Respect!
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In this situation i usually ring my friend Chuck
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The only sabotage I've gotten is having the dj who plays the week before play every tone deaf request given to him. I know this feeds into the other 100 threads about terrible requests, but it is almost as bad as technical sabotage when you find yourself taken away from your set to explain why The Backstreet Boys were NEVER good and that you can't stop everything so you can download it. :)
yeah, have to agree on this....I also never used serato but I still know that - if using timecode, you only get play/cue and platter function on a CDJ ;)
but yes, still being in the dj booth and on the mixer when the second dj has already started is NOT acceptable!
I would play with you any day sir! I do this also, but no one has ever asked me in return. A pet peeve of mine is despite setting someone up with a good song to transition with that is nice and long with no funky parts so they can get settled into the booth, instead of taking that opportunity, they immediately ruin it by trying to mix in with an off key song that's out of phrase and/or just a total train-wreck. It's like, dude, you are ruining a perfectly good track right now and making me look like an asshole.
Second biggest pet peeve is people who bring laptops/controllers who don't know how to interface in and/or do a proper transition without creating a sonic mess. If you can't get a solid beat matched using a controller to a CDJ, then just don't even try. Let the song end, have an ambient/beat-less track that serves as your intro and then go from there, but just getting into it and creating a mess is super annoying (and unprofessional) in my opinion.
It's even worse when touring DJs do this, you know there's an expectation at that point. The last Steve Lawler party I was at, there was a local opening, then Lawler's opener followed by Lawler himself. The guy Lawler had on before him just RUINED the previous dude's last track, had to just shut off the sound completely. From a nobody DJ at a small club, it's expected sometimes whatever... But for $50 a ticket a large venue, what the hell was that?