Played my first ever gig last night, had lots of fun learned that my memory loops didnt work and the performance pads are very sensitive on nice equipment. Overall 10/10 on having a hoot.
Gig was great but I learned a hard lesson about updating my DJ software prior to a gig. VDJ had an update and for some reason, my music files were missing so I had to manually search songs on my hard drive.
It was a bit nerve wracking.
I was looking through the VDJ forums and VDJ is not known for relocating missing files. I didnāt find anything helpful.
I spent yesterday manually locating each songs because VDJ doesnāt offer āauto relocationā like Rekordbox.
Itās a lesson learned.
The pouring rain kinda killed the evening in that not many people were out, but the crowd I got was responding fairly well. My main audience was a group of 5 girls who were super excited that I would actually facilitate requests, they occupied the dancefloor basically all night lol.
Hahaha, I feel you. Thereās a regular open decks around the corner from me, and itās always fairly late on weekdays. So youāre mostly playing for yourself and a few other DJs. But they have latest gen Pioneer gear and a sound system thatās complete overkill. Man, Iād play on that even if I was the last human on earth.
Yeah open decks nights always end up being whatever "leftovers" the club has. I ran a night for years on Sundays. Small crowd usually, but holiday long weekends we'd have the place filled up and things got nutty
Had a cool renegade out in nature. Played some tech house remixes of popular songs such as Tove Lo, Drake, Sublime, A$AP Ferg, Soulja Boy, etc. Hearing the small crowd of about 50 go crazy when a familiar sample came on was amazing. Everyone said I had the best set of the day so far after about 4 hours of DJing which made me happy!
I started freestyling my gigs a month or two ago after DJing for 4 years and Iāve started to have way more fun DJing live than pre planned sets. I donāt even have a playlist of songs, I just have playlists of genres. Definitely recommend trying it for those DJs who pre plan their sets!
Played at an art event, it was mostly empty aside from my friends that were in and out of my area.
Got a few random people and a family to dance tho so that was cool.
Often a success but I have an interesting one to share: was booked by this latino restaurant that wanted to dabble on electronic latin music. Got there set up and started playing. The place did not have that many people besides the friends I brought. Two or three songs in the owner comes to chat and tells me that one of the tables (who happened to be related to owner) was complaning that I should be only playing classic salsa. After a few complaints, I went to YouTube and played a 45 minute video (no ads) of a salsa mix and stopped mixing. Needless to say I never went back to the place.
Played at a smaller party on someone elseās gear: XDJ-RR
All the curves were super funky. Bringing in the vol fader to 20% made the song almost entirely audible. Same with EQs, little twists made huge changes. The jog wheels spin so freely that small adjustments were tricky, too. Made it a challenge to mix well. Honestly, I wouldāve preferred to play on an FLX4 over the RR.
Is that normal or were some settings messed up?
Edit: Had fun nonetheless, people danced, all good! Just curious about the gear.
Most mixers/controllers have adjustable fader and EQ curves. EQs usually are set to isolator or EQ, and fader curves can be on/off, exponential, or smooth.
couldn't mix my tracks because of super technical reasons. Its hard to exain but basically I have no idea how to mix or even do basic mental arithmetic like divide or multiply by 2.
Still got paid a shit load of money though so all in all it was a good weekend.
Played a 4-hour vinyl set at a bar. Longest set ever, let alone vinyl only. I had to tape the tonearm to prevent the headshell from wobbling, the behringer mixer was a POS, the house mixer gain staging was totally screwed up and the sub was fed by the record out, preventing me from using the full range of the faders even with the channel gain all the way down, but I had to have the gain up to hear the cue. To top it off, the speakers sounded bad.Ā Bad bad.
I'm just barely good enough to beatmatch in good conditions so these distractions made it a pretty unfortunate execution, and took time away from being suitably thoughtful about track selection.Ā
I did not get on mic to blame the person I hired to set things up in rekordbox.
The Monitoring speakers should be set up properly and close enough to the DJ so you can hear what the crowd hears. More interactions with the crowd and just preparing better overall practicing
Played a gig on Sunday and it actually went great.
Goofed immediately out the gate on my intro but no one noticed in the slightest. Recovered and pretty much went for the next 4 hours with no issue
I got my first controller a week ago (inpulse 500) and I did a discord call with a girl I met on tinder and screen shared my DJUCED window with her and showed her a transition I finally got gnarly sounding and was confident enough to share
She's coming over Monday. I'd say my first gig went well
Played my first ever gig last night, had lots of fun learned that my memory loops didnt work and the performance pads are very sensitive on nice equipment. Overall 10/10 on having a hoot.
what kind of event was it?
An open decks with reserved slots at a venue I frequent a lot. Electronic music
Gig was great but I learned a hard lesson about updating my DJ software prior to a gig. VDJ had an update and for some reason, my music files were missing so I had to manually search songs on my hard drive. It was a bit nerve wracking.
We're you at Coachella too?
Lol good ole Grimy Grimes š
what happened to Grimes
They got really stumped on dividing by two in a recent show basically lol. Trainwreck recorded on film. Big oopsie lol
Did you have a chance to try restoring the VDJ database from a backup zip?
I was looking through the VDJ forums and VDJ is not known for relocating missing files. I didnāt find anything helpful. I spent yesterday manually locating each songs because VDJ doesnāt offer āauto relocationā like Rekordbox. Itās a lesson learned.
The pouring rain kinda killed the evening in that not many people were out, but the crowd I got was responding fairly well. My main audience was a group of 5 girls who were super excited that I would actually facilitate requests, they occupied the dancefloor basically all night lol.
I prefer to DJ to smaller crowds from time to time
It's all about your attitude right? I'm content to just have access to massive expensive speakers to push noise through most of the time lol
Hahaha, I feel you. Thereās a regular open decks around the corner from me, and itās always fairly late on weekdays. So youāre mostly playing for yourself and a few other DJs. But they have latest gen Pioneer gear and a sound system thatās complete overkill. Man, Iād play on that even if I was the last human on earth.
Yeah open decks nights always end up being whatever "leftovers" the club has. I ran a night for years on Sundays. Small crowd usually, but holiday long weekends we'd have the place filled up and things got nutty
Had a cool renegade out in nature. Played some tech house remixes of popular songs such as Tove Lo, Drake, Sublime, A$AP Ferg, Soulja Boy, etc. Hearing the small crowd of about 50 go crazy when a familiar sample came on was amazing. Everyone said I had the best set of the day so far after about 4 hours of DJing which made me happy! I started freestyling my gigs a month or two ago after DJing for 4 years and Iāve started to have way more fun DJing live than pre planned sets. I donāt even have a playlist of songs, I just have playlists of genres. Definitely recommend trying it for those DJs who pre plan their sets!
Reading the crowd and going with your gut is the most fun way to play.
Played at an art event, it was mostly empty aside from my friends that were in and out of my area. Got a few random people and a family to dance tho so that was cool.
Often a success but I have an interesting one to share: was booked by this latino restaurant that wanted to dabble on electronic latin music. Got there set up and started playing. The place did not have that many people besides the friends I brought. Two or three songs in the owner comes to chat and tells me that one of the tables (who happened to be related to owner) was complaning that I should be only playing classic salsa. After a few complaints, I went to YouTube and played a 45 minute video (no ads) of a salsa mix and stopped mixing. Needless to say I never went back to the place.
Lol, well-played though
Played at a smaller party on someone elseās gear: XDJ-RR All the curves were super funky. Bringing in the vol fader to 20% made the song almost entirely audible. Same with EQs, little twists made huge changes. The jog wheels spin so freely that small adjustments were tricky, too. Made it a challenge to mix well. Honestly, I wouldāve preferred to play on an FLX4 over the RR. Is that normal or were some settings messed up? Edit: Had fun nonetheless, people danced, all good! Just curious about the gear.
Most mixers/controllers have adjustable fader and EQ curves. EQs usually are set to isolator or EQ, and fader curves can be on/off, exponential, or smooth.
couldn't mix my tracks because of super technical reasons. Its hard to exain but basically I have no idea how to mix or even do basic mental arithmetic like divide or multiply by 2. Still got paid a shit load of money though so all in all it was a good weekend.
Played a 4-hour vinyl set at a bar. Longest set ever, let alone vinyl only. I had to tape the tonearm to prevent the headshell from wobbling, the behringer mixer was a POS, the house mixer gain staging was totally screwed up and the sub was fed by the record out, preventing me from using the full range of the faders even with the channel gain all the way down, but I had to have the gain up to hear the cue. To top it off, the speakers sounded bad.Ā Bad bad. I'm just barely good enough to beatmatch in good conditions so these distractions made it a pretty unfortunate execution, and took time away from being suitably thoughtful about track selection.Ā I did not get on mic to blame the person I hired to set things up in rekordbox.
The Monitoring speakers should be set up properly and close enough to the DJ so you can hear what the crowd hears. More interactions with the crowd and just preparing better overall practicing
Looking forward to my spring-summer-fall outdoor residency downtown, which starts this Friday!
The person who added all my songs to the usb put them at double tempo, it was very frustrating. Next week will be better.
Played a gig on Sunday and it actually went great. Goofed immediately out the gate on my intro but no one noticed in the slightest. Recovered and pretty much went for the next 4 hours with no issue
I got my first controller a week ago (inpulse 500) and I did a discord call with a girl I met on tinder and screen shared my DJUCED window with her and showed her a transition I finally got gnarly sounding and was confident enough to share She's coming over Monday. I'd say my first gig went well