play a really specific genre as a DJ, there are sometimes not that much people in to that music. In your area. But across the world there are lots of people who like that specific genre. So can use the internet to connect to those people. So I would say the same thing to you as Phil said to that 52 year old DJ on the blog. Use the internet to gather followers. You can post mixes on the internet, do a live stream once week. Things like that.

But you should also think about what you want to accomplish as DJ. What are your goals? Do you want to play at parties, weddings or maybe throw your own parties. Do a little research. Are there radio stations in your area that play the music you like. Maybe you can approach them. And if you want to know what students are in? Also use the internet. It depends on where you live.

Think in possibilities, not in impossibilities. Good Luck with it all 😀

Yes of course you can use your Mixtrack Pro. Don’t worry about the other DJ’s; this is your gear and you are going to rock with that. And remember your are playing for the audience, not for the other DJ’s. So I wouldn’t worry about that. Besides you can make awesome mixes with the Mixtrack. Its a very good controller.

If the location you are going to play has a PA ( soundsystem ) you probably going to need rca to XLR or rca to TRS cable. The rca for your Mixtrack and the TRS or XLR for the PA. But best thing is to check this in advance. You don’t want to get there to find out you don’t have the right cables.

I think it also depends on the music you play. I never really looked into DJ pools. I always thought that was more for top 40 and hiphop and r&b. I play deephouse, house and techhouse. And I really like Beatport for that. I think beatport and traxsource have so much more choice in those genres. But I could be wrong.

Maybe someone knows a good DJ pool for deep and tech.

If you can find the music you like on DJ pools then I would say go for it. I understand that you like searching for music. I do too. But is not some “way of the DJ” that you have to do that.  Back in the day I took the train to Arnhem ( a city in The Netherlands ) once every week 30 km from where I live. Then I would visit the 3 record shops there. That was great. But expensive. Now I’m buying music from the same chair I am sitting in now. That is also great, but different, and cheaper. And there is nothing wrong with saving money.You can always invest that in more money or DJ gear. Or groceries 😀

hmm, never heard of that. But I can understand why that might be useful. I think the best place to look is youtube. You have the pioneer DJ sounds show. They have mixes of DJ with the camera above the decks. So you can hear the mix and see what they are doing. I like to watch that for learning purposes. But as you can guess that is with cdj’s But they do have fan submissions with controllers, like this one ………  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ4BGCONLzk&list=PLKoE0JQp0zBc5j5LHIFzcYj6vhuxmP3HX&index=3

I would look for this kind of video’s. But I am not sure of this what you meant.

Yes that happened to me to. Because soundcloud can scan the waveform for copyrighted material. I have been told that this is only for the first track ( but I’m not 100% sure of that ) and that an intro might solve this. Because it makes the waveform different. I don’t think that going pro is a guarantee that it will never happen again. If the artist or record company have a complaint than soundcloud will remove that mix. Even if you have have purchase that track legit. And even if use a tracklist. It also doesn’t matter how long you play that track and if you don’t charge money for your mix.

If you don’t want this to happen then you could use mixcloud. Because there you are obligated to use a tracklist and the artists of the tracks used in that mix will receive royalties for the usage of their tracks. mixcloud also has a lot of traffic, meaning lots of people visit that website. There are also other sites like mixcloud but I don’t know them out the top of my head. But someone else here knows them for sure.

Oh the reason your new mix is still online is because you didn’t use that track any more.

But I like soundcloud a lot. For the same reasons as you. My mixes get more traffic on soundcloud. And I like the look and feel of soundcloud. So this is something that happens when using soundcloud. You are not the only one who has a mix taken down.

Don’t know a site like that.

But don’t you think you limit yourself in finding new tunes? If you start looking for tracks in let’s say A minor on a website that only shows you the tracks in A minor then you will potentially miss a lot of tracks that you might really like. But they are not in Aminor. Mixing in key can be really great but my advice would be to not only select tracks on key. Tracks that are not in key can be mixed. I think the best way is to select tracks that you really like and that are in the genre you are looking for.

But that is just my advice. Or just use Beatport or Traxsource to select tracks you like and then check for the key they are in. You can make the selection in your hold bin or shopping cart then.

I think maybe you also trying to do it to perfect. When mixing 2 tracks sometimes it’s better to wait a few seconds before you try to nudge the tracks. Let them drift apart just a little bit longer. This way it is easier to hear if you need to speed up or slow down. At least this is something I struggle with sometimes.

Example. tracks start to drift a little bit ( just as in your mix at 15 min ) wait, let them drift. Ok now you hear you need to speed it up. Nudge the track faster. Now there in sync. go back to the mix ( eq, faders ) till it drifts again. You know now it needs to go faster. So nudge it up again. I don’t know if that makes sense, but this is how I do it. Otherwise I tend to nudge faster, slower, faster. You get the idea. But that is the beautiful thing of mixing. Everybody has there own little techniques and tricks.

And be patient as mentioned above. Watch other mixes. I really like the pioneer sounds show. It’s got the camera above the decks so you can see what the DJ is doing. I really like this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDtsqgJhAds

It’s DJ Sneak, one of my heroes. Watch the first transition at 13:45 it is not perfect but he takes his time. He is using the pitch for adjustment. But this is not always so easy on some controllers ( like my reloop mixage with it’s short pitch faders ) But you can also do it with the jogs.

Keep practising and you will improve yourself.