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actionjackson posted:I usually do deep house mixes, but I was thinking of trying out a chill-out mix (stuff like Tosca, Nightmares on Wax, maybe an old Tribe Called Quest track). Is this stuff difficult to mix at all? I ask because it's not made with dj's in mind like dance music is (i.e. having a solid intro/outro to mix in and out of). I'll probably try using Virtual DJ to do this instead of my normal equipment (that way I don't have to burn any cd's either). Generally speaking, the slower the tempo, the harder it is to beatmatch. And yeah, the tracks tend to not be as DJ-friendly with their intros and outros A few things that help: * Using loops to extend the tracks a bit more to give you more time to blend * Harmonically mixing so that if you do have overlapping melodic bits, it doesn't clash These are the things I've found that have helped me with my downtempo mixing (I've posted a lot of them in the DJ mixes thread over the years)
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actionjackson posted:I could try loops a bit. Otherwise I just wait until one song pretty much ends before bringing in the other. Not really mixing, but it's the best solution I can come up with. The only time I can get with overlay is if it has more of an ambient intro with no beat. Even your most basic hiphop or triphop track probably has a 4 or 8 bar intro that could be looped. Obviously much easier to do with software than just straight CD players though
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1karus posted:I recently started playing around with creating mashups and have been looking for feedback/constructive criticism on my work. I tried posting these in the DJ mixes megathread, but was told that wasn't really the proper place. I'm going to hope that this is. I'm using Ableton Live. This isn't the place for it either. Socket Ryanist was right, take this to the producer thread
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1karus posted:You're the second person to tell me to post somewhere else without posting a link to the thread. I already cross-posted to this thread incase this was the one you are referring to. That's the one, shoulda linked it in my previous post sorry
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I've double-timed it from downtempo/dub into dnb, the principle would be the same for dubstep
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Anyway, he said if I'm just starting out I should stick to top 40s if I want to get serious. So Now I feel silly for buying all these cool house cds of beat port What kind of bullshit advice is that? Here's a better question: what do YOU want to play? What music do you like? Play what you want to hear, not what some dude told you that you have to play to "get serious" quote:I also bought some SONY mdr-v700 from amazon! This is an expensive hobby! God drat, I better start doing something to earn all this money back. Don't count on it. Especially when you start buying lots of music. At least investing in a good pair of headphones has other value outside of DJing quote:I got a question for any of you top 40 guys, where can I check out what the top 40 are? Also, where can I also buy the songs. I tired djcity, but I gotta be a real dj to use the digital record pool Amazon and iTunes are a good starting point. Most DJ stores don't carry much major label content (e.g. Ke$ha and the like) so you have to go for more mainstream sources.
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Some day I need to do a serious purge, but for now I'm keeping my collection intact. Somewhere in the range of 1500-2000 records Crappy cameraphone pic:  Yes it's all put away and somewhat organized now, this pic was taken when I had pulled all my classic prog for a party I was playing
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I've posted this several times before but I love my Xone 62, the thing has been a tank for me. Pretty easy to service simple problems too. I've fixed the LEDs on a few of the CUE buttons as well as a short in the headphone jack
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beeps-a-palooza posted:pretty sure ssl is closed off in terms of midi Uh, no you can map midi controllers to serato. The NI Traktor X1 even comes with a mapping xml file for SSL
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Homeowners insurance replaced my laptop that was stolen out of our home which, incidentally, was also the laptop I used for DJing You'd be foolish not to have renters/homeowners insurance if you have a lot of expensive gear. It comes out to a few bucks a month and is usually cheap if you bundle it with car insurance or the like
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shyguise posted:Do you guys have any tricks for on the fly turntable isolation? i was playing at a bar and my needle was doing backflips due to a combination of lovely booth construction and people dancing too hard/close. The ghetto way I've done this successfully is with thick rubber bands wrapped around tall ashtrays to make suspension feet for the turntables. It's tricky as gently caress to play on turntables rigged up this way though because they move and bounce a lot Rivfader posted:No problem. One more thing, the harddrives in the current Macbooks (white and Pro) are no longer super-easily user replaceable because of the new uni-body design. In older White macbooks it was a matter of taking the battery out and then simply pulling the harddrive out and sliding a new one back in, alas no longer. ??? I replaced the HDD in my first gen unibody pro 15" very easily. It's right underneath the back cover panel next to the battery. The only thing that sucked was trying to get those loving torx no 6 screws out e: I ran traktor for years on a stock 5400 rpm drive with no issues. Only reason I upgraded recently was because I ran out of space
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Ah gotcha. I never got the chance to attempt it on my older MBP (pre-unibody) as it was stolen out of my house years ago. 7200rpm has definitely made a noticeable improvement for overall system performance (esp with multitasking and cutting down on instances of the "beachball") but traktor has been rock solid both before and after
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There is a serious art to being a good opening DJ.
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Shameless opening dj plug: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3049995&pagenumber=48#post392673490
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So where are you actually performing at?
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artard posted:On the bus Nice, that sounds like fun. Won't be at the concert though. Not a Bassnectar fan, and I've got my own gig in Denver that night anyways
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Horrido posted:I was checking beatport for some tracks for the first time... and what the gently caress 1euro fee for wavs? They've always charged more for wavs. There was a lot of discussion about the merits of wav over mp3 earlier in the thread that is probably worth a read. In summary WAV: better sound quality, no true tagging support, uses a lot more disk space (about 5 to 10x) MP3: better tagging, smaller FLAC support would be awesome and a good happy medium but Beatport hasn't gotten around to it, not sure what the reasoning is IMHO MP3 is fine at 320k, I'm not one of those hardcore audiophile nerds who insists that they can hear the difference when using oxygen treated 24k gold interconnects or whatever the gently caress. I've play MP3s on a Funktion 1 soundsystem and have never noticed a problem
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No he's trying to figure out if his mp3s which are encoded at 320 were reencoded from a lower bitrate source originally e: you can take any crap audio file and reencode it to 320 but that isn't going to magically make it sound better
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Chitin posted:Well yeah but there's not really a way to test that is there? I mean, other than the file sounding like crap. Yep Chitin posted:Also, this is one of those reasons why you should buy your music. Yep
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pg2011 posted:So you're looking to see if files are a transcode? I use Spek (http://www.spek-project.org/). It's multi-platform, free, and very straightforward. Neat!
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32 bar loops are a godsend for piss breaks
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The Dark Wind posted:Alright, some more questions for you guys. As a DJ who's new to the scene, you usually get opening gigs and the like, which are a lot tougher than the main slots (since you just get to play awesome banger after banger). When you're opening, what kind of stuff do you play? To be more specific, if you're opening an electro house night, would you stick to all electro even if you're opening (I imagine not), or would you stick more with tech house, progressive house, and stuff along those lines, and slowly ramp yourself towards electro? I've been slowly getting very into tech house, and if that helps with opening gigs that would be drat awesome, I'm just not entirely sure what's appropriate and what's not. A few thoughts related to the art of the opening DJ. 1. cardinal rule: don't play the headliner's tracks. That's like the biggest faux pas you can commit 2. play a bit slower than you normally would. Even 1 or 2 bpm can help 3. play genre(s) that are complimentary but not necessarily the same as the headliner. 4. keep it in your pants. don't bang it out before the headliner goes on and steal their thunder. It's ok to ramp up a bit towards the end to build the anticipation but within reason There's a local DJ around here that rumor has it has had his cd wallet thrown out of the booth by the headliner on two separate occasions as an expression of how awful he was being as an opener. don't be that guy
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Oh yeah, good call on the volume too. A good stage manager will be keeping an eye on it too and making sure you're leaving plenty of headroom for the headliner to fill in On the topic of closing sets...One of my favorite gigs I've ever played was a sunrise set at a mountain party two summers ago. DJ before me was playing dark evil techno, so I went tech house -> downtempo -> doubletimed into DNB -> downtempo -> house over the course of 3 hours. Played the DNB right as the sun was starting to peak over the mountains Really wish that recording had turned out 
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For crowds that may not be as familiar with you personally, looking like you are having fun definitely helps Of course, I usually have friends at gigs when I play so that makes it easier. Try and con some of your friends to be there for moral support if you can
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The Dark Wind posted:So I'm playing my first serious bar gig in the middle of August 16. Gonna be playing mostly dubstep, as it's a DnB/dubstep night, and I'm already feeling a little anxious about it. The guy who's running it is having everybody playing on his CDJs and Technics 1200. I personally have never burned a CD for DJing, nor do I own any records, as I've only really mixed exclusively with controllers up to this point. I don't own a Serato Box either (which I'm trying to get). I'll admit my beatmatching skills aren't perfect, so I'm a little worried about this gig. Anyone wanna throw some general pointers, and maybe some specific advice regarding moving from a program like Serato Itch to CDJs? Hell any advice on CDJs in general would be cool. I'm gonna have a couple of chances to mess around with the guy's decks, so I won't be going in completely cold, but I don't want to make an rear end out of myself either, so I want to brush up in these next few weeks' time and get my skills as best as they can. Hell, I'm probably gonna sell the NS7 and get some real decks and an SL2 or something. Any reason you can't just plug your laptop into one of the channels on the mixer and use your controller as normal? This is pretty common.
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Pen Expers posted:Edit: Also, am I kinda screwed by buying duo instead of pro? I believe there is an upgrade path there, at least on the software side. Bigger question is whether you will eventually be limited by 6 ins/outs versus 10
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oredun hating on Allen & Heath again. Shocking! Some of your complaints are valid. The 62 design is pretty old by now. But hyperbolic statements like this oredun posted:the xone 62 is an outdated dumb piece of poo poo according to most people that have one/use one. doesn't earn you any credibility. "most?" vanilla slimfast fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jul 27, 2011 |
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Splinter posted:Anyone have any advice for dust-proofing gear for burning man (playa proofing)? I'm planning on bringing a MBP and an S4. For the MBP I'm definitely getting a hardshell case, but I think it might be a good idea to get something to cover the keyboard and maybe the trackpad and screen as well (since that's where most of the holes in the case are). Anyone have recommendations for this sort of protection? My advice? Don't bring your gear in the first place. No matter how much "dustproofing" you do, that playa dust is still going to get in there Burn some CDs and be done with it
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The Dark Wind posted:If you're in the US, almost no one uses Traktor. May be true where you are but around here (Denver) it's about 50/50 with a lot of long-time Serato users moving over to Traktor. That's in the house and techno community, at least. I'm sure that it still dominates amongst the hiphop and indierock DJs
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vanilla slimfast posted:I'll be doing another live audio/video broadcast from Beatport's Denver HQ this Friday the 29th, from 3pm to 6pm MDT (that's 5pm to 8pm Eastern, 2pm to 5pm Pacific) Starting now!
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Saucy Slit posted:(checking ur live stream Vanilla, chill musix)! Thanks! Archive video is up now: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16316805
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TheWevel posted:What do you think of that DJM2000? It's a beast of a mixer. Really not much different of a feel than an 800/900 other than all the fancy touchscreen effects and such that I didn't use anyways.
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geeves posted:What's a decent / inexpensive USB sound card? My soundcard on my PC is shot and that PC is also 11 years old so it's time to get an iMac next month. So for now I'm just on my 13" MBP with no linein. I'd go for the NI Audio 2 quote:The 62 holds up very well - I've had mine 8 years (bought it used) serviced right when I bought it to make sure it was all good (it was) and once to fix some cue lights and just a general once over about a year ago. I've used it at clubs many times and have multiple people use it and never heard a complaint.  OG KUSH BLUNTS posted:The 2000 just look like a giant game gear, I heard they discontinued it though since no one bought it. Wouldn't surprise me. Seems like Pioneer is pushing the 900 as their flagship model Only place I've ever seen or touched a 2000 is at Beatport's office and Beta Nightclub (hell, might have even been the same one)
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geeves posted:Can this go from my record out -> Audio 2 -> USB on Mac and record with Audacity? edit: derp, no you can't. Audio 2 is outs only (no ins) You'd need the audio 4 for that IIRC
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ZeldaLeft posted:House/dubstep DJs: What makes a great sunrise set? What kind of story are you trying to tell? What moments in the music (huge drops/jumpoffs, giant anthems, epic breakdowns, lyrics, crazy mixes, etc) are you trying to sync with the what positions of the sun in the sky? This is the set I played at sunrise at Apogaea (the CO regional burn) back in June http://soundcloud.com/vanillaslimfast/bones-sunrise-on-the-whomp-truck-2011-06-10 I tend towards pretty but moody stuff
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If I were starting over now I'd buy a 92 (or 42) over the 62. I'm surprised they are still making the 62, honestly, given the improvements in the designs in the later models that basically render it obsolete edit: oh, looks like the 42 only has one filter (instead of two), that's a dealbreaker if you mix with the filters instead of the EQs
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fordan posted:OK, stupid beginner time. This book might be useful. Written by a guy who works for NI, no less http://www.amazon.com/Laptop-DJ-Handbook-Techniques-Performer/dp/1435456645/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312917460&sr=1-1 edit: and of course there is the foundational book that *every* DJ should read http://www.amazon.com/How-DJ-Right-Science-Playing/dp/0802139957/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312917496&sr=1-1
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Old Man Pants posted:I know this is from PAGES back but please tell me this story. Neither. S__ Th____. Rumor has it that one of the aforementioned headliners was Steve Lawler on the rooftop of Vinyl
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Horrido posted:I was thinking, traktor works as plugin in ableton? you could have it reWired and do all the crazy poo poo with ableton while actually mixing with traktor (like beatmaching, a thing that i found hard to do in albeton) Nope. Traktor is a standalone program. Ableton did partner up with Serato to allow you to hook the two programs together kinda how you are describing. It's called The Bridge: http://www.ableton.com/thebridge I've never tried it out so I can't speak to exactly how it works or how well it works
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Diplomaticus posted:Anyone know of some good videos that show a decent DJ playing a live set, but where the footage focuses on their hands (i.e. what they are doing with their equipment) and their computer monitor? http://ustream.tv/beatport There's a few videos of me on there in the archives  edit: doesn't really show the computer screen though vanilla slimfast fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Sep 21, 2011 |
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