DJ Equipment
DJ Power Requirements and How to Avoid Tripping Breakers
The worst one I had to sort out as a booker was a 180 guest reception in a converted barn.
The moment that exposes a mobile DJ is not a messy blend. It is the ninety seconds between a 92 BPM hip hop set the under thirties asked for and the 124 BPM house the bride wants for the last hour.
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DJ Equipment
The worst one I had to sort out as a booker was a 180 guest reception in a converted barn.
Weddings and Private Events
The best man finishes his speech, the couple step onto the floor, the first chorus of their song hits, and the power to the DJ...
Genres and Crate Digging
Half the room is ready to dance and the other half is glued to their chairs, and you need something that gets grandparents,...
Mixing and Technique
You drop a famous vocal over an instrumental, the room recognises it for half a second, and then something sounds wrong.
Booking and Business
The gig went great, the couple hugged you at the end of the night, and three weeks later you are still waiting for the balance.
DJ Equipment
The worst sound at a wedding is not a bad mix. It is silence, three seconds of it, because the laptop running your set decided...
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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.