Acid Music

Ooh...that is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmCh_LC0akg

https://youtu.be/g3bh-8sjYCQ

https://youtu.be/qQ5zO7zHxeM

https://youtu.be/hDL9G4yiZeU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l26stqanKY

Brilliant stuff but so compressed from start to finish no dynamic range. Made my ears hurt. The lightshow is amazing, that set and some chemicals would be mental.

I listened to it on the turbo yesterday so hardly the best environment for audio quality but great set for turbo in the flat :)

I got 20 minutes in before my ears started to hurt but I was on nearfield monitors and tired so that's probably part of it. Classic DJ thing anyway, push the mix for emphasis until there's no headroom left.

https://youtu.be/ockGpcFaxco

Lush little set ender.

Also, who's recording it? Venue?

Of course, it could have been compressed for you tube too. Experience of running a sound system for DJ's and DJing myself is the mixer headroom is being used. Some mixers are sending +23db at maximum.

If you are controlling the soundsystem you have to reduce the gain on the input from the mixer otherwise you risk hitting the limiters. Then the DJ tries to get more out of the mixer until there's no lower signal at all. Seen it so many times. You can't trust them to keep it in the green.

That is great, brightened up a boring morning of software testing.

He has been a consistent performer for decades, I reckon I first saw him play around 1990/91.

I agree with @Airhead - would love to appreciate it in the right environment 😉

Looks like it may be Intercell Acid Night 2020 at H7 Amsterdam.

This is from the same event (I think)

https://youtu.be/l0Qsb52FkY0

I need to have a listen. Wonder what's @Airhead verdict on the audio?

Same night but different setup with CDJs instead of vinyl and maybe diff mixer

I enjoyed it. I must admit they all sounded decent to me (acoustically) but I have never worked in the industry or had a really good setup at home (maybe that is a blessing?!). I should add that I always jam my mixer up as well to get some reds!!

The audio is much better, it gets compressed at the end but that's typical of almost any dj set as everyone gets deaf and you are using volume to keep 'energy' in the mix. The audio is peaking at higher volumes throughout but the meters are moving so it's not 'brickwalled'.

It's a great set but the first one is brilliant.

the first one is brilliant.

100%

It works much better if you stick to green and a little bit of yellow. The rest of the headroom is for transient peaks, especially those too fast to measure on the meters. Then set your amp to the volume you want at max.

If you want the compressed sound you get from pushing the mixer into the red then put a compressor/limiter between the mixer and amp. I use one on my portable digital setup. You can compress the files but it's not quite the same as compressing the mixed output.

When you dj you tend to get an energy lift from a successful mix, and after that you feel an energy drop so you up the volume a bit. If you do that for an hour you end up with no headroom. That's what I mean by pushing the volume for emphasis.

There are a lot of dj's that can avoid this, one method is to reduce the volume a bit once the track settles in so you have somewhere to go again.

The first set they were doing a lot of peak to peak mixing, second set they're mixing in drops and generally allowing some lower energy sections. More of a warm up style.

https://youtu.be/S5YWe9XTe-o

https://youtu.be/wgBxxGdrS_0

https://youtu.be/ekg1JVxUmEI

Love the first one

https://djmag.com/features/cue-posthuman

Cool article.

I need to get myself to a 303 day party