Hawtin Laptop Goes Down --- No back up?
Hawtin Laptop Goes Down --- No back up? Posted on: 15.04.2013 by Julissa Serrone http://pulseradio.net/articles/2013/...-richie-hawtin | |
Carmelo Politowicz 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
To get to the point - I was standing sort of next to and under the booth and could see his traktor computer screen clearly (well, from like 25 feet away). He was basically playing A --> B the whole way with C/D set up as loops that ran for long periods of time. Being below him it was impossible to know which loops he had actually playing (audibly I mean), but one was looping for at least 15 minutes that I saw nonstop. On the plus side, the tent/dome they had him in sounded AMAZING. It was great, by far the best sound in the venue - much better than the Sahara tent where all the EDM guys were. Such a good set up for that venue, and the fact that there was AC was key. I had ear plugs in - it was too loud I would say for anyone over 24 years old, but nevertheless, it was done very well. Here's some video that I took of DJ Sneak/Doc Martin and Hawtin. My phone was dying so I had to keep them short... I should have added - the last picture I attached is of DJ Dan smiling at me from behind the decks, wearing a Sneak House Gangster bandanna. Pretty awesome. Dan came on after Mike Balance, who was pretty damn good himself. He was nice enough to chat with me a bit after I got excited when he played Wink & Lil' Louis' "How's Your Evening So Far." |
Rolanda Clodfelder 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
I for one NEVER enjoy a gig where there are no monitors, and no, I will not play live as well without them - sure no problem at home when everything outside is all quiet, or even if I'm a resident and know the way things sound without them and how to compensate. But in a club playing for the first time without them I'd be a grumpy boy very fast. But I'm not a big enough name to have a contract stating that I'll walk away if the gear I need isn't provided. |
Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by deevey
My MAIN point being, you can DJ perfectly fine without the use of monitors. Just use your headphones! That's my point. |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
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Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
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Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by KS2
Unless someone here is willing to correct me.... |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
Here's the status
Thank you to everyone that came tothe VIVa party, was great and a good vibe, but can i just say, did anyone notice both me and phillip from M.A.N.D.Y had problems with he playing? There was a half second delay with what was coming out of the headphones and the monitor! Ive never experienced this before! I dont use a laptop to mix! Or hit sync button! I mix manually! So was an absolute evening
mare! Detlef noticed it and scrapped playing timecode traktor vinyls and used his laptop to hit sync button! Then they fixed it for sahsa at the end! I asked enough times for them to sort it out but they didnt, was so frustrating! But the vibe was actually good. Thanks to everyone thay came,
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Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by Dohjo
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Olin Easley 19.04.2013 | I believe that people really overrate Richie Hawtin's technical capacities sometimes. He doesn't do that much and to be honest, he doesn't need to. As long as he's making the music interesting and fun to listen and dance to, it's all good. Sometimes that one extra loop is what makes the set good because, let's face it, minimal techno and tech house are good genres, but get really boring if you're only listening to single tracks. |
Hank Guidas 19.04.2013 | From the sets i've seen and heard of Hawtin, his mixing is pretty ordinary, taking in consideration the gear he uses |
Vada Branyon 19.04.2013 | Should've used his cube He's such a moron sometimes! |
Carmelo Politowicz 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
To get to the point - I was standing sort of next to and under the booth and could see his traktor computer screen clearly (well, from like 25 feet away). He was basically playing A --> B the whole way with C/D set up as loops that ran for long periods of time. Being below him it was impossible to know which loops he had actually playing (audibly I mean), but one was looping for at least 15 minutes that I saw nonstop. On the plus side, the tent/dome they had him in sounded AMAZING. It was great, by far the best sound in the venue - much better than the Sahara tent where all the EDM guys were. Such a good set up for that venue, and the fact that there was AC was key. I had ear plugs in - it was too loud I would say for anyone over 24 years old, but nevertheless, it was done very well. Here's some video that I took of DJ Sneak/Doc Martin and Hawtin. My phone was dying so I had to keep them short... I should have added - the last picture I attached is of DJ Dan smiling at me from behind the decks, wearing a Sneak House Gangster bandanna. Pretty awesome. Dan came on after Mike Balance, who was pretty damn good himself. He was nice enough to chat with me a bit after I got excited when he played Wink & Lil' Louis' "How's Your Evening So Far." |
Rolanda Clodfelder 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
I for one NEVER enjoy a gig where there are no monitors, and no, I will not play live as well without them - sure no problem at home when everything outside is all quiet, or even if I'm a resident and know the way things sound without them and how to compensate. But in a club playing for the first time without them I'd be a grumpy boy very fast. But I'm not a big enough name to have a contract stating that I'll walk away if the gear I need isn't provided. |
Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by deevey
My MAIN point being, you can DJ perfectly fine without the use of monitors. Just use your headphones! That's my point. |
Rolanda Clodfelder 18.04.2013 |
This particular person obviously thought he was above this, not realising he was playing to 150 people in a small club in the North. Douchebag!
Its the club/promoter at fault there for not providing gear that works 100% regardless of the "oh he should be able to use it regardless". Would you like to have even one video posted on youtube of you fucking up every transition at a gig ? .. Do you believe the punters/future promoters would care that the monitors were blown ? |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
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Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 | Decent size headliner at the time, a few years ago when fidget/electro house was huge in Manchester, Leeds and Huddersfield etc. Won't say his name on here, as he is a w***er and any publicity is good publicity ha! I did sarcastically hand him my headphones though and told him to use them. Wasn't impressed. We've all played on shit gear at one time or another, you've just got to deal with it. This particular person obviously thought he was above this, not realising he was playing to 150 people in a small club in the North. Douchebag! |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 | Yeah seems odd he couldn't manage (your bloke, not Darius). How big a headliner was he? My first gig on CDJs was without a monitor AND one of the decks was coming through all muffled and quiet on the headphones so it was almost impossible to tell if it was beatmatched. Was an experience but still managed to enjoy it! Cheers, handed it in a bit ago but still had no sleep. Got another 1000 word assignment to do toevening , for tomorrow but it'll seem like nothing so long as I manage to get some sleep asap. |
Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 | No problem. Sometimes via a community it's hard to get a point across without it coming off as a sarcastic ego comment (which mine usually are, but not in this case). It just seems strange, but Darius is a pretty straight up guy and knows his shit, so I'll probably ask him and maybe he can shed some light on it. I was running a evening once and the monitors went down in the first couple of hours with no spares, all the other DJs coped fine but when the headline act came on, every track was galloped and a train wreck and after first few tracks he stormed off and refused to play. I was fuming as I just couldn't understand why he just couldn't use his headphones! Obviously, blame on both parts, always have spare monitors! But your headphones are there for that instance! I've had it the other way round where my headphones have given up on me so for the next two tracks I've used the lights on the mixer and getting up close to the monitors until I got find spare headphones. Not ideal as you can imagine. Good luck with the dissertation. (Best thing I ever did was get out of that in my final year). |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
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Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by KS2
Unless someone here is willing to correct me.... |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
Here's the status
Thank you to everyone that came tothe VIVa party, was great and a good vibe, but can i just say, did anyone notice both me and phillip from M.A.N.D.Y had problems with he playing? There was a half second delay with what was coming out of the headphones and the monitor! Ive never experienced this before! I dont use a laptop to mix! Or hit sync button! I mix manually! So was an absolute evening
mare! Detlef noticed it and scrapped playing timecode traktor vinyls and used his laptop to hit sync button! Then they fixed it for sahsa at the end! I asked enough times for them to sort it out but they didnt, was so frustrating! But the vibe was actually good. Thanks to everyone thay came,
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Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by Dohjo
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Hank Guidas 18.04.2013 | How can the headphones be delayed? Just curious |
Latina Samon 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by JDFS
Originally Posted by joemanton
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Elvis Woodis 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by KS2
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Basil Forshee 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by KS2
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Lilliana Perris 18.04.2013 | So Richie was in South Africa in Feb and I got to see him for the first time, live. Here is a local magazine article, interviewing him. http://bpmmag.co.za/featured/richie-hawtin-south-africa-final-edits/ If anyone is interested....here is a Feb 2013 set from Richie.... http://soundcloud.com/richiehawtin/richie-hawtin-de9-fragments-7 Richie - Playing in Soweto! 21714_384444224986399_1215114932_n.jpg |
Latoria Kavulich 17.04.2013 | jack>rca +ipod |
Latina Samon 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by JDFS
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Tiesha Fantoni 18.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by b1sh0p
I agree. Richie is a party pooper. A festival is supposed to be a massive party. He threw all his toys out of the pram like a baby. With his profile he must have access to plenty of exclusive tunes so a CDJ set could still sound 'fresh' to peoples ears. Besides surely most people attending wont give a shit what he uses apart from the music tech nerds. x |
Delila Vandommelen 17.04.2013 | The interesting part here is Cassy played a long set at Coachella. I wanna hear THAT. Also, well done on breaking the CONNECTOR on what looks like an SSD. |
Sonja Roybal 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by JDFS
1. Burn CD's. 2. Get on mic. 3. Tell crowd you're having technical issues and you're going to play a special cd set for them. 4. Crowd goes bananas. It's not like cdj's are foreign to Hawtin. He played on cdj's and vinyl for years. I don't really care one way or the other. I just believe he could have turned it into a special show and the crowd would have loved it. I don't know that I've ever seen a dj cancel a show because of technical difficulties. Hell, I've seen guys play on 1 deck because they had to and the crowd was still into it. |
Augustine Mitzen 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by JDFS
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Shawn Vanhaitsma 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by KS2
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Shawn Vanhaitsma 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
Really? Delay Reverb pedal is the same as 4 CDJs going or Four Traktor Decks and Maschine? Yes Chris Leibing has a very intense setup too.. but ive seen him play so many times and he barely puts the effort that the other two do. Beyer? Len Faki... really? We clearly have a different idea how we compare those artist. They hardly do the same thing... ::shrug:: oh well Nor did I say they were the ONLY ones.. I said they were the ONLY ones who impress me with it.. a Delay/Reverb pedal and the other acts you mentioned, arent event remotely as entertaining. Its pretty easy to compare as Loco normally opens just before Richie goes on, during their most recent tour |
Lilliana Perris 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by joemanton
LOLOLOLOL |
Elvis Woodis 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by JDFS
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Cindie Somoza 17.04.2013 |
Originally Posted by JDFS
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Elvis Woodis 17.04.2013 | Despite all these disagreements, I personally would believe it was epic if he was to turn round and say 'my gear is screwed, but I've just been vinyl shopping, and I'm going to play you some diamonds I found'. IMAGINE! |
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