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Originally posted by Stu Cox I'll give you another one next week

haha...new sticky?

"DJ Challenge of the Week" hosted by Stu Cox.

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Originally posted by Abhay i don't have proper monitors

it can sound quite lame... but what do you mean by that? which are the proper ones?

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Originally posted by b i n k u n haha...new sticky? "DJ Challenge of the Week" hosted by Stu Cox.

lol I'll give it a shot

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Originally posted by b i n k u n "DJ Challenge of the Week" hosted by Stu Cox.

what like challenge anika?

please stu, refrain from wearing lycra catsuits

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Originally posted by djdk what like challenge anika?

Haha

Btw Dave, I've got your copy of that CD the bald bloke in the breaks room was handing out.

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 Think you can mix great? Then try mixing old-school: 1. Mix only using vinyl 2. On your mixer, mix ONLY with the channel faders. No crossfader or EQ's AT ALL. 3. For cueing, cue using the one ear on/one ear off method. Do NOT cue more than one channel at a time EVER in the headphones, and do not use split-cue. 4. Try switching cue ears. I've been trying to do this to get my beatmaching even tighter without "checking" my mixes by cueing in the master. This is what it's like to spin on a Bozak or Rane MP-2016 (not the A model, and without the EQ expansion). It's, umm, interesting. And humbling

thats exactly how i mix

Damn that's how I mix anyway except I do use the EQs to clean it up a little bit, but to me the EQs are really just an extension of the upfaders.

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Originally posted by Zild Damn that's how I mix anyway except I do use the EQs to clean it up a little bit, but to me the EQs are really just an extension of the upfaders.

yup +1

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Originally posted by Stu Cox I'll give you another one next week

Please do... One of the things I really appreciate about this part of TA is whenever you, Freak, Nem, Tony, or anyone else throw up some interesting exercise to try out, it's seriously improved my mixing a hundred fold...

Keep up the good work, and thanks again... I like it when the DJ Booth is like DJ School...

if this is old school? what is new school mixing?

It's all about the beatmatching using the beat from the tip of the needle... No headphones... You got the the mains playing out... match the faint bass beat from the tip of the needle with whats playin out...

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Originally posted by dj_lane if this is old school? what is new school mixing?

ableton

just an idea, i read on the djmag website about Superchumbo when he turned up to play a gig and only 1 TT was workin, so he had to play all his set usin 1 TT and a sampler (soundbite i think).

could be a good future challenge for anyone way a sampler, to see if you could play a set usin only 1 TT , a mixer & a sampler?

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Originally posted by wee_rooney just an idea, i read on the djmag website about Superchumbo when he turned up to play a gig and only 1 TT was workin, so he had to play all his set usin 1 TT and a sampler (soundbite i think). could be a good future challenge for anyone way a sampler, to see if you could play a set usin only 1 TT , a mixer & a sampler?

lol, I already had EXACTLY that in mind for a future challenge

I did a half hour mix like for a laugh that a little while ago, failed to record it though... went ok, apart from the bit where I knocked the wrong button and stopped the sampler - plunging my bedroom into silence

a recent gig i had, i was using serato, but since i wasn't the one to set it up, something fucked up and only one TT was working. luckily, in serato u can switch the inputs and play off one TT, but it made for quite a nerve-wracking experience....especially with people looking on and wondering how the hell i was mixing with only one turntable.

moral: do a sound check before u start.

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Originally posted by b i n k u n a recent gig i had, i was using serato, but since i wasn't the one to set it up, something fucked up and only one TT was working. luckily, in serato u can switch the inputs and play off one TT, but it made for quite a nerve-wracking experience....especially with people looking on and wondering how the hell i was mixing with only one turntable. moral: do a sound check before u start.

In those situations you wanna purposefully do a little obvious mess up, just to prove to the crowd that you're no poser

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Originally posted by Fearless One it can sound quite lame... but what do you mean by that? which are the proper ones?

i also don't have a proper soundsystem at the moment! that's why i also mix most of the time hearing the cued and the master! it helps since with the one channel method i can hardly hear the bass in the master because my monitors are so cheap!

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Originally posted by Fearless One it can sound quite lame... but what do you mean by that? which are the proper ones?

i also don't have a proper soundsystem at the moment! that's why i also mix most of the time hearing the cued and the master! it helps since with the one channel method i can hardly hear the bass in the master because my monitors are so cheap!

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Originally posted by Fearless One it can sound quite lame... but what do you mean by that? which are the proper ones?

NVM mate, I"m still learning a lot as well...

Basically, i'm using a shitty 5.1 channel sound system to monitor my sound with, at home.

because they don't give out properly balanced sound, it can be harder for me to mix as a DJ, because i don't get the HARD bass, that proper monitors can deliver to help me beatmatch. It also causes problems EQuilizing, because certain frequencies are louder than others. I guess for being at home, it's satisfactory. But I often have to just mix entirely in my headphones.


The rest of my post isn't gonna help u much, but i've included it anyway:
Long way to go before i get proper monitors, so I'm gonna get another 5.1 sub, and use a speaker and sub together as one unit, to deliver Left/Right channels accordingly. THat should help with the sound quality i think.

Only just seen this thread...

When I were a lad... bla bla bla.

Actually when I first started out in the mid 80's there werent that many mixers that had Cross faders or EQ's for that matter. My first mixer had two phono upfaders, one aux and a Mic and the cueing was master or specific channel. One of my decks didn't have a pitch control either.

Cheers
Nem

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 Only just seen this thread... When I were a lad... bla bla bla. Actually when I first started out in the mid 80's there werent that many mixers that had Cross faders or EQ's for that matter. My first mixer had two phono upfaders, one aux and a Mic and the cueing was master or specific channel. One of my decks didn't have a pitch control either. Cheers Nem

And Nem wins the thread!

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Originally posted by DJ RJT And Nem wins the thread!

Cheeky Monkey!

Nem

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 When I were a lad... bla bla bla. Actually when I first started out in the mid 80's there werent that many mixers that had Cross faders or EQ's for that matter. My first mixer had two phono upfaders, one aux and a Mic and the cueing was master or specific channel. One of my decks didn't have a pitch control either. Cheers Nem

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