Gizmotech
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October 2, 2012 at 7:48 am in reply to: Apart from your DJ gear, what's one item you wouldn't be without at your gigs? #1012908
Gizmotech
MemberEar protection. Very important. Even if you don’t turn up the levels high, the DJ before you or after you most probably will, and might not even listen to you if you ask them to turn it down. So for times like those ear plugs just might be the reason you still have your hearing intact. 🙂
MemberDigital Kw3rty, post: 28699, member: 1829 wrote: reading this makes me wish i knew more people who were already relatively established DJs…
Try going out to clubs and talking to the DJs directly. Or if you’re lazy, Just use facebook. Add local DJs, event production companies etc. and start talking to them, even if 1 out of like 15-20 people clicks, it’s still a click and you’ll most probably end up getting a gig somewhere or the other. I recently randomly messaged one of the biggest event production companies in my country regarding a Bass music night at a local club, and to my surprise they actually responded positively!!
Active effort man, that’s pretty much all it takes!! 🙂MemberHaha, Looks like things are pretty chilled in Spain. 🙂 Cos over here clubs get raided pretty often, it’s even caused some pretty popular local clubs to completely shut down, it’s pretty sad how the cops and the government over here hate pretty much anything that is not Indian/Classical, even for organizing metal concerts is a major problem. But, still Bangalore is one of the major destinations for some of the biggest acts in the world to perform, if they’re going to perform in India. Props to the people for not letting anyone bully them out of their interests in different music. 🙂
MemberThanks man!! Haha, The scene in my city is pretty much a joke, cos the local government keeps banning and unbanning Live Music/DJing. So it’s really unstable here. At one point even restaurants needed to get a license in order to play music in the background!! Hopefully, they make up their mind for the better and just stick with it like the other cities! 🙂
MemberHaha, I’ve seen that quite a few times. I don’t really go clubbing often, but about 85% of DJs I’ve seen are like that, they are BAD, VERY BAD. Which was also one of the things that made me want to DJ more. Tracks wouldn’t be in sync, they think using a flanger makes them some DJ God lol, and their loop rolls would fail very badly. But most of the crowd won’t notice/don’t care about this at all. Unless it’s some place where they come especially for the good music and DJs skills.
Although you could’ve at least asked the manager if it was cool if you came in during an off day and played an opening set for free or something. Just so that they see how good you are and also, they wouldn’t really be losing anything as their “Expereienced DJ” will still get to play his set.
And, sweet logo man, I can definitely see that as a sticker on the front of your laptop! 🙂
MemberWas goin through your mixcloud, but couldn’t listen to any of the mixes cos I’m on my iPad (laptop charger died). But from the track selection i have to say, it’s pretty much almost exactly the kind of stuff I enjoy both listening to and mixing! 🙂
And as far as recording is concerned the mixer shouldn’t affect it in any way at all, unless you use it for effects or something, cos everything will be done internally in Traktor if you use your controller and that would all be recorded into the final file. I’m pretty sure that it should work regularly.MemberHAHA!! Thanks a lot man! Those are really great words of encouragement!!
I’ll be a very happy person if that’s how things turn out to be! 🙂MemberHaha, will definitely check your link out man.
Yeah, recording your set is a great idea, and recording traktor is cake, there’s record panel in the top right corner under effects, just start recording using that. Really simple. A google search will get you the info in no time. 🙂MemberNo problem at all and Thanks man! 🙂
The mix wasn’t recorded but i had made a rough layout of my tracks in FL studio when i was preparing. Just to keep a reference of what goes where and when. But for the actual transitions, i used a lot of effects for the transitions cos the BPM ranges were so widely spread out, i used stuff like delays, filters, spinbacks and breaks, and cut mixed tracks behind these effects so that it didn’t seem as abrupt as in my original layout. Cos there were totally 3 tracks that could actually be beatmatched, which i did.
This is the link for it.http://soundcloud.com/gizmotech/rb-final-mix-alt
Always good to find people who have similar tastes in music!! Do Keep me posted when you find interesting tracks!! 🙂
MemberI’m pretty sure that’s all you need, connect that to one of the channells on the mixer and the other end would go to your controller’s out. Btw, headphones go into your controller and not the mixer, pretty obvious but I’ve seen guys do that while setting up!! Lol. My first real gig was really recently man(2 weeks ago), like I said i’m not that experienced at this. and that had the following setup 2xCDJ-1000 MKIII + DJM-900. But i have quite a few DJ friends and hanging out with them in the booth and seeing them as well as other DJs setup I noticed this stuff. Btw, i wrote like a completely detailed thread on my first gig titled “My Red Bull Thre3Style experience”, do give it a read, i think ot’s still on the first page of this forum. right now i have a very DIY setup. I have a laptop running traktor to which i have an external qwerty keyboard and i have an iPad running TouchOSC connected wirelessly via an ad-hoc network and i have one of those crappy usb soundcards that i use as my monitor out, and my computer soundcard as my master out. Keyboard is perfect for cueing and playing as it has no latency at all, and the iPad is just brilliant for controlling Effects, loops, Beatslicing.
Hope you kill it at your First gig man! 🙂btw here’s an article on the same question.
http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/08/over-to-you-how-to-plug-into-a-club-mixer/
MemberYep! That’s the standard setup when using a controller in clubs with mixers. You can always use a little analog gain if the levels of your controller aren’t enough as well!
MemberCongratulations on your first gig!! It’s always a very special experience playing your first show! 🙂
I guess you would just connect the output of your mixtrack pro into one of the mixer channells, set the gain and levels and you won’t need to bother with it after that. The guys at the place where you’re playing at would have connected all the speaker inputs from their mixer, so diconnecting it would just be making it inconvenient for both them and yourself i think.
All your mixing should still be done on you mixtrack pro. Since you’re routing your entire output to the mixer, any effects that you use on the mixer is going to be applied on the master. If it was me, I’d just use my software for everything, and use the mixer as a means of connecting to the speakers and providing extra gain to my signal if needed.
I’m not very experienced too but, hope this helps!! 🙂 -
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