DJ

I’m not familiar with pioneer, but are you trying to make Traktor’s dual low/high cut filter into a high pass? I’m assuming by pioneer’s neutral position being fully left that it’s only a high pass filter and not a dual like Traktor’s.

Check art galleries as well. The best gig I’ve had was at a little art gallery exhibit. It’s the perfect dj gig in my opinion. You play exactly what you want to play, pre-programmed or not (as long as it’s something appropriate for a gallery exhibit, of course), and don’t have to deal with requests and the other headaches you get when you’re playing in a club. My set was four solid hours of nothing but deep and tech house and I loved every second of it. You don’t have hundreds of fans going mental and chanting your name and Jesus poses are typically kept to a minimum but, to me, the benefits completely outweighed the costs.

I’m definitely not hating, because I’ve seen him twice and it’s always fantastic but I think Steve Aoki is a great example of a dj who doesn’t mix. Both times I’ve seen him he isn’t even behind the decks half the time. He presses play on track A, gets out of the booth, jumps around, spits champagne, throws cake, crowd surfs, and lights things on fire before climbing back in the booth, pressing play on track B when there’s 32 beats left in track A, getting back out of the booth, and continuing to do whatever so inspires him. The great thing is you never even realize it because you’re having such a blast the whole set.

I guess the measure of a great set for me (or maybe for anyone) is a continuum based on track selection, mixing, and performance/charisma. If you’re lacking in one area you can use the others to make up for it.

N4’s been great for me. It took a little mapping work to get everything in Traktor how I like it but I’ve been loving life with it since.

I imagine that it’s not ideal to mix brands but as long as there isn’t a big power/eq difference between them I don’t know why it would be a problem. Cords are usually either RCAs or XLRs depending on what inputs/outputs the system and your controller/mixer has or what your preferences are regarding balanced/unbalanced connections.

For me it depends on whether I’m getting the music to listen to or to dj with. If it’s an artist that I’ve always enjoyed and that I’ll want to listen to, I’ll pick up the CD, both in order to have the full album as well as to have a physical copy (I’ve always preferred to have something tangible). CDs always pay off for me when they’re of artists I really admire, especially because they’re the artists that have made their albums to be listened to in their entirety–placing the tracks in the correct order (or mixing them all together) so that it really takes you on a journey.
Otherwise, if I’m looking for or really like just a few tracks that happen to be on the same album, I won’t usually spring for the CD, I’ll just go pick up the individual mp3s.

Dance! And always look like you’re enjoying yourself (even if you’re shaking the entire time)

I just went through and liked everyone with my dj page (Delta-Notch) as well as my personal. Like Oddity said on the last page, double publicity!