dj’ing with 3 turntables

joachim garraud use 3 cdj 1000 mk3 and one dvj x1 it’s very goodddddddddddddddddd lol

supercush wrote:

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Glad to help!

discostu333 wrote:

A lot of techno dj’s use 3 decks, sounds mint when you master it.

i play techno and play with 3 every now and again, as has already been said it gives you a lot more versatility in the mix especially if you use locked grooves etc. However it also has the potential to sound like an even bigger trainwreck than 2 decks can if you get it wrong

Procleus wrote:

How do you set up a station for 3 decks? Most crossfaders are strictly for two decks, so do you get a second solely for the third deck? ANd how do you lay it out? What’s the best way?

i turn the crossfader off and just use the vertical faders, i have two decks on one side of the mixer and two on the other but i guess there are different ways of doing it

i gotta try 3 some time

I use 2 for mixing and one to rotate my own personal sushi bar

cosmicjive wrote:

Try 6.

Ive had 5 playing all in time at a live gig in front of about 200 people.

It didnt sound very musical, only did it cos someone bet I couldnt!

I’m mixing with 3 decks all the time, it’s really much more fun than with 2! you have so much more possibilities

Adeeda wrote:

2cdj and 2 turnrables seems standard for full professional right now.

Whether that’s down to a DJ’s request or simply flexibility on a venues part is open to debate…

One venue I worked at had a twin CD Denon deck, 2x Pioneer CDJ1000’s and 2x Technics 1210’s… We could also, in times of complete emergency, use either of the 2 booth PC’s (lighting and text-line/video) to play music too (and beatmatch, before all the MP3 ‘DJ’ software was available!). So, all-in-all that was 8 possible sources of audio… very rarely did anyone ever use more than 2 sources at the same time though.

For instance, Flip and Fill used 3, the two 1210’s and a CDJ1000 of which the CDJ was used as nothing more than a sample player (which they used to play the worlds most annoying jingle, a girly voiced "Flip & Fill, in the mix" sample, over the top of everything and as often as possible!)

There’s often times, at some venues I’ve worked at with only 2 CD decks, that I wish I had a third for dropping acapellas and stuff. At one venue I’d carefully setup a nice loop using the beat at the end of one track while continuing to play another song over the top of it… As the second track approached the end I setup a loop using that too. They were both running perfectly in time and it sounded awesome… then I realised I hadn’t got a third deck to get ‘out’ of it!! Removing one of the two tracks would have sounded odd but I had no choice… Well, I did have a choice… I went to the bar leaving the two loops playing (they were that well in time! I haven’t been able to get them that well looped/timed since though!!). Fortunately it was only a small venue and fortunately people saw the funny side of it once they’d realised the pickle I’d got myself into!

I don’t like how you have to cut an acapella short in a live mashup to get the next track ready so yeah, 3 is better. Can’t say I use it very often though. And decks don’t come cheap either……….

i really like either using a third deck or a laptop as a third input just for extra stuff, particularly short acapellas for live remixes which really gives your set a creative aspect

3 decks are great, been rocking this style for quite a number of years now. two decks got boring about 15 years ago, cuing up the second track in about 15 seconds, I realized I needed to add the 3rd deck to keep things interesting. today I use 4 decks, typically the 4th is for effects.

I use 3 decks every weekend but i use the 3rd just for acapellas

Not tried 4 yet but will 1 day