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Digital DJ Tips

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Digital DJ TipsLive & DJHow To Make Your Own DJ Edits With ChatGPT Ever wanted to play a song in your DJ set but couldn’t, because there’s nothing clean to mix in or out of?

11.13

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJHow To Set Hot Cues (And 3 Easy Ways To Use Them) You’ve got hot cue pads on your controller, and you’ve probably set a few already. But knowing where to put them, and what to do with them once they’re there, is what makes them useful.

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Digital DJ TipsLive & DJWhy Your DJ Mixes Sound Muddy (And 2 Easy Ways To Fix It) You’ve got the beats lined up, the tracks are a good match and your transition should sound fine. But it doesn’t. It sounds muddy, messy and dirty, and people are noticing.

11.06

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJ7 Things Nobody Tells You About Mixing House Music There are plenty of videos showing clever house mixing tricks, then leaving you to go off and do them on your own. What they skip is the stuff underneath, the things that make those tricks work.

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Digital DJ TipsLive & DJ5 Hidden DDJ-FLX4 Serato Features Last week I showed you five hidden Shift button tricks for the Pioneer DJ DDJ-FLX4 in Rekordbox, and since then students and readers have been asking for the Serato version.

11.04

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJMixo Doubles Price, Offers $7 Lock-In To Existing Users Mixo, the cloud DJ library app, is raising its Mixo Gold subscription from $7 to $15 a month. Existing subscribers move to the new price from their first monthly payment after 1 December 2026.

11.03

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJDDJ-FLX4 & Rekordbox: 5 Hidden Shift Button Tricks It’s the start of of KNOWvember, our month of hidden tips, tricks and techniques for DJs on all kinds of gear, from beginner to pro.

11.02

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJKlark Teknik Anima: Behringer’s $300 Open DJ Standalone? Behringer has posted photos of a prototype four-channel standalone DJ unit on its Facebook page, declaring that “the DJ industry is about to change forever”.

10.28

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJLD Systems Launches New Maui 44 & 66 G3 Column PAs LD Systems has launched three new Maui column PA systems: the Maui 44 G3, the Maui 44 G3 Mix and the Maui 66 G3.

10.27

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJEvermix Pro Adds Auto Tracklisting, Clips & Dual Camera Evermix has released a big update to its Evermix Pro app, and it delivers some of the features the company promised when it launched the Pro subscription in July: automatic tracklisting and in-app…

10.27

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJHow To DJ Your First Party Fast (Without Learning Everything) Do you want to be a DJ, or do you just want to do some DJing? There are two types of people who come to this. Some people happily DJ for fun.

10.26

Digital DJ TipsLive & DJAlphaTheta & Bitwig Bring Your Rekordbox Library Into A DAW AlphaTheta and Bitwig have teamed up so that Bitwig Studio can now open your Rekordbox library and read the analysis data you’ve built up in it.

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