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Easy, just a quick question on how you guys sort your cds out for djing??

Im a serato user but im doing a set with cdjs so thought i'd burn loads of tracks off but don't know how to organize them.

Just after ideas really....

Safee.

CD's full of hype on one side, CD'S full of deep on the other side, with tracklist.

I have seen a few dj's that tour with CD's have them organized in the wallet and a piece of paper with the tracknames and the bpm in the same sleeve. doing this seems rather time consuming if you are just playing one show.

what I do now (cuz I usually don't play on cdj's) is put the tunes in order on 2 different cd's

like tune 1 on disk A, tune two on disk B, tune 3 on disk A, tune 4 on disk B ando so on...

this is usually what I do for a set time between 1 - 1.5 hours... if I am playing longer I'll go with the first method

I buy a batch of around 10 tunes every week (sometimes more sometimes less) and burn a cd... every cd has a number (dubstep 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-.... up to ... erhmm 57 now I think) and tracklist on piece of paper... this way I know how fresh or old what I'm playing is... my production is on other cds.... if I get a batch of dubs from one specific producer or label I put them on one cd... apart from the dubstep ## series...

that is all

By artist, then I put a red or a blue sticker next too each track, n then I thro em in a massive pile, next too the rest of the CDs, where the same disc has been burned 4 or 5 times and scratched up from flippin through em... lol...

FSTZ wrote:I have seen a few dj's that tour with CD's have them organized in the wallet and a piece of paper with the tracknames and the bpm in the same sleeve. doing this seems rather time consuming if you are just playing one show.

what I do now (cuz I usually don't play on cdj's) is put the tunes in order on 2 different cd's

like tune 1 on disk A, tune two on disk B, tune 3 on disk A, tune 4 on disk B ando so on...

this is usually what I do for a set time between 1 - 1.5 hours... if I am playing longer I'll go with the first method

i was thinking about doing the tracklist method, i might aswell make them proper so they can come in handy again somepoint plus then maybe i can try 3 deck mixes

Just wack them all in a cd wallet and do a pick and mix

DZA wrote:Just wack them all in a cd wallet and do a pick and mix

thats the way i roll... really need to sort my cds out properly though...

If you're doing it with CDs, may as well just open up ableton and pile all the tracks into there for a pre-created hour long track. Just mime along to it hah

BLAHBLAHJAH wrote:If you're doing it with CDs, may as well just open up ableton and pile all the tracks into there for a pre-created hour long track. Just mime along to it hah

WTF is this sposed to mean?

Did you miss the part where you still have to drop CDs, meaning they are WAAAAY cooler then ableton?

i always do duplicate cds in roughly set order that wayyou can mix and match on the night and not get caught short when you want to mix a track in thats on the cd you're playing.
if you got mp3 cdjs the your laughing you can put hun dreds of tracks on and the tags will come on the screen if not just number the cds and play them in order

Basic A wrote:

BLAHBLAHJAH wrote:If you're doing it with CDs, may as well just open up ableton and pile all the tracks into there for a pre-created hour long track. Just mime along to it hah

WTF is this sposed to mean?

Did you miss the part where you still have to drop CDs, meaning they are WAAAAY cooler then ableton?

Ohh aye, is definately way cooler than ableton, but in all honesty, only a wee tiny fraction of the audience is going to be able to tell. The slightly-anal comment of mine stems from the abundance of DJs that just play out bangers and make it look like they're doing something beyond just playing out a tune... The harder work goes into making the vibes

Anyway, the worst musical effort I ever saw was some retard doing a breakbeat set, which from observations was just a long track of noise being played and he'd hit the spacebar to pause it to confuse people then just drag about the tempo changes, haha. Everyone seemed to love it, but I couldn't take it too seriously as I could see the laptop screen. Still, the majority of people labeled it as genious. The power of illusions ehhh

BLAHBLAHJAH wrote:

Basic A wrote:

BLAHBLAHJAH wrote:If you're doing it with CDs, may as well just open up ableton and pile all the tracks into there for a pre-created hour long track. Just mime along to it hah

WTF is this sposed to mean?

Did you miss the part where you still have to drop CDs, meaning they are WAAAAY cooler then ableton?

Ohh aye, is definately way cooler than ableton, but in all honesty, only a wee tiny fraction of the audience is going to be able to tell. The slightly-anal comment of mine stems from the abundance of DJs that just play out bangers and make it look like they're doing something beyond just playing out a tune... The harder work goes into making the vibes

Anyway, the worst musical effort I ever saw was some retard doing a breakbeat set, which from observations was just a long track of noise being played and he'd hit the spacebar to pause it to confuse people then just drag about the tempo changes, haha. Everyone seemed to love it, but I couldn't take it too seriously as I could see the laptop screen. Still, the majority of people labeled it as genious. The power of illusions ehhh

Haha, yeah, but I dont see how you can be any more creative with vinyl mixes then with CDs, its all just a sound input, innit?

And ableton can be creative, lets both say it before these guys gang up on us n this turns into a megathread of me n you defendin ourselves, lol... Its just a different kind of mixing, totally, and alot less skill poriented then traditional players, with trackpoints n shit not involving dropping, you can be all technical minded and never have to have a bit of feeling or the talent that is the beatmatch... pausebutton breakcore sounds EVIL though man, I feel your pain, cant imagine sittin through that one, haha.

my stanton cd decks at home are MP3 combatablebabable so when im mixing at home, i have a shit load of mp3 on each cd and label them up 1,2,3,4 etc etc.

when i play out (either using my gear or other) i burn audio discs, usually have 20 tracks that sound good together spread across 2 CD's with track names written on the disc and then repeat this process.

MP3 discs can take longer to load than audio discs so its better when playing out encase something fucks up and i miss time things.

bah, enough with the ableton bashing.

don't be jealous that the ableton mix sounds better, and is more technical, than your cdj mix...