I have been on here for a while, and been learning from all of you! Every single one of you without a doubt to be honest. Thanks to all your help I have finally gotten to a point where I have gained enough confidence to sign up and was accepted thankfully to my university’s (California State University Fullerton) radio program.
I will be broadcasting EVERY week on Thursdays at 4:00PM to 4:30PM PST. Sadly they are only giving me 30 minutes for right now since it’s my first semester signing up for it.
It will be airing on my college’s radio, and a iphone app is available for it as well. I’ll be linking everything on this thread within the next 2 days.
I will be spinning a lot of hip hop remixes, edm, house, and dubstep.
I would truly appreciate it if you guys would tune in, and then give me suggestions on this thread as to where I can improve, what I can change, and especially since I don’t listen to much dubstep although I enjoy it, let me know any good artists you think I should look into.
Thank you once again for all your insight, knowledge, and help!
Coldfuzion
I was in there early on Saturday talking to them, but last semester they had about 100 DJs or something trying to get on the station. Not all real DJs, but radio programs really.
Next semester they’ll give me an hour. But yeah, it sucks that it’s only 30 minutes.
For me though it’s nice cause its getting my feet wet. Like it’s something I can show to small clubs around here when I ask for a gig or something.
I’m getting super super super nervous. Everytime I think I have finalized the track list, something comes up and I change it. !@!)(#*)%#! im freaking out hahaha. I think it’ll be fine once it’s done, but its just nerve racking as this will be the first time I am performing my mix for everyone.
since you got just 30 mins to make an impact, have you thought about making a cool/catchy name drop for your intro/outro ?
might be a good idea. been nervous is a good thing, keeps you on edge.
also, just an idea why not make a rough mix and put on sound cloud and post it here, or even post it to friends on facebook or what ever you use, make a cd or 2 for close freinds to gain some feedback. might take the edge of you nervousness. just a thought
Better yet, make it a scavenger hunt. Carry five or six CD’s with a good mix on it and tell them if they like what you’re playing to find you on campus and you’ll give them a full mix CD.
What I am going to do starting next week is create a mix about a few days early and post it on SoundCloud and then ask you guys to let me know what I should change or edit through this thread! As for the name drop, I will be dropping my name in over mic from the studio itself when I broadcast. After probably the first week or two then i’ll make a digital one and just start adding it into my mixes.
Ahh! Now that’s a really good idea! The first time I read it I was just going to let you know that i’ll be putting it up on SoundCloud for everyone to have access to, but having 5 - 6 CDs with the same genre yet different tracks is what you’re saying right? That is extremely clever!
Yeah, I feel really constricted - however it makes it slightly easier for me, I don’t have to have a huge track list and I can work on making those blend well together (or attempt to at least, i’m still really new to this ) I completely understand if there are like 100 other people trying to find a time slot in there. However next semester they’ll give me an hour if I choose to return.
Ugh, so it’s 2AM, i’m supposed to perform tomorrow and I have been recording my mixing for the passed 4 hours or so and I always feel like I am messing up a transition in like the middle of the mix.
Think I should just do it live? Or just keep recording my stuff till I feel like I get it right? And is there anyway to just go back in the recording and edit one part?
This is what I get for fucking raping myself on my time management.
Edit: I’m recording it till I get it right, i’ll keep doing it over and over and over. Get some practice in that way, and if I feel like I can handle it over there (which should not be a problem) ill take my gear in and do it live tomorrow! Initially I was (still may) going to bring in a recording with my tracks so I could make sure everything that could go wrong was minimized as I have learned but never operated the studio equipment.
It’s 6AM now, but finally I think I got it down short of one or two small errors, hopefully those of you who chose to tune in will forgive me .
And thank you sir! I’m finally confident in it. It could be at this point that I am actually confident, or the lack of sleep (been up for 25+ hours, and in school learning for over 13 of those hours) that’s sending me those signs.
I will create a small thread (I hope you admins don’t mind) when the show is about to go live.
one day, one day
) I completely understand if there are like 100 other people trying to find a time slot in there. However next semester they’ll give me an hour if I choose to return.