Hee Won Jung
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Hee Won Jung
ParticipantSSDs imo are pretty useless for DJing…They are super expensive, dont really have any positives and I have in my lifetime with dealing with computers have only ever had 1 hard drive crash on me.
For the extra 250 i could buy another 100 or so tracks which is WAY more valuable.
As well there are a lot of cloud services for like 3 bucks a month where you can back everything up in case anything goes wrong.
Participant+1 Kent I couldn’t agree more.
I have learned so many things just tinkering, grabbing a 4 to 8 beat loop and just messing around with it using different effects and stuff and i was like OMG that sounded SOOOOO cooool!!!! And it totally shows when i play out…i have other DJs come up and are like dude how the F did u do that? Was that a remix or what the hell did u do there it was crazy!
I can honestly say in my time as a DJ i have never asked anything about the ART of DJing i asked questions about the programs about CDJs and how to enable certain things but never about how to mix how to use effects etc…it has been a long and hard trial and error process, and i wouldnt have it any other way…Its like remembering things.
What do you remember more…something you read out of a text book or what the professor told you a year ago…or all the lyrics to that song you loved back in 92, im guessing the song back in 92 because i listened to it over and over and over and over again.
ParticipantI agree on all your points Daryl…I just see so many people that want to be spoon fed every little piece of information…and i just dont agree with that. Like anything in life practice makes perfect. There was an article i read the other day how cooking is a lot like DJing on the DJ Tech Tools site, and i couldnt agree more. You see all these kids that come out of culinary school thinking they are all that and when you put them into a real life situation in a real kitchen not in some school or house, they flop miserably, and are next to useless in a real Commercial Kitchen.
DJing is the same thing, its an art, although we use basic math to achieve our art it is still art. and not math. Math is fundamentally a yes or no, there is no grey area there is no multiple ways to end with the same result…it is black and white. Often i see so many up and coming DJs trying to make DJing black and white…this is the right way this is the wrong way…when really there is no wrong or right…there is just sounds good and sounds bad…and even then its all in the perception of the listener.
We all think of music differently, we all feel different when we hear a song and we all react differently…thats what makes DJing such a unique and bonding experience between the DJ booth and the Dance floor. Most lessons learned in life are not taught through a forum board or in a book…they have to be learned the hard way…because nothing else will give u that feeling of remorse or embarrassment…and its that feeling that makes us never want to do the same mistake again.
January 3, 2013 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Traktor recording is muddier than the original tracks #34430ParticipantThe correlation that he is speaking of is like this:
If you are spiking on your master out it will apply a limiter to the sound before it goes through the recorder…Once it hits the recorder it will Up the dB based on the gain on the recorder. The way i have understood Traktor recording works like this:
Sounds goes from channel A through the limiter/gain then into the master then it is run into the limiter again, then from master to Recorder.
This is all a digital process too so as oppose to just cutting down the dB like you would using the trim on a analog mixer it is compressing the sound to lower the dB…the problem with this is that with songs that may have been mastered a bit off is that compressing will even out all your frequencies, oppose to just lowering the dB levels. This is why you are getting “muddier” sounds, as often the limiter will dull out the really high frequenices and boost the mids.
More about compression:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression
Try recording a mix with Headroom 0db, Limiter off, and have your master at around -10db. Then adjust your recording gain to just under the red and see how it works.
ParticipantTheres no real wrong way or right way to mix…there is only what sounds good and what sounds like garbage.
There are so many different ways to mix that there is no rule of thumb. Every Genre can be mixed but they may sometimes involve different mixing techniques.
A lot of it is trial and error…and thinking that you are going to master it in a short time is really naive…The more time you put into it the more you are getting it.
A few tips i would suggest is that when you are practicing, make mistakes, try using different things, do things going into it knowing you are going to screw up. Getting frustrated is a waste of time as it is very counter productive to what you are trying to achieve.
A big thing for me is that when i practice i NEED to be alone, I always feel that if someone is listening that i need to make it sound good and then i dont take risks and try new things.
When im refering to practicing…i mean when you make a mistake stop, go back and try to do it again…keep doing it over and over until you know it sounds good…then move onto some other tracks and do the same thing…having the ears to make perfect mixes and getting used to song structure doesnt happen over night…for some they have a natural talent and pick it up easy…for others its something they need to work on everyday.
Either way you will eventually get it!
ParticipantWell if History has any say in it…I am thinking HipHop or some form (trap) and Alternative music is going to be back in spades.
This is my hypothesis:
Disco was 60s and 70s This is what i would say is their version of EDM
80s was all about the metal and rock with a very small underground of electronic music was starting in North America albeit a very small following
90s was alternative music and pop and Hip Hop started to become more of a dominate thing and the late 90s is when hip hop was flooding the industry. EDM underground scene erupted and was becoming more and more main stream.
2k – Hip Hop still had a base but was starting to die out which paved the way for American POP music…which still has a very big hold on todays club scene…and EDM exploded.
Now if trending is at all right based on my view…EDM will be around for another decade or so in strong force but it will open a giant hole for everyone else…which leads me to believe that people will start going back to live performances with actual instruments.
I could be totally off kilter here but thats how i see music going.
ParticipantI have about 3 or 4 hard drives filled with music…I probably havent touched some of them in like a year…but i never delete anything permanently.
ParticipantI find the F1, althought i dont own one but have used one a bit…a bit of a useless tool when it comes to DJing. Until producers actually sell their sample packs ( i doubt this will happen) then the F1 is just another producer tool that is trying to be implimented with DJing. IMO the F1 is just another Midi controller that has a very select market.
Participantfirst it was DJ x factor and now this…
Mainstream EDM is already slowly on its way out and we can go back to being the underground music weirdos that we are, and by the the way out i mean its hit its peak…we probably have about another decade of this nonsense and it will be gone…I really hope that everyone gets into trap cuz im not a fan and they can stop bastardizing my Electro 😀
ParticipantJimmy Thunder, post: 34103, member: 2979 wrote: Raves have been around since late 80s, in the UK anyway
I said HAVENT not have 😀
Yeah, its really hard to find anything thats like an actual rave these days i find…either big stadium shows or night clubs…the underground rave scene is dead where i am from.
Participantdefine a “rave”
Porter uses a Kontrol S4 so does Zedd for big stadium shows…but as far as i know Raves havent been around since the 90s…its just big stadium shows or night clubs…
ParticipantDj Ney, post: 34085, member: 1416 wrote: Terry im running i3 2.2ghz 8gigs memory.Im running windows 7 with service pack 1.im running itch 2.1 did not update due to not having service pack 2.I m running vestax vc300 mkII.avg disabled,wifi off.laptop plugged in charge mode.itch version 2.0.1 (20102)Laptop has 250 gig hard drive with 48 gigs of free space.file type ntfs.I am running external 1 tb hardrive.
Windows will never come out with Service Pack 2 so it is safe for you to upgrade Itch. Proof Below
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-7-SP2-Service-Pack-Release-Date-Patches,18685.htmlWhen does this problem occur? Does it happen all the time or is it just when you are recording a mix?
If this is happening while u are NOT recording a mix it could be 1 or 2 things : Your cache is too low OR there is something wrong with ur ram.If this is happeneing while u are recording a mix it could be the 2 above OR it could be that you have too much stuff in your Disk Space. In order to clean these up below is a webpage on how you can increase your disk space
http://www.tenthofmarch.com/2008/11/23/6-ways-to-increase-available-hard-disk-space/
It could be that your virtual memory could be low so you can try to increase it. Steps on how to do so are located below. The last option on the page above also explains how to increase your virtual memory.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory
If it is neither of these errors I will need some more information. Can you give me the exact error code found…as well is this a Windows pop up or an ITCH pop up…as the error codes are very different.
ParticipantI’m not saying that there arnt ANY, but as a rule of thumb for the genre it is not normal. Same thing as there is usually no big DROP in techno tracks USUALLY but there are songs out there that are techno with progressive and electro influences.
Sure u can refer me to probably tons if not hundreds of tracks out there that are not governed by these genre guidelines…but I could also post a link to 2girls1cup…they both exist and are both out of the norm 🙂
I am speaking in general rule of thumb based on genre. Sure there are psy trance with glitch hop influences or electro house with Dubstep bridges and trip hop breakdowns…get my drift?
Participanthahahaha i have no doubt about that…its amazing how a 8 beat loop pretty much created a whole new genre of music 😀
ParticipantKent ur totally right…
Promoters FIND THE PROPER DJS FOR YOUR SHOWS!!!
DJs KEEP PLAYING THE MUSIC THAT YOU LOVE!!!!
its just that simple…If I have a Dubstep night…I in my right mind will not hire a Top40 DJ…and vice versa.
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