Lamid45G

Wish you all the best dude !

The XDJ R1, kind of supported Rekordbox, but its very limited, I believed its not even displaying Playlist that you made in Rekordbox, correctly, plus the display is just god-awful ugly (compared to the CDJ 2000 series)

There is nothing really in Rekordbox that you cant learn, if you already owned some sort of controller, the learning-curves in the Rekordbox its not all that steep, if you already mastered the basic of DJ-ing

It will not help you “better” in DJ-ing, its just assist you much nicer, when you use the rekordbox on any rekordbox-able CDJ’s, but hey you dont know what it is yet that you missing anyway since you aint try it yet, so you not missing much, imo

Install one in your laptop, and mess around on it yourself its another way to “learn” it functions and stuff

That one is nice rizky who is that?

The girl in the cover picture ? Was one of our students, she pretty hardcore DJ, her style and her music selection hardcore stuff lol
Check out her performance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEL0KOGcbI

@DJ Cheeku: please direct message me on twitter, Im havin problem replyin in souncloud, my twitter handle @Lamid45G

Since a lot of “uplifting trance” have this loooong breaaak, try to experiment with it, for Ex. drop some dnb on top of that floating break see how it goes and stuff

I am new to the whole DJing

Just like you stated you new to DJ ing,

The only thing that I don’t like about the DDJ-SB is that it doesn’t have many In and Outputs.

So why you need so many Ins and Outs for anyway ?
The one that the SB had it served it purpose, more than enough

Cuz I have an old eyes, I cant see very well, I preferred the 15 inch one over the 13

Very wise writing Chuck, and good timing also, one of my lady friend told me “REAL DJ can play turntable”, i can blow this article all over her face, lol

If you playing B2B with someone, a good practice would be errr practiced with them before the event first, that way you can get comfortable playing together, you can also assigned tasks to each other, like DJ A plays 2 songs first, then switch to DJ B, plays another 2 songs again before the change-up, plus there would be no surprises cuz each one of you already know each other songs/playlist

And while DJ A mixing, DJ B can do other stuff, like pumped the crowd, MC ing with the mike, or playin with the FX and such and vice versa.