to be honest, I started out producing and started djing to enhance my production and I realized how much of production skills helps with djing... eq, understanding when and when not to use effects, harmonic mixing, building atmospheres, etc

I pretty much use tracks as instruments that I layer over each other rather than play-crossfade-play-crossfade- etc

And in the same right, djing has enhanced my production skills, because I know what works best in a mixset and what can just clash, and producing makes my djing better...

See!!!!


Dave, I told you that people are saying this and you said it's not true....I hate to say it but it is becoming true. So what about someone like myself who's tracks don't sound good due to outdated gear and can't afford the gear to make good tracks? yeah, yeah, I know there's free software, but I like to create my own stuff and you just can't create your own samples from software. Sure you can take a royalty free loop disc and edit the samples to sound diffrent, but that's cheating and unoriginal.

I only really want to DJ.

I don't know if that's true or not.  Is the opposite also true? I think what's being misread is that people who can do both are obviously talented...and TALENT is what finds success. But is it because they're doing both? I doubt it.
However, I can't say DJing alone is gonna make someone stick out, even if they're really good at it! 

Unless your me. I've been there. I can't really do it well. I suck at making 2 beats match up. I always have been even in band. That's why I'm glad I have a computer.

so... there's still hope?

Chris,

I think what it really comes down to is do what you do best and have fun doing it..  everytime I start to get discouraged I remember what Proverbs 18:16 says,

A man's gift makes room for him
         And brings him before great men.
                                      -Proverbs 18:16

So when you start to think that you need to do something you might not really feel you're gifted to do in order to succeed, just remember that it's your gift that makes room for you, not being a jack of all trades.  Some of us may be gifted in both aspects, djing and producing, and others may be just djs and others still just producers.  Think of it like, some of us are just ment to play hockey like Wayne Gretsky, others are gifted to be Dione Sanders and play multiple sports...  :-)  Just because Wayne doesn't play 2 sports at once, doesn't make him any worse of an athlete.  And just because Dione plays multiple sports, dones't make him a better athlete!

Poor examples, but you get what I mean, I think.   

Just do what you do best and give your best at it and the gifts that God gave you will shine and make room for you.

-Chris

I think theres some value in being a producer in getting yr name out but again iys not the only way and it can never be a fixed rule. I think what david g says is just to say how things have swung round. Whats to stop them swinging the other way again?

define "success".  it's a LOOOOOONG road to david guetta success.  you can book tons of gigs locally for yourself,bro.  print up some flyers that are "resumes" and mail them to 500 churches. you'll get gigs...


& this whole outdated equipment excuse is balony.  fatboy slim uses all loops & uses ancient equipment & even pays a guy to program it.
 guys have been signed using that loopmaker thing on PS2...just be creative with what you have.