Producer/Engineer Dave Audé - Pensado's Place  

I beg to differ even if your argument is a good point ! As a musician, I often come to gigs to see who's playing, and mainly what's the music they are playing at the moment ! But non-musician people come for the music, the ambiance, not for the DJ, so yeah, you're right :D

Pierre Hagnéré I think a lot has changed though. Now kids are going to dance parties and just standing there watching an eleborate light show while the "DJ" pushes a few buttons on his midi controller to launch already sync'd clips. Not sure what the kids are really going for. I wish I knew, because they aren't dancing.

The people who are most "there for the music" are much less concerned with the performance and visual show... Going to see a DJ is about experiencing an environment, a vibe, a feeling in the room that everyone gets completely lost in. It's not about shooting off fireworks, flame throwers, fist pumping, or throwing cakes on the crowd. It's about getting lost in the music and dancing.

Matt Mullin Yeah, I don't even know anymore with dance music. Seems that a lot of these "raves" these days are just EDM concerts. So I guess if they hid the DJ in the corner people would be confused and not know what to do haha. Times have changed a lot in the electronic dance music scene.

Lol. I've never heard somebody say that before. i got to use that 1 day!

I wanna ask you guys a question I have Nuendo 4 I know it is a little outdated I have mercury wave plugins and I'm running Windows XP they work perfect on Windows XP I gets all my plugins all my mastering plugins but I was having some latency problems that everytime I put too many plugins my computer start making is funny robotic sound like in a start moving really slow so I upgraded to Windows 7 and got a strong a computer and it works fine no latency problems all the problems is fixed but I have a new issue install the mercury waves bundle on Windows 7 Nuendo 4 and when I install the mercury waves bundle I don't get all the plugins I get half of them and the other half is not there non of the mastering plugins are there what does that mean can anybody help me with that

Yup. Sometimes it's best not to get too Treknical.

Yup you 100 percent right about that bro

Haha jokes aside, I think learning on stock plug-ins is best. That's what I did. Once I felt really comfortable with how everything works and was getting decent mixes, I moved to brand names and was able to hear the subtleties between them much better, and was able to quickly figure out what plug-ins worked best for me on specific things in a mix. Many have different individual characteristics, but it's hard to hear those characteristics when you're still learning how to use a compressor, etc.

Most DJs? What genre are you talking about here? Whenever I've met famous dance music DJs they've always been more than gracious and kind.

+Nik Drown - That's not really what he said. He said he didn't think it's always necessary to change the kick within the track, he didn't say you shouldn't, he just doesn't like to. What he said he thought was the future was the plugin that allows you to go in, punch in the key, and it gives you a sample in that key without transposing. You don't have to agree with him, obviously. I don't necessarily disagree with him, but I do my kicks a little differently. It's his opinion, take it or leave it, but make sure you're paying attention and understanding before you make a determination... about anything, really.

Ok. Don't have to be so butt hurt about a comment and look too far into it. What I have to say here has nothing to do with my understanding and how I determine anything about other things. I watched this video while folding laundry. Not a fan of dance music at all really and that is where my understanding starts and ends.

oh stop it

I think deadmau5's ego is way too big for him to humbly come on the show and give away any of his secrets... Who knows though, I would love to be wrong!

The mau5 is just opinionated, he lives the music that's why he's an edm king