Dominic Souza-Larimore

shr3dder, post: 18346, member: 1473 wrote: I think hitting the eject button on the wrong CDJ three times in one night was pretty bad.

Actually probably the worse was playing a gig at a massive festival after party… It was my first time using an S4 (the previous DJ was using it and I told him just to leave it and I’ll play off that as opposed to the CDJs) I spent the first 20-30 mins of my set one level off on the EQs… So I was using the highs as gains, mids as highs, lows as mids and the filter as the bass (I think that all makes sense)… Now this place has a terrible sound system and I was a little bit bent so it was kind of understandable…. However having it pointed out to me by Diplo & the guys from Magnetic Man took a while to live down.

wow yeah thats pretty brutal. reading all these stories makes me not want to drink while im on the clock or about to clock in for a dj set. I just got done listening to afrojacks set from ultra music festival, and after introducing himself with his voice gone and saying how hard he partied that week, he proceeded to train wreck the first twenty minutes of his set until lil jon came in to save his ass. he couldnt even get his beatmatching down and was playing the tracks he was cueing up at full volume! lol. :confused:

im sure thats everybodys plan (to not drink on the job) but i think the peer pressure eventually gets to everybody, especially when they get comftorable with their mixing. im sure being in the drinking/clubbing atmosphere adds to the pressure as well. but ill do my best not too and keep in mind that I have a responsibility to the people and everybody involved to maintain my composure during a set.

2SHAE!, post: 16861, member: 1459 wrote: Funny you say that, I was doing the same thing. I never played online poker seriously, because at first it was just a hobby (like DJing) and I was always a much better live NLH/PLO player. Foxwoods was also 40 minutes from my college so it was convenient enough to take advantage of alot of the tourists that came in daily. I was grinding 60-70 hrs/week and had limited expenses since everything most of everything was comped. After I graduated I moved further north and now its hard to find a consistent game so Ive been focusing more on my DJ skills. And I gotta say, IMO DJing is much more enjoyable, and not nearly as stressful as grinding it out, day by day at the tables, in the same seat watching the sun go up and down. Now if Im lucky I get to watch the sun come up when Im in the booth.

yeah man poker is literally such a grind. after 4 years of playing online it lost that fun feeling. I stopped caring about the money and wanted nothing more than to get out of my office and into the real world. and even though im working a 9-5 bulls**t job currently, im still much happier than i typically was playing poker. thinking about it I really only enjoyed my time playing poker after i got a big score from playing mtts (multi table tournaments for those not familiar). And that wasnt very often lol.

I cant wait till I can start dj’ing semi professionally and start making money back on this hobby I really enjoy. 😀

thanks for the all the helpful tips. ive been practicing dj’ing alot more rather than getting caught up in all the other distractions. ive even imitated what i would play if i were doing a live set for some of the bars/clubs out here. needless to say, the first few mixes were pretty horid lol. the scene out in honolulu is all top 40 with a splash of house, progressive, and dub. so ive been having a hard time mixing the pop top 40 stuff. but the mixes started to improve over time and im getting more confident to throw myself out there into the live scene.

but i know alot of my basic skills are not up to par yet to play live or be able to get me a gig. also the house party scene is all but non existent out here too. its a small island with an old population, every house party gets shutdown within the first hour. so house partys are kinda out of the question.

but i know some promoters in the club scene out here so I may be able to get me some starter gigs right off the bat. cant wait 🙂

made the switch, and while im still figuring out the mapping (palm to forehead), i think i am going to like traktor alot more. i already like how much more simpler the UI is to read. not to mention the waveforms, decks, browsers, effects etc all feel and look alot more professional. idk if thats the right word but thats the best way I can describe it.

I think with VDJ the creators of the skins get too carried away with the visual design and adding as much as possible into their window that it gets way too clustured and takes alot more time to navigate around. I was surprised at how much less work my eyes and brain have to do to find exactly what im looking for with traktor.

thx for the heads up bro

good point hessler. theres def no one size fits all when it comes to dj software.

but i was curious because everybody else kept preaching traktor n serato, and ive only been dj’ing 3 months now so i dont really know he good from the bad. thx tho

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thx synthet1c. i aggree the learning curve in vdj is quite steep, esp for a noob like me it took at least a month or two to work out all the kinks. i was surprised to hear other softwares work that well right out of the box. def something to consider for me

guess i should also mention ilthe problems had with id3 tagging in vdj. after sorting thru and tagging 400+ songs, i still had to manually update the id3 tags in vdj. there are tools n tips to supposedly help this problem butnone of which i could figure out. but i also hear other softwares have the same problem. if not worse.

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