I learned the "always be prepared" rule first-hand this past weekend.

My 2nd ever club gig, I was the closing DJ. I got to the club early to set up my laptop/midi controller to make sure everything was working. Everything seemed fine.

When it came time for me to go on, my laptop crashed (thankfully before I started playing music), so I was forced to use the CDJs (something I have zero experience with), and I had no choice but to manually beatmatch every track (something I haven't done since I spun vinyl as a hobby like 8-9 years ago before I gave it up for quite some time).

Granted, I have practiced beatmatching from time to time with the midi controller, but rarely. And CDJs are different machines with different displays, etc. I had to learn the kit on the fly.

I'm glad I had those backup CDs with tons of mp3s on them, or I would have been screwed. Only 2 of my transitions were wonky, the rest went pretty smoothly. Of course that's 2 too many.

But one of the first things I thought when this was happening was "The DJ Booth forum is so fucking right about all of this".

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Originally posted by Sushipunk At least last time you Brits got pissed off, we got punk music out of it. This time, it'll probably just end up being embers breaks

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Originally posted by Quazar I'm glad I had those backup CDs with tons of mp3s on them, or I would have been screwed. Only 2 of my transitions were wonky, the rest went pretty smoothly. Of course that's 2 too many.

Sounds like a solid result to me, good work. Good job the CDJs were new enough to play MP3s

A couple of wonky mixes in any set is acceptable tbh if you don't make too big a deal of it, a slight slip will go under most people's radars.

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the beauty with closing a night is that you can get away with a lot. the people left usually are fucked out of their minds by that time, and the water drinking chinstrokers have all left or are too busy on twitter to actually pay attention...that and you can just bang it out. best slot ever...good on you for adapting.

people think that we bitch about autosync because of nostalgia, but the bitch about autosync is more due to it creating djs that can't do anything and fail hard when everything shits the bed. you may now use autosync without being flamed

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