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Posted by Palladium on May-30-2005 21:22:

mixing mistakes/problems

was in little party with the friends...and the dj start to play some music, after 1 hour , while he's mixing, he did something wrong and the beats doesn't match for like a minute...the guy didn't know what to do...if turn the music off or keep going with the shitty mix...so keep the music and everybody says..."buuuuuu" "you suck".

i think it was his first time or something was wrong ...coz' all night long he did a shitty mix and looks so nervous.

anyway...post the mistakes/problems that have you seen either an amateur dj or a big dj.


Posted by Absolut_Vodka on May-30-2005 22:17:

well trainwrecking is the most common, and is also what you witnessed...they just cant mix


Posted by idoru on May-30-2005 22:21:

I almost yelled at Marco V to pitch-up when I saw him, but he fixed it before I could. The rest of his set was spot-on. The only other person that I've seen live that had serious problems was Oakey, and I don't want to get started on that.


Posted by Palladium on May-30-2005 22:31:

or wahtever that looked embarassing like djs falls, drunk djs, someone get nude, etc.

i remember when sasha throw a vinyl to the crowd and hit in the face of a girl.


Posted by xtractorfan on May-30-2005 22:36:

Be Cool!

quote:
Originally posted by Palladium
or wahtever that looked embarassing like djs falls, drunk djs, someone get nude, etc.

i remember when sasha throw a vinyl to the crowd and hit in the face of a girl.


Occupational Health & Safety gone astray.

Remember seeing Yoji play in a fairly small club last year and the crowd was pushed up against the stage on which he was spinning causing the tracks to skip quite a lot. He wasnt at all impressed and stopped the music a few times telling the crowd to move away from the decks.


Posted by Absolut_Vodka on May-30-2005 22:46:

At godskitchen last year it got raided but some english fucks, so at peak our they just shut off all the music, turned on all the lights, and kicked the 'intruders' out, and hardwick was put into a safety room.


Posted by vrahnos on May-31-2005 00:27:

Re: mixing mistakes/problems

quote:
Originally posted by Palladium
was in little party with the friends...and the dj start to play some music, after 1 hour , while he's mixing, he did something wrong and the beats doesn't match for like a minute...the guy didn't know what to do...if turn the music off or keep going with the shitty mix...so keep the music and everybody says..."buuuuuu" "you suck".

i think it was his first time or something was wrong ...coz' all night long he did a shitty mix and looks so nervous.

anyway...post the mistakes/problems that have you seen either an amateur dj or a big dj.


shit happens...
it happens to everyone...
from what you're saying, i guess, that the first hour was ok....if he was an amateur you'd noticed it from the first transition!

i hate ppl who dont know shit about djing and yelling "buuuuuu" "you suck" etc...
those stupid fucks think that every bad-in-the-ear sound is dj's fault...fuckin ignorants...

my opinion: something was wrong, because he played fine for 1 hour, maybe the cd player skiped, that's enough to fuck up your beatmatch and your mood....

btw, download the mayday 2000 video (paul van dyk's set)...and see how nervous he is...he did a great mix!!!


Posted by don_q on May-31-2005 00:53:

I used to go to DnB raves and witnessed more than once speakers blowing off.

fucking evil!!


Posted by Reverend_Lust on May-31-2005 06:35:

I saw sasha and digweed at a place called "The crystal ballroom" in portland Oregon. The floor bounces and when the floor bounces so does the needle. The fixed it while mixing and it went on perfectly for the rest of the night

like the above person said though, most the trainwrecks i have seen is faulty equipment.


Posted by meneedit on May-31-2005 06:51:

thats why i think the idea of being a DJ and having to play live sucks. Why can't artists be respected if they just make music and don't play live?


Posted by JohnnyMonsoon on May-31-2005 06:54:

like Vrahnos said, shit happens! I will say this though, a lot of people at a club won't even notice a small trainwreck, but if it wrecks for longer periods of time and happens time after time, it will get ugly.

Most of them don't know what its like to play in front of 1000 club go'ers. Nerves do play a big factor. Every time I've played in front of a big crowd (over 1000), my hands tremble when i put the 1st record on. But once that happens it all starts flowing.

I have a very close DJ friend who will remain nameless who had a huge mistake about a year or so ago. She was playing at a huge huge show, i'd say atleast 5,000 people and she accidentally lifted the needle up...................off the record that was playing
talk about a vibekiller. Imagine 5,000 people going "ohhhhhhhhhhh" after you just lifted a needle off the wrong record resulting in no sound what so ever.


Posted by idoru on May-31-2005 06:59:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnnyMonsoon
I have a very close DJ friend who will remain nameless who had a huge mistake about a year or so ago. She was playing at a huge huge show, i'd say atleast 5,000 people and she accidentally lifted the needle up...................off the record that was playing
talk about a vibekiller. Imagine 5,000 people going "ohhhhhhhhhhh" after you just lifted a needle off the wrong record resulting in no sound what so ever.


Err, I'm going to venture a guess and say... Eva at Freaknight?


Posted by Mortyman on May-31-2005 07:34:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnnyMonsoon
I have a very close DJ friend who will remain nameless who had a huge mistake about a year or so ago. She was playing at a huge huge show, i'd say atleast 5,000 people and she accidentally lifted the needle up...................off the record that was playing
talk about a vibekiller. Imagine 5,000 people going "ohhhhhhhhhhh" after you just lifted a needle off the wrong record resulting in no sound what so ever.



OHHH MAN, I know what that's like, I've been to parties where Dj's did the exact same thing, Vibekiller is such a proper term


I'm thinking that this guy who was DJing good for the 1st hour, then started to lose it, might be because he just clearly doesn't have the stamina to go for more than his bedroom 1-hour practice set. Maybe he rehersed the whole 1st hour and had no idea what was happening when he found out he had longer


Posted by JohnnyMonsoon on May-31-2005 07:41:

quote:
Originally posted by idoru
Err, I'm going to venture a guess and say... Eva at Freaknight?



But the coolest part was that a few minutes after it happened, she was able to get the crowd right back into it!!! That takes skills.


Posted by idoru on May-31-2005 07:44:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnnyMonsoon

But the coolest part was that a few minutes after it happened, she was able to get the crowd right back into it going crazy!!! That takes skills.


Heh, yeah. I actually thought it kinda added something to that brief set. I just laughed, because stuff like that happens.


Posted by humilis on May-31-2005 07:46:

I have seen one DJ playing with only one player, because he was so drunk (or on x) he didn't manage to play with two players. He asked me how to use the mixer, too many knobs he hadn't seen before.. I think his DJ career ended that night


Posted by john2 on May-31-2005 08:43:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnnyMonsoon
like Vrahnos said, shit happens! I will say this though, a lot of people at a club won't even notice a small trainwreck, but if it wrecks for longer periods of time and happens time after time, it will get ugly.

Most of them don't know what its like to play in front of 1000 club go'ers. Nerves do play a big factor. Every time I've played in front of a big crowd (over 1000), my hands tremble when i put the 1st record on. But once that happens it all starts flowing.

I have a very close DJ friend who will remain nameless who had a huge mistake about a year or so ago. She was playing at a huge huge show, i'd say atleast 5,000 people and she accidentally lifted the needle up...................off the record that was playing
talk about a vibekiller. Imagine 5,000 people going "ohhhhhhhhhhh" after you just lifted a needle off the wrong record resulting in no sound what so ever.


Here is something worse.I had stopped the music in a club while i was dj'ing and put the track from the beginning (behold the backward button,lol ).Yeah it's kind of embarassing but shit happens,the point is to win the crowd after that.I was lucky enough to win it and they enjoyed both the mixing (after that shit ) and the tunes themselves.After all we are humans and we make mistakes.The point is not to freeze and correct them ASAP


Posted by ZuLi on May-31-2005 11:39:

ive seen dave seaman trainwreck twice in the same set

and once while i was playing, the CD kept on skipping at the end of the track (the part where im supposed to start mixing) so obviously it was impossible to beatmatch
what i did was, i stopped the track that was playing then i played Sontec - Black Sun and of course the crowd went wild
tracks with a dope intro r always handy when shit like that happens


Posted by JakeC on May-31-2005 12:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Absolut_Vodka
At godskitchen last year it got raided but some english fucks, so at peak our they just shut off all the music, turned on all the lights, and kicked the 'intruders' out, and hardwick was put into a safety room.


Burger Bar aka the kids that shot those girls on nye.

they are always invading it.

they are after the heartless crew apparently.


Posted by mzvirbulis on May-31-2005 13:17:

quote:
Originally posted by xtractorfan
Occupational Health & Safety gone astray.

Remember seeing Yoji play in a fairly small club last year and the crowd was pushed up against the stage on which he was spinning causing the tracks to skip quite a lot. He wasnt at all impressed and stopped the music a few times telling the crowd to move away from the decks.

i was in the exact same position, and it was not a pleasure to beatmatch but it made me even better because i just had to adjust to it. the floor boards where shakey as, its like you beatmatch it people go crazy dancin and then you mix totaly gets fuc#%^ by about
+- 3 beats.
not a happy chappy, but overall the night was awsome and was happy with track selection.

im like hey you stop runin and jumpin, even the bloody security guards were jumpin off the stage and making it hell for me.

i closed with cirez d - control freak (not the only good tune i played) and people were just gettin really groovy but they got to groovy and i had to tell em to stop shaking the floor, it didnt sound to good.


Posted by DJ Sid on May-31-2005 14:49:

at Ti�sto In Concert 2 in the Ethias Arena Hasselt, the sound system had some kind of failure, and the music stopped in the middle of Skin - Faithfulness (DJ Ti�sto Remix) for almost 3 minutes!
Ti�sto was turned with his back to the booth (choosing next record i think), and when the music dropped out, he turned around and was like huh?
now that was funny shit
well, MC Stretch managed the silence very well, by letting the crowd sing "Seven Nation Army" of the White Stripes al together


Posted by Palladium on May-31-2005 19:42:

Re: Re: mixing mistakes/problems

quote:
Originally posted by vrahnos
shit happens...
it happens to everyone...
from what you're saying, i guess, that the first hour was ok....if he was an amateur you'd noticed it from the first transition!

i hate ppl who dont know shit about djing and yelling "buuuuuu" "you suck" etc...
those stupid fucks think that every bad-in-the-ear sound is dj's fault...fuckin ignorants...

my opinion: something was wrong, because he played fine for 1 hour, maybe the cd player skiped, that's enough to fuck up your beatmatch and your mood....

btw, download the mayday 2000 video (paul van dyk's set)...and see how nervous he is...he did a great mix!!!


w00T !!

BUT I DIDN'T YELD

I IMAGINE COULD IT FEELS LIKE WHEN THAT SHIT HAPPENS...SO I DIDN'T SAID ANYTHING.

MAYBE SOMETIMES THAT COULD HAPPEN TO ME WHEN I'LL MIX


Posted by meneedit on Jun-01-2005 01:43:

nobody answered my question


Posted by iammesol on Jun-01-2005 01:51:

quote:
Originally posted by meneedit
nobody answered my question


It's human nature


and Seven Nation Army @ a TIC? wow, you guys must've been into Tijs that night


Posted by vrahnos on Jun-01-2005 04:25:

Re: Re: Re: mixing mistakes/problems

quote:
Originally posted by Palladium
w00T !!

BUT I DIDN'T YELD

I IMAGINE COULD IT FEELS LIKE WHEN THAT SHIT HAPPENS...SO I DIDN'T SAID ANYTHING.

MAYBE SOMETIMES THAT COULD HAPPEN TO ME WHEN I'LL MIX


i wasnt talking for you, i was talking in general.
oh, er....


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