Posts Tagged ‘guide’

Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies

Are you thinking of getting started in home recording?

Gives a lot of good insight into the ideas behind making better sounding recordings at home on a limited budget.

It has lots of good basic information, no hype for one product or another. Also a good reference book.

It has a simple straightforward format. I would recommend to anyone who is just getting started into recording.

Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies

How To Make A Good DJ Playlist

DJ PlayList

Aspiring DJs should build a great library of music FIRST.

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR MUSIC

• Know the BPM of your songs

Beats Per Minute. Arranging your dance music this way creates consistency in tempo and provides better continuity for people who are dancing.

• Know the harmony notes of beginning and end of songs

You can find software for that too. Here is one new software which I haven’t checked out yet but I won’t need it anyway for myself. Mixed In Key. I use Mixmeister Fusion which has all those features. It’s a great DJ software.

More about harmony mixing here at DJ Prince

• Trim your songs

Long fade outs or talking and skits at the end can be trimmed.

A good piece of free software for trimming unwanted bits from the beginning and end of songs is   Mp3Trim or   Mp3Directcut ( is my preferred one).

If you use Wav files then try Audacity but don’t convert to another format. Always keep your original files backed up.

• Normalize your songs

Normalizing your songs will bring the volume levels in line with each other, so that the volume stays fairly consistent.
An easy way to normalize a collection of MP3s is to use a free piece of software called  Mp3Gain . For Wav files you can use Audacity.

• Select and combine

Select tracks into the same BPM harmoniously if possible. If harmony can’t be done then just beat match it and that should be OK.

Keep building the playlist.

• Building A CD Mix?
  

Try this!

First track should be an instrumental (no vocals) and the duration shorter than 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Second track should have vocals and should not be longer than 4 minutes.

All  the rest of the tracks should be less than 5 minutes each.

• Take in Requests?

As a commercial DJ, you are EXPECTED to know just about everything and HAVE just about everything they will ask for.

Take your DJ career serious? Then GET serious!

Peace

DJ White Hawk

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How to DJ presenting James Zabiela (Episode 3 – Mastering the Scene) – 2nd Edition

Zabiela! DJdownload.com brings you exclusive access to a new series of video tutorials giving a comprehensive guide to DJing on Pioneers industry-standard CDJ turntables – from the very basics through to advanced techniques. This hot new series features international DJs Sarah Main at home in Ibiza (Episode 1) followed by the Jedi DJs – Phil K (Episode 2) and James Zabiela (Episode 3). howtodj.djdownload.com Published by DJsound

You can view the whole series at YouTube

DJ Tutorials

One of the best  DJ Tutorials is from Danny Rampling – Everything You Need To Know About DJ’ing & Success.

Danny has been DJing for past 20 years and he ‘s got experience alright.

It’s not just about mixing music, it contains almost everything, from marketing, dressing, acting etc.

There are some invaluable resources too. Top quality product this is.

This guide is excellent and over delivered, well worth the money.

Best Regards And Respect From DJ White Hawk