And wow did it go well!
Once enough people got there and some people decided to dance, I *really* started the party with some heavy hitters and people were hooked from then on. The crowd, albeit a little small (about 15 people) were all going very hard, jumping and singing and all around raving about how great of a night they were having.
ANYWAY, when I started the night I was beatmatching all my tracks on my VCI (using Traktor). But once things really got going, I decided to just auto-sync everything. I've come to the following conclusion:
For the most part, I could have done everything I did that night without autosync, apart from some sequences that called for mixing tracks in one after another with almost no time to beatmatch (I'm not that good yet). Those sequences would have been better off using something like Ableton to be honest :P
I've decided that, I don't care about beatmatching when playing for a crowd. I'd rather just rock the crowd, right?
I can beatmatch and I know that and I'm the only person that needs to know that. I've learned a LOT in regards to song structure and DJ'ing in general by learning to beatmatch, but now that we can autosync most tunes (esp. if we beat-grid them), what's the point in actually doing it?
After the party I was talking to some people who were especially impressed, and felt that the mixing was on point and felt more like live remixing than plain ol' mixing. It definitely was at some points through the use of cue points.
Anyway, I don't know what I'm trying to say really. I just feel like a lot of people gave me way more credit than I deserve because I was auto-sync'ing everything, despite explicitly admitting to doing it. Then again, if I learned to use Ableton and did the same thing I don't think I'd feel so "guilty".
Thoughts?
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