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  • December 31, 2012 at 10:50 am #34303
    NietzSKY
    Participant

    http://digitaldjtips.com/forum/threads/dj-downtime.7453/ check that thread out. Everyone hates on us fx-whores, but I still believe when done properly it can really add to a set. Mind you, even as a fx-guy, I don’t touch flang or phase =).

    January 6, 2013 at 1:19 pm #34525
    D Homei
    Participant

    If you haven’t played live yet, I would strongly suggest you spend every moment you have watching the crowd and learning to read it properly. It will be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more useful than learning effects. There’s lots of posts abou that.

    Most likely you’ll be so busy with the distractions of a live situation (requests, equipment issues, crowd reactions that force you to change your plan, etc.) that you won’t have time much time to stand around.

    January 6, 2013 at 9:19 pm #34544
    D-Jam
    Participant

    I’ve seen many who are really doing nothing but acting. You’ll see them tweak and play with a channel that’s not in use, or do the “dramatic knob twist”.

    January 7, 2013 at 2:19 am #34557
    Daryl Northrop
    Participant

    I 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.

    January 7, 2013 at 4:37 am #34560
    Tero Nousiainen
    Participant

    I tend to cue tracks a lot when live. I also almost never do anything quick so you can see me having a track playing a minute or more in the background without hearing anything from the speakers (which gives me a room for some trickery in appropriate spots). Other than that I just try to have fun.

    January 7, 2013 at 7:57 am #34569
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I like the “dramatic knob twist”, especially when they are rocking fatboy slim and know there will be an effect coming 😛
    It is like playback singing hehe

    January 7, 2013 at 2:37 pm #34591
    Ess Jay
    Member

    In my bedroom and online sets I can get bored in downtime and start messing around with stuff I shouldn’t, but when playing live, there are constantly people annoying me or talking to me (often the same thing) that I end up not having enough time, and on occasion (although I try not to), I end up pretending to do stuff, just so people think I’m busy and leave me alone. Sometimes it’s just beat matching something I’m not even planning on bringing in.

    January 7, 2013 at 4:19 pm #34601
    gbadegesin
    Participant

    Sometimes, i worry about this game. What do you actually mean by you want to look busy in the booth?
    I actually always wish i had a bit more time cos i am grooving and moving while i am in the booth.
    If you are bored in the booth then it means you are not spinning the music you like. DJaying is meant to be an enjoyment not a sentence where you have worry about what others perceive of you physically

    January 7, 2013 at 7:07 pm #34619
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
    Participant

    Do like a Guetta and jump up and down with your arms up while your levels are at zero.

    January 7, 2013 at 7:11 pm #34622
    Juan Harry
    Participant

    be busy? you are always busy… setting the next tracks, giving nuances to the blending… making mash ups and most important of all watching the people

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