Lurk6r

It would put a lot of stress on the amp.

Have a look at some of the dj controllers you can buy as well as cdj's and turntables. At the very least you need a play button, tempo slider and either a jog wheel or pitch bend buttons. I recommend arduino as well. Have a look at this page ---> http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Midi/ And consider buying one of these ---> http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/USB-Interfac ... 536wt_1401 This way you can focus on designing the controller and less about getting the pc to recognize the midi.

The mixtrack pro seems to be popular around here. Does the Hercules steel have a soundcard?

Unless your a well known Dj in high demand, don't do travel charges. Bump up your regular price by $10 and state the maximum area your willing to serivce.

"I blew the dj and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

$200. Also bought another one of these ---> http://www.djcity.com.au/media/catalog/ ... r20l_2.jpg now i have 2, will run them in master slave mode and a audio 2 soundcard, altough technically thats not for me

This guy does --->

Same, but the good people at cranbourne music ordered me a free replacement fader. :DD

Go offered a blow job keep playing after lights came on and power cut off...

1) Even tough most wedding follow a general format, each wedding will be different depending on what the bride and the groom want and who they invite. I had a young couple a while ago, wanted mostly rnb and 90's music, the bridal party was their friends, but everybody else was in their late 50's. I ended up playing chill rnb and a couple swing tracks for the oldies, but generally it was pretty quiet. When I meet with clients for bridals, I always explain to them that they have final say in everything, but they should consider the age/taste of their guests and give me some leeway so I can keep everybody happy and ensure a successful event. I then give them a "10 songs that must be played list" and a Do Not play list. This is on top of the general song list or bridal walkon/waltz/garter/boquet etc. Basically, you need to be prepared for ANYTHING, worse case scenario, people haven't seen each other in a long time and just wish to talk. If the bride is happy with that, just keep a pleasant atmosphere. 2) I bring my standard two 12 tops and 15 sub. But you could get away with good tops. It most likely won't be as loud as a house party, most of the night you will be playing background music while their eating. Occasionally, you will get the father of the bride/groom at the front, near your speakers and again, most likely he will be old and not like loud music. If your meeting with them early enough, discuss the possibility of seating the older guests away from the speakers if possible. On the other hand, I did a lebanese wedding with some traditional music that was extremely bass heavy. More imporatantly, make sure your speakers look clean. Duct tape, or get black velcro cable ties to keep the cables out of sight. Maybe consider investing or sewing if your any good, some lycra speaker stand skirts like these http://www.scrim-king.com/wp-content/up ... uble-2.jpg. I think white works better for weddings and black for everything else. If you go with white, you can get a led par can and uplight it. Short version, clean tidy gear is the key. 3) Generally 4-5 hours, I had a 7 hour one but lets not go there. A quick run down would be, guests come in, bridal party comes in, appertizer, main, speeches, cake, bridal waltz, dancing starts, desert gets served (everything goes downhill from here), people eat desert and gets extremely hard to get them back up again, may or may not do farewell circle. Again, if your meet early, suggest that they should try to group general dancing together in 1 big chunk instead of having 15 min sets spread out throughout the night. 4) Special gear. Okay. On one hand, i used to work for a big mobile dj company that would charge $500 and send you out with discmans, 1 traffic light box (6 colored globes with a chaser) and 1 mushroom light. On the other hand, its not a club. I brought a couple of lasers with me, but I asked the couple what feel they were going for. Generally speaking, if you only have $200-300 to spend on lights, get four led wash lights. I learnt this the hard way, effect lights are cool, but if its too dark, people might trip, causing the venue to turn up the house lights, then you cant see them anyway. Most venues won't let you use a smoke machine. So, aerial lasers become just scribbles on the wall. A mini fireworks laser (spits the beam into many smaller beams, instead of scanning it) is a nice effect to point at the roof for the starry night effect.

That was your issue. drunk = don't think, just do. and if you fuck up you don't remember it nice one anyway It's all fun and games till you drop call me maybe

Will do

Just came back from my first club gig ever, which was actually a 20 min competition set. First up was a 17 year old dude who only used decks for the first time 2 days ago, he did really well considering this. Then me, I rock. Then a dude who's played in several clubs, danced like he was mental on the decks, but didnt really read the crowd. I won this heat, there were t too many people when I was only but it was cool.

Use it as a computer chair at your school

Even more lol at the $50 moving heads

To be honest I wouldn't use it at gigs. To much room required to ensure safe distance and I don't fully trust dmx with pyro. BUT I must have this, at the very least to ward off zombies.

Its on ebay so it must be safe/legal.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/190708641112 ... _604wt_940

Sorry to go off track, but why not go with 4 active speakers and a laptop with a dmx adaptor?

So snatch, how did it go?

I've got an s4 and using it as a mixer with and without timecode. If you need help make a separate thread with your input/output settings and I'll see if I can guide you.

Why doesn't he just produce and stop doing live shows if they mean that little...