Alix Elder

My advice, if it’s from 18-45 play 70’s and 80’s music, classic rock and new wave. Throw some modern in for the kids, but the adults will love hearing music from their generation, and even today’s young adults will dance to the beginnings of electronic music. 45 is how old my mom is, and she was a teen in the 80’s. Throw in some 90’s stuff too.

I like the name, if you feel it still has a connection to you now, then continue to use it.

I chose DJ Whocca for two reasons. One, the Who from the name, is from one of my more Nerdy pursuits, Doctor Who. The end, is based off of my childhood nickname Pucca, as in from the classic film Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart. I put the two together and you’ve got Whocca. Would I change it? No, I like it because it came from my roots and my passions.

Here’s my two cents. Do not organize any more. Drop it completely. You won’t learn how to do it on the fly if you don’t start focusing on that. Next, start playing your songs and listening to the beats, the four beat measures and so on. Don’t label them just listen. Then everywhere you go, if a song is playing start listening for the beats, the bars, ect. until you start doing it subliminally. I’ve always been able to do it, but that’s because I can play four instruments and read music. Now the real fun begins. Music is math, and if you mix your songs in the correct places and in key, it’s easy. You can mix your song in every two full bars, one bar, one 4beat measure and so on, so that the music feels effortless. Set up your cue points so that they fit in with the bars. Again, all very mathematical. I have a hard time describing it due to the fact that I just do it naturally. Music theory applies here as much as DJing does. If you can let your subconscious DJ focus on the bars and beat, then YOU can focus on everything else and spend less time thinking.

Student, hoping to become an English or Music teacher at a High School level. I’m going to a community college right now and working at a fabric store. Retail sucks. I hope that in time I can get some regular gigs and quit.

Yeah, that’s the only thing I don’t like. It’s kinda like lip syncing. What’s the point in turning the nobs when we all know it’s fake? If you’re not going to do it right, then for gods sake at least try to fool everyone properly. But then again, if you do that you might as well just do it right.

In my personal opinion, mixing is an important skill to learn, but picking the right songs always comes first. Yes it’s good to be able to do all the shmansy stuff to add to the experience, but it’s not really necessary. As a person going from a normal perspective to a DJ’s perspective when it came to music in clubs and such, I had never really cared if the mixing was perfect or not (except for when I discovered that the dj playing one night was playing a prerecorded mix, that kinda pissed me off even at the time). It’s about the crowd’s experience, not the DJ’s. So if you can get the basics down, the rest will follow later. It’s all about learning to read a crowd and how to drop that perfect track, everything else is just delivery to make the experience smoother and more refined. Just my thoughts.

I already picked the Gemini CNTRL-7. Why? Cause it’s the best controller in it’s price range. Fully mappable midi, plus the ONLY controller in it’s price range to have sample cappabilities on the console, a ton of inputs and outputs, and over all a nice construction. It’s not perfect, but for the price range, totally worth it. The only downside I can see is that upgrading from the Virtual DJ LE to the regular isn’t discounted, it’s full price. However, since you can map it to any dj software, you can buy a different DJ software if you don’t already have one. I’m prolly going to get Gemini’s Groove software.

That’s my point. Like I said, it’s win win.