Xavier D

In a house party or clubs, do djs have to play there own remixes that they have created or  can djs just play a set of original song/tracks?

You’re the dj, you play what you want. I guess it’s always better when you play a good remix instead of the original of a famous track, people may be surprised but if they love the original, they’ll love the remix too. It doesn’t matter who made the remix, if it’s good, it’s good.

Playing your own tracks and remixes sounds really cool (and it is) but be careful : clubs have special sound systems, not earphones. If there is anything wrong with eq, compression, panning or something like that in your track, you and the crowd are going to have a bad time.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+mix+and+master+electro

Sometimes producers talk about how they make their tracks, that’s very interesting too :

http://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/186kli/im_madeon_lets_talk_production/

http://www.facebook.com/notes/max-vangeli/house-producers-ask-me-questions-here/393281753978

which is the best software to create a remix of a song., for example pick a song and add your own beats and so on to the song to create a remix?

I’m using Logic Pro (Mac OS) and a few vsts, especially Sylenth1. If you’re a Windows user you should download the demo version of Ableton Live or FL Studio and play with it and then you’ll know what program you want to use… Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Cubase, … it doesn’t really matter I think, since you can make the same things with these (Avicii=FL Studio, deadmau5= FL Studio and Ableton Live I think, Steve Angello=Logic Pro).

I hope you understand me lol, I’m french :p

I’m planning to buy either Pioneer DDJ-WeGO, Numark Mixtrack Pro 2, or Behringer CMD 4A Studio in mid-2014. Which one should I get? Budget isn’t currently a problem for me.

If one of your friends or someone you know has one of them, ask him to play with it a little bit, maybe one day or two, and you’ll find the one you like the most. I have Numark Mixtrack Pro2 and I really like it.

2. I said to my friends I will be the DJ for my school art exhibition in 2015-2016, and as my first question said, I’m buying a DJ controller in 2014, which means I’ll have a lot of time to learn DJing. The question is, is it okay to DJ but you can only do mixing and not the advanced things like scratching?

Well you have a lot of time to learn the basics, it will be good. Also I’m not really good at scratching and I almost never scratch, however I think I’m quite good for a beginner. A lot of famous djs like Hardwell, #1 at Top 100 DJ Mag this year (I’m not saying that I think he’s the best dj in the world lol, that’s just an example) don’t scratch at all but they can make thousands of people dance. Just take your time to learn the basics and practice a lot ! 🙂

First, you should read theses articles about production, there is everything you need to know when you’re about to start producing music :

http://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/how-to-make-electronic-music-with-computer-where-to-start
http://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/whats-the-best-daw-for-electronic-music

Then you can start making music with you computer. There are thousand of videos on YouTube about “how to make this sound/how to make this effect” btw. You’ll learn a lot by reading forums, especially Kvraudio in my opinion. Producers also have their own website with a forum sometimes, Laidback Luke for example (Avicii himself learned a lot by reading Lbl forum). Also, try to remake songs from your favorite artists, could be Deadmau5, DJ Mehdi, Alesso, BeatauCue, Oxford, Tycho… Just try to figure out “how did they do this” you will learn a lot.
Oh and start to read tutorials and stuff about mixing and mastering now because it will take you a lot of time to understand how it works.
That’s all I can say about production.

And if you want to learn more about djing… Then you’re definitely on the right website ! Watching live sets from your favorite djs is also a good thing because you can see what do they play and how they mix. I think you can start learning both right now?

Axwell – Think About It. <3