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Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy Haha fustraited and using cdjs. When i started spinning with turntables i had so many problems with skipping, skating, feedback, not tracking properly etc i almost gave up before i started! Ok well i didnt nearly give up but your lucky your frustraition didnt start with getting your equipment to work properly. Just practice, mix it up abit try some other edm genres you dont normally play. I mostly like trance and hard trance but if im feeling bored ill get out some breaks and some house.

Damn right man. My initial problem was I couldn't get any sound. So I had a friend come over and spent all this time and nothing worked! Finally, she pulls the cartridge off the tonearm, blows on it and puts it back in.... SOUND!!!! hahaha what a rediculous thing to have happened. And yeah, recently I had the one needle skipping on every record. Here, all I needed to do was loosen the tonearm a little on top. Took me a couple weeks to figure that one out as well!

Moral of the story... STICK WITH IT!

I've been mixing for two years now and I still feel my beatmatching is very rudimentary. It takes time. And it isn't uncommon to see a pro wreck one of their mixes for the night. It happens.

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about the 6 gigs...the fucking people asked me to play their cds with rancheras, reggaeton, pop, hip-hop, and shit

here where i live...EDM is not much appreciated

I live in San Francisco at the moment and i never get requests for house....never!!!!

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Originally posted by Palladium ive got my setup since 6 months have had around 6 gigs...all of them i sucked...trainwreck, unharmonic mixing, bad eqs use, bad fx use

thats because you started playing out too soon! i didnt even consider playing for a real crowd until i was really confident. that was about the 18 month point.

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so im considering in sell my setup...thought djing was for me...but is isnt

dont be a quitter. your just frustrated. maybe you need to try a different style of music? or maybe you'd enjoy vinyl more? CDs are boring.

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i practiced almost every day...for 1 or 2 hours...but as soon as a trainwreck show up...i got pissed off...and turned all my shit off

dont be so hard on yourself. practicing is where your suppose to f_ck up. enjoy your mistakes, do them on your own time so you wont do them at the gig.

when you mess up, just move the needle of the outgoing record (err.. rewind the CD, whatever:P) back a few min and do it again.

and if you screw up again and get annoyed, ditch both tracks, pick two more, and try try again!

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EDIT: setup is 2x cdj-200 numark dxm-06 pioneer hdj-1000

your equiptment doenst mean anything. your starting out on better equiptment than i did. when you get good, you can lay down atleast a halfway decent set on junk. the worse equiptment you start with, the better you'll get in the end anyways. it always seem equiptment is so important in the beginning. nope. its just an excuse :P

another thing to consider is getting into production... maybe your the type of person who would do better making music than mixing it?

besides, they are complimentary -- learning how to produce gives you new insight into mixing, and vice versa.

for $100, you can get a legit copy of orion pro. that's a small investment compared to your expensive CDJ setup, and it'll be hours of endless fun making beats!

and also, maybe take a break. just listen.. let your tracks just play out, notice the nuances in the music and how its put together.. the more you understand the flow, the easier it is to mix.

and also, it really helps to have a buddy to mix with. even one that sucks worse than you do.. or, one that is a pro, who can teach you alot.. regardless, someone else to mix with is fun, even if you both screw up constantly. you'll both get better!

cheers

thanks to everybody for the support

i'll keep djing

get serato scratch.... i was in the same situation and serato helped a lot (and saved me a lot of money in the long run)

bisco

get serato scratch.... i was in the same situation and serato helped a lot (and saved me a lot of money in the long run)

bisco

i just started my 9th year of spinning and still get down times once and a while.........

i play out rarely and u get bumbed but if its something you truly wanna do you'll keep at it....if u don't then let it go

alls i need is to hear a great track to put me right back in my place

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Originally posted by Palladium about the 6 gigs...the fucking people asked me to play their cds with rancheras, reggaeton, pop, hip-hop, and shit here where i live...EDM is not much appreciated

Why did they book an EDM DJ to play then? And why did these people show up? Did they not know what they were getting?

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Originally posted by DOOMBOT I think he just wanted to show it off. But yeah, that sure is a nice setup....... bitch!

hehe.. thanks, but no i not meaning to show off. just showing how my laptop is right there to record and play back. That's the best way for me.

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Originally posted by Orbital32 hehe.. thanks, but no i not meaning to show off. just showing how my laptop is right there to record and play back. That's the best way for me.

Nice! I was only kidding.