Yuki Sorrelwood

The only reason she is trying to be a DJ is because she is sleeping with one. If she was sleeping with a race car driver she would want to drive race cars. This trend of “famous” people becoming DJs really needs to stop. I was pushed out of a set because of some tool from a TV show that I have never heard of came to town was trying to be a DJ. His set was so bad that he cleared the dance floor twice and let the music hit dead air many times!!! “Ohhh wooops I forgot to play another song, la de da here we go i was just playing house now i am playing metal” He was so bad that the opening DJ and I begged him to leave, we offered him $300 to get up and leave. The club owners didn’t care, “Oh well look how many people he brought into the club, its best that he stays”….let the “famous” people sit around and drink dont let them work, if they are drinking they will still bring in people but they will also spend cash like no tomorrow. Let the people who put music first in their life be DJs not some “Famous TV Star” wreck your club…..the idiot also spilled beer all over 2 brand new CDJs never even used, I had hooked them up and everything…….”Oh well opps i spilled my beer i have to get a new one”

I personally would stay away from buying the pools. You can end up waiting your money on songs that you will never play. I would stick with places such as djdownload.com or any site that allows you to pick your music, but be smart and look at the quality of your music first. I prefer to use FLAC or CDs in my sets to keep all the music at top quality. And if i get any MP3 file it must be 256kbs or higher. If the file is any lower I dont waste my time. I rather have great sounding music then to have all 100 of the greatest hits of this week.

Well let me tell you this, beat matching is a skill you MUST have. I went to a club with a friend to DJ with him and the first thing i noticed is that there was no BPM counter or display with waveforms to show if my tracks were synced. But because I know how to beat match by ear I was 100% fine. Well first off you might be able to learn with your MIDI you had before you got the SCS 4 DJ. I use Virtual DJ to refine my beat matching skills, your able to see the waveforms and control both decks like vinyl. The best way to really learn with a MIDI controller is to set up a song you know on deck 1 and then have someone pick a random song to mix into. Place that on deck 2 and randomly start the song. With out looking at the computer at all, work the pitch until you notice that they sound to be at the same speed. Once you have them around the same speed either turn deck 2 forwards or slow it until you hear one bass kick. Now don’t think you will get it right on the first time, or even the 10th time. Every DJ out there can tell you that beat matching with out digital displays is not an exact art, you can be 0.3% off on the pitch and your tracks will fall out of beat. Heck, even I will notice when I am fading out that my track happen to fall very slightly behind. But that is the human element, its what makes us DJs and not a computer. Your very young and you might get tired of trying and failing, but dont worry. In the long run beat matching is one of the primal skills you will use. And no one likes watching a DJ push one button and have his computer do all the work, you will end up looking like your checking your e-mail not DJing. I have messed with they Sync buttons, they make beat matching easy. They do not work out all the problems. Beat matching goes farther then just getting the bass kicks in sync, you also have to adjust the sound to keep from droping the volume from one track to the next, or blasting the floor when you hit that crossfader. You also have to adjust the EQ settings to keep one bass kick from “eating” the other. But that is all second skills you will learn from beat matching. Oh and a very handy tip is to turn your entire DJ set up around, stop facing the wall. 90% of all bedroom DJs I have seen are facing walls! WHY?!?!?! When you get up on a stage your not facing a wall, your looking at a crowd. Your best bet to fix it is to get a L-shaped desk. No need to be fancy, I picked on up at target for just over $60, and its big enough that I can set up 2 CD decks, a mixer, and a laptop or iMac all on it and have PLENTY of room. But the point is that you need to stop facing a wall, you dont see DJs facing walls in clubs, so why do it at home?