DJ Hane K

Chuck van Eekelen, post: 42485, member: 2756 wrote: I generally use that little sliding knob thingie that lays flat under the upright sliding knob thingies … Somehow one track suddenly goes less loud and the other one get’s proportionally louder when you move it from one side to another, almost like magic! … Seems to work real well.

If I am playing with the old black plastic thingies and I don’t have the side to side sliding thing on my apparatus with all the sliding upright thingies and flashing lights and such, I just wait for one black round disc to finish and then stop it (or the pencil-shaped tip at the end of the s-shaped metal tube that moves from outside to inside of the disc will hit the self-adhesive paper thingie with the whatyamacallit’s name on it) and then press the square, pressable metal thingie that says “PLAY” on the other rotating machine. I just leave all the upright sliding thingies up as it seems that when I put them down, sometimes sound does not come out of the big, heavy, squarish wooden or plastic boxes with the round, moving, circular thingies.

It’s all still very complicated to me.

Greetinx,
C.

This. This should definitely be the opening paragraph in the next “learn how to dj” guide.

One option a bit closer to home for you (and free, of course) might be the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have both a bachelors and masters program in Music and Technology: http://www.siba.fi/en/how-to-apply/degrees-and-programmes/music-technology/about-us

Might be worth checking out 🙂

Coltrane09, post: 41646, member: 2800 wrote: there are a lot of young kids doing what I think they call “yiken” or “yiking” and it’s very disturbing to see young kids doing it and then uploading the videos to Youtube. *shaking my head*

Wow, classy as hell! 😀

I kinda liked the show, it was entertaining and all – although it could have been called ‘master of the scratch’ in my opinion. The judges seemed to favor scratch/battle style DJing much more than anything else. Of course, given how short the performances were, no surprise there. Especially Kid Capri seemed to be very oldskool in his judging, not really appreciating any act that didn’t have a scratch routine in it. And Mia Moretti? Never even heard of her before the show… and she never basically had anything to say.

But overall a decent show, hope they’ll pick up the pace and get some better judges for season 2!

“Back in the days of REAL Disc Jockeys – the clue is in the name – there were no mixers, at least in the case of mobile DJ’s, just a console with two turntables, 2 volume controls & – guess what – in between tracks DJ’s ‘talked’ to their audience. Crazy, huh! Not like the computer geeks of today!
I do, however, acknowledge there is a skill to be learnt in mixing tracks seemlessly, it just doesn’t interest me & is not what my intended audience would want anyway.”

This… has to be a troll, right? I mean sure, I was still rocking my dear old mum’s teats in the early 80’s, but surely DJs of that era did more than play a track, blab on the mic, then play another track. Mixing – blending tracks together to create a continuous flow of music – is what DJing IS. And if mixing isn’t what your ‘intended audience’ wants, why bother with a controller at all? Or any sort of DJ setup? Just grab your laptop/ipod/etc, press play, wait until track ends, talk to your audience, repeat?

I think having an app with open text fields is a bad idea – how many times have you had someone walk up and ask for “the song that goes wup-wup-wup dobbidibidy-doo you know the one with the cool chorus and the girl singer”. Exactly. Now imagine getting a million of those through this system. Not that many people know or remember the artist and exact song name, especially when drunk!

Sorry for the dumb question, but.. Given all the ‘cons’ of a dvs system you guys have described, what exactly are the ‘pros’ compared, say, to a controller like the NS7/V7 or any spinning platter controller out there? Just seems like a lot of hassle for very little gain to me… But then again I’ve never had hands-on experience with dvs.