A-B mixing is not boring.
Fact.
Great thread. I’m amazed.
Or is this a very complex April Fools?
I like how you conveyed your argument. Really convincing.
i’m 100% serious
Well, I think it is boring. If it doesn’t contain over 9000 hotcues, samples, crab scratches and at least a few air horns, it’ll bore me.
And I don’t have ADHD.
That had to be sarcastic… but it truely does bore me…
3 minute song, mix to the next… 3 minute song.. mix to the next… What exactly then did you buy those crazy technics for.. cdjs or the 2500 mac book pro to do… To each their own. I hope it dies very soon and people understand that to be entertaining.. you need to entertain.. and .. Do something.
Even top name DJs say A B mixing is boring and the consumer over glorifies what they are actually doing up there.
Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin… scene needs more artists like that.. IE: ones who take advantage of their 4k dollar setups.
A - B IS boring. It is NOT creative, and it is just plain lazy. It is the epitome of “a little knowledge being a dangerous thing”.
Don’t convince yourself that because you can (almost) beatmatch, and that you understand phrasing, you are a creative being. You are NOT a DJ.
I can programme a perfectly mixed A-B set set in Ableton Live that any club/bar could play over their PA in place of paying a DJ. THAT IS WHY DJ’s MUST become more creative - to prove they are still required.
This is truly the worst thread I have ever laid eyes upon. It will get real ugly, real quick, in here.
+1 Been saying this for years. But when people keep getting 300 dollar a night gigs with their prerecorded sets, 13 song 1 hour mixes, its just not going to die as fast as we want 
/thread; delete
Sell your equipment now. Or just donate it to someone who actually gives a shit about DJing.
A-B mixing is not boring for the average club patron.
A-B mixing (IMO) is boring for the DJ and for a crowd paying to see a specific DJ.
DJs aren’t necessary. Accept it. Nobody wants to see some crazy routine. Have you ever been to a DMC? Half the people are bored and there are no girls. People want to dance. DJs aren’t musicians. They play music.
I kind of agree. I don’t think DJs are necessary, but I also think they are a great asset for a bar or a club. But again, agree on DMC
http://boilerroom.tv/dj-ez-45-min-mix/
Well if by definition of A-B mixing means one deck to the other, then this video proves it certainly isn’t boring. There is a break down somewhere of what EZ is doing here but i forget where it is, but as far as i can tell, there is nothing more going on here than 2 channels on a mixer and 2 CDJ’s and he absolutely kills it and uses the tech he has to it’s full potential without a million pieces of kit.
DJ’s aren’t necessary the same way that live bands/artists aren’t “necessary”.
The DMC’s are about showcasing what you CAN do in a limited time. Having to squeeze all you skills techniques into a 3 or 6min routine is hard. But spread those techniques across a 90min mix, and THEN compare THAT to an A-B, and you suddenly see what a DJ SHOULD be…
I actually kinda disagree only to an extent. A-B sucks when its like the last 30 seconds mixing all the time. I prefer creativity too. But very long mixes A-B can be quite good. Having a mix constructed to play for 2+ minutes and two songs are playing simultaneously working to create something unique can take a good amount of skill to make it sound good. Of course with more decks this can goes beyond A-B, but thats in essence what Cox does and many others.
I don’t think it’s necessarily boring. There’s a lot of different approaches to DJing. You have Laidback Luke who does really complex mixing and then Armin van Buuren who does more simple A->B mixing but it really is like a journey.
That is definitely NOT the definition of an A- B mix. To me, an A - B mix is just the outro of one song, into the intro of the next song.
EZ has got MAD skills.
That’s A-B mixing to me. He’s a bad man.
All we need now is another Sync thread 