I can’t mix for shit
Sometimes I just lose the fucking plot. Especially after a few days or a week of not doing anything.. does this happen to anyone else?
I suppose it only really applies to my fellow manual beatmatchers..
ahhhh ventage
we all have our slumps. sounds like youre thinking about it too much.
have a beer, watch some tv, then do your favorite old mixes.
but dont overanalyze, it’ll drive you nuts mate.
happens all the time, more so after moving town, away from all my mates who used to mix. When it happens, I usually end up playing really old tracks that I love, or tracks I hardly ever play. Makes for a nice change of pace 
beatmatch or not, it can happen. trust me, i’m speaking from both sides of the fence
for sure dude. sometimes i’m concentrating so much I can’t even tell if things are in time.. I swear I think some tracks even by themselves are out of time.. fucking bananas
yeah I’ll just take it as a slump I guess.. and also when I’m just mixing for fun I try and use harder tracks to mix so maybe I should just have a good hour or so of just stuff I know backwards to get some confidence back..
ahh thanks for the love though. so glad I have somewhere to vent. not sure my mum appreciates the finer points of djing
…i havent played a club gig in about 2 years. simply havent been motivated too. i had a shit job that had shit hours and lost motivation/was too tired to play. about 3.5 years ago had about $4,000 of gear stolen + all my music (i was supposed to open for jose padilla the next night too).. i didnt play after that for about 6 months. i stopped searching out new tunes. stopped listening to EDM completely for a while. i still only play occasionally. once or twice a month maybe at friends houses or parties. thats it.
im getting the urge to get back into it tho! i think its sometimes a good thing to take a break every now and then.
Sometimes they are 
. If my ears tell me that something sounds out of time, but I can’t find out what’s wrong, I take a 2 bar loop with a variation at the end and play it over the track you want to check. If the variation drifts, you can tell the track is out of time. Real easy to do and you notice it immediately.
Walk away from the decks… Its not your girlfriend, you can just ignore it when it pisses you off.
Its counter productive to ‘always’ battle against it.
Stay away for however long it takes for you to really really want to get on the decks again.
You will soon get your “mojo” back as Austin Powers would say.
if you need something to get your teeth into and a slightly different direction to refresh check out the ‘will they blend’ link in my sig…
yeah sometimes im just not into it. the energy and the focus isn’t there to make it work. no big deal.
it’s worse when you doing some digging on beatport/juno and nothing stands out. hate those days.
want new choons, not feeling anything and your whole collection feels like it sucks donkey rim
Practice…
That’s the only way you can ever be sure of something and be confident on it.
I know for a fact that I can mix at 3am after just being woken up with a HUGE hangover.
Its like riding a bike for me now…
But yeah…i do get the …SHIT…Its been a while…Can I still do it like I did before?
Once I am up there…i zone out…and there i mix!
So yeah…practice mate!
wait a sec, you mean you CANT just ignore your gf when she pisses you off? is that generally frowned upon or something? :eek:
LOL…
ignoring my decks means i just want them more. Ignoring my g/f means i dont eat.
Its a cave man instinct for food.
I never ignored my gf in the old days, maybe thats why I’m married now 
I think that mixing is just like girlfriends. If you love it, you will never be able to ignore it, not even when she pisses you off.
The better thing to do is to change your subject and try new things with her, but don’t leave her all alone if you want to love her forever like I did with mine
The same is with DJing 
Its the BEST thing to do!
They first think fuckall of it.
Then they get MAD!
Then they start trying to play games…
Then they get real mad..REAL mad…
Then they cry…
That’s how it works…
Then i get my dinner made ?
No…then I get head…her way of saying sorry…
LOL
This used to happen to me alot back in the back circa 2001. Back then I was practing till my ear would bleed. After a while I just couldnt get a beat matched and everything sounded like shit. So id take break for a day or two smoke a ton of weed and then hit the decks again, renewed and ready.
Its just like poker, somtimes U run so bad u just gotta take a day or two off or you end up donking off your bankroll.
never heard truer words. i hit a wall a week before christmas and hadnt touched traktor (delved completely into ableton) then was downloading some new music and threw em into traktor and had a blast.
sometimes thats all you need to do. if only you could put your girlfriend/wife on a shelf for a few hours/days/weeks/months/years if it was really grating on your nerves and come right back to her when you feel the need. 