RevolutionSound
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Digital DJ’s of urban…
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skyscraper101
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He's not being rude. You're just blindly stating a monitor won't help with hearing what's on the main rig and that it can be entirely solved by using headphones.
Plenty of DJ's would beg to differ.
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hiraethified
I've just seen that. £19 a month! Fuck that. Amazon Unlimited wants an extra tenner on top of Prime (so the same overall cost) but you get loads of additional benefits with Prime.
I don't think it's a feature I'm going to use much but as I always have a laptop at my gigs for videos I could always download something on to a USB stick on the unlikely chance that a song was desperately required.
RevolutionSound
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skyscraper101
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I think you're overreacting a bit. Maybe you see no benefit in monitor speakers but they are very useful to a lot of DJ's where the main rig is not within immediate earshot.
beesonthewhatnow
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One of the things I’ve noticed since starting digital DJing is how little I actually use headphones anymore. The waveforms on the track display tell me pretty much everything I need to know.
Add to that beat/grid sync and you can concentrate on doing cool transitions, using fx, loops, hot cues and so on. So much better than spending ages manually getting something beat matched…
Add to that beat/grid sync and you can concentrate on doing cool transitions, using fx, loops, hot cues and so on. So much better than spending ages manually getting something beat matched…
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
(FWIW I consider a decent monitor essential, but that’s partly down to the 20 years of monitor engineering in me… 
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souljacker
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I only use the headphones when I have a specific spot on a track I want to find to mix in. I always set a hot cue when I do this so most of my tracks now have multiple named hit cues.
But putting a headphone to your ear is the classic DJ stance. Kerry Chandler didn't get where he is today without the headphones stance.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I think you’ll find that’s been replaced by the finger in the air/fist pump combo nowadays.
souljacker
innit
And a hand on the filter knob
ska invita
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Monitors utterly vital.... not only so you can hear what you are doing and not mixing to a delay but above all so you can have fun and vibe while mixing which translates back to the crowd ... I want the monitor booth to be full blast and sound full range, not just some tinny eardrum splitter
Remember Hype telling an anecdote about how he only heard the bassweight of some of his tunes properly on a soundsystem some years later as you could never really hear shit in the DJ booths
Remember Hype telling an anecdote about how he only heard the bassweight of some of his tunes properly on a soundsystem some years later as you could never really hear shit in the DJ booths
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Or, if you’re James Hype, pressing every button within half a mile radius whilst doing your best to destroy the crossfader.And a hand on the filter knob
pesh
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i think you'll find thats been replaced by hugging all the other members of your DJ troupe on every drop.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
God, when I was engineering festivals/clubs I fucking hated DJ entourages with every fibre of my being.
Get. The. Fuck. Off. The. Stage.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
“I’m with his film crew”
No, you’re a dickhead with an iPhone and an expensive selfie stick, bugger off
No, you’re a dickhead with an iPhone and an expensive selfie stick, bugger off
Great for rewinds!- The only thing I use it for. Have 2 tracks in the mix & then spin one back for it to then find the mix perfectly again!!!!!!
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hiraethified
Just because you fail to understand why many, many DJs like to use monitors, that gives you no right to shout over others and insist that you know better than them.
FYI:
"Help, The DJ Booth Has No Monitors!" - Digital DJ Tips
DJ booth monitors are essential when playing clubs and large venues, so what happens when you spin at one that doesn't have any?
www.digitaldjtips.com
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hiraethified
I was doing the sound for a band in Brixton recently and the band insisted that the whole stage needed to be rearranged - at no little effort - because they were using the gig for a 'video shoot.'“I’m with his film crew”
No, you’re a dickhead with an iPhone and an expensive selfie stick, bugger off
Cue one phone on a tripod on a table in front of the stage.
You can get some decent shots from modern phones. The problem is the compressed format they render at…
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hiraethified
You might do with proper lighting, a decent tripod and external mic, none of which was available at this gig.
RevolutionSound
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RevolutionSound
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Just because you fail to understand why many, many DJs like to use monitors, that gives you no right to shout over others and insist that you know better than them.
FYI:
"Help, The DJ Booth Has No Monitors!" - Digital DJ Tips
DJ booth monitors are essential when playing clubs and large venues, so what happens when you spin at one that doesn't have any?
I'm sorry, I overreacted. I was trying to give ways you could still DJ when the monitors are crap. While I think you were a bit blunt in your response, it didn't warrant my reaction.
Apologies to everyone on the thread for being a dick.
RevolutionSound
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(FWIW I consider a decent monitor essential, but that’s partly down to the 20 years of monitor engineering in me…
Yeah, a decent monitor is a good thing (although I do know someone who hates them cos they want to hear the rig - they come from the reggae soundsystem world). I was trying to give advice about ways around having a crap or non existent monitor - maybe I didn't word things very well.
AverageJoe
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It's all good RevolutionSound .
Noone is going to get cross in this thread.
Maybe share some knowledge so others can learn what you have.
Noone is going to get cross in this thread.
Maybe share some knowledge so others can learn what you have.
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hiraethified
Here's what not to do before a gig - "outsource" your music...
She’s worth 3 million dollars apparently
I'm clearly in the wrong job.
skyscraper101
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Sounds like she is relying way too much on automatic beat syncing in rekordbox and has no idea how to actually “DJ” without it.
This is a very sad state of affairs if this is one of the headliners.
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hiraethified
Whereas I openly admit that I am unable to, and have no interest in, beatmatching so it's a problem I'll never have
But this whole notion that because someone is a well known artist they're going to automatically translate into a great DJ is bullshit anyway. DJing is a skill all of its own.
I remember seeing the rhythm section of The Smiths DJ doing a DJ set and it was pants.
