I posted a couple of weeks ago asking for advice as I've got a gig coming up on the 28th of Feb.
However, I got asked to do a gig on Saturday there and I went ahead with it, so glad I did!
I was nervous as hell for a few reasons, mainly that I'd never played out before but also because the bar I played had CDJ 1000s and an old DJM 600 mixer. I'd never used CDs before, I always use USBs with my CDJ 850s and I wasn't used to a 4 channel mixer (I have DJM 350). I was worried because the only way I'm fully comfortable is because I can see my cue points etc and see when to mix in/out (I normally write this info in the 'comments' section of Rekordbox), however with the CDJ 1000s it didn't display them. Anyway, I ended up playing for nearly 3 hours and the majority of the mixing was good. I did have my laptop with me and left Rekordbox open just so I could still view all the track info...
I'm worried about my gig that's coming up on the 28th though...
Basically the bar I played in didn't have booth monitors so I done all of the mixing in my headphones (is this good/bad practice btw?). However on the 28th the club I'm playing it might have booth monitors and it's a lot bigger/there'll be more people there. If I mix in my headphones will it sound ok through the club's speakers?
I learned to DJ in my house so a lot of the time I couldn't have the speakers turned up loud, therefore I haven't mastered having one ear on my headphones / one listening to the monitors, I can't mix that way...is that something I should try to learn?
Thanks for any help again guys, appreciate it!
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