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Upgrade for the beginner market: edit by Mitch: fixed

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Hey man, sorry if i gave the wrong impression. You may want to end up on the big stage but for now just take it one step at a time. The tried and tested method to get some experience playing to crowds is to throw house parties, get known by the local scene, always carry some tunes and then whenever a club night finishes and you hear someone say : "all back to mine" you jump in the taxi and make sure you get a go on their decks. It's just a different buzz playing to people. Start with small rooms of 10-20 and build yer rep, we've all done it. and sorry Gremm1s, but IMHO you are coming from a professional but commercial kings cross point of view. What you say is true to you and to me when I do mobile work. But I think drak0sp is coming from the artistic and expressive side of DJing which I am also lucky enough to indulge in at festies over the summer. On this side of the fence you play what you want and see how people react, then you react to their reactions and build a mood and atmosphere... you don't bend over and give the people what they want, you give them what they need. If they don't agree they can go somewhere else and you are better of without them. If he just tries to keep people on the floor like you have to, then he will end up sounding like you and 90% of commercial EDM club DJs today. If he stays true to his sound and starts building a following... he may just get lucky and fire up his own little scene and following. Maybe.

^Nice 1 scottie. I am drooling over pics of this NS7 II already. It runs 4 decks like a NS6 but with the pro platters of the NS7, plus more: achual mpc pads via collaboration with Akai, and these touch sensitive eq pots... . need to know two things: how much does it weigh? how much does it cost? This is their press release: "NUMARK ONCE AGAIN DEMOLISHES THE BOUNDARIES OF DJING WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF NS7 II Incorporating exclusive technology from Akai Professional, NS7 II offers DJs the most responsive control surface ever created with virtually every inch filled with advanced touch-sensitive controls. Cumberland, R.I. (January 24, 2013) - Numark, the world's leading manufacturer of DJ technology, announces NS7 II, a dramatically enhanced and updated version of the industry's most advanced and best-selling motorized DJ controller, NS7. NS7 II features four channels, 16 backlit RGB velocity-sensitive MPC® pads from Akai Professional, expanded effects controls-including a full array of capacitive touch-activated knobs and filters-and the most comprehensive integration for Serato DJ available. Numark will exhibit and demo NS7 II for the first time at Booth 6700 at the 2013 NAMM show, January 24-27 in Anaheim, California. For more than 20 years, Numark has set the pace in the world of digital DJing, empowering DJs with cutting-edge technology that has continually advanced the art form. In 2007, Numark and Serato® released NS7, a controller that blends different eras of DJing so completely it makes them virtually indistinguishable from each other. Since then, the powerful experience offered by NS7 has defined the top tier of DJ performance, setting the standard by which all other controllers are judged. Now, with NS7 II, Numark is pushing the modern DJ's performance capability even further, incorporating iconic technology from Akai Professional, the world leader in music production technology and creator of the legendary MPC. NS7 II's 16 MPC pads can be instantly assigned to control five dynamic performance features in Serato DJ: Cues, Loop, Roll, Sampler, and Slicer. In addition, each pad features RGB illumination, allowing for a virtually endless amount of color variations assignable via MIDI. Vinyl platter control has never felt more familiar with its high- and low-torque motorized platters with real slip mats and real vinyl sitting on 3,600 ticks of resolution. NS7 II's four-channel mixer works with or without a computer and includes a full array of external device inputs. Capacitive touch-activated filter, gain, EQ, and effects knobs are other features incorporated from Akai Professional, which turn the knobs themselves into control surfaces. DJs can use them for instant-on parameter control, blending effects, and instant frequency kills. "NS7 II is an interactive playground," said Chris Roman, Numark Product Manager. "It's built to squeeze every ounce of capability out of Serato DJ and push your creative limits. It's born to perform and to empower DJs with maximum live-performance creative capability." NS7 II will be unveiled at Booth 6700 at the 2013 NAMM show on January 24th." http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com ... TJ4n2FtwFM

This NS7 II controller looks ok to me. Only one photo so far but looks like a good arrangement of features at face value. http://instagram.com/p/U10iFMuHrZ/

Namm is on. If anything looks interesting I'll stick a link in here, feel free to add to. For starters: no idea what this will be like to use but I can imagine some folk loving being able to camp it up on stage and dance about a lot more while DJing, the sexy show offs. Wireless midi controller for DJs from Numark: "The controller has just enough controls to give you want you want. Smack in the middle is a really smooth jog wheel surrounded on both sides by 8 RGB pads (16 in total). There are 4 pad bank buttons underneath the wheel and 4 bank buttons above for the jog wheel, allowing for 64 button commands and 16 knob commands (four per bank). There are also two triggers, one on the left and one on the right, which activate X/Y control. You can lay it down on a table where it will rest and not move at all while you bang away on it, but this thing is built to be picked up and swung around for awesome FX control." http://djworx.com/exclusive-namm-2013-n ... irst-look/

I love deep and this was good mate. Thank you for the aural massage not sure if it was part of the tune or a mix you did but the build at about 11.45 got me going. regarding advice: online mixes are for listening to and enjoying and you got this down mixing to a live crowd is where deep house djs really have to show their telepathic abilities and where listeners can really tell if the DJ knows the vibe or not. The real role of the house DJ is to steer the atmosphere much more progressively and sensitively than DJs using singalong commerical or big drop dub-pop. But you won't learn that skill from forum advice. Good luck man, get out there, play to people.

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top man. i'm waiting on finishing decorating my room, currently 12inches of snoe and -3 C so paint takes a lot longer to dry than normal....and then of course there's heaps to do in terms of setting up dex, cameras, and internet, all while already working at my usual bookings of course... but i think i'm a wait to see how useful this pbs 4 is before I go rushign into anything for the online idea.... keep me up to date bro

The platter will matter if you want to try scratching at all. Neither of these controllers is good for scratching but if you even want to try I would choose the mixtrack. The mixtrack also has better build quality overall BTW. It's just an odd pick up on some buttons, but you can workaround this by concentrating. Most vinyl djs had a similar problem if they learnt on belt-drive decks before getting driect drive. They just end up as better DJs in the long run by learning how to accomodate the delay.

^ cheers man, hoping i'll be able to post some vinyl vids soon too. My poor technics have been mothballed about as long as you've been doing this lol! BTW: I posted this in the wrong thread really. When you post mixes/vids etc they should really all go here: viewforum.php?f=104

rite, i keep missing to many of these vids. subscribing the whole rap/hiphop board from now on. Nice work Wazza. We still gonna try for intercontinental skype-style jams one day innit?

The most important thing any entertainer needs to do: make it look easy. The biggest mistake any newbie can make: think it is as easy as it looks.

I found the Wego had a better pick up from it's buttons. The mixtrack had a better platter. Pressing a mixtrack "play" button could occasionally cause a slight delay/latency which I know was not the software or my computer. I think it was most likely the quality of the internal micro-switch in the mixtrack hardware. Pressing "play" on the wego always instantly achieved the desired function without any latency. The platter on the Wego has to be physically depressed for it to realise you want to scratch. I found this really annoying and it made any paddling style scratch techniques damn near impossible without relearning the technique. The platter on the mixtrack is touch sensitive as soon as the scratch function is on making it much more preferable for any tickling. Wego also had more buttons so more functions available. Personaly I would still choose the mixtrack because of the platter on the wego, but it depends which functions you want to use. So that's what I know. But the most important thing, as mitch said: DO you have a DJ store where you can play on both? How they feel to you personally is so important.

i'm pretty sure you can add any midi controller to serato? I use traktor and itch so not 100% sure, wazza would know. but if you can then any cheapo controller would be enough to use cue points. AKai lpd-8 is real simple but works for me. dicers also cool as scottie says. So you dont have to buy a real expensive midi mixer, you can get a normal mixer and add control externally.

yes mate, always got props for digital underground. tuff cuts and juggles too. do you play out anywhere? BTW: There aren't many turntablists on here but they are all appreciated for keeping the fire burning. If you can vid what you are doing it will help a lot of other users on here understand what is going on. peace

You say you have a passion for music but I guess the important questions are: how much do you love music? and how much do you love sweaty clubs full of lunatics? If the answer to these is "feckin heaps" then you'll prob do alright. So: Meet Wazza. (you won't get offers like that ^ very often) Try as many things as you can. See how it feels. Decide. p.s. your approach sounds good: take it slow, don't expect too much, do it for the love, see what happens. good luck mate

MICKEY FINNNNNNNNNNNN. we had him at one of our venues mid 90s. top bloke Major JUNGLIST but also known for this old skool classic. First tune to use a bass modulation as the drop. Dubstep owes this guy money peeps. TOP DJ. GET IN.

FIEND: just thought: What you have to remember about using a controller is that there is absolutely no chance of the needle skipping. This means it is more like learning how to drive on god playstation simulator after you've learn to drive a real car. You can wreck it, be as heavy handed as you want, be lazy (well lazier than a vinyl turntablist, not as lazy as a press press dj), and still get away with it. PLUS: you get hot cue buttons, so if you do want to jump back to a cue point you dont have to pick the needle up or do mad rewinds to get back to your first beat. PLUS: you get master tempo so any pitch wobbles dont get heard if you need to nudge dramatically. So all in all using a controller has a lot of benefits, which could be called "cheating"... but then again you do lose the precision of a 12" platter, plus as you so rightly said: you lose that all important feedback from the platter working against you. Tools for the job mate. You choose them coz you use them. I like them all

Wazza my bludder always so good to hear from you And yes fiend! I'm made up u noticed my flares! To me that is New technique lol. Hamster clicking will follow once i'm happy with the flare. Using a controller takes some getting used to but u get overit innit. No diferent to changing car and getting used to a new clutch etc. The hard bit is going back to vinyl and remembering! Thanks heaps lads. Means loads. Nxt vid hopefully from my school room. I'm fitting carpet thjs morn and furst official booking this aft. Ps will prob start a new user id to link my school to adjf, has to be under 18 friendly so cant have any connections with off topic

cheers mitch That's the scratch dj equivalent of going to gym. Having not been in about a decade, ouch. ...waiting for a dressing down from wrx fiend tick tock tick tock, oh hang work... hnnngggg

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ok, I added a few tunes to the end of my practise routine and I guess they are causing the issue. I'll go back to imovie, edit out the tracks I think are causing the issue and reupload. edit: I got a minute: