do you make a set playlist beforehand? or do you just start playing music and mix in songs on the fly?
thoughts?
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do you make a set playlist beforehand? or do you just start playing music and mix in songs on the fly?
thoughts?
Surely it depends on the gig, but most of the time you can never plan an evening, you never know the crown before your with them! Ofcourse you can think of some cool tracks to play, but at the end, it always comes down to the given atmosphere. If the crown is going mad at 10pm your premade deephouse-set ain't gonna satisfy that many ;)
I try to show up with a basic idea of tracks I want to spin through the night, or interesting transitions I've come up with through the week or two since I last spun. But beyond that who knows what'll happen.
mixing on the fly(one newer knows where the story goes :D ),but with well heard(and played)tracks.
i make a favorites folder for every gig with about 150 tracks.
i actually do a little bit of both.. i have some tracks that i want to play, that i know will mix together good before hand...and then kind of just mix on the fly in and around those tracks.
Same here. ;)
This. A selection of tracks I want to play, maybe a couple transitions I came up with while practicing.Quote:
Originally Posted by wgdavis78
cool! i just wanted to see what other people are doing..which is why i made this poll. thanks for all yoru input guys!
Def a bit of both. I love my setup for this tho.
How my setup works its kinda premade but on the fly at the same time.
I have a large number of 2 track sets in which i know the two tracks work together really well (sometime 2 mix's of the same track) all of which are graphically marked by key (ie colour wheel linked to key .ala. Moldover), I then use harmonic mixing to mix those two track sets into another two track set so that even tho I may have never done that mix before I know it should work (thus avoiding massive train-wrecks).
My setup is weird tho. But I love it. Remote 25 SL + Ableton + Compression (sidechain) = OSSSOME
You should practice, practice, practice to not just hone your skill, but also know what songs go well with each other. So, technically, you can mix on the fly... but, you know kind of in your mind what direction and flow you can take from all that practice.
I make set playlist, which basically brings up the mood, in that playlist every track can be replace depending on the crowd. Basically, the playlist is just a frame that tells me how to mix on the fly.
Hopefully that makes sense hahaha.
This is what DJing is about and I doubt that any program or time-coded vinyl or computer in the near-by future (except self-aware AI, of course) will replace the DJs ability to read the crowd, feel the mood of the set, know the tracks, and program the set.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deviant_Tech
Some of the most common advice is to never pre-program a set in your head. I tried doing that, it never worked so far, never more than 2 tracks (I'd play the two tracks that I wanted to play and then I'd go off on some crazy choices).
Also, don't get trapped in harmonic mixing. I have done some excellent non-harmonic transitions that worked well, and some crappy-ass harmonic transitions.