Eli5 – What is a DJ like Tiesto actually doing when performing a live show?

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I don’t really know much about the process of remixing a song but I can imagine it is a process that is like editing a video – layering tracks, adding beats, etc. They are clearly not doing that kind of editing live so they are basically playing something that’s already had some amount of that already done.

So what are they doing live besides maybe mixing between songs?

I just don’t understand what all the knob fiddling is about.

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The knobs could be panning between sounds or tracks, filter sweeps, adding or taking away frequencies in the eq, boasts to certain tracks, live looping, triggering parts of the song, depends a lot on the artist set up. A dj can be doing a lot with knob fiddles or just pretending they are doing something. Depends on the act

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