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DJ Kibon
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Well, spinning at a club was...interesting...

...thanks to some perseverence on my part, the amateur DJ night was open for the first time in three weeks.

Was amazing to hear myself playing on a big system, but there were some unfortunate downsides:

- We had no monitor, so rather difficult to hear how well transitions were going

- Due to not having a monitor, I now understand the concept of being horrid to DJ without one. Went out and stood on the dance floor a few times to get the full effect.

- The damn Pioneer mixer there sucked in some respects. No split channel cueing (which I would have easily forgiven if we had a monitor), and the bloody cueing buttons were nearly completely broken (the buttons you hit to the select the channel(s) to hear in your phones).

- Since I switched to felt slipmats, my beatmixing has been somewhat out of whack, really got used to using my Technics rubbers.

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May-14-2003 06:57 Canada

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-CosmicFire-
Craiser Man

Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Kfar Saba, Israel

err
what do u mean u had no monitor..
i couldnt hear what u were spinning?? :{}
hope u ejoyed or u couldv enjoy more

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May-14-2003 11:09 Israel

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DJ Kibon
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Edmonton, Alberta

quote:
Originally posted by -CosmicFire-
err
what do u mean u had no monitor..
i couldnt hear what u were spinning?? :{}
hope u ejoyed or u couldv enjoy more

I did not have a speaker next to me at the turntables, just had speakers out on the dance floor.

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May-14-2003 20:56 Canada

quddha
the procrastinat0r

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Toronto, Ontario

Re: Well, spinning at a club was...interesting...

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Kibon
- Since I switched to felt slipmats, my beatmixing has been somewhat out of whack, really got used to using my Technics rubbers.

you use the original rubber mats? lol, first time i've heard that. cueing must be a bitch! takes so much force to spin the record and stop it...

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May-14-2003 22:00 Canada

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Ghostface
down with the sickness

Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Melbourne

Re: Re: Well, spinning at a club was...interesting...

quote:
Originally posted by quddha
you use the original rubber mats? lol, first time i've heard that. cueing must be a bitch! takes so much force to spin the record and stop it...
Word. I can't even fathom how that would work. Will stick to my slipmats.

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May-15-2003 05:11 Australia

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Devbert
Dutch Trance Worshipper

Registered: Dec 2001
Location: California

Why the hell would you ever practice with Tech rubber slipmats. Sounds like a newbie to me.

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May-16-2003 01:30 United States

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Blithe
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: CTA #31

quote:
Originally posted by Devbert
Why the hell would you ever practice with Tech rubber slipmats. Sounds like a newbie to me.

We're here to help each other out... You probably had no clue what a slipmat was at one time as well...

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May-16-2003 03:54 United States

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JohnSmith
Agent Smith

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Kamloops

well, it's true, let's not give him a hard time about it.. but you have to admit, it's pretty funny. go put the rubber on your decks and try to spin and just imagine what it would have been like learning like that!?

personally, i was surfing recess.co.uk, learning all i could long before i had my decks, and when i got them, i knew everything from the wow and flutter to how to set up the tonearm.. but that's just me, i am slightly obsessive compulsive.

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