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Remember that you could be mixng those 2 tunes together for over a minute (several minutes for some genres) so they have to stay in phase that whole time. You can nudge the jogwheels to assist but as a rule the less you have to touch them the better.

Hamza21, post: 21033, member: 2284 wrote: That’s worse advice ever! wedding djs are the bottom of barrel of the deejay world. They’re nothing but human jukeboxes playing middle of the road songs for middle of the road people. A newbie will never progress to be great solid deejay being a wedding dj. A wedding dj is where never-beens and has-beens go when they fall off. It won’t teach anything about song selection because 99% of the music you play is top 40 hits from 70’s,80’s and 90’s. It won’t teach how put together a solid mix of Hip Hop or latin grooves. It won’t teach you to dig for music. It won’t teach to be creative and experiment mixing songs you initially thought would not work together. Playing song to make 60 year old aunt betty dance won’t teach you about song selection because aunt betty has piss poor taste in music and is stuck in the past.

to answer the OP question all songs can be mentally catagorized. Some songs you know people will dance to they 10,9. some songs some,most of the people dance to they 8,7 and some songs most people won’t dance to but will love to hear they 6. The magic foumula for rocking dance floor is:

song 1: 10,9
song 2: 10,9
song 3: 8,7
song 4: 10,9

Rinse and repeat for how ever long your set is.

Maybe a little on the harsh side. Perhaps sugar coat it a little more next time?
But I generally agree with these statements. Most of the time wedding DJs do a less than stellar job of mixing, that being said, the question was about song selection, not mixing.

adit, post: 21042, member: 2099 wrote: OK, so this occured to me. I was mixing a song in, and then I cheat and look at the monitor. The bpm matched, the beat is gridded, but alas the mix gallops. What’s the cause of this and how to fix it?

The BPM was probably incorrectly detected. Traktor isn’t perfect all the time at this.

The purpose of nudging the wheel is to keep the phase of the tracks lined up. If you get the track in phase but its the wrong pitch it will eventually fall out of phase. You nudge the wheel to push it back in to phase then quickly make an adjustment to the pitch. You then listen again and hopefully it falls out of phase much slower or not at all. You repeat this process until the tracks BPM and phase are matched. Make sense?

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There is no way a digital set up would hinder your performance whatsoever unless you are doing turntablism (advanced scratching, beat juggling etc). Digital actually offers you a lot more flexibility and creativity. If you decide to go the route of vinyl then 450 will get you total garbage equipment. You really can’t get the same results out of cheap turntables. If you’ve got a somewhat decent laptop then 450 could get you a decent midi controller and software.

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