If I know the club I'm going to be spinnin' at has a set up which can't be turned battle style, then I bring my 1200's and mixer and set up next to it. Simple.

adjust, adapt, overcome.

exactly. if you cant mix with what you got to work with, then you dont deserve to be spinning there at all. or you suck, bottom line.

i don't have a problem adapting. i just hate it when guest dj's complain. especially the nit picky ones. for example: "what!!!! no cdj 1000's!!! all you have is 800's!!!". anybody ever run into these guys?

another example: "you should get MK5's bro...." MK2's are old school".


shakes head.

i really hate these nit picky dj's!

a almost had to tell this guy off the other night.

I have one of them coming to my residency this Thursday, already asked about the 1000's on the phone...

Adapt or don't get paid. Sucks to be you!

read my post. i don't have the problem. it's the people that bitch about your set-up.

learn to read or don't get paid.

eh you always gotta adapt.. (or don't get paid)

However the WORST is clubs that have the turntables at like chest level and the mixer on a separate platform down by your crotch.

Yeah, I thought it was weird that a club I did had a "house" style setup (decks behind the mixer), but you learn to deal. It meant I couldn't scratch, which is in some senses goood I guess 'cause sometimes I go overboard with that when I play out (like a nervous tick or something :P).

To be honest, I was just happy that the equipment actually WORKED. (Well, it didn't work perfectly--the pitch sliders were a little dodgy--but again, you learn to deal.)

Are you serious?

yo u guys are lucky you guys get decks lol // in Ottawa.. GOOD LUCK

Read my post. I wasn't aiming it at you. Did I mention you? NO.

FAIL.

sucks to be you.

i often wonder if theres such a thing as a hearing aid for forums... mind you, i think its probably more a 'listening aid' thats needed.

Heh... DJ Rap did that the last time I played with her.

I love this club in SF but man, The setup has to go. Check
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Oh wells, You gotta do what ya gotta do. Cant always get what ya want. I prefer battle style, with a battle mixes any given day of the week. My residency now has a Pioneer DJM-600, which is ok, since the tables are battle mode.

LMAO @ a "listening aid" for forums...y'all are crazy.

How the fuck do you dj at the club. which club is it by the way?

Its this small spot called "El Rincon" on 16th and Harrison. Its a Cuban Restaurant & Club! Mainly Reggae/Dancehall and Drum&Bass events pop off in there. The setup is nuts so more recently, The promoters of the night bring out a battle setup and place it on stage, like this farm1.static.flickr.com

I dunno how DJ's are supposed to mix on it. For the main part, they usually put CDJ's on those wooden panels so the DJ's use the turntables as CD holders... You saw how I ran the Serato on it tho. ha!

looks a lil danderous, all those wqires hangin, and whats that pipe in the 2nd pic??

Damn Sixxx bring your own 1200's...... Ur pimpish for that one.......

DJSCOTTYFOX is that DJSCOTTYFOX of 106KMEL, Sup Pimp!!!!

Audio1 I've been to EL RINCON, and yea their setup is GHETTO, look where it's at though....

DJ d.range... that's GHETTO!!!!!! Who would be stupid enough to set up something like that. I bet someone who ISN'T a dj to begin with. :)


and thanks J_Static... I rather bring my own mixer with the SL1 pre attached and my 1200's than put up with questionable setups, whether they're just not something I like to mix in or just crap that doesn't even work properly. I HATE BAD SURPRISES.

I agree Sixxx, oh and EL RINCON is run by none other....U guessed it, mexicant's........

Not knocking my spanish brethern (I'm puerto rican), but some of ya'll are "DEE DEE DEE"

Thats another thing that should become standard at clubs, an SL1 already setup... I know on Fridays, I scram to put it together at the club, sometimes 2 if we got DJ's with Serato on both floors.

or better yet, a 57SL mixer...

and J Static, Thats the real Scotty Fox, Spintronix and all them old skool joints!

I agree Audio1, I'm currently pushing alot of SF club owners that I am close with that they need to update their system to include the SL1 to make it easier on us DJ's......

Nothing beats just plugging in a USB and going for broke on the decks... Making club owners change, Thats another story. Alot of them are on that "well, I bought them damn CDJ1000's you DJ's wanted, What else yall need??!!??" Fuck a CDJ, IMHO!

my favorite is called the "SUBMARINE"

theres a gigantic-ass 4 foot long rotary mixer with the turntables suspended on super-duper-sensitive-trampoline-like springs that are so far apart that i have to take a taxi to get from one deck to the other.

its an added bonus when theyre placed so high off the ground that i need a ladder just to reach the pitch control. not to mention a frickin parascope to even see what the damn crowd is doing or if there is one at all.

who the hell designs these booths anyway?

is there something thats happening in these paticular booths that is SOOOO much more important than djing that it actually necessitates a design such as the one i just described?

someone please explain this to me?

its like some kind of sick joke!

brett rock u gotta a pic of this setup, I've heard of suspended tables and they do suck IMHO

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This is when I played upstairs in the hiphop area for CLANDESTINE in San Jose, Johnny V's... Unsure if they got that setup anymore, but it was ok.. just trippy that it would move when youd juggle or double up tracks.

Audio I hate suspended setups..... Club Suede in SF has one in the upstairs room.....

It's like: "Dude is this a sick joke or are you guys into making a DJ's nite HELL......"

Don't get me wrong I can and will adapt to ANYTHING, ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME......

But if it's a nice spot, it's kinda like "WTF" is my response

Hey, Ive mixed at raves for over 10 years.... Nothing worse than their DJ setups and Sound systems.

I know what your talking about, your Bay Area, u remember the raves out in Oakland warehouses.....?

they still have em. just not the big ones like Home Base... They got a place on East 11th in East oakland called... get this... "The Crackhouse". hahah!

back to the topic at hand, def gotta get used to some fucked up setups but nothing that isnt doable.

im pretty adaptable too, but some stuffs just plain dumb.

Yes. Suspended setups are useless for real turntablists.

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i second that although im not an all-out t-tablist but i do scratch and often rock doubles.

I 2nd sixxx and Brett Rock

HOME BASE, Damn Audio one those are memories right thurr

only place 25,000 people would party at all at once!

and that's the thing... Whoever thought of this great idea probably has a water bed. lol

I'm not an all out tablist either but scratching is an integral part of my rutine so it does blow when the setup is not conducive to your style BUT sometimes you just gotta suck it up and deal with it. Most of us don't have enough pull to demand the type of set up we want. In my opinion a good DJ can adjust to ALMOST any situation. So F the compainers.....Just means you got a long way to go.

It's one thing if the other DJ is asking for a reasonable piece of kit (back to the original topic), like a CDJ-1000, but are also content with an 800 (b/c there are soooooooo many differences between the two), but if they simply won't play on the 800 for some unknowing reason, and they aren't a big-name star with an equipment rider in their contract to back it up, then sounds like they don't want to get paid...

Now, to the slightly off-topic but more fun discussion: Ghetto set-ups are the worst. There is this one place in Asheville (237) that used to have an office desk with the amp sitting on the floor where your legs are supposed to go if you are using the desk properly, and with the decks (which both had jacked-out messed up pitch controls) sitting on cinder blocks on the top of the desk, with the mixer set between. The monitor was this total-crap little speaker that was sitting on a stool behind you, since sound aimed at the back of your head is easier??? to hear (I know some of you might say to just move the stool with the monitor, but there just wasn't room to put it anywhere else...).

I try to keep it Battle style if at all possible. I have played a few times when it was not set up battle style. It sucks, but you gotta make the best of a bad situation sometimes. After all as a DJ you gotta adapt ya know. ...But I hate Non- Battle Style.

I feel you. Trust me. I'll mix using the worst setup possible. No doubt about that. But, like anything else, if you can avoid it... GO FOR IT!!