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. If you enjoy it and you can, please do give us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts - it really does make a difference.

TIMESTAMPS

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?

Want to get your question answered on an episode of this podcast? Digital DJ Tips course owners get to ask questions in their student-only group. Your first step to getting involved is to buy a DJ course, so come and join our community at https://www.digitaldjtips.com.

Following the epic DJ fail at Coachella by Grimes, rather than piling in and criticising her, we thought we would use that as a springboard to talk about ways that DJs can avoid the inevitable errors that happen in any DJ set. The conversation on this podcast quickly underlined the fact that these things do happen, but that there are things that you can do to make it less likely, and to recover quicker should it happen. I also shared a classic story from my own past that still has me cringing now.

We moved on to talk about the best place to livestream your DJ sets in 2024, which is a discussion that came out of Twitch saying this week that they are planning to fully legalise DJing with other people's music on their platform, which will be the final feather in the cap of a platform that is overwhelmingly the place DJs choose to do this stuff. We looked at what you need to DJ livestream, why you might want to, and all the other platforms you could use as well as the obvious here.

And finally, following Record Store Day 2024, I presented an unashamedly one-sided argument as to why every DJ should own some kind of turntable, which developed with the help of our wonderful student community into a bit of a trip through old music formats and also a bit of a love letter to the turntable.

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. If you enjoy it and you can, please do give us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts. It really does make a difference.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:14 Episode overview

3:32 How to recover from DJ set errors

18:28 The best place to livestream DJ sets

41:36 Why all DJs should own a turntable

Want to get your question answered on an episode of this podcast? Digital DJ Tips course owners get to ask questions in their student-only group. Your first step to getting involved is to buy a DJ course, so come and join our community at https://www.digitaldjtips.com.

In this month's show we tackled a wide range of questions. We spoke about producing music when half deaf, worries about DJing when visually impaired, keeping children interested in DJing, why the hell your software needs to have a database (and whether that database looks after itself), and lots of other questions across our big areas of DJing, gear, music, mixing, performing, and success.

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. If you enjoy it and you can, please do give us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts - it really does make a difference.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:15 Episode overview

1:35 How can I produce music with a hearing disability?

5:41 What's happening during a B2B (back-to-back) DJ set?

8:37 Is it OK to enable large fonts in DJ software?

10:13 Tips for programming a mobile DJ set around a specific artist?

14:22 Should I quick mix or play full tracks?

18:20 How to add more "producer-style" live remix transitions to a DJ set?

20:36 What's the best USB-powered DJ controller?

24:52 How do changes in my DJ library affect the DJ software database?

28:44 When is it safe for DJs to update their operating system?

32:08 Advice for keeping kids motivated while learning to DJ?

38:11 How to get your question answered

Want to get your question answered on an episode of this podcast? Digital DJ Tips course owners get to ask questions in their student-only group. Your first step to getting involved is to buy a DJ course, so come and join our community at https://www.digitaldjtips.com.