CC's South Carolina DJ review!

That was totally unprofessional. Thanks for this thread OP. This should help a up and coming DJ know what not to do.

What is the number one reason someone books a DJ? To play music? The DJ can do other things along side of that but a DJs job is to play music or why would you hire them?

Now him leaving for an hour and letting this automix do the job he should have been doing is tacky and unprofessional. I have VDJ on both my laptops and have never used it. I don't even know how and to be honest I wouldn't care to use it. I'm getting paid to do a job. So why use that to do my job unless I don't know what I'm doing.

Besides automix can't read the crowd or take requests from people. The reading the crowd thing I find to be something you learn over time. It just doesn't come overnight. Now you said people did dance to the music being played.



One of the events I attended some years back was a great event because the DJ knew what to do. His equipment was not top of the line but his skill at reading a crowd was. He played stuff in the beginning that nobody danced to. Then he switched gears and found what they liked and ROCKED the event the rest of the night. I had to tell him I'm a DJ and to get me up to dance he was doing a great job. You said people did dance to the music being played.

Now what if they didn't like the music being played? With him gone all that time there was nobody there to change things if that were the case.

I know you don't know this because you didn't book the DJ. What about the music that was playing while he was gone, was it music the couple wanted for their wedding or him just picking what he wanted the crowd to hear.

A DJ should coordinate with the client on the music they want at their event and not the DJ just doing their own thing. Now the discussion can go both ways. The client telling the DJ what music they want for their event and the DJ giving their input on their experience as to what will work best so the client and their guests get to have a great time. Now notice what I didn't say. I didn't say the DJ should tell the client what music should be played at their event. Just some friendly suggestions. Anyhow by your description on how things went I certainly wouldn't book or recommend him to anybody I know.

MIXMASTERMACHOM said:

That was totally unprofessional. Thanks for this thread OP. This should help a up and coming DJ know what not to do.

What is the number one reason someone books a DJ? To play music? The DJ can do other things along side of that but a DJs job is to play music or why would you hire them?

Now him leaving for an hour and letting this automix do the job he should have been doing is tacky and unprofessional. I have VDJ on both my laptops and have never used it. I don't even know how and to be honest I wouldn't care to use it. I'm getting paid to do a job. So why use that to do my job unless I don't know what I'm doing.

Besides automix can't read the crowd or take requests from people. The reading the crowd thing I find to be something you learn over time. It just doesn't come overnight. Now you said people did dance to the music being played.



One of the events I attended some years back was a great event because the DJ knew what to do. His equipment was not top of the line but his skill at reading a crowd was. He played stuff in the beginning that nobody danced to. Then he switched gears and found what they liked and ROCKED the event the rest of the night. I had to tell him I'm a DJ and to get me up to dance he was doing a great job. You said people did dance to the music being played.

Now what if they didn't like the music being played? With him gone all that time there was nobody there to change things if that were the case.

I know you don't know this because you didn't book the DJ. What about the music that was playing while he was gone, was it music the couple wanted for their wedding or him just picking what he wanted the crowd to hear.

A DJ should coordinate with the client on the music they want at their event and not the DJ just doing their own thing. Now the discussion can go both ways. The client telling the DJ what music they want for their event and the DJ giving their input on their experience as to what will work best so the client and their guests get to have a great time. Now notice what I didn't say. I didn't say the DJ should tell the client what music should be played at their event. Just some friendly suggestions. Anyhow by your description on how things went I certainly wouldn't book or recommend him to anybody I know.

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It’s SO easy to criticize. For all you know, the wedding couple gave the DJ a playlist and told him to play them in order and in their entirety.

Nice review, Chris. You get what you pay for, simple as that. The main question, do you think the B&G were happy with their reception or were the distractions enough to actually tick them off?

I have attended many receptions as a guest, both with great and horrible dj’s In my opinion. If people want to have fun they will as long as the DJ plays music that is fun and popular it seems to go well, some of the most fun are super low budget casual events, there seems to be less stress and less feeling they need to impress people with lavish meals and huge productions, people are just there to celebrate and have a good time with friends and family

Even though I don’t know the details or the backstory, I will say leaving the music unattended for an hour seems a little odd. Any chance he was running it from a remote device like a tablet or phone? Leaving the booth for even a moment is a risk. Stuff happens... a power blip, a software glitch, any kind of hardware failure... ya just never no. I do the auto mix from time to time while I’m talking to guests. I’ve been known to mingle a bit or even dance with a guest, but never far from my booth or out of ear-shot. Maybe the DJ was having some lower intestinal problems, if ya know what I mean?[emoji3]

DJ Bobcat said:

It’s SO easy to criticize. For all you know, the wedding couple gave the DJ a playlist and told him to play them in order and in their entirety.

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I don't know if he was given a play list or not and none of us do. Hell yeah i'm criticizing him. He left the room the reception was in for an hour. What I'm supposed to give him a pat on the back because he may have had the right music? Not here ever!!!!!!!!!! He's a hack DJ who if this is how he works regularly needs to go away.

Life here is easy once I put Mix on ignore. Don't know what I'm missing, but I don't care.

Sorry Mix, but life is too short to be continually reading posts that don't have NEW or insightful statements.

MIXMASTERMACHOM said:

I don't know if he was given a play list or not and none of us do. Hell yeah i'm criticizing him. He left the room the reception was in for an hour. What I'm supposed to give him a pat on the back because he may have had the right music? Not here ever!!!!!!!!!! He's a hack DJ who if this is how he works regularly needs to go away.

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I have defended YOU on several occasions on this forum from what I thought were unfair criticisms. I think I’ll stop doing that now.[emoji1]


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Jeff Romard said:

We are flowers on the wall folks...

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Amen. I agree that we DJs are (typically) low man on the totem pole. We had a photography-only wedding a few months back where they had another DJ. He had a Peavey mixer-head with 2 homemade speakers. It sounded like crap and his MC skills were pitiful. At first, I was embarrassed for the couple but at the end of the night, they were totally happy and people still danced. If I'm to be honest, the guy probably ended up doing as good of a job as I would have.

dunlopj said:

Life here is easy once I put Mix on ignore. Don't know what I'm missing, but I don't care.

Sorry Mix, but life is too short to be continually reading posts that don't have NEW or insightful statements.

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Sorry that you feel that way. What I posted wasn't for the experienced professional DJ that has been doing this a long time. It was for someone new getting into this business and not make the mistakes this guy is making.

Now Jeff check this out. That DJ you mentioned maybe as busy as you or more. The thing is he's not you. He doesn't get paid what you do and do the job that you do. I'll bet my last dollar you get paid at least twice what he gets paid. So what I learned being on these forums is that it's better to work less and make more money than to work more and make less money.

Jeff Romard said:

... there may be more than we are seeing. The bottom line is we don't know the why to this story and the client seemed OK with it.

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I managed people for more than 35 years, and one thing I know for certain is when something seems unusual, there’s usually a lot more to the story than what appears on the surface. Also, there’s usually two sides to every story. If I had been like Mix and jumped to the worst possible conclusion every time I heard about an employ’s poor performance, I’d probably have fired several employees who did not deserve firing. Fortunately, I’m a “positive” person, who chooses to think the best of someone first. There are plenty of “negative” people in the world who prefer to look for the worst first. I refused to have negative people working for me... it sucks the life and fun out of a team. If I made the mistake of hiring one (and it didn’t happen many times), I made sure they didn’t stick around long. Can you imagine having someone like Mix as your boss???[emoji3]

steve149 said:

Music? I thought DJs were hired to take pictures, and video, and record the speakers ... while putting speakers on the floor, not cleaning up their cables and leaving their gear at home.

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... or even losing gear on the sidewalk or having your van towed.[emoji3]


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