I've experienced that too and then when I came on after during my set the DJ went to hit the flanger and I kindly said, "no need, just let me do my thing"
I bought your course and appreciate the additional content and the updated sections, I have learnt so much in your very well constructed course, money and time very well spent as the outcome is that I have learnt skills I can use easily and I am far more confident in my DJing these days than I was before. Thank you Andrew....
Hey Andrew!! I Bought your dj course last week, out of all the courses I looked at I chose yours because you seem like the nicest/most enthusiastic/most genuine person. I’m 42 , off work for 3 months with a broken leg…… my mission to be able to DJ by the time I’m better.
Good luck!!! One tip: have your DJ equipment always on table connected to everything needed for playing! So it is absolutely easy to switch it on and play at least for the while. Because preparing it and connecting and then disconnecting again and hiding it somewhere... that decreases fun and motivation a lot! My main home audio system is connected through my controller so it became my standard home equipment. (I used to have oldschool Pioneer DJ equipment on kitchen unit, because I had not other place and I was so obsessed 😜😜🤩🤩
Been watching your channel for several years now. Always felt that your free content is already amazing. Some of your earlier videos were a gem! Learned a lot, but the most important (free) lesson I picked up from you is to have fun DJ-ing ✌
Hey Andrew, this video is spot on! I signed up to your course about 2 years ago after watching endless youtube videos with no structure at all and it was this course that really helped me put everything together. Every video has been useful in it's own way, thank you so much! I know you love a shameless plug so I am going to shamelessly plug a live mix that I recorded for a UK radio station on my channel, and I would be honoured if you could give it a watch/listen :) Happy New Year!
You’re so enjoyable to watch! And so right about DJs trying to teach you 😂 I’ve asked a few Dj’s questions and learned nothing only to figure it out myself after months of trial and error. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Hi Andrew! I purchased all 3 of your courses awhile ago and just recently I started putting in the work and practicing alot. I just love your energy, passion and teaching style. I'm learning so much in a short period of time and I'm starting to feel more confident behind the decks. I'm definitely looking forward to the new updates! right now I'm watching the 3 deck mix using the sampler. AMAZING! (okay!okay!)😂 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! from the east coast ✌🏾🍻
you are dead right about quality tracks - i was using radio edits and rips of cd’s i had and really struggled to mix them. Got a beatport sub and found it was far far easier to mix
True true... I have biiiig library with low quality tracks I was creating for months!!! And now I know, that I have nothing to play 😲 So I started again from the zero... I am really not a hero 🤪
@vitezslavkrcma7468 worry not my friend, we all started this way 😅. I too started out with youtube rips amd online converters, and vlc converters, and torrents 😅😅😅😅. When I found out that the quality was actually poor, I had a mini heart attack .... but from there there is no where else to go but UP ! Had to start from scratch ✌🏾
@@bitangayves2125you mean to tell me my high quality rips aren’t high quality ?! lol what other options is there that you can recommend besides beat port
Ey first ? Aye First haha... Your Vids made me realize I had so much to learn, even after playing some bigger events decades ago. You got any tips for getting tracks I produce critiqued?
You are again absolutely right!!! And everyone who means it seriously with learning how to DJ, should for sure follow your tips! Right from the beginning!!! So thank you for finding the teacher inside of you and for the patience with students 🙏 And for the Black Friday absolutely bombastic offer!!! 🤑 There was never better time to start DJ!!!! With cheap entry level DJ controllers (I started with DDJ-200 for the same price as your current special offer) and with such accessibility to the necessary knowledge served always with smile and motivating leadership from you... Really perfect conditions, thank you master!!! For any doubters: you can really believe me, that months spent creating of big library full of songs but in shitty quality was really very bad idea!!! And wasting time by searching them in dark corners of internet and struggling bymistakes in them, correcting beat grid and then be stuck with beat sync... Noooo that was all wrong!!!!! You cannot create anything good when you are using bad parts. So rule number one: Always listen to Buck.... sorry to Andrew 🤪
I been mixing music for over a decade now, and almost every set I put together is a different genre from my previous one. Doing this keeps things interesting, doesn't limit you to one specific genre, teaches you different techniques that come with each genre, and helps expand your taste in music. However, it does present a challenge when switching to a genre where you have 0 tracks to work with, so building that library before being able to mix always takes a while. I normally won't build a set until I have 1,000 - 1,500 tracks to work with since I mostly mix in key and I'm very picky
It's always good to start with / and play music you resonate with. Perhaps you can do a few sets. 1: a set showcasing your faves, 2: a set with a specific event in mind (I like doing these ones), 3: a set where you try out a new genre (eg: if you're into techno, why not give progressive house a go, or if you're into Tech House, why not try putting together a DNB set. All good options my friend :)
Yeah I realised this recently when I ripped 2 tracks from UA-cam too test out a controller, the sound was absolutely shite and the beat grid was all over the place it slip in and out of phase every few seconds..
I believe so. Check out the videos on my Channel; search hard techno and then search trance (within my channel) - these genres were using the skills taught in the course - I am certain once I teach you to DJ you can play any genre you want :)
When I was working as a Lighting Designer in Clubs in the day of Circuit DJS. They produced and played records that were no shorter than 10 min. If you heard DJs such as Junior Vasquez, Johnny Vicious, Victor Calderon and the late great Peter Rahofer, there sets were 8 hours long and with longer records, they could loose you in the night and get you off the clock. I miss the days when the DJ played more Filler than Killer. Now there is a desire to play bangers all night to appease the crowd. Tracks are shorter and production is far less important.
It was about the journey, in todays insta-- generated the ride has become 30 seconds of attention. I remember dance for 8 hours straight barely talking to people just get in a trance and going…… I loved NYC in the 90’s from the raves to the big clubs we definitely had it right for a bit.
there are still clubs like that but i agree it is much more rare. club space in miami has minimal house all night, lots of filler, long productions that take you for hours
Hello Everyone ...👍 So if We talking about it I did upload video with My 1.5h mix and was blocked after 20-30min. Half tunes was blocked cos of COPYRIGHT'S ...paying 35£ p/m to BeatSource for what in this case? I was sure copyrights to play this tunes in public should be included. But starting with djing so please let Me know if I'm wrong Cheers👍
I gotta ask....how where can I audition a mix or track without paying alot of money ? Who does radio jam or clubbing play audits? One more que....I am in Ukraine and cannot goto another country....therefore my requisite should acquize via internet.😅
Was so ANGRY !!!🤬 That was actually My REAL No.1 Set recorded. Takes Me 45min to press RECODING button....hahaha Still few mistakes but keep practising as much as I can and always some progress 👍👍👍
Yeah see people need to stop ripping UA-cam. I mean really people are still doing that? Why would you short change your audence and yourself like that? You spend thousands on gear and you rip from UA-cam? That's like buying a Ferarri and driving it like a 90 year old grandma. :)
Skip number 1 entirely. Yes, find club edits with extended intro and outros, but rip music wherever you can. Guys like this own labels and are directly effected by pirating. Forget their whining. I’ve played on gigantic systems with UA-cam rips, as have many a DMC champ, Red Bull threestyle champ, etc. The rest are decent points but it’s basically a sales pitch.
I mean congrats on playing songs that sound like trash on a big system? Not using loseless on a decent system is extremely noticeable, and if you can't tell, then I am so sorry for your extensive hearing damage. It is gonna be hard to DJ without being able to hear, good luck mate.
Idk man. If you download from YT you're downloading tracks with YT's compression algorithm applied. Couple that with websites that rip at varying qualities and you have a very inconsistent level of audio fidelity. Zooming out, if you're ripping from wherever and whenever you end up with an inconsistent track library with tracks that differ significantly in perceived loudness and quality. Not to mention, filling out track info (Genre, artist, album) is such a chore. I've also done some A-B testing of audio from different sources with different quality/compression and have personally found it immensely beneficial to ensure that my tracks are of high quality. For me, a consistent library helps me smooth out my mix- the levels and compression are more similar between tracks, allowing me to focus on the details that matter rather than wondering why one track sounds like noisy shit in the high highs or the low lows. My $0.02 🤷
@@matthewjswider That's somewhat irrelevant, I think... yes, mixed in key can help with gain/loudness matching and eq with balancing frequency ranges, but it's a band-aid IMO. I'd rather fix the issue at the source, and you still can't undo the effects of data compression. A reduced bit-rate is not fixable.
I have not seen your stuff in awhile but I see you have succumb to the trend of putting crappy useless music under your dialogue that distracts from your message.
Bruv I've been watching your channel for a hot minute and every video is true to the max. Your info has helped me get to my first pro set. One love and keep doing you. @Liaison_live
I went to a local event recently where the DJ had Flanger active for a 60 minute set.
lmaoooooo 🤣
I've experienced that too and then when I came on after during my set the DJ went to hit the flanger and I kindly said, "no need, just let me do my thing"
🤣🤣
No waaay 😢😢😢
Was his name Ned Flangers?
I bought your course and appreciate the additional content and the updated sections, I have learnt so much in your very well constructed course, money and time very well spent as the outcome is that I have learnt skills I can use easily and I am far more confident in my DJing these days than I was before. Thank you Andrew....
I’m about to start my journey with a ddj flx4 and you’ve already taught me so much in just an hour of your vids.
Great teaching.
Really appreciate this, thank you
Hey Andrew!! I Bought your dj course last week, out of all the courses I looked at I chose yours because you seem like the nicest/most enthusiastic/most genuine person. I’m 42 , off work for 3 months with a broken leg…… my mission to be able to DJ by the time I’m better.
Thanks Jamie, I really appreciate this. Here's to a big 2024!!
Good luck!!! One tip: have your DJ equipment always on table connected to everything needed for playing! So it is absolutely easy to switch it on and play at least for the while. Because preparing it and connecting and then disconnecting again and hiding it somewhere... that decreases fun and motivation a lot! My main home audio system is connected through my controller so it became my standard home equipment. (I used to have oldschool Pioneer DJ equipment on kitchen unit, because I had not other place and I was so obsessed 😜😜🤩🤩
Been watching your channel for several years now. Always felt that your free content is already amazing. Some of your earlier videos were a gem! Learned a lot, but the most important (free) lesson I picked up from you is to have fun DJ-ing ✌
Awesome! Thank you!
Love your energy man its great and you make amazing content for beginners like myself Thank you so much
Nice to see you back Andrew, CRT ❤
Hey Andrew, this video is spot on! I signed up to your course about 2 years ago after watching endless youtube videos with no structure at all and it was this course that really helped me put everything together. Every video has been useful in it's own way, thank you so much! I know you love a shameless plug so I am going to shamelessly plug a live mix that I recorded for a UK radio station on my channel, and I would be honoured if you could give it a watch/listen :)
Happy New Year!
Every Beginner DJ Needs To Know These Great Golden Tips..Thanks Andrew !! 🧡
Awwwww, thanks Thorr..
You’re so enjoyable to watch! And so right about DJs trying to teach you 😂 I’ve asked a few Dj’s questions and learned nothing only to figure it out myself after months of trial and error. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
i love you and youre videos! big love from Quebec
hahaha man i love this guy, good energy and a good teacher. As a beginner dj this was very helpful, might even buy your course =P. Keep it up!
I appreciate that!
Hi Andrew! I purchased all 3 of your courses awhile ago and just recently I started putting in the work and practicing alot. I just love your energy, passion and teaching style. I'm learning so much in a short period of time and I'm starting to feel more confident behind the decks. I'm definitely looking forward to the new updates! right now I'm watching the 3 deck mix using the sampler. AMAZING! (okay!okay!)😂 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! from the east coast ✌🏾🍻
Thank you so much, this is so nice to hear :)
Amazing Video as always i really like the course on the Tribe we have so much fun together and helping each other out.
you are dead right about quality tracks - i was using radio edits and rips of cd’s i had and really struggled to mix them. Got a beatport sub and found it was far far easier to mix
True true... I have biiiig library with low quality tracks I was creating for months!!! And now I know, that I have nothing to play 😲 So I started again from the zero... I am really not a hero 🤪
@vitezslavkrcma7468 worry not my friend, we all started this way 😅. I too started out with youtube rips amd online converters, and vlc converters, and torrents 😅😅😅😅. When I found out that the quality was actually poor, I had a mini heart attack .... but from there there is no where else to go but UP ! Had to start from scratch ✌🏾
@@bitangayves2125 True true...🙏
@@bitangayves2125you mean to tell me my high quality rips aren’t high quality ?! lol what other options is there that you can recommend besides beat port
Ey first ? Aye First haha... Your Vids made me realize I had so much to learn, even after playing some bigger events decades ago. You got any tips for getting tracks I produce critiqued?
You are again absolutely right!!! And everyone who means it seriously with learning how to DJ, should for sure follow your tips! Right from the beginning!!!
So thank you for finding the teacher inside of you and for the patience with students 🙏 And for the Black Friday absolutely bombastic offer!!! 🤑 There was never better time to start DJ!!!! With cheap entry level DJ controllers (I started with DDJ-200 for the same price as your current special offer) and with such accessibility to the necessary knowledge served always with smile and motivating leadership from you... Really perfect conditions, thank you master!!!
For any doubters: you can really believe me, that months spent creating of big library full of songs but in shitty quality was really very bad idea!!! And wasting time by searching them in dark corners of internet and struggling bymistakes in them, correcting beat grid and then be stuck with beat sync... Noooo that was all wrong!!!!! You cannot create anything good when you are using bad parts.
So rule number one: Always listen to Buck.... sorry to Andrew 🤪
Makes sense, quality begets quality
Like the pimp booty tune, reminds me of that Jon digweed tune- heavens scent
:)
Cool, Cool! thanks!
just wanna say thnx for everything:)
Would you recommend starting out in the genre that you’d like to play in the future or play different genres too?
I been mixing music for over a decade now, and almost every set I put together is a different genre from my previous one. Doing this keeps things interesting, doesn't limit you to one specific genre, teaches you different techniques that come with each genre, and helps expand your taste in music. However, it does present a challenge when switching to a genre where you have 0 tracks to work with, so building that library before being able to mix always takes a while. I normally won't build a set until I have 1,000 - 1,500 tracks to work with since I mostly mix in key and I'm very picky
It's always good to start with / and play music you resonate with. Perhaps you can do a few sets. 1: a set showcasing your faves, 2: a set with a specific event in mind (I like doing these ones), 3: a set where you try out a new genre (eg: if you're into techno, why not give progressive house a go, or if you're into Tech House, why not try putting together a DNB set. All good options my friend :)
@@ClubReadyDJSchool thank you for your advice :)
You are the king Andrew :)
Thank you :)
Love the videos you make. I will buy your course after Xmas. Do you have anything on soundproofing?
That's a good idea for a video!!!
Yeah I realised this recently when I ripped 2 tracks from UA-cam too test out a controller, the sound was absolutely shite and the beat grid was all over the place it slip in and out of phase every few seconds..
Beat grid slip in/out, easy to adjust with rekordbox edit or FL studio. Beginner here, 😊
Question about the dj course:
Would you recommend it for someone who wants to mix hard techno / acid techno / trance ?
I believe so. Check out the videos on my Channel; search hard techno and then search trance (within my channel) - these genres were using the skills taught in the course - I am certain once I teach you to DJ you can play any genre you want :)
When I was working as a Lighting Designer in Clubs in the day of Circuit DJS. They produced and played records that were no shorter than 10 min. If you heard DJs such as Junior Vasquez, Johnny Vicious, Victor Calderon and the late great Peter Rahofer, there sets were 8 hours long and with longer records, they could loose you in the night and get you off the clock. I miss the days when the DJ played more Filler than Killer. Now there is a desire to play bangers all night to appease the crowd. Tracks are shorter and production is far less important.
It was about the journey, in todays insta-- generated the ride has become 30 seconds of attention. I remember dance for 8 hours straight barely talking to people just get in a trance and going…… I loved NYC in the 90’s from the raves to the big clubs we definitely had it right for a bit.
there are still clubs like that but i agree it is much more rare. club space in miami has minimal house all night, lots of filler, long productions that take you for hours
Hello Everyone ...👍 So if We talking about it I did upload video with My 1.5h mix and was blocked after 20-30min. Half tunes was blocked cos of COPYRIGHT'S ...paying 35£ p/m to BeatSource for what in this case? I was sure copyrights to play this tunes in public should be included. But starting with djing so please let Me know if I'm wrong
Cheers👍
I gotta ask....how where can I audition a mix or track without paying alot of money ? Who does radio jam or clubbing play audits? One more que....I am in Ukraine and cannot goto another country....therefore my requisite should acquize via internet.😅
Was so ANGRY !!!🤬 That was actually My REAL No.1 Set recorded. Takes Me 45min to press RECODING button....hahaha Still few mistakes but keep practising as much as I can and always some progress 👍👍👍
😘
Just bought the whole package seemed like a Good offer to me. And since im a beginner aswell rather learn it Solid from the beginning
Yeah see people need to stop ripping UA-cam. I mean really people are still doing that? Why would you short change your audence and yourself like that? You spend thousands on gear and you rip from UA-cam? That's like buying a Ferarri and driving it like a 90 year old grandma. :)
Well said
Skip number 1 entirely. Yes, find club edits with extended intro and outros, but rip music wherever you can. Guys like this own labels and are directly effected by pirating. Forget their whining. I’ve played on gigantic systems with UA-cam rips, as have many a DMC champ, Red Bull threestyle champ, etc.
The rest are decent points but it’s basically a sales pitch.
I mean congrats on playing songs that sound like trash on a big system? Not using loseless on a decent system is extremely noticeable, and if you can't tell, then I am so sorry for your extensive hearing damage. It is gonna be hard to DJ without being able to hear, good luck mate.
Idk man. If you download from YT you're downloading tracks with YT's compression algorithm applied. Couple that with websites that rip at varying qualities and you have a very inconsistent level of audio fidelity. Zooming out, if you're ripping from wherever and whenever you end up with an inconsistent track library with tracks that differ significantly in perceived loudness and quality. Not to mention, filling out track info (Genre, artist, album) is such a chore.
I've also done some A-B testing of audio from different sources with different quality/compression and have personally found it immensely beneficial to ensure that my tracks are of high quality. For me, a consistent library helps me smooth out my mix- the levels and compression are more similar between tracks, allowing me to focus on the details that matter rather than wondering why one track sounds like noisy shit in the high highs or the low lows.
My $0.02 🤷
Have either of you heard of mixed in key? Or do you use eq’s?
@@matthewjswider That's somewhat irrelevant, I think... yes, mixed in key can help with gain/loudness matching and eq with balancing frequency ranges, but it's a band-aid IMO. I'd rather fix the issue at the source, and you still can't undo the effects of data compression. A reduced bit-rate is not fixable.
Why do DJs like you hate artists so much? Why do you refuse to let artists who made the music you're playing be properly compensated?
I have not seen your stuff in awhile but I see you have succumb to the trend of putting crappy useless music under your dialogue that distracts from your message.
Haha, I've always done that ;) I take it you're not a fan. I'll keep it in mind.
Your the exact person I've been looking for to get started
Thank you I really appreciate this. Happy New Year!!
@@ClubReadyDJSchool happy new years to you as well, looking forward to the journey
Bruv I've been watching your channel for a hot minute and every video is true to the max.
Your info has helped me get to my first pro set.
One love and keep doing you.
@Liaison_live
This is awesome, I enjoyed reading this thank you :)
HELLO 👋😊
Hello 😊