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Ian Owen

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  • August 16, 2014 at 11:29 pm in reply to: First Gig coming up guys. I need some pointers please. #2048771
    Ian Owen
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    Deathy, I’m with you now. I’m using Serato on a DDJ SX. I’m not sure if Serato has that capability. Ive owned my SX for a little over a week now And love it. Still ain’t read the manual yet though haha!!

    Cheers dude

    August 16, 2014 at 10:43 pm in reply to: First Gig coming up guys. I need some pointers please. #2048769
    Ian Owen
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    Dj vintage,

    Thanks again for the tips. I pretty much sort my crates out in their groups as you described. I’ll take on board the pre-mixed tracks as a no go, I’m sure I’ve read or seem one of Phil’s videos explaining to have 2/3 songs Pre mixed prior. But as always with this profession i guess it’s down to personal preference as I’m finding out.
    With regards to my music amount I have a shed load however I am ashamed to admit a lot of it has come from friends hard drives etc. having said that I’m very particular about my genre Deep house/house tracks. I scrutinize some of these tracks on beat port for days before I purchase then and that’s why I know them quite intimately.
    I’m really looking forward to the experience of playing to a bunch of people I’ve never met just to see how they react and more importantly how I react :). Good advice again dude cheers.
    Deathy what do you mean by marker automations?

    August 16, 2014 at 3:29 pm in reply to: First Gig coming up guys. I need some pointers please. #2048754
    Ian Owen
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    Dj Vintage,

    Thank you for so much information on this subject. Your experience really is so valuable to me at this stage of my career.
    How do you break your crates down and how many is sufficient. Do you break your crates down into genres or something like build up/Main bangers and so on. I know this is probably down to personal preference but how do you do it. Obviously your a well established Dj with the know how. I’d rather ask for help and advice than keep scratching my head over the correct way of doing things. It just saves time and will give me time to concentrate on the other fundamentals if Djing.
    Thanks again Dude.

    August 16, 2014 at 2:05 am in reply to: First Gig coming up guys. I need some pointers please. #2048743
    Ian Owen
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    Dj vintage,

    Thank you for the great advice. I’ve practiced some pop stuff tonight and I really don’t like playing that stuff haha. For starters I find main stream stuff Abit cheesy and secondly that shit is hard to mix man. I’ve tried picking songs that are within +\-5bpm but it’s difficult when mixing chart music unless it’s remixed. (Any tips would be great).
    What I did find was playing track 1 all the way through to the final kick and starting track 2 first kick on track 1 final kick. (Really boring if I’m honest).
    I wish I could feel different towards this genre of chart music. I will soldier on regardless to get the experience of playing to a crowd of people I don’t know. Is this normal?

    CamDup Soul

    August 15, 2014 at 3:09 pm in reply to: First Gig coming up guys. I need some pointers please. #2048724
    Ian Owen
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    Randizzleforshizzle, thanks mate for your great reply. I guess the advice I will take from your comments is just follow the floor. Would you recommend doing a few 2/3 pre mixed tracks to give me a bit of breathing space throughout the night? Thanks again dude.
    Djrizki, good point. I’ll dig the mic out this weekend and practice. Question, when I go to local clubs around my area why does all the djs sound the same? Is there a setting on the mic that’s standard? It’s deffinatley not the same dj either haha.
    Dj vintage thanks for re-posting this in the right forum, I’ll ensure I do next time.

    Thanks everyone.

    August 14, 2014 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Stage Name. (Feed back please guys, good bad and the ugly :) #2048637
    Ian Owen
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    Olly, deathy,

    Thanks guys for your feed back. Deathly I think your right bud, I will change it back to the “Dup” just to avoid confusion. I may join the Cam and dup together giving me 2 words rather than 3 which djrizki mentioned earlier.

    Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

    CamDup Soul

    August 13, 2014 at 10:07 am in reply to: Stage Name. (Feed back please guys, good bad and the ugly :) #2048496
    Ian Owen
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    Djrizki,

    Thanks for the feed back. I never thought of the “dub” in that light. No disrespect to anybody on this digital dj forums but I really dislike dubstep.
    Maybe I will look at changing it to something like Cam deep soul.
    Back to the drawing board haha 🙂
    Thanks again rizki

    August 13, 2014 at 8:33 am in reply to: Stage Name. (Feed back please guys, good bad and the ugly :) #2048487
    Ian Owen
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    Dj Vintage,

    Thanks for your pointer. I honestly don’t know why I’ve done that it should be all first letters with capitals. I’ll watch out for that in the future.
    Yes exactly right it’s all about the soul and how music soothes it. (Unless your into thrash metal haha).

    Thanks for your feedback mate

    August 13, 2014 at 8:26 am in reply to: Stage Name. (Feed back please guys, good bad and the ugly :) #2048486
    Ian Owen
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    Younez, thanks for your feedback bud. Yes I was thinking about the dub bit and would people think I just play dub music minimal vocals etc. you know what, then I thought what the hell 🙂
    There can only be one rocket man and that’s Sir Elton John. Shocking Awe would be a pretty cool DnB name I think.

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