How long have you been djing?

16 Years total but 10 professional in clubs and on the FM.

I feel kinda old now looking at it like that.

since 98 i suppose… 10 years, wow.
Had a few stints on radio after i won a dj comp. But never saw out my desire to dj in clubs, and then lost that desire
But outdoor festivals… that would be rad. And i might go back to radio, it’s fun to share the love.

Been djing since i was 16 with cd players saved up my money got my turntables at 17 i just turned 21 so ive been djing for like 4 1/2 years and i learn something new everyday Djing has been the best thing to ever happen to me

Round About 2-4 years (Can’t actually remember)

I’ve been DJing for little over a year now. Started off learning to beatmatch with a friends pioneers but because I’m a poor college student I tried to go the cheap route and learn on my own with software based DJing (big mistake). Now I’ve found a decent balence with using Ableton Live an external sound card and a KP3 as a MIDI. Its still not what I eventually want to be using but it lets me put out some bangin tunes without actually being good. For the record I don’t spin gigs, mostly just house parties so I’m not too ashamed of my ghetto set up =D

Since 1993, though I was only gigging seriously from 95.

Practice and listen, rinse and repeat until good…

Seriously though, I would record my mixes / play-abouts and listen to them back a few days later.. you can hear all your mistakes. Think on them and work out how to improve.. then when you try again, push record and do it all again.

You can actually hear your improvement this way, and work out easily which areas your struggling with.
Its also a great way to learn break and drop points in new tracks and find better places to mix into / out of without having to break out the vinyl say in the car or on your mp3 player!

i can remember doing a house party when i was in the 7th grade with the record player out of one of those big chests that had the 8-track player and the radio in it along with a tape deck…..man, ain’t technology great

I’ve been at it on and off (mostly on) for 22 years. I’m now 40 and started djing at 18.

10 years. As trite as it is, practice is the only thing that will really help you. You have to become one with your gear so you can have precise movements and thus, beatmatches/pitch matching. But if I were you I would switch to a computer and get into designing soundscapes more. This allows you DJ and add music of your own creation into the mix. Makes it sound like YOU and not just a DJ.

about 10 years…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5m3oli … re=related

Producing for 5 years, just recently got into DJ’ing

five and a half months

On and off for over 28 years. Taught myself by listening to Friday night mix shows and trying to figure out how things were done.
That would be nearly impossible these days with people having access to state of the art remix tools out of their bedroom!

Advice… practice practice practice… and, if some old coot comes by and tries to give you pointers, pay attention. You never know
when you will get access to invaluable information (even if 50% turns out to be drunken babble!)

SWADE23 wrote:

DONT BE A BEDROOM DJ FOR YEARS THINKING YOU HAVE TO PRACTICE FOREVER, THE BEST WAY TO LEARN (OR THE WAY I DID) WAS TOSS YOURSELF INTO THE FIRE OF A HOT PARTY, YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH THAT WAY

Been bedroom DJ-ing since the beginning of 2012 (with a couple of sets at mate’s house parties in the meantime) – Playing out for the first time at a party on Friday, looking forward to the learning experience