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Hello! I have a gig coming up and wondering if anyone could please give me any advice / tips.

The gig is a dance workout event and the instructors gave me a tracklist of songs to play. Tempo and length needs to be almost the same and need to be in the exact order as they made a choreo. Issue is the track list jumps from high to low consistently. For example-159bpm to 92, then back to 120. Genres are throwback pop and hip hop/rnb.

Any tips at all or videos you have in mind are appreciated. Thank you! :)

EDIT: I'm sorry I should've worded what I meant more clearer. They want the songs to stay in the original tempo of the song, not play everything at the same bpm. I was just wondering if there are any tips to create smoother transitions between the songs

Hey all! I'm starting a show at my uni's radio station and need ideas for a DJ name. My show is soundtracks based on movies. Thanks guys!

edit: i’m also a girl so maybe smth there?

Hello everyone!!

I am just inquiring about licensing and all the necessary things I would need to become a DJ.

I have speakers laptop and lights.

No mixer as of yet.

Just wondering about proper licensing and what not.

It would be for weddings, private parties, etc nothing big at all.

Thank you in advance

I'm debating whether to get a standalone (Denon SC Live 4) Vs A Laptop & 4 channel controller. I worry about Laptop reliability, but for about the cost of the SC live 4 (Or Prime 4), I could get a laptop and a decent controller. What do you do and why? Not new to making music, but very little experience with Djing.

I’m returning back to my DJ controller (Hercules Inpulse 500) and Serato after not using it for a year. I could’ve sworn that this was a feature before, but I can’t figure out why it’s not working now. Maybe I misremembering?

How do you adjust the tempo slider without actually changing the tempo? Like if I want to reset where the slider is?

I thought I used to be able to hold a shift and then slide it without it moving. But that doesn’t work anymore?

Hello everyone ! Today i'm posessing a ddj 400 wich i mix quite frequently with ( as i'm preparing for a festival ).

I already mix with a cdj 3000 and was completely lost because of the layout and parameters that i wasn't aware of ( example : when cue placed button is press start playing the song at the cue and just not put it on the mark ( was not doing it on my ddj 400 )) and also with the parameter that were all in the cdj phisicaly ( pitch percentage, etc...) and not on my pc.

Because of that, i want to upgrade to a new one that will give me the closest feeling of those cdj and where i can put all my parameters preference and interface so that i don't get lost when switching to those one in clubs or festivals

wich one do you recommend me buying and with wich price ?

thanks for all for taking the time to read and responding to me ! Have a great day ! : )

I primarily listen to house with some interest in niche DnB and dubstep/downtempo. When mixing house a lot of the tracks have vocals. I'm a total newb still and i'm often fading up with the vocals and it just doesn't sound great having these low level vocals come in maybe in the middle of their line when you can really start to hear it. Any tips?

I got my flx4 over ayear ago and I think I'm ready for something bigger.

I got the ddj az n or the flx 10 in mind but I'm not sure which to choose.

Or does someone have another recommendation?

I’m only about a month into spinning, but it feels like I have always been on the path to starting DJing one day. I have some musical background but I’m no expert, friends and family say nice things about my mixes but I really have the urge to share great music and the good feeling spinning tunes together brings.

Some practice sessions I jump into a random mix, throwing different songs from my playlist together, mashing up and having fun. Sometimes I sit down and try to create mixes that really work together.

My question is, how do I know whether I’m ready for my first gig? Or do you never really know, and it’s always going to be a leap of faith? I’d love a little family gathering to get started with, but they’re few and far between in my very small family.

New Bedroom DJ here.

Purchased an X1 to compliment my Kontrol S3, previously I thought there was only 4fx to use, get the X1 and realise that there was considerably more.

So my question(s)

1: Does everyone know all the FX you get with your controller, or do you just use a handful?

2: when do you use them?

I've been using them during transition, maybe to mask a mistake of such.

3: Live performances, do you use them often on a live set?

Hello!

I have been dj’ing for my friends for about 2 years now and playing at a local venue for about 2 months.

I want to add more of my own flair and would like to have a specific midi pad of some kind to attach all my samples to.

When I play with my friends I really like them getting to be involved. I have an flx4 and use the pads for a lot of other things not limited to samples. I’d like to have something dedicated for my samples so my friends can press them and not worry about if I’m not actually in the sample section at the time (if this makes sense?).

I’ve seen some suggestions of akai or launchpads but I just want to know if they’d actually work for my “live” playing style or if I should look at a different brand that is just a midi pad and not a keyboard and other things?

Thank you!

Bear with me, this is my first "real upgrade" post. Part-time wedding DJ for about 2 years, mostly Saturday weddings + the occasional school dance. My lighting setup has lived its entire life as "plug in the GigBar, hit auto, and pray nobody asks me about it." Worked fine for a while.

What killed it: a March wedding where the photographer pulled me aside to ask if I could "dim those bars during dinner" because half the guests were squinting. The GigBar can dim from the panel and remote, but it hits the whole room or nothing, I had no way to drop just the dance floor and leave the head table where it was. I went home that night and ordered 4 cheaper moving heads.

Six gigs in, here's the honest report from someone who very much did not know what they were doing on day one:

• Moving heads in auto mode look 1000x better than a GigBar in auto mode for one reason. They actually point places. A bar shoots forward whether you like it or not. Movers can paint the dance floor and leave the dinner tables alone.
• DMX is way less scary than the YouTube tutorials make it sound. I picked up free DMX software (there are a bunch of options depending on what your friends already use, QLC+ if you want fully free, MA OnPC if you eventually want to learn console workflow, Wolfmix or SoundSwitch if you want something more mobile-DJ friendly), grabbed a $70 USB dongle, and had 4 cues built in an evening. Ceremony wash. Dinner warm. Dance floor chase 1. Dance floor chase 2. That is genuinely all I needed.
• Auto mode dim curve is jumpy. DMX dim curve is smooth. Same fixture, two different worlds. First dance basically forced me to learn DMX.
• Fan noise at 6ft is fine for receptions. At 3ft during a quiet ceremony I can hear it, so I just keep them off until the recessional.
• Packing 4 movers in a hatchback is not as bad as I worried. Two padded totes, two in each, fits next to the speaker totes.

Things I'm still bad at: focus on the day, color picking that does not look like a strip mall, programming chases that move with the BPM. Open to roasting on any of this.

What do you wish you'd known when you went from LED bar to your first proper movers? Trying to skip the obvious mistakes if I can.

I want to organise the audio files really well, I already have close to 10k tracks a lot of them are lossless quite a few of them are loss less, are there any programs that can organise the songs in folders properly. I am not talking intelligent playlist - intelligent file organisation is what I am after.

Hi guys,

Looking for some advice. I've been DJing as a hobby for over 10 years, have always moved around genres and just play what I like and what I find fun.

I have the opportunity to record a house mix for a local record label. I'm looking for advice on how to keep the energy up. With other genres, when I want to do this I tend to mix between the tracks quickly. With house, the songs are much longer and kept bits of the song don't come until maybe 3/4 minutes in. Options as I see them are:

- long blends, bring in different elements slowly, building mix as I go

- start tracks from queue points a couple minutes into song

I know it will be different based on the specific songs but just looking to see if anyone has any advice on this.

Thanks

Aidan

Hi,

I’m building my scratch bank and I can’t find a scratch tool with the phrase “you’re rockin with the best”. I hear it in some older battle dj videos but can’t seem to find the source.

I have bpm supreme and it doesn’t seem to be in any of their scratch tools.

Thanks in advance!

Where do yall get most of yall music from? Also how do yall organize it ?

am used to pioneer SB2 and serato intro and planning to go for FLX 4 and the pro serato version. price wise, the FLX4 + the license is equal to the price of the Traktor Mx2(which include the pro traktor software). those who have used serato and traktor, is it worth staying with the pioneer or go for the traktor?

Whats up guys!
Im at a bit of a crossroads. I have a really good offer for a used DDJ RZX controller from a friend and Im thinking of buying it. There is mixed reviews about this controller and unfortunately they are all pretty old. So I wanted to ask if anyone has had experience on this controller and whether it can still compete in the big 2026? Is it still a good piece of equipment or should I rather save the money and get a more recent although more expensive controller?
Thanks for your help and enjoy your day!!

I always thought witnessing people dance to songs they don't know is very satisfying, but I had a fun moment on Saturday night. I played a song that I didn't expect many people to know, but then everyone sang the words. That put a big smile on my face.

Anyone had a moment like that?

After 10-13 years I’m finally coming back to DJing since high school and I’m needing help to see what cables to run to my speakers into my DDJ FX4 here’s the speakers.