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ParticipantI’m one of those DJs who hate peering at their laptop screen while playing. I’ve got a Mixtrack Pro 2, and a tablet running android. For the last gig I played, I had rigged it so that the tablet showed me the browser of my software. And the tablet was placed in front of my Mixtrack. The laptop was kept aside with the lid closed. I’ve never had to look at my screen till date, and it works pretty well.
I beatmatch manually (not perfect, but learning), I’ve set “reset EQs on load” and “reset effects on load” to “false”. My hotcues are placed so that I can find my way around the track easily. I’ve never needed to use the “sync” button either. Only recently, I’ve mapped it as a deck-switcher, I hit “sync” and the Left deck of my controller becomes Deck-3 and if I hit it again, it becomes Deck-1 again.
For the effects, I use only 3 effects: Phaser, Flanger and Reverb. All of them are incredible sounding free VST plugins. So I don’t need to look at the screen to see which effect I have currently.
This has worked pretty well so far, I’ve yet to test the Deck-switching thing as I’m not used to it yet. I personally feel that it gets me as flexible a setup as a pair of CDJ2000 Nexus at a tenth of their price.
ParticipantWow, that actually worked, thanks for sharing!
ParticipantWell now, come to think of it, you guys have me going like: “Damn, I should’ve taken the money BECAUSE I didn’t enjoy there”. But then, my “other” side says: “But what’s the point of taking that money. You yourself think you don’t deserve it, no point musing on that now”
I suppose I should’ve asked for a payment, but I was too busy regretting the fact that I did not play a good set. It was a major setback on my reputation. If I had asked for money, people would say: “What the… , THAT GOT HIM SO MUCH MONEY!! I could do better than him, why not I be a DJ and start earning”
What do you think?
ParticipantSorry for the late reply, I couldn’t log in here for the past week.
I see what you mean djrizki, But I didn’t need money at all. I was playing at my school (I’m 15 now) and they did offer me some money but hey, I didn’t enjoy myself even a little that day, what would I take the money for? So I chucked the idea out of my head.
Dead Simple.
ParticipantYou’ve just discouraged me towards owning a Mac 🙁
ParticipantHmmm…
I’ve got it this way:
>Acapellas
>Instrumentals
-Trance
-House
-Others>Floor-Fillers
-Trance
-House
-Others>With Vocals
-Trance
-House
-Others>Cheeku [ 🙂 ]
-Mashups
-Remixes
-Edits
-Intro Mixes
-Outro Mixes
-Idents>Scratch Sounds and Beats
>Loops and Samples
ParticipantI’ve got a Mixtrack pro 2, Sennheiser HD201’s (courtesy of my friends here) and a 14-inch laptop. All fits into my school bag and whenever I’ve had a gig, I’ve ridden there on my bicycle. No extra charge spend on mobility or portability 🙂
ParticipantThank you, I’ll remember ’em.
November 15, 2014 at 12:29 pm in reply to: My first gig approached sooner than I predicted… #2090181ParticipantAnd there it goes, my first failure gig (my second ever gig). Looks like I’m not really ready for things yet. I totally flopped the show.
Firstly, to everyone reading this, NEVER EVER take a gig which demands for tunes that you have no experience DJing with. NEVER again. The music stopped several times in my gig because I don’t look at the screen when I’m DJ’ing (I keep dancing around) I never noticed when a track suddenly stops because there are no “intro” and “outro” sections in Bollywood dance. By the time I realised that (after it happened several times) I coudn’t focus at the crowd at all because I was too nervous thinking about what to do next.
Again, people got me loads of requests. And since I don’t listen to bollywood much, I didn’t have any of them. Some people were like, “Dude, this sucks, play something faster”. That’s when I realised I ran out of music to play. I had chosen the WRONG tunes. None of them seemed to fit the situation.
Although the people didn’t mind it much, they cheered when the music stopped and cheered again as soon as they recognized the next track, which was a bit reassuring. Even though, I think the people didn’t care much about the music, and they danced, the event manager didn’t look so happy at the end. The food was really good though, I’m really sad that I won’t get another gig there.
Getting gigs in India was hard enough, playing them successfully was even harder, but then maybe sometimes it just doesn’t work out does it? Any comments, or tips for the challenges ahead would be welcome.
November 15, 2014 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Questions about transitioning for a begiinner DJ #2090171ParticipantOkay, any more?
November 14, 2014 at 11:07 am in reply to: Questions about transitioning for a begiinner DJ #2089851ParticipantOkay, so Stop’N’Drop is one. Any others?
November 14, 2014 at 11:05 am in reply to: My first gig approached sooner than I predicted… #2089841ParticipantAnd I did it!! I’ve played my first gig!! 🙂
The people came with loads of requests, many of them rude, many polite, many of which I didn’t have. Some went away saying “what kind of DJ doesn’t have this …?” and some cheered loudly when I played their requests.
It all went well, the PA system there wasn’t loud enough (I went there early and checked the sound, but I couldn’t hear anything on the far side of the room), I had planned not to touch my laptop at all once I began but I had to increase the gain of each track I loaded on the decks. Great timing, since I had just received the Part 47: Handling venue PA systems from the free DJ course.
I suppose I handled it well, because they’ve asked me to play tomorrow for their Annual Alumini Meet, where I’m supposed to play light bollywood dance tracks. Though not my playing style (I like that genre, but I’ve never really experimented with them while DJing), I still accepted the gig, especially when the said I would get free lunch and a drink (not one too hard though).
I’ve never been so happy in my life.
November 13, 2014 at 10:42 am in reply to: My first gig approached sooner than I predicted… #2088421ParticipantThat’s indeed the first thing I thought of, but the other DJ-dude refused. (I think he’s just jealous)
And now I may be set for playing tomorrow on Children’s Day, if the weather permits. 🙂
ParticipantI agree with Younez, you ain’t over-reacting at all. That is exactly what I would’ve done.
ParticipantThank you, but I still want to know who sent them. Please someone tell me.
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