SwingDJs

1. It's all been said
2. CEO of a high-tech startup. I clean the toilets, buy the bagels, wonder if & when I'll ever get a paycheck.

mousethief wrote:... I recommended Jesse and Rayned, who I knew would be professional and well-suited to the task. ..

Indeed. It's a good thing you didn't recommend me. I was into Celtic music at that time. Would'da made 'em do clogging all night long.

LindyChef wrote: It comes off as haughty and condescending...

Ya. If ya don't know better it kinda looks that way don't it. I thought I'd take a few lessons in sheepatude from Kyle. Help me with that seeming attitude problem.

Good thing I didn't want that gig anyway.

...It's always beyond me that something I write about myself makes any difference to someone coming to an event. .... Maybe not, but be careful what you say. After a local promoter complained about my song choices, I prepared a new bio. I got fired: "DJ Doug here. I am partial to hard driving ...

Playing ABBA, or the Village People, to clear the room is ceratinly a LOT nicer than just standing up and ordering everyone out of the room. I have seen that happen and it is not a terribly friendly feeling to be simply told to leave. Crap for music is much better.

I know that there has been some discussion regarding compression as part of a remastering scheme. But do any of you routinely compress the dynamic range of your DJ tunes almost irrespective of the recording?? I find that compressing - to the point of nearly flattening - the dynamic range of many &qu...

Ben Webster - Kat's Fur, Randel's Island. Frog & Mule

And Kyle especially likes Randel's Island for Balboa

Billy May is SO Wonderful for swing dance that I've NEVER played any of stuff at a dance despite owning a number of his CDs. All gifts from my mom who knew I liked swing music. If I had actually paid for them I probably shove a hot poker up my butt and hope it put some sense into my head.

Bob - Don't get down on them for dancing Balboa is a good first step! 1. Balboa is a real swing dance - in fact it may be the FIRST dance refered to as swing dance. 2. That they do this lets you play up tempo music without clearing the floor 3. Uptempo Bal teaches people to move their feet! My danci...

GuruReuben wrote: Where did you find the funds and time to purchase and rip about 1500 albums?

So that's why the RIAA is on his butt.

http://www.id3.org/implement.html lists and liks to "all" the programs that work with id3 tags. I rip my CDs, use Tag & Rename to adjust tags and export them to a csv file. T&R will also easily in batch mode rename files for you based on the id3 tag data and will find the tags of a...

Kyle - What's your starting point? ID3 tags? There are various ID3 tag extractors/reporters out there.

If FLAC is truely lossless, I'm not sure how much it helps. At some point I looked into archiving my .wavs using zip or one of the other lossess compressors. It didn't help much. To get some numbers I just chose a set of 27 wav files I had on my computer and both zipped them and used lame with comma...

I thought that was your new girl - the one in the middle with the tenor

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