Mix Club - The Remedial Class

Dubman

Hands shaking as you pick up tone arm and place the needle on the the record. Hope you’re first record was easy to mix into.

303abuser

When I started out, I’d always have my first 3 records sequenced (with 2 or 3 options to fit the vibe of the room) so I had some time to settle into the gear and and the sound of the room. Best advice I ever received was to go stand on the dance floor during the first record to hear what it sounds like in reference to the monitors.

Amps

303abuser Best advice I ever received was to go stand on the dance floor during the first record to hear what it sounds like in reference to the monitors

Lovely luxury on an empty dancefloor early doors, but less of an option when you’re following the headliner and there are a thousand punters foaming at the mouth with mdma.

Old-Dutch

Plus 1 for the all in one Pioneer setup here. I ditched my CDJs and A&H Xone mixer about 5 years ago and have never looked back. Fuck burning CDs

Smallman1

gcw ’m not so sure it went well. My first few tracks had people dancing but they soon lost interest! I just don’t have the records for that type of gig. It was however great to have that adrenaline rush of ’right this is an actual mix, don’t mess this up!'

Tell me you played this!

gcw

Smallman1 would have probably gone down better than what I did play!

Mad_Cyril

Amps
Not sure it beats the pressure of the cat glaring at you from the sofa whilst you nervously mix in your second track

303abuser

Amps Yeah absolutely. Also, what does a crowd look like?

Old-Dutch

Agreed Amps. Can’t even recall how many times that’s happened to me over the years

Amps

Lols gents, lols!

gcw

Do any of you lot make much use of the ‘kill’ buttons on a mixer (if you have them)?

I have 3 kill buttons for each channel that drop out the high/mid/low elements of a track. It’s obviously a really quick way of dropping out an element; is it that common to use though?

Mad_Cyril

gcw I don’t have owt like that, I do kill a lot of transitions though!!

BlainSA

gcw When I had a vestax with kill switches I used them only for the bass and it was good at swapping bass lines or just kicking in a new beat (switch one on, kill the other at the same moment).

gcw

I know that feeling trust me!

I wasn’t sure if it was something that was fairly common to do (and I’ve just never noticed it) or if it was more for beatbox type DJ’s.

It certainly is a decent way to bring a track in without it always sounding like trainers in a washing machine

gcw

BlainSA yeah I’m getting that feeling myself, the high and mid kill buttons just change the sound way too much.

Dubman

My old & deceased Numark mixer had them. I didn’t really use them that much to be honest as I just always used the EQ’s

Homegrove

New ones don’t have them anymore. Thought this video was nice.

Along_the_Wire

Was meant to do the closing two hours DJing at a mate’s wedding and ended up doing four - had a fucking whale of a time. Was a bit worse for wear, so had to urgently reach for sync button more than I’d like, but only made one fuck up the whole set. Was playing loads of tracks that I hadn’t prepped and still got the mix points bang on, so well pleased with that element. Playing out is just the best fucking thing.

Old-Dutch

Wallop - nice one mate

Smallman1

Tell me you dropped Sasha’s Mongoose Grant!

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 Didn’t have it on my memory stick. Pional - Tempest, Nick Muir - Burkino Faso, Positive Education, David Holmes remix of Smokebelch II, Emerald, Der Alte and Nana all went down a fucking storm.

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