Okay. So played out at my first house party the other night. Lugged my 1200’s, Serato, Computer… all that jazz and blasted a 5pm-1am set out (house/dubstep/dnb/breaks all over the place honestly, but worked it well). My good buddy got there around 9pm and hooked up his SCS w/ Traktor and we went back and forth for the rest of the evening.
Something I’ve never realized before, and have been TERRIBLE about doing to my friends?
Talking to people when mixing.
Dude, fucking hell. Props to everyone who deals with that shit. Was my first time ever having to deal with that. I’ve honestly just mixed at home, or with friends in their homes up to this point.
Shit is difficult. More difficult that I thought.
Probably the biggest lesson learned of the night. Conversations in the middle of mixing is terrible for all parties involved.
pisses me off weekly, last night i tried to explain to a girl that i needed her to hold on a minute, she thought i was ignoring her and tried to get in front of me, literally between me and the mixer!! lesson i learned a while ago was to keep some post-it notes and a bunch of cheapo pens with you and just tell people to write their requests down.. much easier
You guys are lucky.One time a girl came to me and gave her iphone to plug it in and charge the battery I was minfu..ed for a moment and was staring her and thinking am ı drunk or that b..ch is drunk or she is serious.Turned out she was serious
I’m terrible at multi-tasking, but some of my friends are pretty good at mixing and talking/taking requests at the same time. My friends, who dnt DJ, think that being a DJ means you can get a lot more ass. They dnt realize you dnt have time to talk, let alone spit proper game. I get way more vagina just going to the club vs. DJ’n at the club.
If I’m in the middle of a transition, I just tell them to hold on one moment. They usually get it when if I’m heavily involved in the mixer. If they get mad, they usually just don’t understand. So as soon as you’re done, apologize and explain what you were doing.
Haha I just recently ran into this problem too, somebody really wanted to hear “everyday I’m shuffling” or one of those LMFAO songs…and completely missed my cue for the next song, kinda made it work but the first song literally faded naturally to a new vocal haha.
I got pretty lucky by just smashing play and making it sound like it was on purpose.
Have a wife and kid I’m used to mixing while multi tasking. Plus years ago would spin with friends be 4 or 5 drinking taking turns dropping records. Think comes with experience and if naturally can multi task will make easier
you have got to deal with that. Being a club Dj people want to high five, tell you how awesome you are, how much you suck, what they want to hear. Promoters are coming to talk to you, owners, photographers in the booth shooting photos, friends who came to see you. So the 5 mins you have to mix a track in properly and find a new track disappears really really fast.
This. I know 2 friends in the whole world who can properly communicate with me while I’m mixing without interrupting my flow, but at home I practice by mixing and playing pool against my mates at the same time to make myself hurry
Yes, if your not looking to play a lot of requests (like me).
There is always the occasional girl that wants to have a go at you, but then I just say I did 4 requests in a row
I was minfu..ed for a moment and was staring her and thinking am ı drunk or that b..ch is drunk or she is serious.Turned out she was serious 