NietzSKY
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December 27, 2012 at 5:17 am in reply to: Lets all "Like" each others Facebook Fan Page. Post your links here! #34112
NietzSKY
Participanthttp://www.twitter.com/NietZsky , http://www.facebook.com/NietZsky , likes will be met with likes
ParticipantI’m somewhere inbetween 5ft 6inches and 5 7 myself, normally I don’t have a problem but sometimes I do have to stand on the tip-toes when I’m getting into-it
Participant1) PC works juts as well for “getting the most” out of djing, the quality of your performances will not falter based on your platform. The only real justification for macs (imo) is dependent on whether you produce/do graphic design, and whether your workstations are mac platforms. After dabbling with various DAWs, Logic felt like the best fit for me.
2) I would suggest the largest size in which you feel comfortable carrying around with you. I use a 13″ 2010 pro, and it gets the job done, but with Traktor I really wish I had more screen real-estate. A 17″ (which I believe mac is discontinuing) would be ideal IMO, but the 13″ can more than get the job done once you get used to it.ParticipantI view DJing (not saying DJing is, just my interpretation of it) as a sort of photography; photographers don’t necessarily create the scenes they are shooting, but they add new perspectives and the art is in allowing others to see/hear something in a different way than they have before. You can be a set designer photographer (producer/dj) but you don’t have to be; it’s not imperative to the art.
ParticipantThe f1 isn’t really velocity sensitive though, but I suppose if you aren’t going finger of death with it it wouldn’t be too big of a deal. Also, I am looking for dance-floor applications of it, I don’t really feel as if the Moldover/Shiftee videos are very club viable….
ParticipantWhen I need a break from studying Logic and working on mixes, I hit up League of Legends. PC for me I suppose.
ParticipantIt does feel awkward, though I could see this thing being a godsend for mashups. Right now it seems it has the largest potential as a scratch bank, and maybe a way to conviniently set dj name drops whenever I feel like.
December 24, 2012 at 8:36 am in reply to: Can you really make the crossover from playing pop gigs to club gigs? #34041ParticipantI’ve made a game out of it by this point, try to find the most “out-there” covers of top40 I can and then I see if the pop crowd gets down with it. Turns out people can get down with Happy Hardcore when the song is Forever Young XD.
ParticipantI’m not having too much trouble with 2.6 beatgrids, seems to be about spot on 90% of the time, a reset/regrid usually works the other 5-8% of the time, and once every so I may have to re-grid, but I rarely find myself doing such.
Participantand just use your mic*
ParticipantJust for shits and gigs (what I’d do) rip the intro synth part from Europe’s final countdown,beatmash a bass-kick to coincide with your over the mic countdown, start the filter about halfway through, and break into a nasty high-frequency breakdown right at the start of the new year.
ParticipantI’ve said good things about them in other threads, and I use them to listen & djay, but if you can find a pair of Audio Technica m30s in Europe, they have a pretty decent warm-neutral sound. The m30s are the little brother of the m50s (pair of cans I plan on using as my mains until I find the need to buy Senns) and are the best budget headphone I’ve used to date.
ParticipantFrom Baltimore, but I stay in America’s asshole (AKA DC) for 3 seasons of the year, and hit up Ocean City MD for the summer. I’ve played an event at Cobalt (have the next coming up the 7th of January) and The Electric Maid in Takoma ( a smaller venue). Going to start up w/ college parties in the area, thinking about seeing what’s good at College Park for New Years
ParticipantHonestly, I do believe we can be snobby. Even worse, I feel, is classical pianists critiquing performances of other classical pianists. You guys are pretty tame compared to that scene XD.
I posted about my first gig, and without split cue working for me my mix (which was 100% improvised) sounded, to a dj, like a wooden roller coaster ride. However, the crowd was loving the fx I was throwing on, and I was even getting applause after I jammed Afrojack’s Molly cover. There was even a point where I went to reach for my mic and my sleeve caught on the knob of my beatmasher; I just started laughing, played off my mistake, and had djs/musicians sharing similar stories w/ me after my set, and still complimenting the performance.
Now don’t get me wrong, in my opinion I don’t have the raw skill to compete with 75-80% of this forum, but people going to events/dancing out on the floor aren’t dis. Many of the nuances we notice are completely unnoticeable to the untrained ear, and as long as there is a flow and no empty space, it seems as if everything just works out.
ParticipantSeeing as how the ns6 is primarily a Serato controller (don’t believe it has native traktor support), that makes sense XD.
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