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BlockedKent Sandvik, post: 31552, member: 3967 wrote: One way to get noticed is to jump in on a new musical trend with a longevity factor. You are one of the first and when the style takes of and grows over time, depending if you develop the trend and produce plenty of material, you are definitely noticed. It is of course a must that you enjoy this genre.
Now, jumping in to an existing genre with plentiful of producers and DJs already involved with this, the more unique you are the better. But it’s hard to be unique when most options have been explored…
new trend with longevity i like that….lol it really depends on why your getting into djing… is it for the money or for your love of the tunes… cau if you walked into any bar that plays your kinda or music and gave them a promo and said you play for free then i say would get gigs. 99.999% would say.. im not playing for free….but you wouldnt be… you be getting experience and also the freedom to experiment. Its all about getting fans and getting heard…. you got to think outside the box.
BlockedLukynumba7, post: 31558, member: 1744 wrote: Then again, Richie Hawtin isn’t a standard DJ. Once you get to the point where you have mastered DJing in a sense, then you can go off and do what he does. The use of effects effectively comes with experience and he has it. The run of the mill DJ isn’t simply going to have to experience that he does and if they attempt to do what he does, they will probably end up sounding horrible.
yeah i agree richie is just from another planet….lol yeah get the basic right first then start experimenting… as richie says the sync button is only cheating if you dont use the time it saves to do something else… get deck C n D going with samples.
could listen to this man all day…. [media=youtube]J1H9W_iLff0[/media]
BlockedLukynumba7, post: 31556, member: 1744 wrote: effects should enhance the song not change it.
This sums it up in a nutshell….althou within music there is no rules… if plastering ure mix with effects and looping everything is ure thing then so be it…. i mean every dj is different… richie hawtin for example never plays the same set twice even if he play the exact same tunes in the same order and hes one of the best djs there is
BlockedNick Powers, post: 31019, member: 2466 wrote: I’m just wondering how it happened, where you were, what happened,what it effected, if you were glad it happened. Just things that you noticed. I think that the topic is pretty cool and want to know more about. Thanks for the input.
please stop calling it EDM…. Just because america is finally getting dance music doesnt mean we have to change what we call it. if you edit the heading i will reply…..lol
i was there in 99… when oakey was sent from god to bring trance to the world…forget tiesto forget AVB… the music oakenfold mixed was simply spiritual… Ijust think that hardware hit its peak around that time with the roland super saw.
Did it change my life… of course it did…walking into a club was a family experience… i went to a club called tangled that Phil of digital dj tips run for over 10years…. an amazing club and had better nights there than in alot of the super clubs… the whole trance exposion changed my life complete… i became more open and for once felt like i belonged somewere…. and still to this day i feel my happiness in a club.
BlockedKent Sandvik, post: 31479, member: 3967 wrote: Well, you have to be unique. Making your own production is the first step to become unique. I think the old guard of DJs that became famous just due to their playlist and DJ skills, Digweed et rest, those were an exception in the early days of electronic dance music.
plz stop calling it electronic dance music…. its called dance music. why does america have to ruin everything
BlockedPLACIDtaipei, post: 31448, member: 4434 wrote: hum…
thank’s for the remark !
P.S. that applies to both sets ?
you can do what u want with mellow downbeat mixes…
BlockedNo is he answer to ure first question.. there playing other peoples music… and the answer you you second question is… they get pay 1000s cau they entertain millions and have to perform at the highest level week in week out and travel all over the world getting hardly any sleep and eating really unhealthy and maybe go weeks without seeing family or friends.
You make it sound so easy… gettting in the top100 doesnt just happen by accident…. its alot of hard work. Its not only technical ability either cau i know djs that are better than alot of people in the top 100 but havent got the confidence to play in front of people
If you think you can be as good as sasha, digweed, armin van burren, richie hawtin, jamie jones, james zabiela….then practise your ass off and get out there.
BlockedJim Kroezen, post: 31461, member: 1515 wrote: I never prepare my sets. Track selection should depend on the situation and the crowd.
i think he was talking about doing mixes… like recorded ones. I total agreed that you have to read the crowd if your playing live.. but i think its also very important to practise sets cau you have to also master the skill of bringing people were you want them to go and create the journey for them…. its abit like ying and yang they go hand in hand.
Blockedit goes without saying really… a planned set that is practised is going to sound better than anything that you do just mixing and pressig record cau you have to do it over and over again. You may make mistakes over and over but each time the mix gets tighter. john digweed must practise his sets over and over before live shows cau its very very rare that he doesnt deliver a unbelievable set. Sasha doesnt really practise as much as he used to but when he does well there isnt a dj on planet earth better than him. Its all about practising your mixes so ure performance is the best it can be.
The saying goes a amatuer practises to they get it right… a professional practises to they dont get it wrong.
I know alot of djs that are amazing and are alot better in my opinion than people in the top 100… ask them for a mix and you simply never get one. Why well doing it under pressure is a different ball game and after recording something for 10-15 times… most djs loss patience and give up….
BlockedYour mixing is very fast… all the energy is lost this way.. so it sounds like one track then another track. My advice is to check out ellaskins on youtube… his videos and there are 100s if not thousands will show you what to do to take mixes to next level. start with eq and building a set videos…
the biggest skill of learning to mix is the passion for tunes… you dont have to hold a mix for 5mins like sasha… but you nned to learn how to keep the energy in the mix. also dont put yourself down when putting a set up online… if your not amazing dont say your ace but at the same stage you want feedback from people so you gotta let your psssion for the tunes your about to play shine throu.
Happy mixing
October 28, 2012 at 12:00 am in reply to: Getting better sound in your dj sets (Tony Andrews interview) #30895BlockedNewportdj Drew, post: 31049, member: 244 wrote: Those stacks look like a whole lot of ‘no idea what phase interaction means’.
Here is a test. Get a tone generator run two identical sine wave tones 180 degrees out of phase and listen to what happens.
With speakers, if the magnets are not lined up you will get phase interaction and cancellation. (Sure there are time align circuits which can fix this problem). So no matter how good your file is it wont be reproduced faithfully at all if your speakers are not aligned.Oh and the best pa systems are made by Meyer.(MILO)
What i have learnt from this thread is everyone thinks there right. How can any of us argue with the words from a man that has been making speakers for longer than alot of us have been on this earth? Just because we read something on the internet doesnt mean we are an expert.
p.s 3am mix is phat
October 27, 2012 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Getting better sound in your dj sets (Tony Andrews interview) #30890BlockedWill, post: 30996, member: 46 wrote: How far up the food chain are you, exactly? Not to sound rude, but I have never heard of you. You are thinking about this too much.
I buy new music every week. I spend a good 15+ hours listening to new tracks I buy, every week. I pick out the best ones that I like and use them for DJ’ing. The only way to get most of my tracks is via Itunes or Beatport, and I am a broke office worker/cubicle slave. So I’m buying MP3’s and AAC’s.
If you are going to play WAV’s fine. I’m working on finite hard drive space, and a finite budget. If I can deal with a loss of just a fraction of fidelity, I’m pretty sure a room full of semi inebriated people who are there just to have fun are not going to notice a difference either. So yea, I think that you speaking on behalf of what DJ’s should or shouldn’t do is a bit pretentious.
All that i have said is refering to a large club system… the best being Funktion ones. This is a dj that has been in the game for longer than the both of us…. hear that he says… 1.19 are the golden words [media=youtube]jgJfRg69qZA[/media]
BlockedIn a world were everyone want the same thing as you there is no easy method… id recommend going to nights that play similar music as ures and meet new connects.
When you get ure face known by the promoters and local djs then you maybe can give them a cd and say if you need a warm up or stand in dj then ure avail…. dont just turn up and hand out cds cau they probably wont even listen to them.
Secondly the method is set up ure own night…start maybe in a bar that is open to new sounds or were your sound will work. Ure going to have to start at bottom again and work ure way up from small gigs.
Best of luck.
October 24, 2012 at 6:39 pm in reply to: Getting better sound in your dj sets (Tony Andrews interview) #30713BlockedGroschi, post: 30830, member: 3845 wrote:
I don’t. I’m voicing my concern about the way people voice their opinions pro or contra lossy audio formats without a proper foundation. Most people tend to believe whatever they’ve heard first about such a thing. My own experience (based on my own blind listening tests i’ve done some years ago) is that i can’t tell any difference between an uncompressed cd-quality wav or flac file and a high bitrage lame mp3. But… don’t jump to any conclusions from that. Those tests i did only prove that my humble self can’t hear any difference. There sure are people around with younger, better trained ears and with better playback equipment. They might hear things that my ears aren’t quite able to pick up. That’s why i say you should try it out for yourself in an objective and scientific way, to be sure what you’re talking about. As i already said, our brain can trick us when we know we’re listening to a lossy or a lossless file.I think your on the money here totally. Were i personal am coming from is… there is without question a difference between vinyl and 320…. i have witnessed it myself and it was not even on a funktion one system….. Paulo Mojo did a vinyl set and when the digital dj came on afterwards… its as if all the body has taken out of the sound. I tend to have alot of faith inTony Andrews opinion because if i was in his position i could solve this in a heart beat. Im sure he has done tests to prove his theories. At the end of the day alot of us dont have the speakers to hear the difference so we as you said are going from our own views and what we have read.
it is alittle assuring that nearly all the top clubs in the world work closely with Tony Andrews… could they be listening to what he is saying? of course they are.In summary.. im looking forward to the article Phils putting together with Mr Andrews
October 24, 2012 at 1:01 am in reply to: Getting better sound in your dj sets (Tony Andrews interview) #30666BlockedIt surpirises me that almost everyone is defending mp3s compared to WAV.
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