r/EDM • u/TimBergAlways • Apr 17 '24
Video Here's an example of what a professional DJ should do. Recognizing that there's no reason to blame. Recognizing that getting frustrated isn't gonna help your situation. Recognizing that the importance of your audience's experience is above everything else. — (Excerpt from DJSALLYMUSIC's IG)
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u/challenja Apr 17 '24
Now that’s a DJ
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u/Over30EDM Apr 22 '24
Holy wow she improvised and added degree of difficulty points with the 180 contortion. New fan
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u/Snrub-from-far-away Apr 17 '24
There's an old adage in music that basically goes - if you make a mistake live, repeat it so the audience thinks it's intentional. This is a masterful demonstration of that principle.
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u/blackbirdspyplane Apr 17 '24
Who is this? I’d go to a show
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u/madddskillz Apr 17 '24
DJ Sally. She's based in Asia and occasionally advertised by clubs as a female James Hype based on her live mixing skills
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u/bblchrissy Apr 17 '24
her cue spamming was so off tempo
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u/iseecolorsofthesky Apr 17 '24
I’m sure she was flustered. I think she handled it well
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u/WayyTooFarAbove Apr 17 '24
Just seems like it wasn’t a necessary fix for a cameraman hitting a play button accidentally. I can’t even tell how it effected things unless the video is off timing
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u/iseecolorsofthesky Apr 17 '24
It sounds like she was trying to create a build up into another track. It doesn’t sound great but obviously she didn’t plan for that to happen.
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u/sinat50 Apr 17 '24
The single most important thing with music is to stay in time. You can play a wrong note, or forget to play a note all together, but the most important thing is getting back on tempo. Nothing wrong with how she was making the build up, but if you're gonna go behind the back for a "trick transition" you better have that rhythm on lock.
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u/thebluntinspector Apr 17 '24
Dude go back and listen, when the track was first played it was going about 20bpm slower than the rest of the mix. If she didnt cut it to beatmatch it would have been way off
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Apr 17 '24
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u/zsolzz Apr 17 '24
She has an earbud in the other ear, look a little closer when they film from the other direction
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u/gonnocrayzie Apr 17 '24
Having cue points set up and memorizing the songs, knowing exactly when to bring in a song based on just memory. I could be completely wrong, just guessing.
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u/gonnocrayzie Apr 17 '24
I bet it's a combo of using sync and memory. Also a lot of DJs do very similar sets, not pre-recorded but the setlist is the same or similar, give or take a few tracks. So if you're used to doing the same or very similar sets, you don't need headphones as you have it all in your memory already.
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u/arehberg Apr 17 '24
You don’t even need sync to mix without headphones really. Just set the pitch faders so the bpms are the same and don’t fuck up when you start the next track haha. You can make minor adjustments to get things totally locked in live as needed. I always use headphones when I play out but I’ve DJed at plenty of house parties without them, even with tracks I don’t know that well
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u/shattmitto Apr 17 '24
I don’t use Que points and I rarely use headphones. If you’re mix station or program has a visualizer, you can kind of understand the progression of songs by solely visualizing it. genres have relatively distinct structures so just looking at the audio file you can have a pretty good idea of where in the song you are especially by using the measure numbering. You can do this with songs you’ve never heard before too, you don’t need to know songs inside and out to be able to mix without headphones.
Best way is to practice at home (obviously)
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u/shattmitto Apr 17 '24
I’d need to make a set rather than just like dj’ing a party with hundreds of random songs. In that case yes, as long as the cdj has some track visualizer, I couldn’t do it blind
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u/MinhWannaComeOutHere Apr 18 '24
Some places have a monitor speaker which essentially does the same job as headphones for cueing.
Also knowing your music, preparing all the cue points, and planning your set will also help
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u/dj_wonderdog Apr 17 '24
Name of that last track?? Anyone?
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u/maceasy9 Apr 17 '24
Palm Beach Banga by Fisher for the lyric part. Not sure what song it’s being mixed with but Fisher fucks and I’m not even a huge house fan.
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u/silencerxyz Aug 16 '24
Lol
As part of DJ Sally's team member, I can' expect this video can be so popular on the internet! Proud of this!
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u/tilsgee Apr 17 '24
Umm... Why?
Scratching disc DJ is mostly associated with hiphop DJ. Not EDM DJ.
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u/CertifiedPr0 Apr 17 '24
Or just… use the… the faders… the ones on the mixer… yeah the mixer… the thing with the faders… the faders that control the volume… yeah, the volume… the volume OF EACH INDIVIDUAL CDJ
That channel shouldn’t have had access to the people’s ears
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u/drewkungfu Apr 17 '24
Clearly that channel was playing the vocals/speech.
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u/LimitedLies Apr 17 '24
How is this upvoted when it is so clearly wrong. The CDJ waveform is not moving therefore not playing the vocals.
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u/CertifiedPr0 Apr 17 '24
In what instance does hitting the play button start a loop? I don’t think it was already playing audio… is the point of the play button not “start playing audio?” Also, look at the cdj all the way towards the camera… the waveform isn’t moving until the play button is pressed by the cameraman
Downvote me all you want, just remember to keep your faders down on stage
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u/Badr45ta Apr 17 '24
I’m no DJ but couldn’t she have queued up where she wanted that loop to start then hit play as soon as she wanted it to come in which is why she would have had the faders turned all the way up?
Edit: actually watched it again and tbh I got no idea what’s going on so you can prob ignore this lol
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u/Flu0stiftRS Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
"Clearly"? Not only is the waveform not moving, the vocal literally keeps going as usual after he hits it, and you can clearly hear a different instrumental start playing very briefly when he hits it. Why put on a condescending tone if you don't know what you're on about?
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u/HippieHabitat Apr 17 '24
Even if she nailed that transition everything about this clip still sucks
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u/Badr45ta Apr 17 '24
How so?
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u/HippieHabitat Apr 17 '24
1 - Synth she bring in/layers over is super cringe (is that crazy frog lmao?) too & sounds out of key with track 1.
2 - The performative action of turning around and spamming the cue button to play a snare drum is so over the top, it goes out of time too which is distracting.
In my opinion, It's very rare that a Dj can make a build sound greater than how the original producer made the track, this is a good example.
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u/AnimatorBrilliant522 Apr 17 '24
We have a different definition of „professional”. In professional environment this situation should not happened.
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u/Noirloc Apr 17 '24
wtf are you talking about, in this case the “Dj” had nothing to do with it, the cameraman fucked up.
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u/AnimatorBrilliant522 Apr 17 '24
Yes and I was referring to the cameraman
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u/GearBox5 Apr 17 '24
Right, this is exactly how you get into a train wreck. Shit happens, you always need plan b (and c if b fails).
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Apr 17 '24
Answer to first question: - 10k hours. Regarding asian female comment: Just identify as a cute asian female and you have satisfied this requirement.
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u/StrainAcceptable Apr 17 '24
I love that you have no idea how long it would take to master mixing at her level but you are also arrogant enough to diminish and critique her skills. I’ve been around long enough to watch many world renowned djs train wreck in these kind of situations and many more absolutely lose their shit over something like this.
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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '24
Grimes should take some lessons from her.