Quick Mix Tips, Getting More Gigs, Why Older Songs Sound Bad [Podcast]

Enjoy this latest edition of our podcast, where digital DJ students get to ask questions across all the big areas of DJing and get answers in our live community.

Episode Notes

A really busy Your Questions show this month with hundreds of questions from our students, the best of which feature here.

We talk in some depth about quick mixing, what it is, when to do it, and – more importantly – how to do it. We talk to a head teacher who’s started to get the DJ bug and land himself some gigs, but now wants to know how to get more and more. And a student wants to know why older songs sound so bad when played directly against modern music, and what can be done about it when you’re a DJ wanting to play both types.

There are many more questions featured in this packed edition of the show, so we’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of our students for asking them.

As ever, this pod is supported 100% by the students of Digital DJ Tips, and it was recorded in a live webinar with lots of student feedback.

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Audio version

Here’s what’s covered…

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:15 Episode overview
• 1:25 Tips for “quick mixing” on the fly?
• 9:52 How to branch out from single-genre mixing?
• 13:19 Advice for building confidence as a DJ?
• 20:48 Tips for improving the sound of older tracks?
• 27:58 Best way to approach a DJ set playing background music?
• 32:19 How do DJs pick which transition techniques they use during a set?
• 39:17 Any DJ apps that help with preparing mixes?
• 42:16 Ways to get DJ gigs in a small town?
• 45:13 How to book more DJ gigs?
• 47:14 What’s the best way to EQ tracks in a DJ mix?

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