virtualdjmg
To the dance music producers here, I am just about to release a track 0n-line via 2 of the major on-line stores.
After a long time trying.
Something occured to me when listening to some tracks by DARUDE on a double album of his.
He seems to have just over 2 milliseconds space before the track starts, for all the tracks. Must be some insight.
Some other producers have a longer but quick up beat space before the track starts.
These are tracks on CD's though.
IF one delivers to Beatport a wav file, do Djs prefer absolute no gap before the track starts.
I am not a DJ and dont want to waste Dj's time cueing my track, just would love them to be able to press play and it starts, or am i fussing about nothing here?
its strange that Darude gives a just over 2 millisecond gap and not a no gap before the track.
Maybe he has worked out the human finger reaction time or something like that.
But it seems consistent in his tracks. I should ask him, hey hey
After a long time trying.
Something occured to me when listening to some tracks by DARUDE on a double album of his.
He seems to have just over 2 milliseconds space before the track starts, for all the tracks. Must be some insight.
Some other producers have a longer but quick up beat space before the track starts.
These are tracks on CD's though.
IF one delivers to Beatport a wav file, do Djs prefer absolute no gap before the track starts.
I am not a DJ and dont want to waste Dj's time cueing my track, just would love them to be able to press play and it starts, or am i fussing about nothing here?
its strange that Darude gives a just over 2 millisecond gap and not a no gap before the track.
Maybe he has worked out the human finger reaction time or something like that.
But it seems consistent in his tracks. I should ask him, hey hey
Inviato Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 6:48 am
erxon
Depends on the style of music and intro. If you have a kick or some transient
sample at the very beginning of the song, than it's probably wise to insert a
half second to second of silence, so djs can scratch the song in (not necessarily
to main speakers, but scratching is used for cueing with vinyls or vinly mode
controlers). On the other hand if you have a long string-like intro, it's ok
if you put it to the very beginning.
PS.: mp3 codecs by default introduce a ~ 20ms silence at the beginning.
sample at the very beginning of the song, than it's probably wise to insert a
half second to second of silence, so djs can scratch the song in (not necessarily
to main speakers, but scratching is used for cueing with vinyls or vinly mode
controlers). On the other hand if you have a long string-like intro, it's ok
if you put it to the very beginning.
PS.: mp3 codecs by default introduce a ~ 20ms silence at the beginning.
Inviato Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 8:32 am
djderricke
It shouldn't hurt to insert a little silence at the beginning of the track. A couple of reasons to do that would be in case people burn the track to CD to play in the car. Some CD players don't un-mute right away during a track seek, so you miss the start of the track by a little bit. Most professional CD players will cue up to the point where it detects music, so silence at the start of your track should not be a problem.
Inviato Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 9:09 pm