I really need to stop faffing about with Traktor and buying tunes and do a mix!
Does anyone else find they spend ages buying new tunes and then working on setting up their controller and traktor and just dont do enough mixing! I find the second i switch traktor on I start tinker rather than mixing!
I definitely spend more time digging for tunes than mixing, but when I sit down to do a mix that’s what I do. I’ve got the latest DJTT mapping and have pretty much settled on just using it like it is and don’t do much tinkering so that may explain why that is.
I think the fact I’ve recently switched the main genre I spin means I’m really digging for new tunes all the time and finding new tunes I really like!
I go through spurts. I’ll just mix and record and promote, and then I’ll disappear and code the shit out of stuff. Now I’m getting to the point where I want to do both
no, infact quite the opposite, i really need to get back to digging for new tunes because i dont have nearly enough to mix with heh
The reason I dig so much is the very different genres I look for, For example so far this month I’ve purchased House of all kinds, Techno, Soul, Funk, Disco, Jazz , some Classic Country and a few things I just classify as international.
same here to the max. i find myself mixing too much and not wanting to spend any new money on tunes because i’m a broke student 
I usually play out twice a week, so that’s where I practice my performance skills. I should practice on my own, but I’ve found that stuff I do when I’m bedroom DJing doesn’t always translate over to a live show. The exception would probably be making beats, and crazy intros for my sets.
I would say my personal rule is not more than a 4:1 ratio of prep-performance. If you don’t have a place to perform, make mixtapes or something. All prep and no performance is counter-productive and boring. The audience doesn’t care how perfect your controller mapping is.
One caveat: Hours digging for the perfect track or remix is a good idea. Having great music and poor mixing skills still makes you a great DJ. Playing something people haven’t heard before, but love immediately is a great feeling for you and the audience.
I do a mix once a month in between that i concentrate on Ableton along with production, I don’t practise and I don’t constantly mix maybe because i do it because i love the music and not for the want of a gig 
either way i should do more but time is limited lol.
Same here for the most part. However, my only real disappointment is, even after my rather grueling process of weeding out the turd tracks (I go through about 3 listens), I always have at least 1 per batch that I play and just punch myself in the balls for buying.
naa it’s pretty cyclic for me.. i alternate between phases of digging/researching music and phases of mixing the new tunes.
been using the same mapping i programmed for awhile now, no sense fixing what ain’t broke.
when i saw the title, i completely read, “i need to stop fapping…”
too true, i’ve been djing for about 15 years now but it seems no matter how much i try i always end up buying tracks that are naff. but i’m such an impulse buyer really, i only need to listen to about 10 seconds of a song and i make my decision on whether or not to buy it!
I normally end up loading up one track intending to start and mix and then just play around with effects!
I will admit I’m guilty of that on occasion. 
I have two korg nanokontrols because of that. One of them has my effect unit and the other, my mixing unit. When I want to practice my transition skills without effects I can turn off the fx unit
I am completely new to the scene and have been reading religiously around here. I must say that I hope your logic is accurate because this is the road I am taking. I have been practicing for an hour a night since I got my omni control. I still use Traktor LE but plan to upgrade soon. I hope that my choice in music will floor people and they wont care so much about my technical skills. I hope in a couple months to be a midi-fighter though.
lol yeah why does it always work that way??
on the other hand i will buy songs that i like but are virtually impossible (at the moment) to actually get into a mix…im ok with that since i actually like the song even if its useless for the moment
YES! That’s what you want to go after. As long as your mixing and effects don’t sound BAD, maybe just OK, and your song selection is brilliant, people will love you. (Me too)
I sometimes DJ with this guy who is light-years ahead of me with his mixing and scratching skills, but he can’t move the room quite like I can. I’ve had people come up to me telling me how I’m so much better than him and whatnot… (I’m not, trust me.) Why? I make better music choices.
An old friend of mine said, “You pick the tunes, then you play them. If you play crap tunes you’re a crap DJ.”