Skrillex goin CDJ?

What would I prefer? Great live mixing. I'd happily have no visuals if the other option was a pre-mixed set. I would never knowingly pay to see someone "just press play" & I would feel ripped off if I did.

I know this is a necro thread, but I thought I'd respond to this post since it's recent.

Deadmau5 was mostly full of it in that article. There are many ways to circumvent the issue he was referring to; Armin van Buuren for instance (believe it was Armin, I may be misremembering) uses SMPTE from extra cdjs to sync his visuals while Joachim Garraud uses SSL with video. The way Deadmau5 has his show set up may require a pre-mixed set, but it's not some sort of blanket requirement like he makes it out to be. It just makes the visuals easier and possibly more accurate in terms of sync.

He was on CDJ's when I saw him at future a couple weeks ago as well. Was a fucking great show.

O and if were talking about DJ's who don't do anything I saw something interesting while swedish house mafia were playing. It was only on the big screen for a second so I can't be 100% sure but I believe that one of the CDJ's was paused and the other three weren't doing anything.... while the music was playing...
Oh well, it was still a great show and I would see them again.

+a gazillion

The cold hard fact with most big live performances, is that they are just general press play and add effects ( and dance hehe)
Like deadmau5 said in his article about pressing play, it has to be in time with the visuals. I dunno, what would you prefer, great live mixing, or a decent prepared mix with sweet visuals?

The cold hard fact with most big live performances, is that they are just general press play and add effects ( and dance hehe)
Like deadmau5 said in his article about pressing play, it has to be in time with the visuals. I dunno, what would you prefer, great live mixing, or a decent prepared mix with sweet visuals?

cdjs or not his mixing is still pretty fucking dodgy. I'll admit his track selection is solid and he can work a crowd, but he still has a long way to go before I even consider watching one of his sets. other than that his music is ok. a bit too cheesy, but im not really into dubstep step so w/e.

ohh and by the way that mother ship is amazing

also anyone else notice that maybe a year or 2 ago Rusko was the guy getting all this hate, but now the hate is all on skrill

H8ters gon hate, simple as that. If its not one thing, its the next.

LOL every video I have seen he is only using one CDJ. And he never switches to the other deck. He just messes with effects on the mixer, and that's about it. I believe he went to the CDJ's simply for the stability.

I dunno why so many people feel like they should defend the dude. He has some great tracks, but it's not like he's underground and needs people to stand up for him.

To be honest most of the big time producers I've seen live lately don't mix live. They throw in a few effects here and there, but they are playing a pre made set in ableton. Skrillex for a while wasn't even changing his set up from town to town. I guess many of these producers are more into selling and spicing up the "experience" vs amazing you with live mixes. Kinda why I'm very careful as to who I pay to see live these days.

I enjoy the creativity of producers who still mix live, they just surprise you and crowd.

Props to Skream & Benga for keeping it real. Seen them last evening in Chicago, and they blew the roof off. Kinda shocked me to see that they were opening for Feed Me.

-Mike

LOL at penguin at 2:30

doesnt look like he's using cdj's to me, dont know what you guys r on about, and if u believe hes wearing the beats by dre for anything other then $$ u guys crazy, but i dont know how he would do that mix that start around 1:50 without ableton, unless he's been using cdj's for alot longer then i thought, i highly doubt this, hoping for some pics to clear it up soon