My very first gig.
i have my first gig on wednesday. im scared as hell! i’m bedroom dj, this is my first gig ever. any advice?
And this setup…i’m using turntables. Club Setup : Pioneer CDJ 900 and Ecler Evo 4. I have never seen this mixer before.
peace!
Do you have any idea how to use CDJs, or beatmatch by ear?
Assuming you’re old enough, feel free to have 1-2 beers, but no more.
Pay attention to how monitoring/cueing works on the Evo 4, and see if it’s different to what you’re used to. That’s probably the biggest scary “new mixer” problem imo.
Go to the bathroom first.
Go to the bathroom first.
Go to the bathroom first.
Being that this is a first gig, set up a playlist that you can fall back to if you panic. Don’t be afraid to stray from it.
Show up early. Pay attention.
Don’t freak out. Just get yourself in the swing of things and realize that you’re just playing someone else’s music. Be confident.
Good luck! 
guys, come on! i’m dj since i’m 17, now im 23 - i’m playing only on turntables and sometimes cdj’s. i’m feeling pretty good about beatmatching. i was using cdj 1000, but i have never seen cdj 900 live bu i assume, that they are simila (sort of) to cdj 1000.
and i’m using mixvibes DVS - there isn’t even properly working BPM counter so i’m forced to beatmatch 
forgot about “edit” option…sorry.
i’m worried about that mixer - this is some space stuff. i had ecler nuo 2, but this is much more advance i guess.
If you’re familiar with 1000s you’ll be fine on 900s. One difference is there are no hotcues on the 900.
Come on what? Just providing advice as requested.
Oka okay, sorry. but i’m so excited. this is pretty big club. i’d rather like play on Serato, but my friend can’t borrow me her interface. meh. i mean, it’s much harder to play without waveforms. i know my music quite good, but…THIS IS FIRT GIG! everything can happen (like alin invasion or something like that)
in Poland you need to 18 to drink, so that’s cool. thanks for help guys
You’re gona screw things up. Everyone screws something in their first show. It’s normal. No matter how professional you try to be, there’s gonna be some kind of a situation where you won’t be at your best. Happened to anyone I talked with about their first gig. Happened to me also. But it’s mostly some small thing and you’re gonna get a hang of it.
In my expirience, I accidentaly increased the master a db or two and it went red and the club owner came to tell me that the sound is clipping after a minute, I wasn’t able to hear it from the DJ booth.
Other than that small thing that kinda pops out on everyone’s first show, you’ll feel great! And have a beer or two before the show like someone said before me, trust us, relaxing a little definitely helps. But no more! You need to be sober when you perform, trust us on that as well.
Hope I helped a little and don’t be scared, it’s a beautiful expirience.
i know what i felt when i was playing on small house parties with my friends - it was TERRIBLE. i tried my best, but it was really bad. and few hours later, at home, i was full of self confidence - but when people filled dancefloor…i even had problems with beatmatching on MY OWN turntables. i guess, it’s normal.
i will post how it was after the gig.
if you don’t know the gear, take a look at pictures online and perhaps look at manuals to understand the differences.
That will help once you’re in front of the gear, and will avoid any gear panic attacks.
You seem ready, have fun!
Relax and enjoy it. Anxiety will hold you back and people around you will pick up on your nerves so don’t let them own you.
I’ve always found 20 minutes with your own thoughts and meditation pre set helps. Sounds a bit hippyish yes, but it works.
The Evo 4 is just a standard 4 channel club mixer, you’ll be fine with it Make sure when you first set up and check your levels you remember to disable the effects as sometimes whoever used the gear last will have left it on. Test each channel you’ll be using thoroughly for distortion and to make sure all the pots/faders work; if there’s a problem, use a different channel.
Apart from that, just relax. The crowd won’t have a clue what you’re doing either way, and neither will the management tbh. As long as the music doesn’t stop completely for more than 10 seconds you’ll be fine.
thanks bros. i feel much better right now. the only thing that REALLY scares me is fact, that i wont have visual waveforms. i know, some call it cheating, but who cares? cdj’s have bpm counter, it alsco can be counted as a cheating. i goin to make some shopping on beatport today - new songs without waveforms…
Vinyl is a “waveform”. I always crack up when people call digital djing cheating because supposedly you don’t have the same visual feedback on vinyl, but you do! Looking at a record you can see the breaks, the various parts of a track, albeit not as precisely as with an actual waveform on traktor.
CDJ900 still have basic block waveforms so you still have visual guide
Honestly, I wish my first gig was played on gear as nice as that!
Yeah the mixers and players are pretty good. There are also technocs sl1210 - but i don’t have Searto at this moment - and the gig is tomorrow.
BUT GUYS! Do i need rekordbox to play from pendrive? i mean, do i need to install that on my PC or something? or can i just copy songs on pendrive and stick into the player? or maybe i should burn it in cd audio? what do you think?
Yeah the mixers and players are pretty good. There are also technocs sl1210 - but i don’t have Searto at this moment - and the gig is tomorrow.
Not unless you want to.
Yep - thats how I do it
I’d do this as well with 20 or 30 tracks across 2 CD’s for piece of mind and additionally I’d burn the MP3’s to 2 CD’s as well so regardless of something failing you’ll still have 100% of your set.
Theres Nothing worse than having the CDJ’s freak out and freeze over a corrupt MP3 thats on your USB Stick or CD.
Yes. You should definitely analyze your music and export to USB with Rekordbox. It’s free so you have no reason not to. Analyzed tracks will have accurate instant BPMs and instant waveforms, and you can also set cuepoints on each track. You’ll also get a lot more music using MP3s on USB than you would with audio CDs.
Burn the MP3s (NOT audio CD!) to 2 CDs too as a backup.