Dave Korfman
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Dave Korfman
MemberD-jam, that’s a dreamy position to be in. I have spent rough the last 4 hours trying to get a sidebar widget that will play some demo mixes to work, which it now is. Roughly 3 and a half hours of Googling during that time. Done now though.
MemberI have a workaround solution. I’m using Gigpress for the sidebar and Gigs Calendar for the main upcoming and past shows page. The sidebar display is perfect as long as it doesn’t show ‘City’ or other headings so al good …… apart from Gigs Calendar is currently posting any added dates as blog posts, I have sent a note to the developer..
MemberI agree with you about crate digging but yes, it is so time consuming, a lot of leg work for the occasional result….just think it would be cool if some clever dick had written and algorithm that picked up stuff from around the internerd. Actually, in an ideal word, something that let you play snippets like playing a chart in beatport, then you can just let your ears be the judge while you’re doing something else.
Anyone fancy writing that?
MemberFair one Sumir, nicely put.
@Atom12v. I can see the chip on your shoulder from here. Presumably your reference to the guys ‘with 2 pieces of static noise making vinyl’ was you some years ago, harking back on the past? Either way, it’s irrelevant, your granddaughter however should probably be on youtube. Unless of course her skills and success as a DJ make her become bitter and angry, that would be a poor turn up after all.
MemberSensible, honest post mate. Nicely put.
Chris Collins, post: 14742, member: 476 wrote: Sync is easily justified if you are using your ‘beatmatch time’ for another activity. Even then, I know I personally don’t care how the DJ does it, I came to enjoy the music, not to stare at someone doing their job.
So yes, I use sync at times, but more often than not, I’ll just adjust the BPM read-out to match. I just don’t have the manual speed while beatmatching by ear to confidently load and drop the track on the exact phrase I had planned. Plus, I make decent use of 4 decks, so having one less thing worry about is always a plus. Last thing I want to do is rush to load a track and bump off the one I was playing by mistake because I worried about leaving enough of a window to beatmatch.
Keep in mind, I spend a great deal of time gridding, mapping and hot queuing all my tracks to the point where I know exactly how sync will perform. I’ll never run into the situation where sync does something unexpected (or if it does, I would have found out at the home studio rather than while out playing). This leaves me a lot more time to focus on something just as important as beat-matching. Crowd reading, song selection, phrasing and finding the best drop points.
MemberAnother quick point, or more a situation. What if a person simply can’t beatmatch. They’ve tried and tried but out of sync music just sounds like a mess in their ears and makes no sense. However, when it’s in sync, the person knows what sounds good together and what doesn’t. They also tick all the other gripe boxes like knowing their history, they’re humble etc…and now because of the sync button they’re making a living from giving people a good time. For the beatmatch purists, should they quit?
MemberOne thing that confuses me about this debate. Some of you may remember the debate about vinyl and CD’s when CDJ’s started first being used, how using CD’s wasn’t real DJing and then when some CDJ’s started having beat counters, MY GOD! I remember mates of mine who had always used vinyl saying they would never use CD’s, it was selling out, that beat counters cheapened the art etc. None of them use vinyl any more unless it’s for some special night.
Traktor (although not always 100% accurate unless you do you homewrok, prepping grids etc) reads the current BPM and puts it on the screen. I mean the exact BPM to two decimal places. So what’s OK, having the BPM within one beat? Going in to preferences and changing the setting so BPM doesn’t show up at all? Or is it OK if I read the screen, adjust the tempo and then get the beats in time by ear?
Isn’t this all going to be a dead debate like the one about vinyl and CD’s once software is stable enough that it’s as reliable as using CDJ’s?
These aren’t even real questions really. Time spent on forums, unless trying to find something out, is probably best spent on finding new music, telling your wife you love her, making tea, growing peas….including mine…debate can be addictive though so feel free to respond. I’m off to go and piss on my girlfriend.
February 8, 2012 at 8:57 pm in reply to: How Seriously Do You Have To Take Your Image To Succeed? #14486MemberThanks for all the responses, really appreciate it.
Albin0Panda, I think it’s just your tone mate. I don’t think there is any ill intent in your posts but your comments can definitely be construed as rude. Referring to everyone who made note of what you said as ‘weak-ass peeps’ probably isn’t very wise either. It may simply be a cultural difference but if I called everyone ‘prissy little girls’ when they suggested I offer some constructive criticism they’d probably think I was a cock. Thanks for adding to the debate though.
February 7, 2012 at 5:40 pm in reply to: How Seriously Do You Have To Take Your Image To Succeed? #1002891MemberSo a range of responses as expected. Thank you Todd Oddity and respect to you for doing what you feel like rather than the crowd. And to you Sumir and Tylervulgar.
Albin0Panda, I think you missed the point of the question and I’m not sure if advising me to quit based on a question to bring up a discussion on this forum is very bright. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re really saying and perhaps my question wasn’t clear enough. Questioning what is best in terms of marketing doesn’t amount to worrying about one’s image. I was really wondering whether you are likely to harm your chances of getting booked if you don’t follow the standard pattern of looking stereotypically cool as fuck because without bookings you’ll never be heard and if no one hears you then that’s end of sports. If I send a demo mix with a presskit to a promoter and my presskit contains a left field bio and a good quality photo of me in a dress and I send another with the same demo and a bio about how seriously I have been in to music since day dot and a black and white photo of me on a yacht with the ocean in the background, which one is more likely to get the booking?
February 6, 2012 at 11:59 pm in reply to: How Seriously Do You Have To Take Your Image To Succeed? #14357MemberThanks for the response so far guys, I am a believer in being true but given this is a marketing heavy industry, what response would I get if I went the other way? If my bio read something like this:
Ex dickhead and former model, Dave was in a bit of a pickle after the technology bubble burst and he lost his contract as the face of cleftpalate.com.
This was a terrible blow, things just really hadn’t been the same since his cat died some years earlier but it was these unfortunate events that lead Dave to realise that the only consistent thing in his life had been electronic music. Maybe he was cursed, maybe that would end up in the neighbour’s bin too but he decided to get stuck in anyway.
After several years behind the scenes at the legendary Teflon parties in Madrid in the mid 00’s, Dave has been more recently been having a ridiculous winter in Mexico City, topping the bill at places such as El Colmillo and Area and now it’s time to give the rest of Mexico a turn. From deep to tech to techno, expect a delicious dose of European Flavours before his return to Ibiza via London, Miami and a yet to be announced monster party at SONAR in Barcelona. Come listen and get up there.
(Real names and places changed for now but the legendary parties and the ridiclous winter/future movements are true)
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