"When you DJ, you need to give 50% what the crowd wants and 50% what you want to do."
"Taste-making is about what you play in between the hits... it's about developing your own taste in music."
"Feeling out the crowd is about monitoring the energy in the room... knowing when to switch up your set."
"Mixing tracks based on elements and energy levels is crucial for creating a seamless and engaging set."
"I don't mind the time, just give me a DJ that didn't put his iTunes on shuffle."
"Super tactile... swipe across and think, 'Well, I wonder how that track mixes with another one.'"
"DJ Miz is up there... sharpness and skill level."
"It allows you to play two tracks together and they would sound like they are a good fit musically."
"Sync will line up the BPM of the tracks and hold them together so they sound good."
"It's very very useful that because you can change your mind about tracks when you're playing them just a very quick way of doing it in the moment rather than doing all ahead of time in record box."
"You either have the music taste and crowd reading abilities or you don't."
"It wasn't just about playing great music and putting two records together; everyone I watched was doing more than that."
"It's the first time I haven't missed having a laptop in front of me when DJing."
"It's a way of introducing you to the turntablism and scratching world without breaking the bank."
"And you've made it to the end of the video, and if you wanna still continue on your studies on how to be a better DJ everyday today..."
"Hot cue play is all about creating patterns and rhythm."
"Practice, practice, practice people listen to me even if you've been DJing for five years you'd be DJing for 10 years you need to practice because if you practice you're going to get better and better."
"You don't have to break the bank to start DJing."
"Just using our newly found DJ skills to now create an extended mix."
"Being a DJ is more than just learning how to mix and show up to gigs; it's a Daily Grind of tasks."
"So basically you're just a grown-up weirdo kid in your head and that's the basis of your DJing."
"My name is DJ Genesis and I just did a dope interview with real life Street stars. Make sure you like and subscribe."
"As a DJ, it's not necessarily about politics. It's about making the people enjoy themselves. You don't make politics; you make the people enjoy, even though one song enjoy is a package."
"Use the crossfader and scenes for variations not just for transitions or to apply effects."
"She's DJing up there right now, that's awesome."
"He started DJing, right? And he was talking about how being mates with Martin Gricks and DJing brought him this real kind of inner peace."
"Mixing, scratching, and beat juggling with Final Scratch feel and sound absolutely great even after 20 years."
"That's the thing about DJs, respect but also not a lot, a little bit, because so many DJs I see, I'm like, 'That's the song that made you $50 million?'"
"It's like being able to clearly differentiate between the two tracks helps with beat matching and then helps with mixing as well."
"The way you would count as a DJ is you go 1 2 3 4 new bar 2 2 3 4 new bar 3 2 3 4."
"Creating songs as a DJ is like buying a lottery ticket, you just need one song to blow up and you could be headlining festivals."
"What you're really doing is playing music that the audience in front of you likes dancing to and enjoying. That's basically what it all comes down to."
"...looping is a massive part of music anyway but as a DJ, one of the best things about looping is it's going to just buy you time."
"And if you got it right no one would know that you just swap from one track to another which is the basics of DJing really."
"All successful DJs do this, they go through their set history and they try and figure out how they can do better. And it is such a good practice to do this."
"Virtual DJ 2020 and now the new 2021, it actually does have a clean, flat, super professional looking screen."
"He was the first ever person to come up with the auto mix technology to mix two songs together, blend them together, without having to do a thing."
"I told the guy, 'Look, I want to propose you something, as I was like a normal resident DJ."
"The best DJs aren't the people that play the most popular records, it's the person who played the most unexpected record at the right time."
"DJs protect their bangers so much that we even have features built into our software like AM mode that hides the tracks you're playing."
"If I had a kid and he told me he was going to be a DJ, I'd be like of course, it's probably the worst thing you could tell your parents."
"One of the highlights of 2023 for me was being able to DJ at a festival."
"I used to make all my mixes live. I used to plan out the set, go on the decks, hit record and then DJ as if I was DJing to a crowd."
"Understanding song structure is the secret to how Pro DJs mix perfectly every time."
"The process of matching phrases only gets easier with musical cues and changes."
"Music theories will only get you so far, but if you want to apply them and be a pro DJ, you need to watch this video next."
"Beat jump controls is one of the best features in Serato DJ Pro and it's one of the most underrated one as well."
"I want our sound to be everywhere on the planet because I genuinely think that there's nothing better to play for a DJ right now."
"Learning how to beat match is super important."
"Beat matching doesn't seem that important nowadays, but it is still one of the main fundamentals when it comes to mixing tracks."
"Acapellas is to be creative, it's a way of doing things other people might not have done because if you get a new song and you get a new acapella and you realize they work together you could be the first DJ in the world to do all that stuff."
"You're going to want to adjust the deck against the loudest parts of the song in order to have the needle right about here at zero between the red and black."
"I want to be the biggest DJ in the world."
"My biggest aspiration is to be a world touring DJ."
"I love festivals and I love to DJ, like, I love to DJ."
"I didn't want to be any person to go DJ and play other people's music."
"You know, the biggest DJs in the world all have their own music."
"The first song I play right after making that announcement, I pull from that crate."
"I made DJ tools for me which became DJ tools for the rest of the DJs"
"You want to get one song done and hit them with the next song so they don't have time to think. They're lost in it. Just lost in the music, having a great time."
"Utilize the best parts, the most recognizable parts of the song, to get the best reactions from the crowd. Mix it different ways based on the song and utilize those most recognizable parts to get the best reactions from the crowd."
"If you're a good mixer, you'll never have a problem. Quick mixing will literally pack your dance floor every single time. It'll take a boring crowd and make them rage. Trust me, just trust me."
"If you're going to do any of this, you need to be reasonably technical. And I don't mean technical like a programmer or anything but you need to at least be someone who understands the operating system of your computer or your device and the way your DJ software works."
"I've had the pleasure of being a professional DJ for the last 25 years."
"These are the best DJ settings that will make you DJ better."
"The key to DJing is knowing where and when to mix."
"It's not what you're here for because this is digital DJ tips, we're a DJ school."
"If you've come to this video as a new DJ thinking I want to DJ with streaming alone, I don't want to assemble my own music, in time it's definitely worth building that collection of your own music."
"This is the world's first ever controller that you can literally hook up to a Bluetooth speaker."
"You could even hook this thing up to Bluetooth and DJ on the next road trip. Be the car DJ. I mean, how crazy is that?"
"Tita's more famous than me in Italy. She doesn't even need to DJ. She just turns up to the place."
"What's gonna make you a great DJ is how you arrange your music and your track selection."
"People on the dance floor are way more concerned about your track selection and the atmosphere you can create through pumping sets."
"So let me show you an example of how I can manipulate a beat match and actually beat match just using the pitch fader."
"...using CDJs in standalone is actually the lowest lag response."
"...hid mode is basically that full controller experience."
"Access to your hot cues, having your library readout, your elapsed time, your tempo, which is instant when you're paused."
"You don't get the same readouts and display on your computer the same way you do when you're using DVS or HID mode."
"You get naked when you DJ on your ass."
"If y'all gonna pay Tommy Lee to DJ, I can DJ."
"You gotta have a day job. I'm lucky that my day job was a night job, right? Well, I was DJing at night. I had no sleep, but I loved it."
"It's all about playing the right song at the right moment especially at kind of like yo parties weddings all that."
"Knowing how to beat match by ear I think honestly is a must and I think it's actually loads of fun."
"The best client you can ever have is someone that appreciates that art. Someone that wants a good DJ because they know the value of a good DJ."
"It gives them the opportunity to play on both, arguably the two best DJ softwares on the market."
"it's a story of the mixtape culture and the DJ or the people that that use that medium to like get their music out there"
"That's it, man. All we needed for this was two turntables and a mic."
"Each song that I play has got to be just as great as the last one that was on before it."
"DJing is awesome, it is something that actually makes me happy and it feels right for me."
"As the DJ, part of your job is interacting with the audience, whether it be a party or a club scene."
"So what I did when I bought this, this was the console, and it was good because it's my favorite console to mix on."
"Remember, this is pretty much exactly the same layout as a CDJ."
"In a lot of EDM songs, it's actually really nice and it helps DJs connect the two songs together."
"I approach DJing with a certain amount of care."
"A good DJ should be teaching the crowd about something."
"The responsibility of a DJ is basically to have a continuous groove going, basically just like one big song."
"The sync button can be used to make sure the two tracks are the same speed."
"If you're DJing with video, I highly recommend you do at least 16 gigs of RAM."
"Furniture is where it's at when it comes to being a wedding DJ and a private event DJ."
"I want to give you guys some really solid advice on how to buy the right computer to DJ with."
"One of the first units that takes full advantage of the Revolutionary Serato stems 3.0."
"This specific unit is currently the only DJ controller that takes full advantage by separating the vocal and instrument stems with just the press of a button."
"It's got a lot of functionality in it that you still can't find in other DJ platforms."
"Virtual DJ is amazing and the really best bit about Virtual DJ is it works with any hardware."
"You can do more on a DJ app on your phone than any DJ could do a generation ago on two turntables."
"DJing happens everywhere nowadays: in living rooms, at parties, at barbecues, in lounges, and on live streaming."
"It's refined, it's high performance for open format DJing, it really is the bomb."
"But ultimately this is the new benchmark by which DJ controllers will be judged for the next half decade."
"It's more of a challenge for mobile DJs, who by the way, are the hardest working DJs in the world anyway."
"These are like the crowds that you as a DJ dream of playing for."
"Hello, welcome! We're live again here in the digital DJ tip studio with me, Phil, for another Tuesday Tips Live."
"Our brand new course is called Mixing for Mobile and Wedding DJs."
"The best DJs today can mix properly with all kinds of music, and they don't need special versions of that music or special equipment or pre-prepared mixes or anything."
"These waveforms are one of the huge advantages of this over the CDJ 2000 Nexus 2; they're so much more immersive."
"It's just an insanely easy way to start DJing."
"It's the easiest way to get started in DJing and we absolutely love it."
"The merge effects could be a lifesaver; they are really handy for when you want to go from one genre to another without making it too incredibly jarring."
"This is a DJ controller that's kind of centered around the idea of open format DJs or DJs who want to mix a lot of different styles or genres together."
"Demystify club gear and show you how similar all DJ gear is."
"Making the jump from a DDJ 400 to club equipment is not actually that hard."
"If you can DJ with less visuals, it's going to make you a better DJ in the long run."
"It integrates better into the Nexus system."
"It's basically the next evolution with the way you use effects now that we have stems in our lives."
If you've watched those kind of DJs and thought, "How do they do that?" Well, that's what the course is about.
"Raise your standards, become a better DJ."
"If you play house, techno, or disco type sounds on real vinyl just mixing and blending, the club is a fantastic choice."
"The quality of Neural Mix 2.0 is absolutely usable for me when DJing now, 100%."
"I'm gonna try and make this as available to DJs as possible."
"I have two gigs of music, and you don't need half of that to DJ."
"Two terabytes of music and five terabytes of music, you lot are literally running Spotify database on your computers."
"If you're playing a proper yard rave, yeah, and you drop Temperature by Sean Paul, you're getting looked at, innit?"
"This is how every single DJ should have their folder structure."
"Some DJ edits do slap and I really like the DJ edits that kind of allow you to go from one genre to the other."
"Imagine going through 30,000 tracks and having to tag the year and the genre manually, imagine how long that would take. I'm pretty much saving DJs years of work."
"Most DJs simply need to get rid of ninety percent of their music collection."
"Once people start coming to the dance floor, I'm ready. I'm ready to hit them with the bangers."
"I am super, super impressed with these faders."
"When you press play, it just spins; spin backs, scratching, all works beautifully really well."
"This version is totally reborn, new pad section, lots of other interesting little innovations going on."
"I've been really enjoying playing with this... because it is really, really good fun."
"It's pretty much a revelation for me, I'm really really enjoying that."
"The pitch feels really accurate, like trying to get two tracks locked together, it's perfectly achievable on this."
"If you want an all-in-one DJ console that's just gonna do everything that you could want it to do, this is gonna be it."
"This is a device that is meant to do pretty much anything you want to do as a DJ."
"Thank you Technics for including the 78 function on your new turntables."
"I've been DJing for over 22 years. I've played out in many places... and honestly, if I didn't feel that I had the knowledge to give you my honest opinion on this matter, I would not even bother doing videos like this."
"Once you know how to beat match by ear... you walk away from your set going, 'Man, that was awesome.'"
"I wanted to be a DJ; that was my first love."
"You got to give people 30 to 45 seconds, and every once in a while, play one good song all the way through."
"DJing revolutionized the sound and texture of music, allowing DJs to become sort of orchestrators."
"What's up mate? I'm here ready to sling the ones and twos."
"DJing is about the moment, about seeing your crowd, understanding who's in front of you, and trying to have a journey with them."
"I burn more calories DJing than I did during Trixie and Katya."
"Being a DJ is about crowd control, you're literally using music to control the crowd."
"It's literally like having a computer built into your DJ controller."
"Having streaming capabilities on DJ controllers has become so important."
"They had to get records and use the records as instruments and find the break beats and that was their instrument."
"It's now part of what DJs do and it is something that even when gigs return is going to be part of what DJs do."
"So you might as well learn this, people."
"We are now in perfect sync with the CDJ."
"Start getting more creative, performing more within your sets."
"We got two turntables; how do we make this a party? How do we make this more than just spinning one record then spending another record? How do we get the people to dance?"
"The coolest part about his DJ career is that he does it all for free."
"Very useful when you're key mixing."
"I remember nearly giving up several times, but I didn't. I stuck with it, and DJing became my career and has brought me decades of joy."
"The more tracks you have to choose from, the easier it's going to be for your set to take shape because you have more options."
"If you're already a seasoned DJ, you now have everything you need to decide whether this is for you."
"The fast track to DJing success is to learn those five areas."
"The Prime 4 Plus features seven performance pad modes including hot cue, manual loop, auto loop, roll, sampler, slicer, and slicer loop."
"This thing is awesome, it has all the features you possibly need to start DJing with."
"If you've ever DJ'd at a mobile or a wedding gig and you start to play remixes or your favorite versions, you soon find out that people just want to hear the damn music."
"It's the purest way of DJing because you're saying, give me the versions of the songs that they want, that I know, that we all like, and I'll find a way to DJ with them."
"Learning how to DJ with radio edits is a really good idea."
"There's nothing wrong with using the sync button on your DJ gear."
"If anyone tells you that's cheating, tell them to jog on because everyone does it."
"The cut looks easy but to get it right involves you practicing the timing."
"It makes the dance floor think, hey, this person knows what they're doing."
"Always drop into new songs at big parts of those songs."
"If you can get the volume and the EQ right, you're halfway towards a good mix."
"Always drop into the big points of the songs because that's going to give you the biggest reaction."
"Match the key and the tempo, it's more likely to be that you keep the dance floor busy."
"The hard bit is picking the right tunes, keeping the vibe going, having those musical inspirations, and making the moments."
"Now get good, get out there, make the moments."
"It's a kind of new way of mixing and it's pretty maybe something we were waiting for so long as DJs."
"It's awesome for coming from a beginner DJ standpoint."
"The beat matching guide, this DJ deck actually has features that would help train you how to beat match by ear."
"To be a proper DJ, you need to be able to DJ on vinyl."
"It's a good crossfader, it gave me the ability to do scratches and all those things that I'd love to do."
"It really feels good to anybody who has used turntables or vinyl in the past."
"You're getting a real true-to-life vinyl style experience right here on the DJ controller."
"This is probably as close as you're going to get for anything in the digital DJ type realm."
"It's not about the controller, it's about the DJ."
"The inclusion of Amazon music is really smart, it just makes it usable for more DJs."
"Once you know how to DJ on one piece of gear, you can apply those exact same concepts to any DJ gear, any DJ software."
"A jack-of-all-trades cartridge for any type of DJ."
"DJ is a two-way thing, obviously you have to pay attention to how people are reacting to your music."
"A real DJ could get on no matter what the [expletive] played and still rock out."
"I'm going to be mixing different vibes which is something I kind of like to do."
"The scratch bank is absolutely amazing, it completely changes the way you use a sampler."
"What makes a good DJ is someone who can judge the people on the dance floor, play the music they like, and then when you've got the music they like, play more of it."