Reply to First actual 'Gig', some questions for all you veterans
First actual 'Gig', some questions for all you veterans So this upcoming week I'm getting the opportunity to play my first actual gig at a rather large club. It will be during the weekday and I was informed that the music styles typically include a variety of: house, progressive house, funky-house (???), electro-house, minimalist type tracks, and a bit of dub. That's for Mon-Thurs and on the weekends I guess it's mainly top 40 Dj's SO a couple questions for all you veterans of the club scene, I have NEVER used a CDJ in my life. I know how to operate a standard midi-controller (I own an S2+F1 along with traktor) but have no experience with CDJ's. I've been watching videos on youtube to get the basic idea of how they operate/how to set them up properly, but my question is are there any things people recommend I should be doing in order to prepare myself for CDJ use besides just watching vids and reading the manual or mixing with my controller? ALSO for track selection I'll be playing a pretty early set and was curious as to if anyone could recommend me some minimal/house/progressive house tracks that would be appropriate for the time and vibe of the venue. There's an open bar and a bunch of bottle-service tables, so I want to keep the vibe going strong but not blasting off with Quintino's Epic of course I have the 'House Ambassadors' collection off of beatport along with numerous similar sounding tracks, curious as to whether that would be appropriate? I'm believeing tracks similar to Fedde Le Grand's 'Metrum' would constitute as being played during the "peak" of my set if I'm not mistaken? Last but not least, I'm looking to purchase USB's for the event so I can just plug in and import my mp3's into the CDJ's. Any recommendations or should I take a different approach to doing this? | |
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