How to improve your djing Videos

• 1. 3 Tips for Improving Your DJ Performance Videos
• 2. Beginner DJ Scratches & Practice Methods : Beginner DJ Scratches: Importance of Practice
• 3. Geoff Short Seminar: Increasing Your DJ Cultural Awareness
• 4. Optimize Your Windows PC for DJing & Music Production Pt. 2
• 5. The DJ Institute: 08 Playing your first track
• 6. DJing Tips Mike Walter with some Tips about Beat Mixing
• 7. The DJ Institute: 14 Your first cross mix
• 8. The DJ Institute: 20 How to get your first gigs

3 Tips for Improving Your DJ Performance Videos

User Comments

LordVenton commented on 16 Jan 2015

You have any tips for Young Beginners

MojaxxVDJ commented on 16 Jan 2015

Make sure you're subscribed to our channel, lots more tutorials and stuff coming every week from now on!

MojaxxVDJ commented on 16 Jan 2015

@flava82 I just recorded using Serato DJ's internal recording function, with a cable from the mixer to the Aux input on the SL3. You certainly could record into Ableton directly if you hook it up to your mixer. Then just drop the video file in afterwards.

Limin commented on 22 Jan 2015

Hey Mo, did you quit DJTT and joined DJcity instead?  

Beginner DJ Scratches & Practice Methods : Beginner DJ Scratches: Importance of Practice

Geoff Short Seminar: Increasing Your DJ Cultural Awareness

Optimize Your Windows PC for DJing & Music Production Pt. 2

User Comments

ZinayH commented on 04 Apr 2013

I am sorry but You are wrong with dissableling areo and not letting our GPU take all the stress instead of the CPU running windows basing, We live in 2013 every one doing real production work should have at least an i5 with a decent video card, and dont disable your graphics gui you can actually customize it to perform just better then what the cpu would do in basic mode, it renders more frames and set everything to high performance no eye candy! and it runs my StudioOne software very smooth! :)

JKB UK commented on 08 May 2012

Hi great vid but i really need you help in part 1 i did the latency chec and mon and a few of my things were allot higher than 1 ( NDIS 6.2 driver which was 40.8!? / ACPI driver for Nwhich was at 10.8 / and intel rapid tecnology driver which was 1.8) i cannot find anyof these in the section you showed me and im guessing i really need to disable them to oimprove my performance if you could be so ,kind to help me out with this i would be so so so so greatfull thanks allot, jake keep up the vids:D

xenocore01 commented on 24 Feb 2011

@youngn420 Duh, its a joke man. Of course you can use an after market mouse. But there is a very distince difference between Apple and PC products. Apple is like a cruise ship. A PC is like a small speedboat. You can do whatever you want in AppleOS, as long as they support it natively. Try to do something they don't want you to, and its a pain in the ass. The PC gives you more freedom. You just have to do some of the work yourself.

Abusive Sloth commented on 06 Sep 2013

All my specs are more than good enough. I have used the mixtrack pro for about 2 years and today i got my traktor kontrol s2. I uninstalled my traktor le 2, and everything else. not ASIO4all sound card though. I start playing with the s2 and the songs are sometime crackling/lagging, CPU/Load is always super low and I closed all unecesseary programs, latency etc. yet the fucking problem remains. what can I do?

Victor Trejo commented on 09 Jun 2013

Great advice here; there's two big tips i would like to share with you guys. 1) In task manager you can change Ableton's process priority from normal to either above normal, high or even realtime! 2) I personally (safely) shut down windows explorer when using Ableton, effectively using as an OS because of the awesome built in browser.

DeviantDigi commented on 24 Feb 2011

Just a warning with some exceptions. If you install the hotfix and the newest windows updates at the same time you may have problems. After I did so my PC wouldn't boot or get past the configuring windows service prompt at start up. After restarting and attempting to boot in safe mode(s) multiple times it finally went through.

Endo commented on 19 Oct 2013

I hate to say it, but to be honest Windows is nothing but trouble for live Music performance. I don't trust Windows computers. This video was to help people who use Windows, but even with all of this, I still didn't trust the computer I optimized. Too many unwanted "surprises." Get a Mac ;)

PassiveStatus commented on 17 Oct 2011

Great Tutorial thxs, but I have some weird problem. I'm using AbletonLive on Asus K53s laptop with Esi U46XL usb interface and it works only with one type of mouse. I've tested many with no good result. The "only one" is Microsoft SideWinder X5. Can U please help me? Sorry for my english.

Davis Land commented on 24 Feb 2011

@pilotdapunk The ones that are smart enough not to buy in to the Mac craze, PC's and Macs are about the same, Macs are just better at not crashing(Which DubStop is showing us how to make our PC's do that.) and Windows is better at being able to do whatever the hell you want.

JUKE179r commented on 26 Jul 2013

It's been awhile since I DJ'd using a pc laptop, but I remember typing "msconfig" in the run box to bring up System Configuration. From there I disabled startup services to lessen the amount of programs running in the background that weren't needed for DJing.

Jonathan Lopez commented on 13 Sep 2013

PLEASE make one for windows 8 users! i messed up and bought a HP laptop with good specs but it runs like **** with windows 8. and since it's a new equipment i can't just easily go back and downgrade to windows 7 because it messes up the drivers. HELP

TheCheeze3 commented on 06 Mar 2011

great tutorial! thanks for the help. I was wondering, I have the great miss-fortune of using windows vista. I know they are similar OS's (and vista just sucks any way) but i was wondering if you could give some tips for that OS as well? Thaknks

James Bannon commented on 01 May 2013

Don't have it on the network and disable the anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall. All of these are huge resource hogs. Yes, the machine is a bit more difficult to manage, but the performance gain is worth the hassle.

djphunkshun commented on 11 Mar 2011

Is there any monitoring software for windows xp?I downgraded my os thinking vista was causing the dropouts with all the aero effects. dpc lat works but not the latency mon. Is there an earlier version that works?

DjLoko190988 commented on 24 Feb 2011

@pilotdapunk the ones that dont just play track after track, the ones that like to do cool stuff, stuff that a mac wont allow. dont be sad you paid a shit load a money but you can still play tracks in a row.

Matt Ludwig commented on 03 Mar 2013

Sounds like all the issues im having.Did you ever figure it out?I'm bout to chuck it and get a mac.I've tried everything,and I mean everything! If I could just get the spike to go away I would be so happy.

Asphalt & Trouble commented on 24 Feb 2011

Screw doing all that, just get a powerful laptop (for half the price of the most basic mac) and the get TuneUp Utilies and hit the Turbo Mode button - it does all that and more in just one button...... :)

Carl Avory commented on 20 Nov 2014

Thanks for the tips BUT! It seems I no longer have "Stereo Mix" for my windows 7 (needed for Audacity) since using all the steps you have given. Any idea why? Tips for fixing?

Endo commented on 19 Oct 2013

Well, my personal setup is a 17" Macbook Pro with a 500 GB SSD, and I took my CD drive out and put in a 1TB internal hard drive, and max'd the ram as well. The thing is a beast.

SwitchUpBroadcast commented on 27 Nov 2012

i am getting a hotfix not applicable for my computer message. i think this is because i am using service pack 1. is there another hotfix? do i even need it? thanks

Apefjes commented on 10 Jan 2013

Would you recomend this to anyone using a Windows-based machine? I've never had any issues regarding performance yet >__> 7,1 on the windows experience rating.

The DJ Institute: 08 Playing your first track

DJing Tips Mike Walter with some Tips about Beat Mixing

The DJ Institute: 14 Your first cross mix

User Comments

trollwithmunchies commented on 30 Sep 2015

hey david really great job on this tutorial ive learned quite a bit. just popping in t olet you know youtube muted the audio on this video. thanks for your hardwork and sharingness.

David T commented on 30 Sep 2015

+trollwithmunchies Thanks for letting me know! Audio is now here: https://soundcloud.com/daveytea/14-your-first-cross-mix

The DJ Institute: 20 How to get your first gigs