Met some of the competition last night

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I run 4 CD DJ systems, 4 Digital DJ/KJ Systems, and 4 CD based KJ systems.

All of the CDG based KJ systems are comprised of Pioneer karaoke players (home styled) V10G players or Pioneer laser CDG units several of these systems having been running for 20 years. The digital units are all done on second hand computers and laptops with a total cost of less than $250 each, these units having been up and running for going on 4 years.

The CD based DJ systems are a Numark CDN 90 (my personal favorite) and has been in use since the 90 was released by Numark. Denon 9000 a good unit but had some issues (later straightened out but everyone is still skitish about using it). And two American Audio units that have held up well for several years.

The point is it is not about the equipment being high dollar, it is about making the most of what you have and MAKING MONEY with it. Does it really make sense to spend $10,000 on one system to make $50,000 a year, when you can spend $10,000 on 4 systems to make $200,000 a year?
 
Fred Stewart said:
Someone once posted some advice to the effect: If all you've ever driven is an Edsel, every car is like the Edsel. A Chevy is just another car that costs more. One must own the Chevy to realize the difference. Owning the Chevy means spending money, money that the Edsel owner does not have. Remember, he's driving the Edsel because he can't afford the Chevy.

Thoughts?
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Fred,

First off you have to understand that the cost of the "average" Chevy at that time was was around $1500 while the Edsel was more of a luxury line for Ford and had a price of almost $2000. So it wasn't a matter of the Edsel owner not being able to afford the Chevy, it was a matter of slick advertising sucking in people with a little extra money to spend. Turns out the Edsel wasn't really the cat's meow that the people who got suckered into buying them thought they were. The guy who origionally owned the Culpeper Rock Quarry bought a whole fleet of Edsels for his office staff. LOL
 
bestdjinfl said:
DJ Marco what do you charge? Why I ask is that sound quality is very important as is room coverage too higher end wedding clientelle. I guess we are in the mediocre generation as so many guys do not strive to be the best they can. So here's my test to you watch Spiderman 3 on a black and white TV, then in standard fef, then in HD you will enjoy the HD the best...Equipment makes a difference it can make a real good DJ great.
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I charge for events 600Euros(averige monthly income is here 860Euros).Thats a lot of money here.The price is for Bose event-so if i do the event with Bose system if not my price is lower for a 100.
Of course sound is important but IMO i have a feeling that its more important too us than clients.
BTW the price have nothing to do with gear.I know the guy in my town which do simular events as i do with Dynacord F series for half money as i do.:sqwink:
 
Thunder...well put.

Heck fellas, my first car was a 1969 Dodge Polara four door with 200K on it when I purchased it....for a 17 year old with a new drivers license, it was THE meanest machine on the streets....LOL.

C'mon...isn't everything in life really a "matter of opinion"?
 
We start booking out our newest guy (whoever that is) on the new guy set up which is 2 pioneer CDJ 800 MK1s, a numark cm100 mixer, and serato (SL1 box under mixer mounted in coffin) not too many bells and whistles. We pick up enough teen parties, and private informals for whoever the new guy is to generate enough revenue for us to put him into a higher level cdj and mixer combo.

Now we have another new guy launching this week and he saw our HD-2500 in storage and said "Wow who takes that out" i was going to sell it but he said he watched all kinds of youtubes about it and this saturday hes going to be the first guy ive sent out in 3 years without serato im finishing his rack out today but he'll start this summer with

Denon HD 2500
Numark CM200
Numark CDN-88 (i think thats the model) strictly as back up
2 EON 15s (G1)
and a freeway wireless
 
Kyle,

Realy not bad for a new guy.In the start i was not that happy with the gear.I started with home made copy of some EVs,low cost amp,Vivanco mixer,2xAiwa cassete decks and two turntables(no name).Only good thing i had was turntables heads-Concorde.

Hmmm, Good for him!
 
jtnichol said:
Yes, first gig.

Tapco Mixer
2 - Sonic 15" speakers.
electrical cords for speaker cords.

things have changed. I charged accordingly too. I'm glad a few people took a chance on me. They got me where I am today.
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My first booked job ever was when i was 12 years old
i used a realistic mixer
2 guitar amps
and 2 dual cassette decks i had bought at yardsales.
I pulled it all to my community pool party in a radio flyer red wagon with a blue tarp on top.
I made $125 on that job which bought me a crap load of garbage pail kids and got me 3 other neighborhood jobs on the spot.
For games we did the hokey pokey
the limbo (for which i stole my dads push broom pole) and
i got two rolls of pennies from the convenience store next to the pool for a penny toss in the pool.
 
DJ Ducky said:
...if they see that a DJ mixer is not as tricky of a tool as it appears to be, they might drop the laptop idea. Then again, they are your competition. ;)
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Pardon me, but wouldn't that be going backwards? It doesn't matter if I have 1 song on my laptop or 1,000,000, my laptop weighs the same. Why would I want to convert my system to vinyl or CDs? I agree, you ladies and gents who started w/ vinyl long ago have a skill that I will never appropriate. But if I can spin a kick-ass party w/ my laptop, what's the dif?

If I have learned anything on this forum, it's this: It's not so much the equipment, but the skill and personality of the performer that differentiates one DJ from another. It's the skill and personality that I need to develop, being in only my 2nd year. But I did start out w/ some good equipment as well.

--Will
 
DJ Ducky said:
I agree that a good DJ should be able to use a crossfader and not have computer program do it for them.

;)
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I beg to differ. I rarely use a crossfader because I like to do long blends between two songs. For a quick mix without a fader, you have to know what the hell you are doing. I must admit that an auto mixer on a DJ software almost always gives a flawless mix. However there are times that I disable my auto play/crossfader and do a quick mix. In the days of vinyl that was termed a "slip cue" where you went from a beat on one disc/record to the same beat on another disc/record.
Back in the 70s I used to use a Bozak mixer which was a state of the art piece equipment at that time. It consisted of just knobs for each channel, no sliders or faders. You really had to know what you are doing. Some of ya'all were not even born yet.
 
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