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Definitely mixing and beatmatching. i may be in a small town but i never tHought any dj would have the balls to play out and trainwreck all night.

...that Macs are better than PCs.

How to manage sound levels and room acoustics and their importance. A basic disregard for sound quality.

which songs to play from 10-12pm aka the opening slot

not eat taco bell or white castle before you go on

lol I meant more of the technical side.


Like im amazed at how many people cant balance a tonearm and just shove the weight to its highest setting.

I can balance a tonearm, but for my carts I still just shove the weight all the way in
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redlining is the obvious one here, I'd say

i dont know how to use a wireless mic.. i rented one for a wedding recently and embarassed myself so bad.

I had this buddy that used to clean the inside of his tonearms with eraser from a pencil. Works great as a temporary fix. However when I showed him that the rubber causes the copper contacts to degrade and wear out to the point of being unusable he quickly stopped.

Plug in. Turn on? lol wtf?

lol I didn't know this. Thought the pencil was the fix. hahahaha

So just deoxit or something to that effect????

^nah i'm just fuckin with you lol... but yeah deoxit is the best and safest thing to use

Deoxit, yes. And the reason dudes would lick the carts wasn't to clean them, but to help them make better contact with the tonarm contact points. Ortofons are notorious for having shitty contacts and I would often have to lick them to get both left and right signal.

^^^NM!!!^

Bastid you got me. lol.

I was about to post a

[Thread fail]!!!!

Ive done it in a pinch, but this dudes tonearm was like an inkwell yo. Looked like someone put grease in there haha

this!

Prolly all that spit. :x

Redlining definitely.

People that use the 'mic input' setting on powered speakers

People that don't have any idea how to correctly calibrate SSL.

also redlining at 10:05pm

Agreed. How many people have a basic understanding of the science of audio? DJ's running in the red should be punishable by prison sentences. Another reason why djing should be regulated by a board of trustees and unionized. Must qualify by passing a series of tests to become a DJ. That would relieve the world from phonies.

These are my biggest pet peeves. So many DJ's, who may have pretty decent technical skill still lack the basic understanding of how to run a room.

Hell, well for starters

1. Not knowing how to mount a Headshell, forget about balance...
2. Pre-Serato, cats not paying attention to the LEFT AND RIGHT (Red/White) channel setup.
3. Hell, cats using Banana plugs IN REVERSE...
4. Cats trying to so call "Bridge" an amp, but NOT connecting the speaker wires across both "+" connections, so now they only get half of the wattage.
5. Not caring about a good STEREO output from the mixer, or sometimes using Y-Jacks..wtf?
6. That using Aluminum Foil is NOT the permanent fix for a blown fuse.
7. That if you spill beer or something into the pitch, it WILL fail.
8. That you don't equalize your entire system on the damn mixer....
9. That you can't plug two different amps into the same speaker.
10. That someone WILL steal your cartridges right off of your turntables if you aren't looking.

- that headphones are like underwear: not to be shared
- that "loose" vinyl can be fixed by adjusting the spindle hole size or just flipping over the damn record!
- that disco style on the 1200s actually gives you more control (threw that in for JohnnyM)

-that plugging turntables into the "line" input is going to sound like ass (TTX notwithstanding).

-that plugging CDJ's into the "phono" input is going to sound like ass.

That in a pitch your headphones can be used as a microphone.

Surprises me how many people don't realize the strobe pattern on turntable platters actually has a purpose.

I'm loving this thread!
+10000 to all the above!

How dudes try to play the hottest, newest bangers at 10pm and wonder why they run out of hot shot during prime time.

How dudes play the same song 4 times a night.

How dudes don't know how to duck the mic and sound like ass when they try to yell over the music.

My wife bought me this shirt...

www.bigtimeteez.com

Most people (even DJs) don't get it.

Also, the headphone thing! I liked the underwear analogy. :)

Not knowing the difference between 8 ohm, 4 ohm, and 2 ohm or saying that "less ohms means less quality".. Then knowing how to apply 2 8 ohms to 1 single channel.

Not knowing how match up BPM's and properly mix two songs together, not just blaring a fog horn or dropping into another song.

Not knowing what the key of a song is or why it is important. I get that reading the key by hear is hard for some but c'mon it's pretty useful when you want to blend in or sample certain sounds to a track without completely mixing over to the next track.

Going over the RMS rating or suggested power and blowing a speaker or amp. I remember this one kid, "Oh I saw one guy powering 1500 watts into each one of his LS808's." Yeah that's cause he was probably doing live audio which doesn't have the same processing as an MP3 or wav.

Not knowing the difference between or even knowing what kbps of a track is. This one guy was playing at a house party and it sounded like garbage. I asked him what kbps the track was (after checking his mixer, controller, and amp settings). He had no idea what that was. Dude was playing straight 128 kbps tracks all night that he had apparently "ripped from youtube". Sad.

Just a few things that shocked me. If you don't know audio, how you supposed to be a true turntable DJ? Some dj's should stick to playlist and powered speakers (with limiters).

Not knowing that you have to have CAPS lock on to use the keyboard shortcuts.

Not knowing that Shift + left or right arrow keys loads the track to the decks.

not all headphones though.. HDJ2000's for instance cant do this

Not knowing that you can uncheck "shortcuts use shift button"

Not knowing that its Control left and right arrows, not Shift left and right arrows to load a track

Not using cue points ala SSL 1.4

Speaking of power, people that have no idea what RMS is, and believe the marketing bullshit figure.

This could almost be excused because he has no idea about this stuff- but my housemate constantly asks me to hook up his old car subs to an old home amplifier he has (that has no sub output) and tells me I'm just making it up because I don't want him being heaps noisy whenever I explain why it's a bad/pointless idea.

how to properly calibrate serato for use... and how to trouble shoot Scopes in the setup menu

- that if they have serato, they think they can dj
- they only know virtual dj as pro software
- that the delay in virtual dj is almost a second when using a controller
......

It's Shift Left and Right arrows on my computer.

One of my pet peeves that im still learning how not to do.

Shoot my load too early.

I play a few nights by myself from 10pm-4am. I tend to blow my load of hot shit around 1am when I should be saving it for 2:30ish.

Hard to learn pacing.

THIS.

Making them buy all the music they play would also relieve the world from phonies.

Too much info

That's an extra fee!!!!

yep for calibrating the pitch had to school em

I just spin my wrist really fast to show em:

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I was always trying to figure out where CMOS came from or what it meant.

"Craig 'Feffen' Motisi's"

It all makes sense now. lol

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yup.

like people that believe that a QSC K12 has 1,000 watts lol instead of 250.

OH MAN, if this was about video as well..... lol, its a entire world of in over your head.

the 12s strobe and the flipped headshell (rotated out a few twists) are the biggest ones I see.

but when I pull out a little bottle of contact cleaner thats the biggest wide-eyed reaction I get... "ooooooooh.... whats that??? magic fairy dust that fixes tonearms????"

I did actually have 1 dude say, "you know you can just lick it right?"
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CMO - Initials (kinda)
CMOS - Im a computer geek
CMOS - God of the Apes from planet of the apes.

lol

that's SEMOS in planet of the apes

Close enough.

Oh damn.. failed quote. :/

nm

Watchwww.youtube.com

hahaha. Seinfeld is just the best. lol

nm, nh

That why I'd love the see all these new cats that are used to playing 45min-1hour sets try and manage a set for a few hours. I reckon they'd end up halfway through running out of music and just repeating the set again for the second half.

panic mode in serato.

especially from some of my friends who I tell them about it over and over and over again and they still look like a deer in headlights when their needle gets too dusty and serato starts to crap out.

Being the internal mode at zero pitch command?

yea - cmd (or ctrl on pc) and the internal button...

Saved me many a time.

Just thought of this-

People that have no idea how to switch out between two serato DJs without using a separate CD/Vinyl/Ipod

People that cannot use internal mode whatsoever. It's not fun, but knowing the keyboard shortcuts has gotten me through a few nights.

The biggest shock I always have is DJ's who carry in one laptop and have absolutely no means of backup (not even regular records or CD's) in case something happened to their computer.

Then if you're "that guy" and ask them what they'd do if the computer failed, they look at you like you slapped their puppy.

people that bought/own the 62 & don't know how to change dj's...

1,2,4,8,16,32,64. It's not that difficult. Really.

that open bar at weddings doesn't mean drink until you pass out

what phrasing is, or even the slightest comprehension of the most basic music theory

for them, i have recommended this:
www.amazon.com