The only advice I can give anyone is to just finish the damn thing you're working on, even if you hate the loop, are pissed off with the sounds or think the bass sounds like sh!t. Just finish it. You will learn INFINITELY more from getting it done than you ever will from sitting there masturbating o...

Seriously agree with the whole overuse of glitch type plug ins. Yeah they sound cool but each do have a very distinct character to them and after a while the sound becomes very recognizable. In a live performance situation I think these plugins can be effectively employed, but in the studio their us...

Also by never mixing during busy sections of a song you are completely closing yourself to the possibility of having 2 songs 'talk' to each other during the mix. Mixing should be fluid and organic, don't think, just do. And practice, practice, practice. You think great DJ's just roll out of bed and ...

I use a Xone:2d with my Traktor Scratch Pro setup and it works the business. All the knobs are assigned to control the effects, loop functions and it lets me browse my library without having to resort to the keyboard, even though I have most of Traktors functions assigned to keyboard shortcuts as we...

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Just some of the music I've been getting groovy with lately, nothing too complicated just some melodic, full on tech, minimal and tech house. Some new, some old, hope you all you like :) http://dirkd.djtachyon.com/index.php?view=weblink&catid=34%3Alive-mixes&id=13%3Adirkd-backtomyroots&o...

Wahey, in Leiden even, and at the venue I volunteer at!

Its really all down to personal preference, if you're using Live and getting good results and not finding that there's anything you're missing or frustrated about I don't see why you'd want to switch. That being said, I personally find Logic to be a very powerful tool once you learn the ins and outs...