First gig of a producer - TranceAddict Forums

TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- DJ Booth
-- First gig of a producer

Posted by BOOsTER on Oct-04-2005 19:15:

First gig of a producer

Hi guys,
hope you can help me out. This saturday I'm gonna have a gig in front of about 2 hundred people it's meeting of an electronic community and as a part of it I was invited to play there...
First i was like it's great idea, but now I'm scared to death.
I think I will play from Mixmeister ( i know i know...you'll hate me now but that's the way I can be sure that I don't wreck da party )

also I'm gonna play in a club I never were in and so on...any suggestions? like how should i set it up when I arrive with my PC and stuff? (I don't mean cablings, that's ok, but more compressors and EQs and so on, do you use something in your master chain of your mix?)

I use a compressor and have also set up a good EQ on my master and so on, anything more? also any basic guide to crowd reading and so on?

Well, I'm invited to play trance and I won't play their shitty disco, so they might hate me... :-(. One more thing I will play for SIX hours...any tips how to ... hmmm survive it in one piece?

so...anyone...pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeee any hints?

hope you can help me.

thanks in advance and cya around

sincerely,

B.

Posted by SpecRadio on Oct-04-2005 19:19:

Don't use a laptop. It'll overheat and especially with winblows, you should just use the CDJ's

Posted by BOOsTER on Oct-04-2005 19:21:

quote:
Originally posted by SpecRadio
Don't use a laptop. It'll overheat and especially with winblows, you should just use the CDJ's

I don't have my own...and I will use a desktop PC instead...

actually when I accepted it, I counted with the fact that a friend will borrow me his...unfortunately he needs 'em for his own gig :-( so I'm a bit fucked up :-/

P.S.: Pls don't start throwing stones at me :-( I am not a DJ and that's what my equipment is like :-(

Posted by alligator on Oct-04-2005 19:54:

here's a hint instead of mixmeister...use winamp and enable the automix mode......

better yet....make a play list, let winamp play and then just pretend you're keeping busy...

Posted by CosmoKid on Oct-04-2005 20:13:

i dont quite "get" what you are talking about.

your title is "first gig for a producer"

do you mean first DJ gig?

if so, dont use mixmeister, especially if it an industry party. they will laugh at you and it will be your last gig.

especially using a desktop.

Posted by Xtracktor on Oct-04-2005 21:45:

quote:
Originally posted by alligator
here's a hint instead of mixmeister...use winamp and enable the automix mode......

better yet....make a play list, let winamp play and then just pretend you're keeping busy...

That is used alot around here...especially at middle school dances

Posted by alligator on Oct-04-2005 22:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Xtracktor
That is used alot around here...especially at middle school dances

i'm suprised...if i recal mixmeister you basicly put a song at the end of another, i'm also not aware of the lastest version of mixmeister...as when i use computer based software i work with virtual dj

Posted by BOOsTER on Oct-05-2005 13:40:

quote:
Originally posted by alligator
i'm suprised...if i recal mixmeister you basicly put a song at the end of another, i'm also not aware of the lastest version of mixmeister...as when i use computer based software i work with virtual dj

I would've used Traktor...but hey Im not very good at beatmatching...

@Cosmokid

quote:
do you mean first DJ gig?

yes :-/

Posted by Zack Roth on Oct-05-2005 15:29:

quote:
Originally posted by BOOsTER
I would've used Traktor...but hey Im not very good at beatmatching...

@Cosmokid

yes :-/

I could be wrong, but I think Traktor beatmatches for you. Another program I have seen people use that I know beatmatches for you is Atomix.

Posted by BOOsTER on Oct-05-2005 19:25:

quote:
Originally posted by zizack
I could be wrong, but I think Traktor beatmatches for you. Another program I have seen people use that I know beatmatches for you is Atomix.

download a demo and try it...it doesn't or better said it tries to beatmatch for you...but it slips and everything...

if I see the waveform like in ableton or MM i can beatmatch it way easier and it doesn't slip

Posted by Tony Morello on Oct-05-2005 19:30:

if you don't know how to beatmatch, why did you accept a dj gig?

beatmatching is a fundamental skill involved with djing

especially if this is going to be an industry party like you said it was going to be

quote:

This saturday I'm gonna have a gig in front of about 2 hundred people it's meeting of an electronic community and as a part of it I was invited to play there...

Posted by BOOsTER on Oct-05-2005 19:38:

yes, you're right...well I can beatmatch...but I still trainwreck...(sometimes)

and I want it to be precise...so I think MM or Live is the best...but I wanted to know your suggestions :-)

I'm already very sad that I accepted it :-(