Isn't trance the music of the devil?

LOL I am just kidding.Hope those church parents(if any) don't give you crap about playing music that's associated with raves/clubs.

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HAHAHA... Well first of all, parents won't be there.. Which is good.. In the previous party last year they were playing HipHop, Rap and Regae... Which could be classified as music of violence. This is not my words but from Insurers. They refuse to insure hip hop/rap parties..

Anyway, I DON'T believe it's the music of the devil (not sure about psy-trance). What concerns me the most is that people here in the US associate trance with drugs. It's soooo annoying, because to me, it's good music. I don't do drugs, and I am not affraid to admit it.

But hey, what the heck, I'll play trance and psytrance and if it shocks them, SO BE IT!!!

good luck man!! i started spinning just before this summer and im getting really into it. But in one month... damn... I could beat- and phrasematch okay in a few weeks, do short good transitions, but i admit i dont know my records well enough, i sometimes get 2 songs attached in perfect timing and phrase, only way to early or way to late. This i still have to work in.

What i also advice to you ( if this havent been said before ). In your case, i would construct a set for the most part. You dont wanna fuck up this party, even if it is your first etc. Just get a good beginning and a good feeling. If you are feeling comfortable with it after half a hour of good mixing you will start to get a feeling for it. If you fuck those tracks up then you start feeling shitty and irritated, not a good thing! Even if you cant mix. As a intro choose tracks you know, know how fast they should be and practice them at home. This way you get a really good feel for the decks and mixer and the PA system. After that just try things, just dont try anything fancy, hell if you just spend alot of time beatmatching and youre just mixing outro's and intro's from the tracks into each other, it'll be a good dancable thing. Just not alot of variation in mixing, but the audience almost never really notices that. ( unless you spin at a Trance exclusive party etc. There will be diehards there haha )

Well we DO want a full report when this is over!!!! Best of luck!

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy i didnt read it but i saw a she in there. damn bitches

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Originally posted by nectario One thing I cant seem to understand is eqing. Basically, as I transition to the next track, should I reduce the lows or mids of the next track and then increase them back? I mean the percussion of two trance songs is different and I just don't understand how to make them match... One more thing: I have no equipment as of now... oh well...

it depends on the tracks and you should not get used to a single procedure and do it every time, but here are some tips:
1- put both tracks on PFL (on your headphones) so that you can listen to both and adjust the volume so that both tracks are at the same volume
2- bring in the incoming track either slowly with the volume fader and with less bass, or push the fader all the way up but with less bass and at least mids. (depends on the track though)
when you do the bass changeover, the incoming track should have all knobs at around 12 o'clock.. the outgoing track has less bass, 'cos you did the changeover, and you can gradually fade it out, either by slowly pushing the fader down, or by turning the knobs. I usually like to enhance the outgoing track's mids while lowering the fader so that the outgoing track doesn't loose a lot of energy.
As for energy, well I like to program my sets from the least energetic to the most energetic track, or sometimes the rollercoaster set (ups and downs throughout, depends on the time I'm playing) but get to know your tracks really well so that the set is smooth

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Thanks guys! You've all been really helpful... Expect a full report when it's done.. Hmm maybe I should do a live stream for you guys to listen as it's going on! :-)

I'll pretend I'm like Tiesto,(moving like him, and smiling at the crowd etc etc) lol

Your going to play psytrance to a church group!?. Just make sure it isn't 1200 micrograms or something. I dont think all those substance references would appeal to a straight, god loving community. But thats cool that your going to be exposing them to the beauty of trance.

You can do all sorts of stuff with EQ-ing

Sometimes I'll just fade a track in with the bass turned almost right down and everything else at 12 o'clock. Then when the first track is coming into its final breakdown, i'll kill the bass on the first and up the bass on the incoming track. Then just slowly fade the first track out.

If your new to EQing... go slowly. Better to have a slightly muddy mix than go nuts and have it sounding shit due to the fact that you have both the lows turned up to the max.

Wow, cool... That's really helpful.

Concerning Psy trance, I actually do plan on playing 1200 micrograms! I'll play one song from them called: "Acid For Nothing" It makes no references to drugs, which is good... I love that song...

Everyone will be shocked a bit... It's dream come true for me: a 10000 square feet space with a stage with arround 300/400 people.. AND I'll be playing for 4 hours....! :-)

I better not screw up..

All I can say man, is get practicing on your beatmatching. Don't even worry about harmonics yet... get the beatmatching down first (I still suck with harmonics :P) I'm sure you can learn a good amount until November

Good luck with keeping the crowd entertained, I'm 15 years old and have tried to introduce tons of people in my school to Trance music.. most don't like it (they wanna keep that "Hip-Hop ONLY" mind set ) ... but some people do really like it, they enjoy it when I finish new mixes and stuff So basically don't spin stuff that's too repetitive, and try to play LOTS of different songs, don't play stuff for the whole 7-10 minutes if possible. If you can, try mixing in early to the next song so the audience doesn't get bored. Teenagers have very little patience... if they get bored, they get mad.

Good luck, dude

Thx.

If crowd likes hip hop, it will be very challenging to get them going...

Do what ever non talentless DJ does....play track after track lol. Im jp

But good luck
200 is a good crowed for me lol

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Originally posted by DJDREO Do what ever non talentless DJ does....play track after track lol. Im jp But good luck 200 is a good crowed for me lol

U mean "non-talented" or just plain "talentless"?

Non-talentless = talented

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