Hee Won Jung

I have a little bias here…but if you are using Traktor…nothing Beats the Traktor Controller for it for straight integration.

But IMO the new VCI-400 EGE is probably THE best pro controller out on the market right now.

This is just my opinion…but the only true PRO DJ controllers out there right now are:

Denon MC6000/MC3000
NI S4/S2
VCI400

DJing is more of a roller coaster ride than anything when it comes to your song selection.

Don’t ever open with a big club banger…build your way up…DJing is more about Tension and Release. Now palying something that the crowd can relate to and is familar with is a great way to grab your crowd. then slowly start bringing up your energy levels…energy does not mean increase BPM. As well depending on your venue if you are playing mostly house music (electro/prog/funky/etc.) you dont ever want to increase your BPMs from 128 until around 11:30-12 when you can go up if you choose to (never go above 132s for house music)

As well it is good around every 20mins (4-5songs) to let a long breakdown play out…This will clear your dance floor a bit and get everyone to the bar…this will make your venue happy…Increased booze sales= happy venue = return shows.

One of the biggest pieces of Advice i can give…is make sure it is a adult only party…no minors.

This will save you a huge headache, Im assuming this will be a EDM style of event. You have to plan for the worst case scenario. Young people tend to go overboard with drugs, and espically if u are serving booze you do not want any minors…

My friends threw 2 big parties…the first one all ages…and it ended up being a shit show with little 16 year olds passing out on too many substances and EMS/Police being called.

The 2nd one was no minors and it went without a problem.

Do not set your ticket/wristband prices until you have already figured out what your total costs are going to be and what the venue’s capacity is. You dont need to make a lot of money off of this…but you should at the bare least break even, after all costs have been figured out.

Depending on where you are located…find out ALL the laws and rules regarding the type of event you are throwing…
You are probably gonna be spending a decent chunk of change on this event…and the last thing you want is the cops shutting it down early because you failed to provide all the proper measures to throw an event of your scale.

Promotion!!! This one is Huge…in the OP it stated that you will be the only one DJing? IMO that is a bad call…More DJs create Bigger Crowds…Have a lineup of 1 DJ every 1.5-2 Hours…This will expand on diversity and will get other followings into your show. This will not only make the event bigger, but you will create a larger following for you after the show.

Honestly…to do a Warehouse Party Properly as you are talking about with lazers and big sound booze and the whole works…you are looking at spending around $10,000.00 all in including renting of the venue, lights, sound, security, staff, promotion costs(Flyers, Tickets etc.)

Now depending on the size of the warehouse…you will have capacity at what? lets say capacity is 500…plan on only filling 2/3s of that capacity. and set your ticket/wristbands accordingly.

B.B. Koning, post: 19311, member: 1638 wrote:

The problem i have right now is that Traktor overwrites my ID3 tags completely whenever I add a comment to either the comment1 or 2 field. Which basically means I have to start over and spend hours re-tagging the bloody things.
Apparently this is a common issue with Traktor. Why they won’t fix it, I have no idea.

Thanks for your tip, though. Very helpful for future consideration.

Use the Comments2 for ur personal comments and keep Comments 1 for your key tagging.

It sounds a little retarded but i use Keyfinder, MediaMonkey, MP3Gain and Itunes before my music even Hits Traktor

MP3Gain first to normalize my tracks that seem quite
Then Keyfinder to Set key in comments Field with Camelot Wheel and Actual Note Signature

Keyfinder to write key into Comments field with camelot wheel and actual note signature

I use MM to tag all my stuff properly, Genre is for what the Main genre of the song is IE Electro, then i use the grouping to define the song, Swing, Funky, Bigroom, Banging, Synths, Vocal, Top40, ClubCheese etc.

I then upload all my properly tagged MP3s into Itunes and have all my smart playlists setup so i have like 14 playlists that are all Electro Genre, but then sorted by subgroup based on grouping.
The smart playlists are great because it auto adds songs that you have set based on certian fields.

Then I just go into Traktor and goto my itunes library and add to collection.

Then within Traktor i will start actually building my sets that i am playing that week.

Hey dude Check out
http://www.house-mixes.com/mixes/Latest/1/latin

Has lots of great Latin House mixes and you can probably find some good tracks in here to add into your set for Cinco De Mayo…since it is a spanish holiday good to add in some latin house…it works its funky and people will love it.

Jon Baker, post: 19337, member: 1837 wrote:
Oh, and yes, I have now encountered the annoying ‘I’m a DJ too!’ guy, who made sure to tell me repeatedly in his drunken haze over several hours that ‘its all about the crowd’ and ‘you should stick some sick drops in here, I know this stuff’. ¬¬

LMAO!!!

I know exactly what u mean by this…I was spinning around 2 months ago and had some guy who said he was a DJ and his DJ name was DJ Ecstacy (yup never head that one before sooo original) and he was totally BLASTED out of his mind on well u guessed it Ecstacy…kept telling me to speed up the tempo and wanted to hear hardstyle and play this and play that…its like dude…you obviously arnt a DJ because if u were…you would know how annoying you are right now.

Well from what little I know about the mc6000, it has the option between midi and aux because the 6000 can work as a standalone mixer. So if u don’t have ur laptop plugged in u can still use cdjs or turntables to play actual CDs or wax and use the 6000 to mix with. However I’m pretty sure it doesn’t support timecode.