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| quote: | Originally posted by Rodri Santos
if you can beatmatch you aren't a good dj solely because of this, those laptop wannabes you see in local clubs often don't have any clue about the eqs, phrases, fxs and keep redlining the mixer all the night, there are some things that you've to learn with practice, and with the autosync button people think they can play for a night in a club and can't. |
The opposite is not true either... in 2010, being a 'good' DJ does not mean you can beatmatch (based on my definition of a 'good' DJ).
Eh, this debate keeps going in circles because we all have different standards for what a 'good' EDM DJ does. For me, an EDM DJ did well if he/she forms a seemless mix that sounds 'good' to the club patrons regardless if he/she uses an autosync button.
Never forget that the average patron at an EDM club only cares about two things:
(1) Song selection: Patrons have to like the songs and the songs have to go well together. They may like song A at 130 bpm and keycode 12A, and song B at 140 bpm and keycode 2A, but putting them next to each other in a set is usually not going to sound 'good.'
(2) Good transitions: Finding good transition points and EQing well so that the songs form a seemless mix.
If manually beatmatching is part of your definition of a 'good' DJ, that's fine. But club patrons will not care if you manually beatmatch or autosync... they just won't.
I choose to spend the seconds I save by autosync'ing making sure the EQ'ing goes more smoothly.
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