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    Quote Originally Posted by Jester.NZ View Post
    drink more.
    not too much though i literally fell out of the dj box a few weeks ago when i finished a student night (luckily when i had finished and not mid set!!), the mixing was fine, the crowd were loving it, and buying me drinks, but at the end of the night i was absolutely tw*tted! had to look through my archive the next day to see what i was playing!
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    hahaha I agree on the midi figther, smash those arcade buttons like you are doing hadouken.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brian_johnstone View Post
    not too much though i literally fell out of the dj box a few weeks ago when i finished a student night (luckily when i had finished and not mid set!!), the mixing was fine, the crowd were loving it, and buying me drinks, but at the end of the night i was absolutely tw*tted! had to look through my archive the next day to see what i was playing!
    Yep.. been there... not good... especially if you puke at ur girlfriends parents house after the set

    I don't usually pre-plan my sets and I beat match, so i'm busy from the moment I start until the end of the night's 7 min. tunes.... A lot depends on how long your set is and what crowd your playing for.... If your playing a 6 hour set, then its ok to not be super busy the whole time... use that time to move to the music and read and react to your crowd... but never add FX to your tunes because your bored. Unless your doing a live remix set (max 1 hour) I'd use FX and sample layering sparingly... but that's just my opinion after years of experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brian_johnstone View Post
    not too much though i literally fell out of the dj box a few weeks ago when i finished a student night (luckily when i had finished and not mid set!!), the mixing was fine, the crowd were loving it, and buying me drinks, but at the end of the night i was absolutely tw*tted! had to look through my archive the next day to see what i was playing!
    haha what student night was that?

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    My answer might not be the best, but honestly I felt the same way around 2 years ago. I changed the midi controller for 2 TTs and started to manually beatmatch. After a couple of months I decided that I did not wanted to use tracktor anymore.
    Now I use 2 Cdjs and 2 TTs and no laptop (usually 2 deck mixing ocassionaly 3). I dont get much idle time and really enjoying it much more. I get more frustrated when things go bad, but on the other side the payback when you do everything right yourself is really awsome.

    Every time I have free time I use it to find the next tracks on the wallet or crate, organice etc. I feel like a musician again
    This way you will keep your brain working and thinking in music, not in files, folders, mappings, cables, interfaces ... you know
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    Quote Originally Posted by jay2 View Post

    ew. what's worse, is that he's apparently on some kind of tour currently...

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    Haha awesome video with Amon Tobin. I'll do exactly as he recommends. Sneaking up on the mixer has to be a crowd pleaser haha!

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