aaron altar

You might already do this but I would recommend thinking about where you want to take the mood instead of trying to maintain the flow. I do agree it is different listening to music for enjoyment and mixing. I, for one, am a lot less critical of music outside my djing style than I am to the music that could fit into it. As far as lyrics, my rule is as long as they aren’t dumb or cheesy they’re fine by me. Saying something I actually agree with is a bonus.

I’d still be using vinyl if I could get all my music on vinyl and it didn’t cost so much to ship to the middle of nowhere.

Why are you looking to describe different genres? Everyone has their own descriptions.

Cajmere is an old school dj (awesome one by the way) and he mixes in an old school way. That’s how I like to play but some people have adhd when it comes to mixing and can’t be that patient. Top 40 djs are the biggest offender’s of this as are the younger generation of the more popular dance styles. Those of us that grew up on 12s are more likely to enjoy and mix the way Cajmere does I think.

It used to be used as a crutch to get out of a bad mix back in the vinyl days. I don’t really see much of a purpose now unless you really learn how to use it really well. I don’t listen to djs who use it and I rarely hear it in the styles of music I listen to these days. I’ll do it sometimes when messing around with house or techno in my bedroom but that’s rare.

emzero, post: 34405, member: 5708 wrote: I find Traktor’s autogain pretty accurate most of the time. Why do you say it degrades sound quality when it just adjusting the gain like you would normally do manually? How can that degrade sound quality?

And yes, you’re right about slowly increase the volume over the night. But I think one would do that using the master volume, rather than the channel gains. The latest are supposed to be used to match the volume between the channels right?

I do mostly night full on and morning, and just a little bit of progressive.

Making the program work harder degrades sound quality. Mostly, it justs sounds worse to me, although ever so slightly.

You’re right about the master and the sound tech will usually handle that.

Got any mixes posted? I’d love to hear. Us psy guys have to stick together 🙂

Not quite as noticeable and quickly forgiven in clubs (assuming there’s no distortion). Very difficult to keep it exactly the same throughout. I would advise that you stop you using autogain and start doing it manually yourself however. Autogain isn’t that accurate and degrades your sound quality slightly. I find that I’m much more accurate manually doing than Traktor is.

As far as intentionally doing it. There is nothing wrong with that as long as it is a slow progression. In a club you want it louder at the peak part of the night and it has to be louder if there are more bodies in the venue sucking up the sound.

One personal question, what kind of psy do you mix? I do Hamburg style prog myself.

Usually first time djs are placed into the opening slot. If that’s not the case and you can’t mix out of the dj before you (bpm difference is too great or styles massively conflict) then you can start with an ambient beginning. Try to find a track with a short ambient beginning, if it’s too long the crowd will get bored and leave the floor. I prefer tracks that come back with nothing more than a solid kick drum after the ambient beginning. One word of warning as a beginner dj, all eyes will be on you once that beat drops out.