Mixing Competition Poll – Give us your opinion please!

1) Would you like to see such a competition? If yes, how often (monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, yearly, other)?

1) Sure, can be like monthly should be sufficient, imo by doing this competition we as digitaldjtips community can get to know each of our own member closely.

2) Would you participate if we had such competition? If yes, would you participate occassionally or every time?

2) Occasionally me personally, god knows Im lazy, cant remembered the last time i just do a mixtape for my own lol

3) Do you think there should be a senior/junior DJ competition or just one big one?

3) Now this is kind of tough one, since its gonna be online thing (aka not a live performance) its kind of hard to judge whos the junior/senior one, unless the competition required with a video thing, not just audio, not sure how it worked in this kind
But not long ago Pioneer had a digital DJ Battle, the categories divided into Wergo Challenge, Controller Challenge, and Digital DJ Challenge
Wergo Challenge is aimed for a beginner, the contestant used the Wergo controller they provided
Controller Challenge is aimed for Intermediate, the contestant used the Pioneer DDJ-SX, that they also provided
Digital DJ Challenge is aimed for the Pro, the contestant used 4 CDJ 2000 Nexus, DJM 900, and RMX-1000

4) What criteria do you think a mix should be judged on?

Megamix should be imo, the easiest criteria, instead of people going crazy with scracthing, jugglin and stuff, (plus we dont know if its pre-recorded scratch or LIVE, well unless its once again a video provided with the entry)
Megamix, for example, you giving out 10 mins to perform, how many tracks you can actually squeeze into those 10 mins slot, the more the better its the point, 10 mins you can squeeze like 17 tracks thats just awesome lol
Of course along with creative mixing, the use of FX, loops and such

5) What kind of reward do you think is suitable for the winner?

Like I said on that other post, an article of the winner in digitaldjtips is more than enough for me, I can proudly display those in my DJ Bio as my reference, and that goes a long way instead of a physical prices

I think it’s a great idea!

1) Would you like to see such a competition? If yes, how often (monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, yearly, other)?

YES! I think monthly would be good as long as the judges had the time to properly assess the entries.

2) Would you participate if we had such competition? If yes, would you participate occassionally or every time?

I would certainly try and enter every time

3) Do you think there should be a senior/junior DJ competition or just one big one?

My initial answer was to have different levels, but then I was unsure quite how you would define each category and whether you trusted people to honestly put themselves in the correct one (cynical I know!)

4) What criteria do you think a mix should be judged on?

Broadly I think there’s two main criteria with a bunch of sub-criteria:

– Mixing/blending (appropriate to the style of music)
– Sound quality (good gain/eq control)
– FX/scratching/tricks (where appropriate)

5) What kind of reward do you think is suitable for the winner?

Obviously the bigger the better (more entrants) but kit is always a good prize. If the DDT guys could flex their networking muscles and swing some radio/club spots/gigs then that’s cool too!

Overall it’s a great idea. Let me know if you need any help setting it up 🙂

GP

1) Would you like to see such a competition? If yes, how often (monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, yearly, other)?

Well the first staging of the competition imo should be monthly. Then maybe others could be added at different times in the year.

2) Would you participate if we had such competition? If yes, would you participate occassionally or every time?

I would participate (or try to participate) most of the time.

3) Do you think there should be a senior/junior DJ competition or just one big one?

I think that there should be a senior/junior separation.

4) What criteria do you think a mix should be judged on?

Well I think we should have an overall judging for the first competition. But if more specific competitions came along, then we could judge on specific criteria.

Other criteria include:
Creativity
Genre variety
Wow factor
etc.

5) What kind of reward do you think is suitable for the winner?
I agree that an Article on DDJT would be great, as it would be something that provides exposure to the winner, as well as allows them to post the achievement on their website/page.

There could be other prizes: T-Shirt, Honourable Mention, A small inexpensive piece of gear, or even *drumroll* to be rewarded with one of the courses for free

(these prizes ofcourse would have to fit the scope of the competition) And at the end of the day, just the thrill of fun-competition would be good as well 🙂

6) I think that the mixes should be accompanied by a video/screen capture of the actual mix being done live, to discourage any foul play.

1) Would you like to see such a competition? If yes, how often (monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, yearly, other)?
monthly contests with the top 5 each month getting to compete in a best of the year event making a mix for live streaming on New Years (5 winners each month x 7 months = 35 competitiors for the best of the year then take the top 3 and have them each make a hour mix to be played on new years eve with the winner getting the midnight set play) .

2) Would you participate if we had such competition? If yes, would you participate occassionally or every time?
yes,every time, every single time

3) Do you think there should be a senior/junior DJ competition or just one big one?
one big one

4) What criteria do you think a mix should be judged on?
transitions, originality, flow, sets must be 30 minutes or less

5) What kind of reward do you think is suitable for the winner?
A full 2 page write up on the monthly winner with pictures and links to their website with the rest of the monthly top 5 get honerable mentions and a smaller write up (1 or 2 paragraphs). most of us would love that kind of exposure to post on our websites and put on our resumes. the year end winner would get a once a month colum on the site for the next 12 months to talk about whatever they want that pertains to the industry.

1) Would you like to see such a competition? If yes, how often (monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, yearly, other)?

you know already, but to officially voice in the poll, yes, and as often as is practical, if I had to guess, bi-monthly.

2) Would you participate if we had such competition? If yes, would you participate occassionally or every time?

everytime I could for as long as it was fun or I was learning something. it would help motivate me. if not everytime, every second time.

3) Do you think there should be a senior/junior DJ competition or just one big one?

I don’t mind either way, personally I would still enter and still get something good out of it even if these vet’ dj’s kicked my ass everytime.

4) What criteria do you think a mix should be judged on?

enjoyability? not sure really. I think perhaps it should depend on the structure of the comp, do we choose our own material or have a list of tunes provided and its up to use to show what we can do with those tunes?… I think probably everyone having the same tunes to work with would make it easier to judge, or if each comp had a theme or genre… and certain set lengths I think should be a parameter also..

5) What kind of reward do you think is suitable for the winner?

winning.

hope that helps some,
Peace