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ParticipantFacebook Groups can be a good option as well as you can add your friends to the group without a request and they must navigate to the group to remove themselves. We use a group to keep everyone updated about our monthly party. It also now functions as a hub for other EDM night promoters to share there events in as well (as long as they’re not the same night as ours haha)
ParticipantDon’t mix out during the verse and work on your scratching. I just saw an international hip hop Dj the other day do a set that had 0 mixing, all his transitions were quick cuts or scratches into the next track…
Find what works for you that keeps the rhythm going without drastic jumps in volume. When I play hip hop I like to mix the hook of the outgoing track with an instrumental intro or loop from the track that’s up next.
ParticipantChecked out the event…pic looks good!
ParticipantStart your own night with a few mates… If each of you have even 10 friends that’s enough to make a small venue look lively. Less busy venues will be easier to work with. Not sure how it works in your part of the world, I know in North America (NYC, Toronto especially) the venue will expect you to pay to host your night there, but here in Bangkok we generally take a cut of the bar sales or the door cover charge.
The money will be pretty small if there is any at first, but you’ll be able to play the genres you love and if you stay positive, hit the streets and meet the people you can build your monthly party into an event that is well known in your town!
ParticipantIf it’s a friend of yours, the first set for free is a good gesture. How large is the class? Does your friend get paid a flat fee from the gym or does he rely on how many people turnout for the class? An alternative to a $50 flat fee is 20% of what the class takes for the night.
ParticipantThese guys just posted a pretty good review of a few different Dj pools: http://goo.gl/bGqpb
ParticipantLoop roll is awesome! I rarely use it in my live sets, maybe once or twice a night, but it’s really fun and the times I have used it for creating a build in an instrumental section or adding some spice to vocals the crowd has loved it. I play a lot of Hip Hop & Reggae as well… a lot of it from well before the time that producers started having computer regulated tempos, so for some tracks, grabbing a loop towards the end of the track is the only way to mix in something more modern with a rigid tempo. Cue points help to maintain proper phrasing of tracks with different length builds/drops/breaks even if you accidentally bring the next track in late or it’s something new that you’re not as familiar with yet.
As with all the effects, less is usually best. As for the crowd noticing the loop at the end of an outgoing track, unless it’s early in the night (crowd not properly lubricated yet) or the loop has been going on forever only the other Djs in the crowd will notice…
ParticipantD-Jam, post: 40266, member: 3 wrote: I always found it funny for as much money as those Pioneer mixers cost, they couldn’t handle wear and tear.
True, but in their defence many are seeing hours of action most night of the week. I host a party at one spot where the vestax mixer is almost as old as I am and still works great! They just don’t build tech tough like they used to haha
ParticipantD-Jam, post: 40058, member: 3 wrote:
I still love being able to go play with just a laptop and a midi control. No more worrying if the club’s gear is working or not.Truth! All you need is a working channel on the house mixer and you’re good to go, no dealing with broken faders or broken meters
ParticipantDon Anderson, post: 39787, member: 10293 wrote: Chart/pop + oldies for a wedding return (married abroad party for the people not there)
When I was asked to Dj a family wedding I took a listen through the billboard 100 and just picked a few tracks. I don’t support piracy, but if you don’t want the hassle of searching for each billboard track to preview I hear that certain nefarious individuals post torrents of the entire 100 every few months… If you find tracks you like in the torrent it’s easy to just purchase the ones you want to play out
ParticipantHere’s Trap mix:
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ParticipantI usually plug my VCI 380 into one of the spare channels on the house mixer. Some of my friends have DVS setups and bring their own Rane mixer, but only one or two friends actually do this, most just bring their serato/tracktor box and set it up with the house equipment
ParticipantWhat worked for me was going to the venues where I wanted to play regularly, getting to know the promoters for the different nights. I also entered a dj competition that was hosted at one of the clubs I wanted to play in. I didn’t even make it out of the semi-final rounds because my style includes me working the mic. The crowd loved it, the judges were unimpressed haha. Anyway I was the only Dj that entered the competition that was asked to return and play a set on more than one occasion because I played the music I loved, not just a safe set of mostly the same tempo, nor a set full of commercial stuff.
More than the competition though, getting out there and getting to know the right people is definitely what worked best for me. In the course of meeting the promoters you get to gain followers by just being at these venues with music similar or related to what you want to play since being there means you’re mingling with the patrons for the night and getting to know the regulars.
Participantraiden, post: 39578, member: 9935 wrote: Ok so I was being showed by my mate how the serato SL1 works and how to use the decks etc. I know I shouldn’t expect to much from myself after one go but I had trouble mixing the 2 tunes he said I should try out which where house. My question is next time I have a go should I play my own music? Only when I did my research a bit on mixing I read that you should think 3 or more songs a head plus I’m thinking if its music I know and love it mite make mixing easier for me? What do you think? My wife the super star dj says I need to start off with D n B but I don’t have much in my collection or know many tunes anyway.
House is probably one of the easier genres to learn to mix with. All the tracks are generally created to a rigid beat grid and many of the tracks are in generally the same bmp range. D&B is difficult to start out with as the tempo is faster and having the mix off even slightly is easily apparent with all the drums going on.
Learning to mix with music you love is definitely the best idea as you won’t get so tired of the tracks while working out how to mix them together well.
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