sounds like someone is PMSin today.

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Originally posted by Greedy sounds like someone is PMSin today.

lol well put Peter!

Mixing in a club environment can be hard, especially with a bad set up.
Seriously though, this isn't a arguement about wheter to mix 1 ear or both. Both methods would fail for a less experienced DJ due to the fact that plain and simple, it is hard to mix when you have four different sound sources hitting you at different intervals.
You have what you hear in the phones, what you hear from the monitor, what you hear from the dancefloor and what you feel on your body and through your feet.

If you have bass hitting your body there is a good chance that you are playing to a half empty room with too much volume. Nothing wrong with turning the volume down a little at the start of your set.
When you are playing this place again, try and get a feel of how it sounds from the dance floor.

Humans tend to absorb bass and you need them to fill rooms or it will be hard to DJ.

In these sort of situations you will have to believe what you hear on the monitors or in the cans. The chances are that if you have a shite sound system yes your mixes sound bad, but so do the songs on their own as you have stated.

With regards to club refurbishments, very seldom have I seen a club do a refurb with the sound in mind. The DJ booth usually only gets moved if it's in the way of an extra bar or something. Oh well...

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 it is hard to mix when you have four different sound sources hitting you at different intervals. You have what you hear in the phones, what you hear from the monitor, what you hear from the dancefloor and what you feel on your body and through your feet. If you have bass hitting your body there is a good chance that you are playing to a half empty room with too much volume. Nothing wrong with turning the volume down a little at the start of your set. When you are playing this place again, try and get a feel of how it sounds from the dance floor. Humans tend to absorb bass and you need them to fill rooms or it will be hard to DJ.

It's true about the sound sources, I agree with you there.

I didn't knwo about the bass being absorbed by humans being, and it's true the place was almost empty, and I guess I was absorbing all the bass bymyself jaja, I felt it on my feet , belly, head, all of my body.

but what got me concern, it's that the osund system it's not bad for the audience.
when I came the club, and I was in the dancefloor when the other DJ was playing, and I said this place have a good sound, I liek to listenb music here, but when I was in the booth it was different.
Maybe if I had the monitors on I could have listened to the music without the feeling of a trainwreck.

maybe the place is bad sound for the DJ, but not for the audience.



Thanks to everyone who answered, I learned something new for me =)

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Originally posted by Greedy church-like arena (Avalon, NYC),

sounds like SHIT.

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Originally posted by jdat lol well put Peter!

Is that you licking his balls? Well who am I to judge a homosexual? nobody.

Personally most places you mix in are going to sound shit. The sound engineer will be half retarded and most likely leave you standing on an array of subwoofers not realizing that a DJ will even be using the space at all. So get used to it. Separates the men from the boys.

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Originally posted by punjabi sounds like SHIT.

You can't expect this guy to know SHIT from his own ma's smell.

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haha now youre getting deep.

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