Creative use of long fade in/out ?

[obrienaj]

I am an old school free-form radio DJ from back in the days when we used vinyl and often did long cross-fades. I'm talking about cross-fades that can take 30 second or more, if the two tracks are suitable. I still do this on my weekly show at a local FM station. The station uses RadioDJ. With media formats such as vinyl and CD becoming less and less in the broadcast booth I thought I would investigate being more creative with RadioDJ's fade-out fade-in settings in Cue Edit. I don't usually talk over the intro or outro of tracks , so I am not using the start/end waveforms for that . It is more of a musical mix , old style, not beat matching .  I wonder if there is anyone else here that does this, maybe I am the last DJ doing this.    I am just learning this process in RadioDJ and need to experiment with the dB settings for fades .  Perhaps someone here can tell me how you adjust your fade levels .  Example of something I would do ... the long last note of the Beatles "A Day In The Life of" fading out with Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" intro very slightly and gradually fading in.

[packzap]

Since the "Next" trigger in the editor tells RadioDJ when to start the next event -- if you place it too far over to the left in anticipation of the next song having a slow build like "Wish you were here", or "Riders on the storm" -- if the next event (song) happens to have a cold start like "Arrested for driving while blind" or if a promo, spot, or liner, then the long overlap will not sound so good. 

Long cross fades were fun and a great work or art when done intelligently during the the great days of live radio. But, I think RadioDJ is primarily designed to automate the segues. And so you have to go with the happy medium of triggering the "next" event line close enough to the end to sound good with whatever may pop-up next.

Otherwise, see if the manual option works while doing a live show to mix a long outro with a long intro, which I've never tried with RDJ (yet).