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ParticipantFair enough. You gotta play the appropriate tunes for the crowd…sheep in this particular venue.
ParticipantWhilst this it totally possible…it won’t be for some time. Tone and emotion aren’t necessarily the same thing. Until the computer can truly feel emotion, its just running off statistics and averages. I for one would much prefer to hear new tracks that are unknown to me than hearing whats on myine or other peoples ipod.
ParticipantNice work mate. Just keep it up. Not a bad effort but with time you will improve. It takes a while to really “get it”.
ParticipantHee Won Jung, post: 20784, member: 948 wrote: I took ALL songs that were pretty banging underground electro, artists like Hirshee, Lazy Rich, Bassjackers, Lucky Date, Minero, Fast Foot, Farleon. Then since i had to appease the masses i just made a bunch of 32 beat samples of the top songs around like LMFAO, AVICII, Goyte, blah blah blah.
There is really nothing underground about any of those artists you mentioned. They are all quite mainstream. Not as mainstream as SMH, Guetta, Aviccii etc but still mainstream none the less. Fast Foot is unbelievably commercial cheese.
But I agree with the point you were trying to make…just not the examples
ParticipantYou can still learn the basics on this controller but you have the advantage of not outgrowing it once you improve your skills, so I’d defintely stick with it. Its a really nice controller to have. As Phil mentioned you can also master vinyl which is awesome. You got a supportive community here that will help you along the way dude!
ParticipantCheck the routing settings for your soundcard.
ParticipantBeatmatching is definitely more important than harmonic mixing, however, mixing in key is another story. If songs have incompatible keys then they will sound muddy or just plain terrible together.
ParticipantPlaylists are the way to go. It takes time to build them though. No other way around it really. If you’re really struggling then try to mash a few genres that generally mix well together ie house, electro, breaks and organise them in intensity ie warm-up, fillers, anthems, peak, heavy, euphoric, sing-alongs etc. Try to read the crowd and just randomly pick a track from the appropriate playlist, if you really can’t think of anything.
ParticipantI am a big believer that every DJ should know how to beat match. All the reasons above more than validate why. What you gonna do when something went wrong with your beat grid or BPM count? The sync won’t function correctly so you’ll have to mix the tracks manually. Many accomplished or “big” (respectable) DJs may not beat match any longer but I’ll bet you they all know how to.
ParticipantMapping is basically programming the instructions for how your controller will affect the software you use. For instance you would map the cue button on your controller to cue the track in your software.
ParticipantYou have to consider the type of punters that were there and what they were there for. For that type of event I would expect people to be there to socialise more than to dance. As soon as they get a few of those cheap drinks in them, they may have a dance but thats not the aim of the game. They were theatre students too so maybe the “club scene” isn’t really their thing. It also sounds like more of a bar with a dancefloor as opposed to a club. People go to bars to socialise and clubs to dance.
Sometimes you just get a tough crowd too…it may not have mattered what you played, you may have got the same reaction. Don’t beat yourself up over it. I’ve been there before but you just do your thing, enjoy yourself and hopefully people will feed off your energy…if not then just get some ladies dancing and it seems to take everything up 10 fold, as you’ve seen. I know DJs that will scope out a group of girls and buy them a round of drinks in return for hitting the dancefloor, to get things moving faster.
Don’t let that night discourage you!ParticipantDayvue, post: 19315, member: 837 wrote: For travel, I would say that the vci-300 is the best bet – it’s light, with the profile of essentially a 17″ laptop. There are nice shoulder bags for it, and it fits in most backpacks. It’s pretty light, but durable too. Wonderful functionality, and it of course works with itch. If you want to go with Traktor, there are mappings all over the interwebs for it.
This makes the most sense to me as you still have a full set of controls and feel to your gear. Some of the smaller controllers like the Faderfox’s or an X1 are awesome but still quite limited. I’m not sure how an ipad would sound plugged in to a club system?
May 21, 2012 at 4:56 am in reply to: Do you play a musical instrument? (Recorder doesn't count…) #1004713ParticipantI have a bit of a lame story…I saw Mr Holland’s Opus and started playing the clarinet the very next day…didn’t last more than a week or two before I realised it was hard.
I do play a pretty mean spoon though!
ParticipantLet’s not forget the ability to run like lightning. You never know when nature may call or you want to cut a few shapes on the dancefloor, between mixes.
ParticipantYou can go oldschool and just put your ear right next to the needle to mix…oh wait this is a digital blog…
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