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Posted on: 28.07.2010 by Maisie Marras
youre reminded of mixing while you try to keep the speedo exactly on the sped limit (beatmatching. believe of the pedal as the pitch fader, the needle as deck b and the speed limit as deck a)

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Graham Frazier
30.07.2010		I love that guy, thanks a million.
Takisha Hodulik
30.07.2010		When:

-you do not like people asking for requests.

-your little sisters get annnoyed when you restart a track constantly in your car because you are analyzing it.

-you know Techno is a type of EDM and not an actual genre.

-you know what good music is.

-you know what a "320" is when you hear it or know what it is when someone is talking about it.

-you know WAV has a redivulous audio quality.

-get lost in thought for long periods of time believeing about things like "hmm, what song would mix in wel from this song?"

-you spend a lot of time setting up cue points for phrasing references.

-you can ID a song by the first second of hearing it.

-know that Pauly D is a joke, but no one wants to listen why.



You know you are a GOOD DJ when:

-you can phrase.

-you do know that just being loud and clippping is never, ever good.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=770eOF-1hzk

watch parts 1,2,3,and 4.

I agree with everything this guy ays about DJing.
Irwin Ney
30.07.2010
Originally Posted by tyfurious
When you go to a Wedding and wonder, "why isn't this DJ mixing?"
Yeah!! I did this two weeks ago...
Even my wife was mad about the DJ playing disco 80's stuff without proper mixing :P
And he had two cdjs and a mixer!!!
Wanda Insel
30.07.2010		When everyone (your girlfriend mostly) starts getting annoyed at you saying "boring, was rocking this tune ages ago when it was good!" if a song gets a bit of limelight. (happened this morning with Americano)
Donovan Mandy
30.07.2010
Originally Posted by Damien1138
you know you're a dj when you're broke all the time but your music collection is awesome
Oh god, so true... and I believe I'm going to have to buy a new hard drive to fit more stuff on...
sinior cliff
30.07.2010		you know you're a dj when you're broke all the time but your music collection is awesome
robin loo
30.07.2010
Originally Posted by MaxOne
when youre round someone house having dinner and you end up mixing on youtube by opening two tabs on your browser so you can play tunes with out a gap...

http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamothe...rossfader.com/
Takisha Hodulik
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by MaxOne
when youre round someone house having dinner and you end up mixing on youtube by opening two tabs on your browser so you can play tunes with out a gap...


and thats how it all started for me

but at a party where they were playing top 40...
Takisha Hodulik
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by sarasin
I have a mate who tends to flair his nostrils on build ups.

LOL
o hell fuckinh yes. i do this EVERYDAY. sometimes im parked at my destination and just wait for a part to end and immediately turn my car off on the last downbeat
Hang Postman
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by dubgiant
...when you try to beatmatch your windshield wipers with your turning signals
Or you try to match other turning signals
Eloy Snopkowski
29.07.2010		when your read all the 7 pages/post 1by1
Branden Wentler
29.07.2010		I once waited at a stop light...for a song to turn green.

Oh yeah, try to beat match interstate bumps with w/ever track is on.
Alvera Nathan
29.07.2010		When you turn a evening out clubbing into a competition between friends to guess the next song being mixed in the entire evening . It somehow helps you believe if you stop dancing, tilt your head and squint at the dj.

Also when driving in your car, you will only 'drop' the indicator at the start of a new bar
Maisie Marras
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by Archies'bald
When your heartbeat simultaneously matches the BPM of a track.

God help you when the beat stops.
ahahahhaaaaaa thats funny
Shay Wyche
29.07.2010		When your heartbeat simultaneously matches the BPM of a track.

God help you when the beat stops.
Eldora Longchamp
29.07.2010		...when you try to beatmatch your windshield wipers with your turning signals
Maisie Marras
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by slangemenneske
... when you tweak a knob on any appliance the same way you would on a mixer.
you should see me with a toaster
i get mad at the spring loaded thing you push down too because i slowly want to fade my bread in and my toast out....
Irving Odabashian
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by MaxOne
when youre round someone house having dinner and you end up mixing on youtube by opening two tabs on your browser so you can play tunes with out a gap...
I have actually had people dancing to my youtube DJing!
Hipolito Scionti
29.07.2010		when youre round someone house having dinner and you end up mixing on youtube by opening two tabs on your browser so you can play tunes with out a gap...
Leeanna Ayla
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by slangemenneske
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... when you tweak a knob on any appliance the same way you would on a mixer.
I turn the stove on like that
Delila Vandommelen
29.07.2010		... when hearing slightly off beatmatching makes you tweak a non-existant spindle on your leg and/or brake a non-existent platter with your middle finger against the other leg, until the dj gets it right.

... when you tweak a knob on any appliance the same way you would on a mixer.
Verona Fashbaugh
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by dry_bones
Whenever you walk to class, you step to a 4/4th beat at 128bpm.

Sometimes I give a head nod on the downbeat.
And if youre late, you run to Drum & Bass.
robert chanda
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by dry_bones
Whenever you walk to class, you step to a 4/4th beat at 128bpm.
Walking through long grass gives you a good "buh-tsss.. buh-tsss... ".
It even has the right amount of swing.
Ellen Gribb
29.07.2010		Whenever you walk to class, you step to a 4/4th beat at 128bpm.

Sometimes I give a head nod on the downbeat.
Lilliana Perris
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by BradCee
when you're listening to something on your phone using it's speaker (not headphones) and start covering it with random stuff - hand/mouth/cup/whatever - to create flanger/phaser style effects.
HAHAHAHHA...my mate did that....but he was also a meth tweaker!

Seriously....He would also melt with a gas torch lighter and then shine a laser thru it to make patterns on his wall.
Lilliana Perris
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by pilmat
this and I tend to turn OFF my car on the downbeat of a phrase change too...

Phil.
I have a mate who tends to flair his nostrils on build ups.

LOL
Corine Kasman
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by Gravekeepr
Also when you want to turn up the volume of the stereo you time the volume increase with a bass drop.
this and I tend to turn OFF my car on the downbeat of a phrase change too...

Phil.
Leonarda Javorek
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by rt24
When you give people a lecture for using the word "techno".
all the freaking time. techno is a type of EDM people!!
Irwin Ney
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by sarasin
LOL....you been feeding the old man some of the good shit on the sly?

KEKEKEKEKEKEKE

All of a sudden....his personality blossomed!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

He always say he want to go to a rave with us (me and my wife) :P
obviously he doesn't know what trully happens there :eek:
Hipolito Scionti
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by BradCee
when you leave djtt on a background tab while browsing redtube, during a vid you get an e-mail about a new post, switch tabs to check it, and your 'not mouse' hand gets more 'enthusiastic' - and it feels right so you don't care
That might be the funniest thing i've ever read...
Verona Fashbaugh
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by BradCee
when you leave djtt on a background tab while browsing redtube, during a vid you get an e-mail about a new post, switch tabs to check it, and your 'not mouse' hand gets more 'enthusiastic' - and it feels right so you don't care
Oh dear God. Remind me never to share a MIDI controller with you!
Dorcas Bassignani
29.07.2010		when you've reached lvl 31 on evening club city on facebook?

you actually turned the webz on for soul calibur 4 tips, and still haven't looked at that tab

when you leave djtt on a background tab while browsing redtube, during a vid you get an e-mail about a new post, switch tabs to check it, and your 'not mouse' hand gets more 'enthusiastic' - and it feels right so you don't care
Vernon Vanderberg
29.07.2010		...when you run back to the ipod every 2 mins because of a deep seated fear of letting a track play all the way to the end.

....and then trying to time the next track on the down beat.
Dorcas Bassignani
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by First Touch
When you can't spell "you're" correctly in a Thread title.
lol
Stephane Birenbaum
29.07.2010		When you can't spell "you're" correctly in a Thread title.
Dorcas Bassignani
29.07.2010		when you're listening to something on your phone using it's speaker (not headphones) and start covering it with random stuff - hand/mouth/cup/whatever - to create flanger/phaser style effects.

you know you've spent too much time using DAW piano rolls/pattern editors when; you see music in a 1/16th 4 beat grid as you hear it
Sanda Mulich
29.07.2010
Originally Posted by Str8upDrew
I'm guilty of this one.

You know you're a dj when you start doing eq sweeps on your car stereo to add dramatic effects and builds to the songs on the radio.
YESSSSS i do that ALL the time. my friends tell me to "dj" with the ipod while riding shotgun so i always give them a little extra zing to whatever we listen to
Gilma Marchini
29.07.2010		When you go to a Wedding and wonder, "why isn't this DJ mixing?"
Verona Fashbaugh
28.07.2010
Originally Posted by Stumpy
...when you can calculate the bpm of baby's heartbeat @ ultrasound.
When you can calculate the bpm and then classify is as a genre of music based on how fast it is, then you know what's good.
Maisie Marras
28.07.2010
Originally Posted by Stumpy
...when you can calculate the bpm of baby's heartbeat @ ultrasound.
O_o theirs an odd one

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