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This is standard technique as far as I'm aware.

The only place this would something different is if your mixer doesn't go to -Inf on the EQ. If you have -20db or something, then you have to use the line fader a little to bring it in, you can't just throw it to the top.

I use the DJ Tech Tools Chroma thumb drive.

At the scale we are talking about here, it seems like lambda might be more cost effective? Given that it is free compute at the low end.

I don't think you need to record immediately. You will hear it sound bad at the real initial learning steps.

You definitely want to do it, but only when you get to the point where you think what you are doing sounds good. Then you record it and listen to it 1+ days later and see what it really sounds like. :-D

Maybe also if you get to a point where nothing sounds good no matter what you do, really recording and listening back is about establishing an objective reference for hearing the music. I had to learn to not hear the two tracks as separate and disrupting each other in the mix, but rather to hear the mix itself. I'm not sure if that is a universal struggle or not.

since streaming over Spotify and AM blocks mixing

This isn't correct, you can mix Spotify. I don't know what AM is to speak to that one.

You don't want to rely on it for a performance, but it can help you get started. I believe you also can't record when streaming, at least not directly.

any other beginner tips are welcomed

Read the wiki

Once you are familiar with phrases and music, you can see them in the waveforms in general.

So, no, not a crutch anymore than the visualization is a crutch.

Literally, "to baffle" is to limit the flow of something.

They aren't easy mixes, its 120 bpm for 4k and 88 bpm Vibe

And the energy levels of the two tracks are also very different.

To add to what has already been said, there is something that took some time for me was to actually hear the mix, not just the two tracks playing at the same time. You have to almost get your brain to forget that it is hearing two tracks and instead hear the one mixed track.

I remember struggling with this early on because it sounded wrong to mix into a song I knew thus making it sound different than expected. It always sounded 'bad'.

An important aside to this is to record your mixes and listen to them back at least a day later. This helps you hear the actual mix not the pieces being mixed.

I have literally no idea how to use the DM system on reddit.

It may even be that your account is too new to allow DMs? I have no idea.

YRC is my first mention, its a great social group and exactly what you expect of a running club. https://www.yinzrunclub.com/

I'm also involved with a chapter of the Hash House Harriers which is a little different, still focused on it being a social event, and I personally absolutely love it. You can find it here: https://ironcityh3.com/

I was just going to ask about this. But I feel like at a certain point that is almost a production question, and when producing peak quality is always better.

You do you.

I don't want to yuck your yum, but to me this is just another form of race-ism.

Might as well be posting people's PRs.

PSL is probably what you want

I have a few different setups, but the one I keep setup at home is my Rane One. It's more fun to play with.

:-D

> safe enough for car transport when laid flat?

Yes, easily safe enough provided you don't get into a collision.

Also don't let it slide around.

> I was wondering how many people in the area do a good bit of traveling.

Depends on how you define it.

I travel when I can. I spent last year mostly unemployed and was able to visit 7 continents in 2025. But between having a child and being now employed ... I do long weekends more than anything else right now. Certainly not a month+.

Should I keep my sets simple and focus on track selection, phrasing, EQing, and basic transitions? Or is it still worth planning specific transitions/cues and adapting them depending on the equipment?

Depends on the transition, if it uses stems, that isn't going to work on most CDJs, so yeah not those transtitions.

IMO, your equipment is just a set of tools, every venue is going to have EQ, channel faders, cross fader, effects, etc.

The handle on a screwdriver is different brand to brand, but it still drives a screw.

Yeah, crowd gives energy and vibes.

What is it you are trying to do?

AWS is a massive set of services. There isn't one right way to do everything.

Docs for disabling

Its a bit circular, but practice.

It isn't just doing the active stuff, its for doing the thinking stuff when you are choosing the track that should come next after a track.

Also, I've said this in another thread, if you have a really good combo or a practiced routine, you can nest a crate inside a crate with Serato.
All items in the nested crate will show up in the top level crate.
And if you remember enough to say "I had something for this" you can go look at the nested crates and have that combo there.

Won't work for me tomorrow, but I am interested in general

I think you may be able to use uvx to accomplish what you want.

The enabler behing this is that uv caches downloaded packages. Otherwise re-downloading something like numpy every time would be slow.

uvx is a short hand for uv tool run which will download and execute on a specific tool's dependencies ignoring the current virtual env.

So whatever process you have that needs a specific version of numpy, if you set it up as a tool in uv, you can get clean execution of it every time.