"For all you ppl out there who wanna know how its done .. Lemme tell u .., dj for 5 hours a day for 10 years. When you have done that .. Start touring , playing 4-6 gigs a week for another 5 years... After that try play on the CDj's. U see the BPM on the right side of the display , u have a pitch and easy way to count the BPM is by looking on the cd u gonna mix in , if 1 bpm is the dif just adjust the pitch to 0.8 or -0.8 depending on if its slower or faster .. After that 0.8 either way is one BPM. So 1.6 is 2 , 2.4 is 3 , 3.20 is 4 and 4 is 5. Ok .. Learn the trax u play and enjoy."
yeah everyone knows that but it takes guts to drop in the new track on the main speakers without first hearing it on the headphones. Then again these guys play the same freggin tracks every night so they probably can do this in their sleep.
integlspwr
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Originally posted by Neonbeats
yeah everyone knows that but it takes guts to drop in the new track on the main speakers without first hearing it on the headphones. Then again these guys play the same freggin tracks every night so they probably can do this in their sleep.
can't they use the monitors in the booth and those act as headphones ?
dont they go by the feel of the bass anyways ?
utdarsenal
booth monitors don't represent what's playing in your headphones, they represent what's playing in the main speakers of the venue.
but since a lot of times the area in which the DJ is standing is behind the main speakers, they may hear some sort of delay making it difficult to beatmatch if they hear the music that's playing out of the speakers, which is why they put booth monitors facing straight towards the dj- so the sound goes straight at you.
I still think steve angello has a premade mix ready. sorry.
it's still way too difficult just staring at the BPM percentages on CDJ's especially considering they're not always 100% accurate.
he still needs to start tracks right on time and fix them if he doesnt hit the cue on time.
integlspwr
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Originally posted by utdarsenal
booth monitors don't represent what's playing in your headphones, they represent what's playing in the main speakers of the venue.
but since a lot of times the area in which the DJ is standing is behind the main speakers, they may hear some sort of delay making it difficult to beatmatch if they hear the music that's playing out of the speakers, which is why they put booth monitors facing straight towards the dj- so the sound goes straight at you.
I still think steve angello has a premade mix ready. sorry.
it's still way too difficult just staring at the BPM percentages on CDJ's especially considering they're not always 100% accurate.
he still needs to start tracks right on time and fix them if he doesnt hit the cue on time.
can't you setup the booth monitors to rep what WOULD be playing in your headphones? cmon now. its SHM, whatever they want, they get.
There's a link which shows all of the movie theaters showing it. Pretty crazy.
system-7
The "fast and the furious" of EdM. Mishandled, interpreted and rep'd about what EDM is all about.
No BS, no hip-hop egoism. Just plain be yourself and dance. Be who you are.
DjWoody
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Originally posted by utdarsenal
I still think steve angello has a premade mix ready. sorry.
it's still way too difficult just staring at the BPM percentages on CDJ's especially considering they're not always 100% accurate.
he still needs to start tracks right on time and fix them if he doesnt hit the cue on time.
It can be done. Back in the days, my dj partner used to practice mixing vinyl without headphones. He practiced so much that it got to a point where he knew his music so well that he didn't always used heaphones.
With the new CDJ's, there's a very detailed waveform that shows you the structure of the song. It's similar to Serato's waveforms. If Steve edits his tracks and prepares his set on RekordBox, than theoretically he can mix without headphone.
Some DJ's will edit all their tracks ahead of time so that they have the same BPM. So when they're mixing live, there's no need to move the pitch slider. Some will do that and rearrange the tracks structure so that they don't have long intros, they put build ups and breakdowns in a different place, or they add stuff or take stuff out.
I know I do that. I edit most of my tracks and remove long useless intros or short them out to 16 bars, I also edit the build up so they're short and to the point, and I rearrange the tracks too.
Originally posted by DjWoody
It can be done. Back in the days, my dj partner used to practice mixing vinyl without headphones. He practiced so much that it got to a point where he knew his music so well that he didn't always used heaphones.
With the new CDJ's, there's a very detailed waveform that shows you the structure of the song. It's similar to Serato's waveforms. If Steve edits his tracks and prepares his set on RekordBox, than theoretically he can mix without headphone.
Some DJ's will edit all their tracks ahead of time so that they have the same BPM. So when they're mixing live, there's no need to move the pitch slider. Some will do that and rearrange the tracks structure so that they don't have long intros, they put build ups and breakdowns in a different place, or they add stuff or take stuff out.
I know I do that. I edit most of my tracks and remove long useless intros or short them out to 16 bars, I also edit the build up so they're short and to the point, and I rearrange the tracks too.
:toothless
Actually, I've seen it a good few times. Cassius at Pacha Ibiza 2005 was mixing all night without headphones. Just cue it up, drop it in pitch it live.
Seen Carl Cox and Jeff Mills do it on many occasions as well.
I can do when I really have to but you've got to know the material damn well and your beatmatching better be on form.
Having said that though, with auto BPM sync and waveform display, there's basically no need for headphones, and let;s face it, it's not like SHM are playing music that needs long flowing mixes.
surfrgal
My favorite set of this EDC and pretty much every EDC (which included actual mixing in headphones if I'm not mistaken ;)
