Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
hey Ryan, was it your birthday?
if so, Happy Birthday!!
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Feb-13-2009 16:29
Miss Julia
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Los Angeles
OMG, the music was so good last night! I tried to get there early to catch Ryan, but the venue was so hard to find, so we were a few mins late. But D.Ramirez was really good! Then Mauro played a similar style as him (nice tech house), but better and with his own flavor. I didn't even recognize one track Mauro played. It's crazy how is style COMPLETELY changed from when I first discovered him.
Thanks for the pics Drew... and Woody, please post the pics you took with your camera! Thanks for going with us to Denny's after wards.
Feb-13-2009 17:25
optionvdo
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2006
Location:
quote:
Hehehe Did you happen to take any of Mauro's laptop? I wonder what he was using. I never seen him use a laptop before.
He was using an older version of Traktor.
On that note, with the prevalence lap tops being used it can actually be quite a task switching between DJ's. Had I known they were both going to be using two different versions of mixing programs (D.Ramirez was using Serato) I would have just played CD's. It's really not ideal unless the infrastructure is built and ready to go. I just happen to have a couple of cd's in my bag that I brought as back up and had I not had that we would have had to shut down the sounds completely for the exchange. I had to randomly throw on a song on the fly and mix out so we could do the swap in a relatively timely manner... hahaha.
I just found out that the issue Dubfire was having with Traktor on Wednesday, he actually didn't have back up CD's as I had originally thought. Rather his assistant was burning his track list for him on the fly on some blank CDR's. My oh My
Anyway, great musical night by two of thej nicest DJ's I have met.
Feb-13-2009 18:10
72hrpartyanimal
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
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Originally posted by optionvdo
I just found out that the issue Dubfire was having with Traktor on Wednesday, he actually didn't have back up CD's as I had originally thought. Rather his assistant was burning his track list for him on the fly on some blank CDR's. My oh My
holy shit!
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Feb-13-2009 18:24
DjWoody
Chingon
Registered: May 2003
Location: Los Angeles (OC) / Mexicali
Yeah switching laptops can be a bitch even if both DJ's are using the same software. I learned that a long time ago but you get used to it and than it becames a piece of cake. I use Serato and I always carry emergency CD's with me. I even burned my own timecode CD's with extra songs on them just incase of a crash. If a crash happens, bam just switch the songs on the CD. That happened to me at Spundae once and lucky I had just made those CD's. That saved my ass.
Feb-13-2009 20:27
Bryan Hustle
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2008
Location: Los Angeles
LOL that's why I still spin 8 Track Tapes!
Feb-13-2009 20:35
DJ Reese
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: Los Angeles
quote:
Originally posted by optionvdo
He was using an older version of Traktor.
On that note, with the prevalence lap tops being used it can actually be quite a task switching between DJ's. Had I known they were both going to be using two different versions of mixing programs (D.Ramirez was using Serato) I would have just played CD's. It's really not ideal unless the infrastructure is built and ready to go. I just happen to have a couple of cd's in my bag that I brought as back up and had I not had that we would have had to shut down the sounds completely for the exchange. I had to randomly throw on a song on the fly and mix out so we could do the swap in a relatively timely manner... hahaha.
I just found out that the issue Dubfire was having with Traktor on Wednesday, he actually didn't have back up CD's as I had originally thought. Rather his assistant was burning his track list for him on the fly on some blank CDR's. My oh My
Anyway, great musical night by two of thej nicest DJ's I have met.
No real way around that switch either unless you have 2 mixers. Djing has become so complicated. If only we all just stuck to vinyl
Or at least cds
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Feb-13-2009 20:40
mar46017
Mikey Esq.
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Southern California USA
quote:
Originally posted by Bryan Hustle
LOL that's why I still spin 8 Track Tapes!
lol 8 tracks. Was there ever a time that DJ's would spin with cassette tapes? (I take it DJ's would still spin w/ records before CD's and not mess w/ the low quality of tapes).