Hello all,
I have a quick question for anyone who cares to answer it. I've only been DJing for about 4 months now and still have a few key things that I feel I am missing. This past weekend I went to a club in Ft.Lauderdale and was blown away by what the DJ was doing. My question is, how is it that as a DJ, you keep the energy level constant from one song to another? It was non-stop bumping in that club, with your usual peaks and buildups/dropoffs, but it seemed almost like the DJ was using loops over the songs perhaps? Maybe dropping the bass out of the hip hop song and using a 4/4 drum loop to keep a constant beat throughout the set? Not sure if that makes sense. It was mostly Hip Hop music which generally (unless you're kanye west..haha) isn't a 4/4 beat..but all (or MOST) of these were steady 4/4's. What it did for the set was amazing to me.. (Yeah I know, newb..) no matter which song he went in to, it seemed to just be non stop bumpage I did notice that the DJ was using one laptop, and traktor...so there was no live remixing in ableton as far as I could see.. so would my solution be to use bass drum loops over hip hop songs with the bass EQ'd out? ..Or would it be to buy remixed tracks of the particular songs I want and use that to mix with? I definately would prefer to do it all myself..but is this possible with Traktor - On The Fly?
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