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  • July 10, 2012 at 11:11 pm #1007484
    indamix
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    yeaah this transition is plausible 🙂 , bcz playing to people verry different from playing to yourself , and playing to yourself alot leads you to build those not necessarily true GOLDEN RULES that says ” THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE ……..”

    for me this transition is good only when the next track is VERY good and the public already know and LOVE ! its a musical orgasm to party people

    from my experience , the 20-30 sec mix , it can be boring especially to younger audience
    they want to be surprised and entertained and have those moments where audience dont know whats the next track till it hits BOOM

    i noticed like 60-70% get bored of a song after the first played ( verse + chorus )
    and i noticed that if you do a 30 sec transition and people already know whats coming next , they get bored in the transition waiting for the song

    the audience im talking about is the TOP 40 audience

    July 11, 2012 at 1:06 am #1007487
    Steelo
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    He loops the song thats playing then just starts playing the other song. Its plausible but definitely a little cliche. Its not something you want to do every mix or even every set either but it can make quite a dramatic buildup in a peak time set. I often find it used more frequently by DJs playing commercial music as the punters dancing to these sets typically have smaller attention spans so you gotta keep things moving.

    July 11, 2012 at 5:23 pm #1007530
    indamix
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    +1

    July 11, 2012 at 10:16 pm #1007540
    backtothefront
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    Apart from the terrible music (IMHO of course 😉 ), yep, set a loop, fade up the other track and cut on the drop. Defintely wouldn’t do this for every transition however.

    July 11, 2012 at 10:17 pm #1007542
    backtothefront
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    Apart from the terrible music (IMHO of course 😉 ), yep, set a loop, fade up the other track and cut on the drop. Defintely wouldn’t do this for every transition however.

    July 12, 2012 at 4:53 am #1007559
    Shishdisma
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    That video was pretty much just drop mixing 101, he just didn’t do it very well. Is actually really weird that he messed that up, because the track he mixed out of was building with that exact same loop, but with dynamics builds under it. If he had actually done what you’re supposed to do and drop-swapped with the fader, it would have sounded a lot better.

    July 12, 2012 at 7:55 pm #1007600
    sketosomania
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    Shishdisma, post: 23593, member: 1816 wrote: T If he had actually done what you’re supposed to do and drop-swapped with the fader, it would have sounded a lot better.

    Can you tell me what this is.?

    All he did was looped the phrase “dirty bit dirty bit…..” and then dropped “Tonight I’m Lovin you”.Now what I want to ask is did he just mute the 1st track or used some special effect for the transition?

    July 14, 2012 at 2:31 am #1007648
    Steelo
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    He didn’t mute the first track, he just set a loop of it so it will just keep playing that section (the vocals) over and over again and then dropped the other track in (quite poorly)

    July 14, 2012 at 2:23 pm #1007728
    indamix
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    its not about the simplicity of a transition or how stupid it is or how easy from a dj perspective
    its about how people receive it …if they like it so what 😀 ,

    average listeners never care about how its done , but how it sounds .. because they dont know shit about djing and they dont want to know PERIOD .

    a personal advice i give ” NEVER EVER LISTEN TO ANOTHER DJ’s CRITICS about how you should do somth IN GIG, NEVAA!!!!! especially inside GIG ” , but listen for people who pay the tickets and buy the freaking drinks , thats the whole point

    July 14, 2012 at 8:27 pm #1007752
    Steelo
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    indamix, post: 23769, member: 743 wrote: its not about the simplicity of a transition or how stupid it is or how easy from a dj perspective
    its about how people receive it …if they like it so what 😀 ,

    average listeners never care about how its done , but how it sounds .. because they dont know shit about djing and they dont want to know PERIOD .

    a personal advice i give ” NEVER EVER LISTEN TO ANOTHER DJ’s CRITICS about how you should do somth IN GIG, NEVAA!!!!! especially inside GIG ” , but listen for people who pay the tickets and buy the freaking drinks , thats the whole point

    I would half agree because at the end of the day it is about the music, however, your job as a DJ is to know how to creatively mix said music and while the punters may not recognise some poor mixes or mistakes they will notice when you elevate the music to another level with solid mixes. I guess in a way you’re paid to know better than the crowd thats listening. I get your point about the music being number one but if there’s a better way to mix something then you’re not doing the music any justice.
    Your ‘personal advice’ sounds to me like you’re thinking a little too much like a club manager or promoter than a DJ…

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