3 DECK DISASTERS

[miromiric.]

give me a break jake.
i just think carola and beyer play funky music and i really cant stand foney funky techno. you have a problem with that?

[Sunil]

dunno exactly last year some time.

i never liked carola s set and barely production, i was ok with beyer s sets till maybe 2 yrs ago.

i've seen Carola a few times, first time he was ok, second time I was convinced he was technically as good as it gets.. that was nearly two years ago now though.

The first time I saw Beyer it was one of the best sets I've seen, I don't tend to dance a lot when I'm out but this time my body ached til the middle of the next week from going so mad. Last few times have been impressive although music wise it's not been all my bag... would be interested in seeing him or Carola again though.

[massplanck]

give me a break jake.
i just think carola and beyer play funky music and i really cant stand foney funky techno. you have a problem with that?

Its a pity that you dont like music thats based around pentatonic riffs. Anyway you make him sound like the jackson five or something.

Carola is savage. He'd piss all over the lot of ye if he decided to make atmospheric type broken beat whatever..

[Sunil]

Carola is savage. He'd piss all over the lot of ye if he decided to make atmospheric type broken beat whatever..

Ha ha, you're probably right! Carola in fairness to him has made an almighty amount of superb techno, a lot of which I wouldn't put in the 'funky' bracket.

[JACKSTAR]

DJ Bam Bam & Alex Peace on 4 dex & 2 mixers totally kock it.

P.

[tekboi]

I would have to agree with Dustin Zahn 100% - that using the 3rd deck to cue your tracks faster is definately what should be done if the DJ is only playing on 2 decks. As he also mentioned, there are no rules on what exacltly you need to do to use three decks.

In my opinion 3 or 2 decks, whatever, if you mix the tunes well in your own style then keep doing it, you do it the way you feel comfortable doing it.

[BloodStar]

I agrre with Tekboi. Keepin your style is what it's all about.
It's about the story you're starting to talk with your tunes. 3rd deck is great as a tool for fullfill it. No needs to use it thru all set. But when yu're comfortable with monitors, and everything is fine, why don't use it?,.,While it's used at the right moments, crowds will go mad...

[SlavikSvensk]

yeah, but what if a dj had 5 decks? then that would be, like, twice as good as 3 ;)

[DROID]

misjah tears it up on 3 tables but at the end of the day who cares if its 2, 3 or 4? i think it's almost more impressive to hear dave clarke on only 2 tables and destroy the fukking place NOT using a laptop, efx, sampler etc.

ill destroy ur old low bag ass with a goddamn fruitloop BIATCH!


aahahah

[anx]

you should see my 1 turntable skills! i can stop the record and put another one back on the platter in under 3 seconds!

watch out varela.

[Stuart]

Then again you get the people that ask for 3 decks but never actually play 3 decks the just end up with a record on it and mix 2 decks.

[Stuart]

Then again you get the people that ask for 3 decks but never actually play 3 decks the just end up with a record on it and mix 2 decks.

[massplanck]

Then again you get the people that ask for 3 decks but never actually play 3 decks the just end up with a record on it and mix 2 decks.

name and shame them!

[SlavikSvensk]

you should see my 1 turntable skills! i can stop the record and put another one back on the platter in under 3 seconds!

i saw someone do that once. it was especially sweet 'cause the turntable was belt-drive, yo!

[massplanck]

you should see my 1 turntable skills! i can stop the record and put another one back on the platter in under 3 seconds!

i saw someone do that once. it was especially sweet 'cause the turntable was belt-drive, yo!

I've seen DJ ASSAULT literally just throw the things onto to the decks mid set. He just span it up n the air and bullsye.

[anx]

i have been in situations where i have been booked on 3 decks, only to have a booth with really horrible monitors. just 2 weeks ago actually, they setup 3 decks and gave me one bloody monitor that had blown and was all distorted..

i could barely mix on 2 let alone 3. so of course afterwords i had people assuming i cant mix on 3 decks or just have 3 there for show etc...

when really i saved myself from a "3 deck disaster" by not using the 3rd one.

now if people want me to play on 3 i make sure that they agree to having 2 good, working monitors on each side of the decks.

[anx]

you should see my 1 turntable skills! i can stop the record and put another one back on the platter in under 3 seconds!

i saw someone do that once. it was especially sweet 'cause the turntable was belt-drive, yo!

I've seen DJ ASSAULT literally just throw the things onto to the decks mid set. He just span it up n the air and bullsye.

dj assault is crazy.

to think i was only kidding tho...im not that good on one turntable. it takes many many years of practice you must be like ninja.
hehehe

[tioneb]

i thnik teh fake 3 decks djs are the ones who use three decks to spin records in the same way as 2 dacks ie start to beatmatch a record after having finished to mix the two previous ...

I don't see how this is cheating at all? I must haved missed the meeting where there are certain rules to be an official 3rd deck DJ. I would personally rather see any DJ use this technique as a means of faster cueing than adding in another shitty club record on top of 2 other shitty club records. I get very bored of a DJ who lets a 5 minute drum track play out nearly because he either sucks or is taking his sweet time looking through his crate. So if the DJ uses the 3rd deck to cue tracks up then thats fine by me. As long as it sounds good I'm happy. :)

Obviously, I'd like to say mixing just 2 records is easy and anyone can do it, but we all know thats a lie, some people just don't have it. But using the 3rd deck is a skill that definetely is a different ball game. To be perfectly honest, some days on 3 decks I am completely terrible and some days I can hold it down. Everyone has their bad days is my point. But I think people really just abuse the 3rd deck these days.

Back in the day, people like Mills would use 3 decks with 3 minimal records to get that tribal feel...they would practically construct songs on the fly with various records. I have a theory that a lot of the european producers picked up on this mills influence and made tribal records that sounded like 2 or 3 records worth of layers all in one song. The result is these days DJs clutter their mixes with waaay too much shit going on over the course of 3 tables.

I think the best 3 deck DJs know how to fill the gaps where they need to be filled and not clutter the mix with 3 drum tracks on top of each other. I used to do 3 deck mixing a bit more but lately I've started to play tracks that I feel are more evolved and can stand on their own. Tracks that have more than just drums and a vocal chop, so its not nessecary to use 3 decks because the tracks are so full already.

I guess the 3 decks thing is quite a debate...but probably the best answer is that like most things in life: theres a little bit of good in it, and a lot of bad.

well to me whatever u do the third deck has to "sound" its used thats what i wanted to say about "fake 3 decks djs" ...

claude young does with two decks really more than most of the djs using three ive seen ... so i just think people pretending being "good" becasue thy use three decks should think first about the musical aspect and watching good 2 decks djs ...

totally agree with you about the drum tracks dustin ... playing 3 records at same time has to be done with a certain track selection thats why again i thnik people should morea bout the music rather than the number of decks ...

these 2*2 or 2*3 decks sets make me laugh so much, do you thnik it is really possible to make something hearable playing 4 records at same time ???

[massplanck]

[quote="tioneb"]

i thnik teh fake 3 decks djs are the ones who use three decks to spin records in the same way as 2 dacks ie start to beatmatch a record after having finished to mix the two previous ...

these 2*2 or 2*3 decks sets make me laugh so much, do you thnik it is really possible to make something hearable playing 4 records at same time ???

Yeah it can all get too messy at times.

But at least they are trying.

[anx]

i dont think playing 4 decks at the same time would sound good at all...but it does open alot of doors for more tricks, faster cutting, and more creativity.

never tried 4 decks before and i probably wont have the chance to try ever....but if i did i would totally mess around with locked grooves on the 4th deck...

1 thing with 3 decks it your timing has to be really well executed on every mix.