what is the deal with eq? how do you guys use it? i just got my tables and right now all ive been doing is beatmatching.

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Originally posted by Gourhellyea what is the deal with eq? how do you guys use it? i just got my tables and right now all ive been doing is beatmatching.

I think of eq's as a way to exchange elements of one track to another. When i first started i found beatmatching tedious but the actual mixing (with eq's) very easy. I dunno why but, i can't understand how some people can't find it easy..

Anyway, Eq's are used to increase or decrease a certain part of the track (bass, treble, etc) My mixer has bass, treble and mid eq's on all four channels. If you have just started i expect you have just the bass and treble eq's which is fine

Just have a play around and you will get used to them

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Originally posted by bassaholix migitymike Wats UP? ur like all negative and shit all the time all around the boards... And for god sakes change that signature of ur's.. its really lame!! LOL looks like a *NEWBIE* made that shit!!!

HELL yes i wont change it for you..i'll change it when i want

I have heard one person scratch with trance... Thee-o out here in LA, I've got a nifty recording of him scratchin atop of Agnelli/Nelson _ Hudson Street... when done right, its absolutely amazing...

When I first heard him, I dropped my beer, and the crowd - the crowd went nuts!

or you can always do what oakey and bt do... just dance baby dance

1. get some tech, crank the trebles

2. go down to your local record/junk store, and find some old records with interesting accapellas or children's stories on them- thats right, kids stories, they usually have interesting phrases you can sample "we're gonna have a party" etc. you can stratch, loop, or whatever you do, and it will look like you are doing something...

3. screw around with your turntable, start/stop button, pitch slider etc. make the crowd get annoyed, or stop their conversations because they realise someone is doing something weird

4. try some body tricks, handstands, mixing with your feet/jolly rodger, etc.

5. do what Oakey does and put your whole body into turning one tiny knob like it is really hard, squinting, etc.


hooroo

I've never seen oakey dance, or at least the video I saw he was not into it at all, he would beat match then walk away n go talk to some guy. The only song he got excited for was Planet Perfecto- Bullet in the gun (figures). I think djs like Judge Jules and Dj Jean do some neat things as far as mixing it up n doing something different from defualt. A scratch here n there goes a long way. Volume change, pan, brake. It may not sound good in ur basement but at a party when everyone is into the music it seems to go well.

Believe it or not, actual pauses in your sets work really well...Ive seen van Dyk do this many times, usually using the volume knobs to quickly and momentarily turning off the track completely only to bring it back it to the original volume. Of course, you have the know the track really well to do this, otherwise, it sounds really awkward.

If you find yourself getting bored while spinning (esp. in front of a crowd) the best thing for me to do is to add some risk into my sets..pauses are one, and so is using techno beats to fill in sometime annoying buildups of trance tunes...

PS> I hate when dj's act like they're producing a track LIVE even though all their doing is simply touching knobs....I guess they need to "perform" in some way..

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do what I usualy do:
expand your mixing capabilities to more than trance..... and start doing REALLY crazy combinations......... for example:
once in the middle of a set I started getting bored with trance, so I started mixing into pitched up disco house and french house
(I managed to mix "Kylie Minogue - can't get you out of my head" into "Agneli & Nelson - Everyday [alex gold mix]" and "Safri Duo - crazy benny" into "Des Mitchell - the world is yours" and all sorts of really crazy shit!)
mix stuff like kylie minogue, modjo, phats and small, and then mix into chease trance, and then back to real trance!

when I did something like that once, the crowd was amazed and started going crazy!!!


oh! and here's another tip: mix shorter tracks....... and mix faster..... don't always let a track play till the outro and then mix...... mix in the middle of the track......

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Thee-o used to close every set with a different classic rock song..

nothing makes em jump more than a perfect mix into the doors - break on thru (not a remix, the original version) DJ Beej used to spin Prince - Purple Rain (I think its that one.. the "lets go crazy... lets go wild... song). I've seen crowds erupt with that

The other thing that I saw that made em laugh...

some dj round here started mixing in Better Off alone... right as he crossfaded over to the track, he hit the needle across the record, screamed "FUUUUCK THAAAAT!" into the mic, and smashed alice dj over his head screaming... then started into some of the hardest songs around...

It was fairly interesting

actually, i really like the idea of mixing oldies into a set. I walked around downtown one day and went into this record shop seeing if I could be lucky enough to find some rare trance records but there wasnt any. Instead, I found a whole shit load of old U2, Led Zepplin, Grateful Dead and other cool stuff that was being sold for $2! At the time, i just flipped through these but now, im going to go back out tomorrow and look through them again and think about mixing them with some house or even some trance records.
That was a great idea.

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Originally posted by djmorph I've never seen oakey dance, or at least the video I saw he was not into it at all, he would beat match then walk away n go talk to some guy.

Heh, let me tell ya I've seen Oakenfold many times and every time he is always dancing around and putting on a show. He probally has the most stage presence out of all the big name DJ's