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Playing on a club system for the first time (Merged) (pg. 4)
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| subtledreamer |
sweet! :cool: im glad it went well for ya!
| quote: | | If anyone’s interested, I’m happy to post a set list and thanks again to everybody for your good advice and kind wishes. |
tracklist sounds good :) |
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| FirstBorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryo
i was just wondering what you played so maybe a little tracklist ? ;) |
OK - no problem. Please find tracklist below. As mentioned in my previous post, my style is generally very driving, pumping and bouncy: this is not the 'typical' sound of the club I played at as it tends to be more euphoric & uplifting. However, the crowd responded very well to this change in direction and I was later told they really appreciated a slightly different sound. Still managed to sneak a few "fluffy" style tracks in towards the end though. ;)
1) Bas Van Veen: 'Total Recall' (Primo Lux remix)
2) Wippenberg: 'Fire'
3) DJ Wout: 'Mastermind' (Mike Koglin remix)
4) Peran: 'We Want To Be Free'
5) Aalto: 'Taurine'
6) Peran: 'Good Time'
7) Mauro Picotto: 'Lizard' (R.A.F. by Picotto remix)
8) Greg Brookman & Serge: 'Frozen'
9) Cern: 'The Message' (Northern mix)
10) Fred Baker: 'My Thing'
11) MKS vs Robert Nickson: 'Fallback'
12) Miro: 'By Your Side' (Ronski Speed dub)
13) Nick Lunn & Y.O.M.C. pres. Techno Punk: 'Energize' (Paul van Dyk remix)
14) Future Breeze: 'Temple of Dreams' (Dirt Devils remix)
15) State One: 'Forever And A Day' (vox off mix)
16) Free Radical: 'Unity Theme'
17) Re:Locate: 'Waterfall'
18) Jurrane: 'More Than Love'
19) Wavestorm: 'Rock The Party'
20) Merge: 'Armageddon'
Some of my all-time favourite tracks in there! :D |
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| 00soups00 |
glad to hear it was a success...
even if you hadn't have been following another dj..
is it really against all laws to let their last record
finish before starting yours???
well done mate.
i cant wait till im outta da bedroom and into the clubs :) |
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| Mental Storm |
OMG man! Really glad about you... ;)
And thank you, and all, for such a really great topic! :) Much of good info! Thanks! :)
But I didn't understood, a little, how you where mixing on that party - totally in headphones, or with one ear in cup, and one listening to monitors? It is very interesting how is better on a big systems! I know that this is very personal thing, and that it also question of experience, but anyway... :)
And I'm just like 00soups00 - can't wait when I'll play in a club! :stongue:
Someday... :rolleyes: |
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| tu_face |
| quote: | Originally posted by 00soups00
even if you hadn't have been following another dj..
is it really against all laws to let their last record
finish before starting yours???
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i think it depends how you do it, and other factors. if the guy before you has played something that is going to sound stupid with the track you play, don't lower yourself as that first impression is important.
my first gig, i was playing after stevie G, and he was playing fast trance. now i was playing techno, and his last tune was a bit too trancy for my desired first tune, so i waited til nearly the end, pressed the stop button on the deck (with an echo effect), and then slammed in the pounding beat :toothless
the crowd went mental, it worked, so no, i don't think its against any laws :)
i would never let a track play out totally tho... that just makes it look like you cant be arsed ;) |
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| FirstBorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mental Storm
But I didn't understood, a little, how you where mixing on that party - totally in headphones, or with one ear in cup, and one listening to monitors? It is very interesting how is better on a big systems! I know that this is very personal thing, and that it also question of experience, but anyway... :)
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Thanks for the kind comments! :D To answer your question, I mixed entirely in headphones for the gig, using the headphone blend (not split cue). Although the monitoring was very good, I'd decided at an early stage to headphone mix because I was still a little worried about speaker delay. I was also bearing in mind the very good advice I received to trust what I heard in headphones above all else.
I found this really helped, not because of speaker delay, but because I could *feel* the bass from the speakers in my body and this actually threw me off slightly because it was out of sync with what was playing (very small delay). But because I trusted what i was hearing in headphones over everything else, I was able to ignore this slight problem and mix much more accurately (the tendency was to beatmatch against the bass vibrations in my body and this would've resulted in some inaccurate mixes). |
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| RIP_Technics |
| first off - congrats on the gig m8, we're all glad it went well! i had a similar event about a year ago although the club i played in was much smaller. i never knew about all the stuff that the guys on this thread have been talkin abt (delays etc) so when i went in i fcukin panicked because i thought i was ballsing up every single mix. luckily for me i stayed faithful to my headphones which were tellin me everything was fine. the nite turned out to be a success and i was asked to play again, just like yourself. let me tell ya, that second time is AMAZING because you know exactly what to expect and your previous gig was a success. so enjoy your return gig in 3 months! :D |
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| DJ TWiG |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nemesis44
Above all, enjoy it and ignore any DJs in crowd as they will always try and pretend they could have done it better even though the only people they play for are their cat and mum.
Cheers
Nem |
Just ask the DJ's why they are not spinning on such a night at their own hot spot... kills that bit right off the bat.... |
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| Nemesis44 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ TWiG
Just ask the DJ's why they are not spinning on such a night at their own hot spot... kills that bit right off the bat.... |
Na... I find if you start throwing dirt back at them they just get worse. I just usually ask them for a CD and offer to help them out (Genuinely so too). They all promise one but it never comes. Occasionally you get one and you pretty soon realise that they are nothing special.
Anyone who DJs full time knows all the different pitfalls of the profession and doesn't usually make a big deal of the odd mistake etc.
Hey Firstborn... glad it went well.
Cheers
Nem |
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| Mental Storm |
FirstBorn, thanks for your answer! :)
This is very interesting for me just because I'm learning to beatmatch with one cup on ear. I'm learning so just because I was afraid that in a club it will be hard to mix totally in headphones. Anyway I'm still in bedroom, and there is much to improve in my techniques. But I think that if I can mix with one cup on, then with mixing in headphones will be no problems.
And I think that there will be no better practice, than first time in a club! :rolleyes:
BTW, what headphones do you use? I'm thinking of getting new, just because my cheap Sony are not givin me the sound that I want to hear! |
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| The Don |
| An important thing to remember is that you will litterally get away with murder on a club system. So dont get too worried about being perfect the first time around. Be prepared for the loudest set of headphones you have to sound quiet as hell, get to know your levels and find the limits as quickly as possible, otherwise your set with be a hum most of the night from the feedback. I tend to disagree on the headphone thing. Unless you are playing on a system that has poor monitors then I would get the mix in and get the earphones off your head asap. Nothing better than listening real time when doing your mix. Also, make sure you are using mids and hi's aswell, they are alot more noticable on a big system and clash like hell if you arent removing them from the mix.. |
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| FirstBorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mental Storm
BTW, what headphones do you use? I'm thinking of getting new, just because my cheap Sony are not givin me the sound that I want to hear! |
I use Sennheiser HD25's, which did the job perfectly. The only complaint I have about them is the foam/rubber earpiece bit once came apart mid-gig but a quick bit of superglue fixed that a couple of days later. Since then, they've been fine and I thoroughly recommend them.
If you're going to play out anywhere beyond your bedroom, it's worth buying the best pair of headphones you can afford IMHO. There are plenty of threads on here about buying headphones so do a bit of research, try out a few and decide what's best for you. :) |
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