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yeah. my friend / apprentice dj convinced me to drop all the small things at an 18th recently and it went off. i suppose the hardest thing to start off doing mobile gigs is having a large enough range of music.

ouch. I haven't had that problem yet but i am always scared of it happenning. new annoyance: ... when it's the night before an expo and you run out of paper / ink with half your flyers still to print

Make it $200 for the pair

bleurgh the 'resident' dj at the mint night club in perth might as well be using itunes

Far out man they are horrible. Their DJs in Perth get a video jukebox and are paid $20/hour. No wonder they can charge $400 for a wedding...

I thought I'd mention this on here, because I'd been DJ'ing for 4 years before I thought of this. For about $50, you can get a platform trolley to save lifting all your heavy shit manually! I couldn't believe that I'd been carrying speakers amps and subs for all that time without a trolley before I thought of that. I'm not the hugest of guys so large weights over huge distances are a pain in the ass, and I can't believe that the concept of trolley escaped me for so long. Anyway, just thought i'd mention it to save you guys the back injury as well... although, as you are probably more intelligent than I, you will probably have thought of this some time ago.

FS: 12 inch passive subs, as sold at Jaycar electronics on this url: http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.as ... rm=KEYWORD I paid more like $300 each when they first came out, so this is truly a bargain. I'm not going to lie to you, the boxes have taken a little bit of a beating, but the sound is still fantastic, there is no damage to the wood or handles, and most of the vynil finish is still on them. I am selling as I am looking to buy an 18 inch active sub. They are relatively light for subwoofers. If you require a crossover I can sell you an active P.A. crossover for $100 if you buy the pair (or a car audio crossover for $15, but that's up to you). They have served me very well at everything from house parties to big halls and have resulted in police being called due to noise levels approximately five times. Pick up in northern suburbs, Perth. PM or call 0433 581 481. I am happy to set them up for you to have a listen to. $230 for the pair is the same cost of one brand new.

hello & welcome, i notice the condom heads have come out very quickly - it's just an adjf thing i suppose (don't be scared!)

Just out of interest, what state are you in, and what kind of price bracket are you are looking at targeting for your services, and also what scene (i.e. weddings vs 18ths, etc). Just to give us some kind of idea what you will need for your gigs (weddings pay very well and you could do them easily with the set of gear below). I'm always buying and selling gear in perth so I might be able to help you out. Also, I'm in contact with a couple of chinese manufacturers for lighting and wireless mics, I'd be happy to pass on bulk purchase prices to you. As you mentioned, a "press play" system works fine for weddings which is why companies such as mobydisc can operate by giving their dj a jukebox and a set of speakers and telling them to press play, pocketing a few hundred and paying their dj $20 an hour. A $4k investment should easily get you in the game. I'd personally break it up like this: $200 - PPCA License (yearly) $800 - Public Liability Insurance (yearly) $500 - Set of cheap, passive P.A. speakers (such as audioline ALPA15 from jb hifi, you can upgrade these later) $80 - JB Hifi Speaker Stands $700 - Behringer EPX3000 Switch Mode Amplifier (much lighter than standard amplifiers) $330 - Virtual DJ Pro with Mac Support (cheaper versions are PC only - you can save $100 here if you can use boot camp) $350 - Behringer BCD3000 Midi Controller (could spend alot more money here but really should start off cheap, this will do the job for now and when you have $2k to drop on cdj400s or 1k to drop on a numark/vestax controller you can do so) $90 - instandt lighting stand $220 x 2 - ACME Stormbird effects lights (classic effects light, plug and play non-dmx way to start out) $110 - Cables, etc (you can make most of them, eg speakon leads, yourself at half of RRP if you have registered trade cards through altronics, etc. Again, happy to help if you are in perth area or are willing to pay postage). Which comes to $3600, and leaves you $400 to drop on your first splash of music. You'll know what songs are most popular and i'm sure you'll be willing to expand your collection based on personal requests from all of your clients. My personal reccommendation for that is bigpondmusic.com which varies between $1.40 and $2.60 a track and is all MP3 and DRM free. You'll have to use itunes and beatport for rarer tracks though. Any extra gear (super-huge lighting setups, subwoofers, etc) I would just rent for the night for now, as that gear should be all you'd need for the standard mobile DJ gig. The prices I mentioned are mostly based on WA stuff so if you want to know what suppliers to use, just ask we're all here to help! P.S. I'm interested to see how other people would budget this! Double PS - I know i might cop a bit of flack for the equipment in this post from club DJs but it's a very different story when you have to carry all of your gear around twice a weekend every week and set up/pack down at ridiculous hours! EDIT: I see I have forgotten headphones and wireless mics in this. I would suggest just using cheap headphones to start with - $50 should do the trick, ebay "DJ headphones" or similar. you can get better ones down the track. And those imported wireless microphones go for about $200 for a pair of Phase Lock Loop UHFs and receiver.

fuck it then go the 1802s, and some kind of lifting device so you don't break your back

Ok, long time but here's the update: without the power cable plugged in, sound is fine. With the power cable plugged in and earthed, there is both a hum and some kind of noise that comes through which I think is when he hard drive is being accessed. With the power cable plugged in and not earthed (through a powerboard with the ground cut), the hard drive noise is still there, but there is no hum. On this logic, a ground loop isolator won't fix the problem of the fuzzy noise if there's no ground loop hey? I wish this damn noise would go away!

the mackie srm-1801s are perfect for that, but are also $2600 haha

verdict is if you buy cheap, you get cheap. Behringer is decent gear, but you can't expect it to last as long as mackie or Jbl gear, especially if you punish it. Whatever you do, do not buy the 12 inch passive subs from jaycar. I wasted $500 on a pair of those, and while they are alright, you can get an 18 inch bg for $600ish. In a cheaper one, definately go passive, as the built in amps are generally nowhere near good enough to run all night - buying a seperate amp for $~700ish and then a decent P.A. crossover will greatly increase the longeivity of the system (but I'm a bit of an anti-active-cheap gear nazi). From my point of view, it's definately cheaper to just hire one for ~60/night as I find I don't often use them.

in all seriousness, logitech x-530s are decent for small rooms (wont handle it outdoors though) for like, $70 a set

(on topic) i'll come along and do a mainstream shit-music dj set for free there's nothing more annoying than 6 year old girls asking for Ke$ha (the $ sign in her name is because she's a cash monkey)

Just interested if other mobile DJs use contracts? I know it is a big deal in America. What kind of things do you include in them?

I'd never buy any kind of dongle from King's Cross, no matter what shape or how many buttons it had But in reality does anyone know a distributor?

Thanks for the reference source! Yeah I carry two laptops one with vdj and one with itunes running. I've never had a computer crash live but if it did happen it would take a few seconds to get the same song running back again. Also, the second pc is good for facebook/adjf when bored at gigs via mobile internet. And on that note, a second pc is good to buy songs from beatport, etc, if i am missing a song that lots of people request. That way I can preview it before I play it live too.

yep that's what my set up is; i have a few spare ITs from Jaycar in my car somewhere that aren't doing anything, I'll give them a shot when I re-do the stereo in a few weeks (Hail Storm Payout = new head unit =D )

hum goes away when removing power supplies, i'll investigate the cutting off a ground idea next, just got to find an old power board to chop up

Sure, The Audio lines on my setup go: 2 Laptops: 3.5mm Jack to RCAs - One splitting right/left from Virtual DJ to channel 1 and 3 in mixer (Numark M4) and one going straight to line 2 on mixer. Then flows Rca Mixer -> Noise filter -> Unbalanced 30cm jack-jack to eq -> unbalanced 30cm Jack-Jack eq to amp (and speakon to speakers). As mentioned in the other thread, the noise disappears if i unplug the laptops' power supplies. Also interesting to mention is if i plug my laptop in with a car laptop power supply and in to my car's speaker system, i get the same noise.

Hi, Not sure if this is right section for this question, admin can you move if i'm wrong please! I have the problem of getting a horrible ground loop hum (or at least I think that's what it is) whenever I have a Laptop plugged in to my sound system. At my last gig it was particularly nasty when I had the microphone turned up, the hum was so bad that it sounded like there was a mashed up song playing in the background. The guy at Kosmic told me I had no choice but to buy a $300 USB DI (direct injection) box. I'd never seen one of these except for with high level signals when i did some stage production audio engineering at high school. http://www.onlinemusicstore.com.au/index.php?page=showProduct&id=ARXUSBDI-VC Anyone know whether one of these will solve the problem? I'm not keen to drop that kind of cash for what's basically an external sound card. Note: I already have a ground loop isolator in the system between the mixer and EQ (which then goes to the amp) but this does not solve the problem.

Cupe any price or distributors on this?

Where would you reccommend to get this dongle?

You're right, it would make it a mono signal but VDJ is pretty decent, it still sounds alright.