How Many Songs Are You Averaging per Set?

[Sambo]

When I DJ deep house.. One song an hour. On a four bar loop.

[bieberatemytaco]

when i dj deep house.. One song an hour. On a four bar loop.

lol

[mdcdesign]

Hope you don't mind the criticism, but many of the transitions in the mix you linked sounded a bit off to me too. Might want to polish up the EQing and phrasing a little if it's what you're giving to promoters and clubs.

Cheers The EQing was definitely off; switching between hardware and software EQing is kinda screwing me up a bit so I need to just keep practicing and learn the differences between Traktor and hardware curves.

Sound cloud mix you posted sounds more like what I would call pop house IMO if that is prog house then this set I did is 1:20 of prog house and 1:30 of trance

Sorry man hate the way prog house genre has degraded itself to cheddar

nd your mix is hardly a mix sounds more like cuts and jumps that are synced and quantized with off beat grids it's not shabby but the way you came Ito this thread I expected more. Where you are mixing your off its not spot on by any means and your killing your previous tracks not in phase or creating builds to kill them.

Another edit in a what I call pop house set I will drop likely 12 to 18 tracks in an hour in a trance set I average around 7mins a track so maybe 8-10 tacks usually why I do on average a 2 to 3 hour set

I did say it was a conservative Progressive House mix; ie, one with some tracks that club owners might actually recognize :P Tracks like that get spread out throughout the night when I play out.

Lucid summed it up pretty much. All the transitions are in time (obviously), but even the 1st one at 2:00 sounds wrong.
Vocals were often sounding hollow and old tracks were left in for too long at times. And more pop house/electro than prog.

No complete trainwrecks (not sure what to say about 16:38..) but I did expect a lot more from such a harsh critic.

See above, but yeah; hollow vocals go back to the EQing issue you mentioned earlier, so duly noted

I agree with makar. For a person that criticises everyone on what they do and like we expected a lot. It just sounded like a below average cheesy house mix. It also sounded like you were just cutting from track to track. I thought you layered prog house

To be fair, I criticize gear and genres, not mixing

When I DJ deep house.. One song an hour. On a four bar loop.

So THAT's why it sounds like 1 song all night long at some of the venues I work.

[DirtyNerd]

When I DJ deep house.. One song an hour. On a four bar loop.

I play minimal techno, so it's one song an hour on a ONE bar loop.

[Sambo]

I play minimal techno, so it's one song an hour on a ONE bar loop.

I haven't progressed my skills to that level yet. I started with dubstep, where I pressed the RCA jacks onto various body parts for 5 hours and watched people mong out to the feedback.

Seriously though... I do between 4 and 5 hours a night , top 40 club, and I can easily fit 40 songs inside an hour and get the crowd going bananas. Obviously you have to mix right and within the flow, but I find it easy enough. Also, when it comes to dubstep/glitch hop (Skrillex and Knife Party) it literally divides the dance floor in half, so I find it better to mash it all up in a short 15-20 minute set and get it out of the way as I'm coming out of peak time. Dubstep fans generally consider themselves to be "DJs" so when you do quick cut up mixes they know what's going on and they love it, where the other people don't care because it's all "SCREE SCREEE WOMP BIPBIPBIP" to them anyway.

When I finish tonight, I'll tell you how many songs I played.

[makar1]

To be fair, I criticize gear and genres, not mixing

You might be able to criticize gear more effectively once you've mastered how to use it. And I don't think it's even possible to criticize a genre.

[dj gullum]

last friday I did a gig 5 hours and played 109 song saturday 3 hours gig 66 songs. Usealy the first hour and half I play whole songs after then I get more bussy mixing.

[LoveBeat]

Wow, I'm averaging that per hour with probably partly the same music. Am I doing something wrong?

no, no each of us djs have their own way to DJ, I personally play the full songs and stuff, but you can do it your own way

[johney]

i average at about 22 tracks per hour

[donstone]

40 an hour seems very fast for prog

I remember when it was the norm to spin 10-14 tracks an hour for progressive house.

That's when it was actual progressive house and not crap pop EDM though

most tracks ranged from 7-11 minutes long