Further to my "I am Sasha" post earlier I have the problem that mixing at home to me is pretty boring most of the time whereas in a club its exciting so I invest a lot more into it.

Its also true that a nightclub is very forgiving. Loads of echos, reverb and suchlike cover a multitude of sins.

There is always the option of computer correction tho. If your doing a mix and its all going well then there is a big fuck up just lift the needle on the playing track and skip it back a bit to before you brought the next tune in and try again. Later just edit the WAV in your editor so the error is gone.

Technically I suppose its cheating but its an option.

Rs

although the 'big soundsystems cover you up' theory is right, one of my first gigs ever, a dude tells me 'btw, can i record it?' i said yeah, but was secretly pissing my pants. i nailed it pretty good.

yet at home, i am teh suck. :/

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Last edited by Inertia on Jan-19-2006 at 21:48

dont worry bro, i had this problem for a while. i (as others have suggested) now record everytime i hop on my decks. after a while you get over the nervousness of recording and its all just natural again.

the same blah blah....
but i say - start moving to the beats
forget you'r being recorded
listen to the Dec liveset by Yves Deruyter so you know what a trainwreck is

I just tell my younger brother to record everything but not tell me.


So when I jump on the decks he does it and I dont even remember it.

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the shitty thing about it is:

- my PC sucks.
- i'm a broke mother****** with enough money barely for the gear he just bought.
- my diskspace is nearly 100% full.

so, to record, given the suckage of my computer, i must shut down every single program, only to start recording, and have my recorder freeze. it, even tho freezed, still records. however, when i am done, i cant make it stop, so it goes on recording silence. instead of hitting a button, i have to manually terminate the process in the windows task manager. this normally results ina good minute of silence at the end of every set i record, which i then have to cut out.

add to that, that i have to be constantly deleting shit to make space for sets. it's just such a bunch of crap, not like i can just click it on everytime i say 'shit, let me throw down a couple tracks'.

meh. this sucks. hopefully, i'll get a new PC soon...

and by the way, when i say sucky, i mean:
400MHz Intel Celeron Processor
Total 52GB Disk Space (spread over 3 discs, one 40GB, one 10GB, one 2GB, i had to unplug my CD drive to plug in the another extra hard drive for more space)

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btw, any recommendations on a good, not very process intensive recorder?

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recording does suck. i still get the jitters when i try to record stuff.

the main reason why recording sucks, especially today...

earlier this afternoon i put a dat into my recorder. i was hoping to make a recording something tonite. but as fate would have it... my recorder ate it up. now i have to take the recorder apart, to get the dat out, because won't eject on it's own. i guess i'll try another tape on the 2nd dat machine.

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Originally posted by Inertia the shitty thing about it is: - my PC sucks. - i'm a broke mother****** with enough money barely for the gear he just bought. - my diskspace is nearly 100% full. so, to record, given the suckage of my computer, i must shut down every single program, only to start recording, and have my recorder freeze. it, even tho freezed, still records. however, when i am done, i cant make it stop, so it goes on recording silence. instead of hitting a button, i have to manually terminate the process in the windows task manager. this normally results ina good minute of silence at the end of every set i record, which i then have to cut out. add to that, that i have to be constantly deleting shit to make space for sets. it's just such a bunch of crap, not like i can just click it on everytime i say 'shit, let me throw down a couple tracks'. meh. this sucks. hopefully, i'll get a new PC soon... and by the way, when i say sucky, i mean: 400MHz Intel Celeron Processor Total 52GB Disk Space (spread over 3 discs, one 40GB, one 10GB, one 2GB, i had to unplug my CD drive to plug in the another extra hard drive for more space)

dude i totally feel you. ive only been able to record one mix on my computer at home because of my computer sucking ass. i had to delete a ton of old live sets from ferry/armin/tiesto/sasha/oakenfold just so i could record. i laughed hysterically reading your post because i too have to close down every single program on my computer so i could make an attempt to record. hahaa.

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i record every radio show i do...in the month of december i had 4 shows a week, which equates to atleast 10 hours of programming. I had so much airtime because most of the programmers went home for the holidays. as i said, i recorded every show and i skimmed through each mix in my car whenever i drove and i would make mental notes about what tracks sounded good together and overall what i could do better to become a better dj. i dont even pay attention to the fact that i am recording anymore. i have like 100 CD-R's in my car from all the radio shows ive done.

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Yeah I hate it when I listen to my recorded set..every 0.0001 bpm difference in the beats, when I'm usin the eq it sounds way to rough and more of that shit...
I just think by myself the audience notices thinks like that less than you so.. if they like it than who gives a shit