Hey DJTT.
I play from 10:30 to 3 on friday and saturday night this past week end and I would like to share some of my experience and pose a few questions for the vets kicking around here.
I started a residency in April. I play Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at a dance lounge in St.John's NL called Escape. Its pretty sick. I have done 3 nights so far and I held the place together while getting commended on my capabilities. I'm looking forward to having to mix 15 hours a week and it paying rent. More importantly, the 15 hours of mixing a week.
Heres this weekends scenario:
2 CDJ800's where at the club for me to use. I brought along my Denon X120 because the mixer provided to me last time was a little beatin' behringer and it was just less stress to bring mine along.
Once I setup I start playing various random songs waiting for the place to fill up. 2nd tune in the pitch fader on one of the cdj is toast. You increase by a fraction and the pitch jumps around by 2 or 3%. Luckily I had my X1 and 95% of my music beatgrided so I ended up having to use the sync in traktor to mix. Everyone who turned out had a blast, I think 120 bodies went through and heard me so thats pretty good I think.
What would you do in a situation where the club equipment isnt up to standards and you had no pitch control without the option to use software?
How do you divert people who insist that you uninstall traktor mid-set and install Scratch live and start using it because it was sent from a higher power?
I feel not even using the dvs anymore and running X1+mixer. There were a couple times that the RCA's needed to be switched out and the CDJ's wouldnt store the cue properly on the timecode cds.
I got a lot more dancing in once I decided to stop relying on the CDJs.
What do you say?
Bad CDJ's+DJ playing upstairs bleeding into the downstairs DJ booth+small amount of protection from whoever wants to approach me+more dancing= sync?
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