DJimC

It depends on how it’s used. In DnB and Dubstep it can be quite accepted/acceptable to rewind a track you mixed in and start it again at the beginning of the track. This is often used to please the audience and have the benefit of hearing the full build-up of the track.

However, I truly dislike this practice and would certainly discourage it. I’ve already heard which track you are going to drop, don’t make me wait for it while the intro is playing again. The only time it might be acceptable is when you are playing a track you produced yourself and you want people to hear it completely.

Using it as a transition ‘effect’ is possible but needs good timing. It could work if the end of your spinback coincides exactly with the drop of the next song. I don’t think it would work for most house tracks as you really need a distinct drop for it to work.

I listened to your mix at work and I really enjoyed it. Of course, I didn’t get to listen to all the little details, but then again most people at a party wouldn’t as well. I think I only caught one minor slip-up somewhere where the beats were a bit off, but other than that solid mixing. Song selection is also pretty nice, I do enjoy the happy DnB tunes and you mixed them nicely with some harder tunes.

Looking forward to a next mix

I don’t think you did anything wrong. Quite simply, it’s illegal for you to share these songs. Even if they paid you, the original artists wouldn’t get any money and that where the problem lies. Of course it would be quite ok for you to provide a tracklist of the songs you’ve played so they can buy them themselves.

A last alternative would be to charge them as much as it costs to download the songs from itunes or another source and then buy these songs for them and burn them to a CD. I doubt it’s completely legal, but I’d say it’s a reasonable way to make sure the artists get their proper compensation.

Normally I’d say that you should never play a certain song more than once during a night. To avoid having to play a popular song for the second or third wave of party-goers, just don’t play it while the club is still filling up. If you have a large enough collection of songs, you should be able to play enough popular songs during the night without repeating yourself.

However, if it’s a top40 club where you need to handle a lot of request, you might deviate a bit and play a certain very popular song 2 times. Still, try to avoid it and play a different popular song from the same artist.

I’m using VDJ Pro 7.3 with windows and an intel core2duo. I do have a slightly high CPU usage (+/- 30%) just playing a track, but I’ve never had any problems as long as I remember to disable all unnecessary services and my wireless connection.

Hey,

I don’t know the answers to all your questions, but I can tell you what I know from using VDJ:

1) Make sure that the channel VU’s (in VDJ) aren’t clipping and also that the master VU (on the controller) isn’t clipping. Clipping on either of these meters results in loss of sound quality.

2) From what I’ve heard the largest complaint about the previous EQ’s was the default eq bands that were used. Since these are now configurable the new parametric EQ should be fine for anyone who doesn’t need a 4 band equaliser.

3) Not quite sure about this one, but it should be something like this:
KEY: FX1_LEFT ACTION : deck left effect 1 slider 1 & deck left effect 2 slider

4) I think the set_cue command should work here. As long as you don’t want more than one cue point per track you could simply use set_cue 1 for the cue button. Otherwise you could use set_cue 99 (asuming you use less than 99 regular cue points)

5) I think the quadratic fader gives you more precision in the uppermost regions of the fader and less precision on the lower regions. Not quite sure why this is preferable, but I almost always have my faders either fully on or fully closed.

First question: which software are you using?

I’m using VDJ and I’m quite sure it’s not possible to have more than one beatgrid or a flexible beatgrid during the same song. The only variable you can set is a starting point and the spacing between the beats.