Reply to DJing in a Pub Tonight...

So I was covering the start of a mate's set toevening at a city centre pub; COMPLETELY different crowd than I'm used to, and I had about 6 people come up to me asking what I was doing and how.

I was using Traktor and a Terminal Mix 4, and the first lady came over and asked why I wasn't using headphones; I explained to her I was doing it visually, and she was fascinated by the fact I had waveforms (apparently she'd done a bit of DJing in her youth on vinyl, and found the fact that technology has come such a long way was incredible).

Another guy came over and asked specifically what I was doing (I was bringing in the drum beat of Track B to replace the backing from Track A), and I walked him through it all, showed him cuepoints and used a drama effect for the transition, and he was amazed at the fact that out of two component tracks I was creating a unique "third track" on-the-fly.

Then I had another guy - very drunk - come over with his mate and ask "where the 7"s go?", then proceeded to tell me that all I was doing was pressing buttons.

3 people, 3 VERY different viewpoints; the other people who inquired were less technical about it and just wanted to know what gear I was using, but it just goes to show that even amongst the older generation (these people were in their late 40s/early 50s), there's still a lot of difference from person-to-person as to the way people regard digital DJing. It's nice to see, however, that people are still interested in DJing as an artform; it was very, very different to being taken for granted in a club.