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all the way or half way ?

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  • March 7, 2015 at 7:45 pm #2152561
    DJ Nostalgia
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    Personally, I think your two scenarios – live gigs & recording mixes – are completely different. When playing live I prefer to give the audience enough of a track to ‘get into’, whereas when recording mixes – presumably to exhibit your skills to potential clients, clubs etc. the object of the exercise is to show your skill at mixing between tracks so the more you ‘ride the x-faders’ the better. Just my personal opinion.

    March 7, 2015 at 8:07 pm #2152571
    Mark-V
    Participant

    Sound advice right there , thanx much appreciated

    March 7, 2015 at 10:40 pm #2152631
    UCF
    Participant

    Just like Nostalgia said it’s almost like 2 scenarios
    When I play early in the evening/ warmup/ background music I like to play full tracks and when it’s more like “main music” I play it for a shorter time period
    learned this from DJ TLM:

    March 9, 2015 at 8:28 am #2153041
    Terry_42
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    Err you have to read the crowd and see what they want. You are entertaining an audience, not yourself, so you should not care about what someone in a video said or what you think is right.
    If you lack crowd reading skills: If everyone is dancing, singing the chorus and going mental it is time to make that track from a 3min track to a 10min extended mix with your hot cue and slicer skills. If the dancefloor is empty mix out as fast as you can… go from there.

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