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So how long you been mixing?
Just wondering how long you guys have been mixing..
I'll start the ball rolling...
Listening to trance since i was 12 so that works out to nearly 10 years and Ive been mixing with traktor for around 4 years and on turntables for almost 2 years although a year of that was on shocking TT1625's, or whatever they are, till I got techs.
How many people can say they wanted techs from the age of 12? 
EDIT... Reposted to add a poll 
Re: So how long you been mixing?
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| Originally posted by trancecadet How many people can say they wanted techs from the age of 12? EDIT... Reposted to add a poll |
Only started properly in the last 6months really.. and still i'm not practising enough. Due to a lack of vinyls and trying to save up for SSL.
Bought my decks last christmas. 1210's Mk3. Love em to bits. Have to buy new carts and cans soon though.
nelly
2 months and counting.
I believe I bought my pair of CDJ-500S' in March, 2002. Got a pair of 1210's a little more than one year ago...when I turn 43 maybe my skills will be good enough for me to get some real gigs...
since july 2004
started buying vinyl since june 2004
bought my first turntables and mixer in september 2004
I started DJing properly in August 1999, then got my first decks that christmas. I know that sounds weird but I got a job with a freind of my brothers who used to run a mobile disco, which helped pay for the decks too
I wanted to get decks from about the age of 13 if i remember correctly, i used to "mix" using two hifi turntables, with one output of each plugged into the receiver and used the balance control as a crossfader, keeping the tracks in time by speeding up/slowing down with my fingers
i've been facinated w/dj'ing (well mixing electronic music) since i was about 12-13years old. growing up, i would mix buy hitting play on both sides of the dual tape deck on my dads rack system. doing my own tape edits and splices produced equally dissatifying results.
i spun for the first time around thanksgiving of 1998. i had been buying vinyl for several years by then, so i had stuff to play. i didn't have my own set up till sometime in 2000.
i wanted tables since 5th grade
got em 2 odd years ago, but had been mixing for about 1 year prior..
somewhere in the area of 7 years
I can remember being in prep/kindergarten and always messing with rebirth although that aint djing it was fun.
Iv been into trance for as long as i can remember music and probably since grade four (i would have been 10) iv wanted to be a dj.
I starting mixing stuff using software when i was about twelve and i baught a mixer for pc + 1 TT mixing about a year ago now.
Then about 6 months ago i got techs.
Im 15 now so ill say 2 years.
Nem whats your age if you dont mind me asking?
Its funny how nomatter if you started djing 20 years ago or today there is a good chance you will want the exact same decks.
My techs are only 2 years younger then me 
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| Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy Nem whats your age if you dont mind me asking? Its funny how nomatter if you started djing 20 years ago or today there is a good chance you will want the exact same decks. |
First dj's I heard were 00 flemming and oakenfold on radio one. I was so amazed that it became a mission of mine to eventually buy a set of techs and to get out there and start mixing in a club.
Some people say its the wrong attitude to desperately want to play out and that I should just mix because I love the music but having your own style and enjoying the music is one thing but playing out to a crowd who feel just as passionate as you do while going mental has got to be one of the best feelings in the world
Been Mixing for 5 years,
got into trance properly in 1997
I'm quickly coming up on two years. Here's to two more years. 
Re: So how long you been mixing?
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| Originally posted by trancecadet How many people can say they wanted techs from the age of 12? |
early february 2004 was the first time i touched vinyl. some weeks before my bday (my 16th bday, that is), at a friends house. ended up having him spin at my party. good ol' Stanton STR8-80s and SK-6 mixer. dont forget the crappy Stanton headphones... learned my shit on those. later, in a poll of equipment my friends made, we had gotten a Stanton RMS-3 mixer and some techs. Pioneer HDJ-1000s as well. we'd mix every wednesday, a few hours each, which then spilled over to wednesdays and thursdays, and finally tuesday-thursday. drinking and spinning and chilling out during the week was the best...
had been listening since i was 11-12, trance, and by the time i came in contact with gear i was a prog-head. how things change in a few months... later that year i moved into tech house, then took a liking to electro and techno. ended up into minimal/tech/electrp thing by fall of 2004. hehe... currently have a Pioneer CDJ-200 setup, with a DJM600 and one Tech12 at home. dont own all of the equipment, as it is polled again, but i get to keep it as my house is the most noise-friendly.
I have been mixing since september 2005. So far I got beatmatching, phrasematching and almost good volume control... next step, harmonic mixing
I've only been mixing for a few weeks. Ever since 8th grade i've been interested in electronic music. Im currently 18 years old and a senior in high school. I had a bunch of old crap sitting around so I sold it all on ebay and bought my gear (Vestax VMC-004, 1200 MK5's, Alesis Monitor one's, and hopefully CDJ 1000's soon). I have grown up in somewhat of a rural town (outside of sacramento, CA) so the people here are such radioheads. I've always considered my taste in music unique from the people around me. I really wish I could expose them all to this wonderful type of music. Everyone here wouldnt even consider listening to the music we all listen to. Im willing to bet deep down inside them all the music would get them going inside, but they would never admit to it.. they're too "hard" to listen to this stuff. I can't wait to move to college and experience more diversity and get better at mixing/djing so I can dive into this great scene and meet people alike. Im stoked. -Steve
I started when I was 16 on MixMeister making simple mixes of downloaded stuff (illegally yeah). I stopped doing that and mixed on TTs (Numark TTX) for two years, and then yeah I sold those and stopped collecting vinyl and now on CDJs. I only learned to mix properly two years ago, because for the longest time I was confused on how to properly mix, I was usually mixing into the tracks not on the first beat but say after the build up during the high energy parts, and it sounded okay, but after practicing more after learning properly I discovered It sounded better! still have a ways to go but better at mixing now then when I was 16 or 18 for sure. So 5 years total (if you want to count mixing with MixMeister) and almost 3 years with proper equipment, and 2 years of mixing properly. Once I get beatmatching down perfectly i'll tackle harmonic mixing, although I have experimented a little bit....
started playing in my bedroom about 3.5 years ago, started playing out 1.5 years ago, started throwing my own parties about half a year ago.
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| Originally posted by s3nate I have been mixing since september 2005. So far I got beatmatching, phrasematching and almost good volume control... next step, harmonic mixing |
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| Originally posted by schafer don't mind me asking.. what is phrasematching? does this have to do with vocals? sorry im new to all of this |
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| Originally posted by dinoXpress use the search my young padawan... |
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