imadje

hey mate, i run a dj school, private 1 to 1 lessons and workshops for special educational needs. have been doing for 7 years. If you want to pass any lesson plans or ideas through me I'll give you honest feedback. I can also give you some tips as to how to best make it a working business venture. You wont be in competition with me, i'm in the U.K. am considering emmigrating to oz so am interested in making contacts in the same game

rofl mattus. hard luck pun.

ez

^i agree. on reference monitors or cutting edge club systems you may notice a difference but it is nothing compared to the difference you get between digital and any other digital format, or between a song that's been warped in ableton with one that hasnt. Plus once a room is full of drinking, chatting, dancing people it would take a real chin stroker to give a shit anyway. P.S. in itunes press ctrl J (PC) or Cmd J (MAC) and you can choose which columns show up in the browser, you can click bit rate in here so it is always shown without the need to bring up info for each song.

^sikk parties make it all worthwhile mate, the money pays the bills, the life gives me the thrills

Am in uk and on iphone so you'll have to do your own currency conversion. I work for specialist agency which chsrge 350 to 450. I get 200 to 300. But we do a lot of homework planning types of music, genres, etc. The agent supplies lights and pa. I take dex. There is a wide range of fees depending on your skill, your adaptability, your rep etc. I know a lot of our competition go for half the price or less. But they just do commercial chart and edm. We getmore for knowing more and supplying the niche market where clients want some real music.

what do you mean I'm too late? It's only 3.45pm on friday 18th nov in the U.K. And I get: "tell you" but I dont know who it's by. It's from a vinyl compilation I bought years ago called "disco not disco" and all the artists names have been lost during importing the vinyl to a digital format. Nevertheless this is an absolute stonking tune. Proof positive that disco really was the roots of house music, and i do mean disco, not that watered down shite that abba and the beegees made, disco as in the loft, haven and studio 54 and the original DJs like francis grasso, nicky siano etc in the late '60s early '70s who invented beatmatching all those years ago. So old even I wasnt bon yet still my fav thread eggs, top banana.

Gandy is so right here. I dont want to piss on your parade but if you had posted "learn to DJ using Virtual DJ with Sync function" you wouldnt even have had dinosaurs like me come and be offended by the fact you wrote "urgent" as if the world was on fire. Post well, live well, make friends p.s. I love that cartman accent you've got.

+rep for coming back to the thread to tell us how it ended up, nice work suby

well blow me, i never heard that before but am def having it because i've been rocking this for ages: Here's a thought: if you search for the snoop accapella and the instrumental of "close to me" you could do your own version picking the verses you want most

^ lol, what a can of worms! i was achaly alluding to you (eggs) mentioning bpm counters sometimes getting things doubled or halved by accident. Hadnt even noticed Gandys post, and def wasnt seeing the future. I keep my jedi skills to the real world blud now back on topic: yer melody you can do "inline" editing on itunes by clicking on the browser. It can be a pain coz if you click 1mm to the left or right you end up playing the song from the start instead of editing. Another method is to highlight to track then press ctrl and I or cmd and I on mac. this brings up all the info for the track. I dont know if this actually edits the ID3 tag or just the info itunes shows. TBH if itch has analysed your track then go to view its info in itunes (cmd or ctrl I) and it should automatically fill in the bpm reading with whatever Itch calculated. you only need to change it if itch got it wrong. I use the inline editing for the comments field much more.

So glad someone mentioned the MC before I started listening to that mix. Saved me from throwing my lappy out the window. Delay can be used to good effect mixing Dub Reggae or where you really want a tune to stand. eg where you use delay and then leave a pregnant pause before dropping in a bomb. But judging from what you have all said about this clip i dare not watch it and I think i defer to the right honourable jaz:

hahaha. it prob just needs time for servers to upload to the mothership or sumthin ( as you can see I am really knowledgeable about how the internet works) fb is shit anyway. no worries

^ my bad gandy, big sorry love x

ok, so thread too long, didnt read all of it.. but my 2c: Import everything to itunes. Itch does sync with itunes so set up playlists in itunes then you can access them through itch. I'm pretty sure you do use itch not serato dont you? In itunes I sort everything into genres such as: dance, rock, soul/funk, hiphop/beats, etc Then I sort sub playlists such as: house deep, house electro, house old skool, note I put the word house at the front so they all showup in a row when itunes sorts playlists alphabetically. In itunes I have columns as follows: track name, bpm, time, comments, artist. In the comments bar I enter all kinds of info such as my interpretation of the "feel" of a tune, if there are any instances of a tempo change, if there are really good breaks which I may want to set to a loop before i start playing, plus if there are any other songs that I know mix well with this song. This way if i search itunes for a song any other song I know mixes well with it will also be shown as an option. Regarding bpm: I let itch analyse, it writes to the id3 tag, then in itunes I have to bring up the song info and at that point it recognises the tag written by itch and so adds the bpm to the itunes display too. As eggs said no bpm calculators are 100% reliable. Itch has a tap button to reset the tempo of a tune if it has been analysed wrong. Finally I sort playlists I like, usually by exporting the history from itch of what I actually played at a good gig. I move this back to itunes and resort/fine tune anything then it is visible in itch again for practise. Recently I have also started using itch crates. the sub crate system is dope. But i would rec you use itunes 1st and copy whole lists to itch crates from your itunes library to get started with.

when I got mine repaired the service engineer explained that there are seperate micro switches for cue and for play/pause but that if one has gone you may as well get the other replaced while the unit is open for service. The part costs like 30p while the labour for opening the box is $$$.

^lol. but yer, i am rice pudding on fb, djimbluefoot is my dj page. imadje on adjf, bluefoot on techtools and serato.com what d'you mean identity crisis?

so its more than 25 likes and i can change url to a more user friendly one (see sig, woofeckinhaa) was there any more to it than that?

ez

I'd start a new thread for that one mate

ok, so on my itch the huge waveforms right across the middle of the screen can be removed by scrolling through the view options. The view options have a button on my NS6 but I think the four little icons to the right of the time display on your screenshot (top left corner) also do this. the little dial things that give you an idea of where you are in each rotation are a straight copy of how we used to draw a line on each bit of vinyl. Comes in real handy for scratching and cueing. Some CDJs have them some don't but you are stuck with them on itch. All Cdjs and DVS show bpm, only vinyl wont. If you really want to "put the blast shield down" and feel the force then I guess you could always drape a bit of material over the screen so it hangs just above the browser, or you could just try keep your eyes on something else, or do as eggs says^. BTW (and ignore this if you like it this way): you can toggle the djfx/sp6/rec horizontal display on/off to free up more room for your browser. Just click on whichever one is on and it will go off. If you set up good crates you can also lose the "files" area of the browser and so see more actual playlist/have less clutter. The file, browse, prepare etc things all toggle so again just click whichever is on to turn it off. You can choose which columns are shown in the browser, I like to have the BPM column visible so I can see if two songs will possibly match before I load them. You can then sort the playlist by that column by clicking on the top field of the column. I used to manually time and then write bpm on all my vinyl sleeves so again, this is not in anyway giving you an unfair advantage. hit me back if doesnt help

which aids are you using? some are on some CDJs and vinyl too. Some can be removed by altering the view on itch (depending on your version) Personally I would recommend learning without the detailed waveforms so you can adapt to cdjs etc, but lots of people do use laptops live too, depends on the dj and the club and if you are happy to take your lappy with.

I use mine in lessons with kids and have had to replace the switches twice. not a pricey job but a pain if the service centre is a long way away. The first sign you're switch is going is that you no longer hear the "click" when you press it. It still works but doesnt depress at all. The second stage is random play/pausing when you arent touching yet. guess which stage you should go for repair at?

in a club you can play what you like as they will have payed for the license % split for selling a track is totally variable, all deals are negotiated.