Matt Leave the flanger well alone.
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I know from your previous escapades, never to touch the Flanger.
Unless you’re an EDM-DJ delay and reverb are all you need. With Pioneer the filters sound like effects too.
I thought a flanger was a weapon off Star wars
Dubman I though he was a weapon from the old board.
Probably both
Swerve all effects at all costs, unless you’re Zabiela playing some cut up techno shiz. They always sound shit and are always over used. Concentrate on beat matching, equing, phrasing, and track selection.
Yeah. Amp’s got it.
@Amps#96551 What Amps said
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Just caught up on this 446 (replies) thread. Excellent advice! I recently graduated (self-awarded) to a DJM 450 & (2) XDJ1000MK2. Must say there’s a lot of good pointers in here. Played out in front of a group of six core friends this Saturday as it led up to a more talented friend’s boat party. Received several compliments and just did all that I could to not overshadow our upcoming event and play a mix that I practiced four times leading up to my slot.
I’ll say now that breaks tunes are tough. Sometimes they take half the track to have an output to overtake the tech-house playing on Channel 1.
Knowing the library is important but even more-so is knowing your audience. Nice to get the jitters out (not one to blame all things on anxiety but the feeling was there).
What are your opinions of a double loop . . . I try to avoid unless mixing in a loop but running out of track run way?
Removing the tempo decimal on my XDJs to avoid my immediate habit to obsessively fiddle with an exact tempo match? Maybe it will do more for my overall beat matching?
Lastly, I admire a lot of your care for listening to a recorded mix several times before publishing and aim for clean mixes.
Hope to contribute more as am only just into a lazy three years of this hobby!
TL;DR: Aspiring DJ with three years of DJ experience describing a kitchen sink kind of weekend. Minor accomplishment of playing for a handful of drunk guys that enjoy the genre before a real party. Few questions and applause for all the contributions to this thread.
this thread though. It’s like a bunch of teenage girls discussing foreplay.
get a grip of yourselves boys. and post some mixes up.
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I know nothing about audiences having never played to more than about 7 people at a time ! However - yes loop away both in and out.. when it helps - sometimes it is pretty unnecessary as you can see predictable blocks of sound on the waveform - but match the phrasing and know that in a 16 bar loop the producer might well add extra elements in the second 8. By all means align both tracks to the same number of bpm- but then its all about your ears knowing that you will have to make minor adjustments as you hear them going out in the mix when you are cueing number 2 in your headphones. small nudge up or down . you can mix them both in your headphones but its not always the same. breaks take practice as does D n B but in fact after a bit I find them easier for some reason. its all about putting the hours into your lugholes in terms of practice it seems to me . On the beat matching maybe the best way to learn to trust your ears is to go old skool and ignore the bpm numbers and do it all by ear until you get get pretty close or bang on with confidence.