Any DJs Or Wannabe DJs In This Piece?

Any djs on hear? I been djing for about 8 months, its pretty sick. Especially cuz it opens all sorts of other musical ideas for me, cuz before that i was already a guitarist and home producer of sorts. I'm also an avid music lover which i think is a must for djing; already havin a good record/music collection doesnt hurt either. O, and r there any old timers on here?

i actually just started getting interested in DJing. Im sucha beginner its not even funny. I have ableton live 6 and i just bought a MIDI controller (akai MPD 24).

I would love some tips or pointers or ANY advise. I dont have money to take classes so im trying to teach myself everything. I love music tho and even in the first few weeks of learning about all this stuff i feel like I have found a calling. DJing is so much fun!!

I dont know really anything about Live but you got yourself a nice midi controller there. Fuck classes man, i dont see a need for them unless your getting really into sound engineering or something like that. Just read and experiment as much as you can. You should check out virtual dj, deckadance, and traktor, the pirate bay has a bunch of good torrents for all of them so can try before you buy, or not buy at all . I'm sure you've heard of serato but u need one of the sound cards that r made for it.

Wow no one else is into djing

rotcodnatas said:

Wow no one else is into djing

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do yous have a set of decks???

cds or vinyl i mean.

if yous are just on about using a comp programe then its not really djing. its e-jing.

i play a few diff styles. mostly hard stuff. hard house, hard trance, tech-trance and the at the mo mostly hardstyle!!!!

i have a set of technic 1210s mk2s. im tryin me best to stay with vinyl. love them and dont really want to move to cds but its lookin like ill have to. i can use cds alright and can even maybe mix better on them but i just preff to be old skool.

I spin with the m-audio xponent. Mostly progressive trance, vocal trance, house and breakbeat.

i'm about to get Serato, spinnin with 2 1200 technics and a numark dxm mixer since my vestax broke...

cant wait to spin my music library from my computer to my vinyl

I have serato its pretty sweet but i only really use it for scratching and beat juggling. For regular mixing i use virtual dj, it does wat i need it to even tho its not that big on effects, o well. But i started messing with traktor and mixmeister, actually i made a pretty cool mix of some tracks from benny benassi's rock and rave album in mixmeister.

Mcgician how do you like the xponent? I been looking into getting a controller but am still undecided on which one.

Yeah i like vinyl too i got a pair of older numarks, cant remember what model but they're strait. Eventually id like to get some cdj 1000s or some denon dns3700s, they're new and they're pretty fuckin sweet, got some real nice features and wat. O and i spin everything. But recently ive been getting into hardstyle.

rotcodnatas said:

Mcgician how do you like the xponent? I been looking into getting a controller but am still undecided on which one.

But recently ive been getting into hardstyle.

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I really like the xponent, and the torq software, but make sure all your most recently downloaded/converted music is in the database before you decide to put together a set that you plan on recording. It's easy to forget what's in your database and forget to do the legwork in transferring some of the files. As far as workability, it's an awesome unit, but it's definitely not something I'd recommend for somebody doing it professionally. A pro would need more features, but for somebody looking to mix music, and maybe add some creative transitions, it's awesome.

Thanks for the info

yea.. I was a club/party DJ for over 20 yrs but im retired now and just spin at home in a spare bedroom to pass the time. Old school hip hop/funk/R&B/Jazz is what I like to spin. I must say I have wicked scratch and mix sklills. Not bragging or anything.. Ok maybe I am just a lil lol. I had torque for a while but sold it and bought serato. IMHO serato has less latency. I had a pair of really nice 1210 M5G's but sold them to pay some bills and bought a cpl reg 1200 MKII's.. I still love the MKII's as I used em for yrs and yrs so im comfy w/ em.

Heres my lil bedroom rig.

Just recently got interested in DJing, there's a big scene for international artists / local Dubstep acts at a few clubs in town, love the dubstep / D'N'B sound. Been chucking a few beats together just on FruityLoops and Dekadance, would get some turntables if I ever thought I could make a real go of it. Deffinitely an awesome skill to have, but takes a LOT of practice, hard to stick with I reckon.

Its really not as hard as you think. Once you get the basics down(beatmatching, basic types of mixing,etc.) your golden. Really the hardest and most important thing is reading a crowd, knowing when to play what track and where. Another thing is just generally having the time to devote to practice; practice practice practice and more practice, thats really the only way i know of to get the basics and even improve yourself further down road.

Hey justatoker I dont blame you for switchin, Ive heard from a lot of people that torque is just plain whack. M-Audio's dj controller is strait just not the software. I haven't heard the greatest things about the connectiv sound card either in comparison to the serato unit and others. Have you tried some of the other dj apps or did you go straight to serato?Did you ever work with any of the real big djs? O, and sorry to hear about your grandmasters.

rotcodnatas said:

I have serato its pretty sweet but i only really use it for scratching and beat juggling. For regular mixing i use virtual dj, it does wat i need it to even tho its not that big on effects, o well. But i started messing with traktor and mixmeister, actually i made a pretty cool mix of some tracks from benny benassi's rock and rave album in mixmeister.

Mcgician how do you like the xponent? I been looking into getting a controller but am still undecided on which one.

Yeah i like vinyl too i got a pair of older numarks, cant remember what model but they're strait. Eventually id like to get some cdj 1000s or some denon dns3700s, they're new and they're pretty fuckin sweet, got some real nice features and wat. O and i spin everything. But recently ive been getting into hardstyle.

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if your goin to ge some cd decks go for the cdj's! there the best cd decks out there. you'll find them in most clubs now. if i ever do get cds ill be gettin them. easy enought to play aswell. i have vitual dj on me comp but only ever use it for pissin about in the house. theres no point usin it at a gig. it dose pretty much everything for ya. id get laughed at a gig over ere if i did anyway. lol i love the hardstyle meself. what djs ya like? i have a link to d/l about 300 or so tunes if ya want it. a lot of shit in it but youll defo find something ya like!

nice set up toker!

What's wrong with Denon, and dont give me the technics analogy, Pioneer and Denon decks are starting to look pretty identical and switching between the two should be much of a problem. Plus your lookin at about 3000 grand for a pair cdj 1000s. Plus denon has midi which is a plus for me. So all i would need is a pair denons, a midi mixer like the ones from Ecler, a serato or audio 8 sound card, maybe another midi controller of some sort and I'd be set.
Virtual Dj only does everything for you if you want it to. O, and I dont mean to be coming as defensive.
As hardstyle goes i like the headhunterz, wildstylez, and blutonium boy, but ive only recently got into the genre, also ive been checkin out speedcore.

rotcodnatas said:

What's wrong with Denon, and dont give me the technics analogy, Pioneer and Denon decks are starting to look pretty identical and switching between the two should be much of a problem. Plus your lookin at about 3000 grand for a pair cdj 1000s. Plus denon has midi which is a plus for me. So all i would need is a pair denons, a midi mixer like the ones from Ecler, a serato or audio 8 sound card, maybe another midi controller of some sort and I'd be set.
Virtual Dj only does everything for you if you want it to. O, and I dont mean to be coming as defensive.
As hardstyle goes i like the headhunterz, wildstylez, and blutonium boy, but ive only recently got into the genre, also ive been checkin out speedcore.

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nothing wrong with them it just pioneer seem to be the 1 choice of a lot of djs. i know what ya mean bout virtual dj but its just not the same as havin a set of real decks ya know. yea i liek few of there tunes too. few belters they have. dont know bout the speedcore tho. not mad on that!

I guess its like the 1200s situation, they become sort of a standard and not a lot of people go and look at anything else. I use timecoded vinyl so I get the best of both worlds IMO. When I first got VDJ and hadn't purchase Serato it sorta sucked but i got by with a few tricks here and there.
Belters

rotcodnatas said:

I guess its like the 1200s situation, they become sort of a standard and not a lot of people go and look at anything else. I use timecoded vinyl so I get the best of both worlds IMO. When I first got VDJ and hadn't purchase Serato it sorta sucked but i got by with a few tricks here and there.
Belters

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yea its pretty much the same. can ya use the symti vinyls with vdj?? didnt know ya could do that. i just piss about with the mouse and keyboard. i never used serato but it looks the bizz. do ya ever have any probs with it??

What are symti vinyls. Anyways ive had no problems, VDJ has supported serato and pcdj timecodes since version 5.2. From what ive experienced you could use serato timecodes in previous versions but there was no needle dropping.