Genres and Crate Digging
Music That Travels: Building a Set Around Regional Sound
A client once asked me to weave regional music from her family's home country into her wedding reception, and my first attempt...
A wedding booked at a restored nineteenth century hall once gave me a sound restriction I had never encountered before, a strict decibel limit tied to the building's historic preservation permit, enforced by a monitor stationed near the...
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Genres and Crate Digging
A client once asked me to weave regional music from her family's home country into her wedding reception, and my first attempt...
DJ Equipment
I helped run sound at a small esports venue for a season as a side project, expecting the experience to have little crossover...
Weddings and Private Events
A local shelter asked me to DJ a benefit night on short notice once, at a fraction of my normal rate, and I nearly turned it...
Mixing and Technique
I used to arrive at every gig with a fully planned setlist, track by track, and abandon it within the first fifteen minutes...
Booking and Business
A first-time wedding DJ almost never fails because of mixing skill, the actual technical ability required for a wedding...
Mixing and Technique
Every transition a DJ makes mid-set is a small bet, that the next track will hold the floor rather than clear it, made with...
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Three people who actually work events for a living: a working club and wedding DJ who plays over a hundred events a year and hauls his own gear to every one, a former club booker and promoter who spent eight years on the business side before switching to writing, and a producer and mix engineer who builds sets professionally and writes about the technical side most guides skip. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not done themselves.