agreed, totally condescending…
Go for it and have fun, this is how you learn.
No, but I wouldn’t call this an “audience.” This is literally going to be about ten drunken friends who don’t listen at all to electronic music. I’ll be done playing by the time the rest of the people show up.
He’s probably going to do most of the work in regards to plugging in my controller to the mixer. I don’t want to touch anything without him watching. I’m also bringing along a friend who’s a very experienced DJ. He’ll help me get set up and when I’m done, either he or the resident DJ will take over (and I will watch them in between drinks). The party got rescheduled for the 17th so that’ll give me a little more time I guess. Either way I’ll post the results here.
I think we’re all missing the most important thing from th OP…
All you can drink for <$20?!?
That would get you 2 pints in Bristol. I can’t vouch for your DJ’ing skills, but it seems like you promotion/negotiation skills are on point!
I got them to give it to us for 1200 rupees (67 rupees to the dollar last I remember, so that’s under $18 US). I was damn proud of myself. I had them even lower, to 1000 rupees, but that wanted me to pay 4000 rupees for using the equipment, and that included the speakers. Rather than pay that myself, I just had him to raise the price for everyone by 200 rupees. Alcohol is expensive in the state of Maharashtra, too, because of the insane taxes, so it’s a hell of a deal. I plan on playing for about two hours and not drinking much then, but in the two after that, I’m going to get my money’s worth.
Just bought a bunch of tracks off of Beatport and am really looking forward to playing…and receiving feedback/constructive criticism from anyone willing to listen.
Condenscending…Really??? Are you kidding me???
Making a statement in which you say you will never use another way to mix than the SYNC-Button because everything else has not that precision but not realising that beatmatching is more than just Beat-Synchronisation and denigrating generations of DJs before with that statement, this isn’t condenscending??? And this being a Bedroomer not even abble to plug a controller in a Mixer by himself???
Really with his statement he is denigrating those who opened the path to what the DJ Status is Nowadays, he’s denigrating pioneers in DJ history, he’s denigrating the guys who made DJ what he wants to be.
If DJ wasn’t a serious Thing in the eyes of our society Nowadays but still was the guy in the corner, the sniffing coke and fucking another girl every night kinda Jester, the music making „Kings Fool“ spending more in Records than he earned with Gigs like it was 20-30 years ago, would he still want to be one???
His statement is respectless and condenscending, having the undertone that everything except SYNC-Button is crap it involves that the ones working before made crap.
I have absolutely no problem with the use of SYNC-Button but I have problems when young people don’t know where, that what they want to be, comes from.
I am not condenscending…I just put him back to his place.
When you start to step into footsteps of others, no matter in what (can be in sports, arts, professional career, etc…
you should start humble and stay calm and respectful.
I was the first one who gave him the advice to ask the Bars resident Technician.
I was the first one giving him the Advice of using Youtube because there are hundreds of tutorials on how to do it.
I was the first one to wish him fun and a good time.
So please don’t call me Condenscending…before reading the full Thread.
When you ask something in here to people having more experience it’s that you’re looking for a kind of „Mentor“ to help you.
Isn’t it also a mentors role to put back his apprentice back to his place when he’s leaving the right path?
And if this is what you call condenscending then I guess I assume being it…But for myself it isn’t.
@Dolcem: I still wish you good luck and lot of fun…only other advice I would give to you is to rethink the idea of getting drunk after your set. If there are more experienced DJs Spinning after you, you might learn a lot by staying sober and looking over their shoulders. It’s another way to Party once you step behind the DJ Booth.
that was completely condescending…
I was not the only person that thought that…
slow your roll and we will all get along fine…
Well apparently Lucky You never really had a condenscending experience.
I hope for him that condenscendence (as apparently my comment reflected some) is the smallest evil he will be confrontated to in his DJ career.
you mean like the one you just gave me?
You’re really laying it on a bit thick aren’t you. He just wanted some advice on plugging stuff in and to have fun at a party
He is doing the equivalent of having a friendly football knock about with his mates. If a guy wanted to plug in a sequencer and press play at a private party why would anyone harp on saying you’ve got to play the piano properly and have respect and knowledge for all the keyboard players gone before. That’s ridiculous. This is the height of DJ snobbery.
I think he’s just a young guy looking for advice, not a master/disciple relationship.
I thought there was gonna be lots of people. Cool, do it, tell us how it goes
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man you should REALLY use those 850s! They’re USB and rekordbox compatible. Honestly, there’s no good time to step out of your comfort zone but if you can be confident in yourself to just play a set on them, more people will respect you for trying and failing than using the sync button. I too use to sync button SOMETIMES. Maily because the tempo faders on my controller are tiny and inaccurate. But for other reasons too. Use it as a tool for DJing, don’t rely on it. Plus playing on the 850s will make you feel like a badass coming from a mixtrack
How did it go?
We had to reschedule it to the 17th because some of my friends weren’t going to be able to make it.
Hello Dolcem,
And? How was the Gig?
Even If some of my comments sounded harsh, I care and would love to hear/read about your impressions and what you experienced.
Well I guess the booze was so cheap that he’s still recovering from the Party 
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Sorry for the late reply everyone. I had difficulties loading the whole set onto Soundcloud but finally got it done last night.
I’ve also been dreading a little bit posting here. I learned some valuable lessons on Saturday. First of all, I’m definitely not ready to DJ in public. It’s so much different than at home. The speakers!!! It sounds so much different when you’re playing on the big speakers as opposed to the 2.1s I use at home. Since I do all of my mixing with EQ’s, this makes it particularly different. My gauge of everything was completely off because I wasn’t used to EQ mixing at such high decibel levels. Also, the amount of pressure you’re under decreases your performance. I’ve performed a lot over the years, so it’s something I know about, but even something as simple as pressing play becomes difficult. On two separate occasions when about to start the new track I was on the verge of pressing play on the wrong deck (which would have paused it). I stopped myself literally milliseconds before and of course was late coming in, but thanks to the sync button, no one noticed. The other thing is that since I was trying to introduce the audience to a broad spectrum of electronic music, there are a couple trance tracks with high tempos. Mixing with EQs AND having to use the pitch shifter is a real bitch, especially when the transition is really short because the tracks are in different keys. And I was thinking so hard about other stuff I forgot to continue with the pitch shifter and half of one of the songs is way too fast. It’s supposed to be at 120 but for the first half of the song it was at like 123.7, noticeably way too fast.
The other issue was that few people in this crowd like electronic music, and I played for the first two hours of the party, before a lot of people had gotten there and before people were drunk, so no one really danced. I got a few people on the dance floor at the song that started around 53ish, and definitely a few more on the third to last song (starting at around 1:33:00 I think), but the transition to the song after it was a long one. They are in different keys so I needed to wait until the very end of the song to start mixing the very beginning of the next one. During all of that dead time, the people stopped dancing. It was super disappointing. After I played, my friend DJed (who has played in some big venues here), and he got a few more people to dance. At the very end, the resident DJ played commercial EDM and nearly everyone danced. I don’t know if that was the alcohol or because that’s all that this crowd would dance to…I wonder if things had been different had I played last. I kind of doubt it though.
After I finished playing I had about an hour and a half of free bar. I hadn’t eaten very much (I was late getting there because I got stuck in literally the worst monsoon I’ve ever seen…dropped my controller on the way into the taxi because of my umbrella) and had been super stressed out in the hours before the party because I thought most people had gone to another party that some dude scheduled the same day. Luckily we got enough people to come and I got my deposit back. Also, I broke up with my girlfriend a week or two ago, and have been upset about that. Anyway, whatever the case, I started drinking like a college kid, forgetting that I’m 29 years old and have really low tolerance since I don’t drink much anymore. I don’t know what happened next, but apparently I passed right out. I’ve never done that before while drinking…must have been the lack of sleep. My friends said that my neck was completely lax and that my head kept rolling around on my shoulders. They said it looked scary. On the way out they had to carry me because I couldn’t walk, and then I puked in front of everyone. Apparently it looked really bad and everyone was worried. This was also in front of all of the girls that I was supposed to be getting to know better now that I’m single. There’s even more to the story but let’s just say I’ll leave it at that.
Here’s the link to my set:
Any constructive criticism would be much appreciated.
Don’t leave us hanging…
I’ll tell you what, give me some constructive comments on the set and I’ll PM you the more sordid details.
Wow, you’ve certainly been through the mill on this one.
Good experience on the DJ’ing side. It is so different playing out for real. Also if you don’t have monitors it’s even harder.
Sorry to hear about the pass-out…
You learn from the tough gigs, not from the easy ones.
Sounded hard but you jumped in and got your feet wet… Well done.
Defo want to hear more about the puking action 
