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[Paul Miller]

"I mean, YOU'RE a DJ, right? You have the speakers?!? Can't you just play some good dance music?"

I often have my phone playing Pandora sitting in for the opening DJ at my summer day party. No big deal. DJs just can't seem to get there by 3.

[John Fruits]

Just in case, I wonder if Debbie knows how to call a square dance, or has lot's of polka music, or maybe even a box full of Morris dancer bells she could take along.  Just in case. 

[Rob Spence]

If the DJ doesn't turn up, the band will likely be asked to play at least one more set. This can be a very lucrative deal, so keep your options open.

Ya, you can ask for a bunch at that point.


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[Tim McCulloch]

Just in case, I wonder if Debbie knows how to call a square dance, or has lot's of polka music, or maybe even a box full of Morris dancer bells she could take along.  Just in case.

Hmmm.  Morris dancers!  That's the ticket!

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.

[Randy Pence]

Something tells me 'bad mp3's/dj's' IS the norm...

just like loud drummers and guitar amps

[Jeremy Young]

How is it that when I am providing background music (between acts at a multi-band show) all of my CD tracks seem to produce the same amount of signal (same volume coming out of my CD player over several CD's) as opposed to some DJ'd songs producing different levels of signal?

My best guess is that your taste in music is from a similar decade, or if it's older music you have the remastered versions so their loudness has been brought up to whatever passes as acceptable today. 


I've seen this volume issue in the past, mostly with vinyl DJ's throwing old R&B breakdowns together with newer Top 40 hits or something along those lines. 


"My" reference music (used for tuning a rig by ear to verify the more accurate method worked properly) is stuff I've heard millions of times from my youth for familiarity, so naturally it's stuff from the early 90's that all came off the same record label in the same genre, so it's pretty consistent. 


Disclaimer: NOT a DJ, unless you count my own personal hell of being handed a series of iPhones at a wedding, playing songs off youtube with patchy WiFi, pausing each playback after the ad finished so it was ready when the last phone finished, patching with two 1/8" TRS to dual RCA adapter cables into two stereo channels in my mixer.  Yeah, I've lived it.  The things you do for friends...

[Lance Hallmark]

Today's current EDM/Hip Hop/Pop is all over the place, from a production point of view. Most tracks DJs play have a huge variance in sound quality, output levels, and overall clarity - even when purchased from "legitimate" sources.
High pass filters are required, as a lot of Hip Hop & Bass music is produced with frequencies into the 20s and lower, with many of those making them don't realize that most sound systems can't reproduce and in fact will hurt speakers. I constantly have to adjust gain trims from track to track. More often than not, many of these tracks are produced in someone's bedroom, with the "Producer" just throwing fx & compressors at Ableton and seeing what sticks. Even older tracks vary, depending on when they were remastered and how they were ripped. I have tracks that I've ripped from a CD years ago that sound terrible now (compared to new rips) due to lower bitrates and the now outdated algorithms used to digitally convert it to MP3.

[Debbie Dunkley]

I had the event organizer contact the DJ who sent me an email today. He says he has, " (2) Technics 1200's + Rane TTM 57sl mixer",  and that the mixer has XLR RCA and 1/4" outs - YES!
I had asked him what his requirement are regarding monitor, mics etc but he didn't address that so I responded to his email advising him I will assume all he needs is left and right FOH and that he has his own monitor. At least I can plan a bit more easily now.

[Paul Miller]

...Rane TTM 57sl mixer...

You're all set. Note that the Rane doesn't have quite as hot a nominal output as the Pioneer DJMs. So maybe to start, set the input gain on the QU's stereo input channel about 6dB higher than I had suggested, to around -4dB and see how that works. The Rane's are, in my opinion, the best sounding of the popular DJ mixers.

[Len Zenith Jr]

" (2) Technics 1200's + Rane TTM 57sl mixer",

He is using vinyl as a control surface so he is definitely a mix DJ, he will want a monitor for sure.

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