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Hey fam! 42 year old human and 22 year DJ from NJ here. Been holding down a residency at my bar/lounge on the Jersey shore for the past 16 years playing mostly house music. Been doing this full time for about 7 or 8 years playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and more recently Sunday mornings for brunch. I also play around some other spots fairly local doing non party gigs. I owned a record store back in '07-'08 before having to shut up shop and still have most of my vinyl. Haven't really done much work in the private sector over the years, but I've decided to open myself up to that kind of work more as I start to get older and try to plan a long term future in this industry. I'm looking forward to chatting with everyone here!
 
Welcome to the ol' mighty ODJT. Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times - and DO NOT, not matter how bad they ask, DO NOT .. feed anyone after midnight.
 
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HI gang,
my name is Adrian, ok.... let's do this right :)

"Wabba , Wabba, Wabba, this is downtown Adrian Jaye with the kickingest sounds in London Town"

So My stage name is Adrian Jaye, back in the day it was plain Adrian J. but people kept putting JAY on fliers so I adding an E ! and it stuck

I'm an old cat, my resume is , (uk) Hospital Radio, Pirate Radio, student radio, mobile (Canada) Student Radio and a couple of mobile gigs
I have a current 50's rock and roll show, I play piano and guitar, my musical taste is classical, rock, rock&roll, soul, hip-hop, even the birdy song

I'm here actually to get some hardware advice

My mobile career has floundered due to a near fatal heart attack, so lugging cases and speakers is not fun

I have created a party room in my basement !
 
Welcome aboard Adrian. We have lots of old radio hacks mobile and club DJ's and even a few cellar dwellers jump right in. Where are you located these days?
 
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I know this is a forum - but because a bunch of us have been here a long time, we like to know who we're talking to .. so if you have not yet, please take a moment to introduce yourself.
My name is Mike and I’m from Yukon Oklahoma. I’m not a dj but a drummer who also runs sound and my wife, Kelly is learning to run lights. We are learning together about DMX and have been playing with a Rockforce W4. We didn’t have much in our budget until we get the hang of it but so far it’s fun!
 
Welcome Mike
 
Hi Everyone!

I am an Embedded Systems Engineer. My hobby is developing real-time music visualization technology. The technology allows the creation of fully autonomous intelligent electronic devices that can interpret the musical audio stream into visual light images. I've been working on this idea for 30 years, so long, because it's a hobby and it's often difficult to find free time for this.

I call the technology itself RTMV-technology. Initially, RTMV-technology was developed as a 2D visualization option. But to create a full-fledged 2D prototype today, for me, it turned out to be quite expensive to manufacture. Therefore, an attempt was made to a simplified version - 1D visualization. The idea was to get a relatively inexpensive instrument that you can simply connect an audio signal to and enjoy the light images while listening to music.

This project got a name - CLUBBEST and was initially focused on club music, but as time has shown, it is suitable for visualizing any piece of music. Of course, there are many limitations associated with using inexpensive components and using a low performance MCU, but even in this case, I received a lot of positive feedback. For me, the most inspiring reviews were when, after watching, subscribers write - “I saw the music.” Yes, I created this technology in order to - See the music. And I get such feedback all the time, as the technology develops.

Initially, I made CLUBBEST as a tool for my PC to listen to music. But as it turned out, it can be successfully used for the workplace of a composer, musician, DJ, and also used as a decorative decoration for the interior of clubs, cafes, restaurants.

You can find a video of the work of visualization technology for musical works on my YouTube channel. On this channel you can find a video of the prototypes of two systems - CLUBBEST M68 and CLUBBEST M100.

I follow the work of the DJ who create live music. I often watch their work in broadcasts and I see how they lack a system that could visualize their work in real time. Light visualization makes it possible to greatly enhance the musical composition and give a completely different perception to the music. All existing visualization tools and light sources require preliminary preparation, and for grandiose musical SHOWs, lighting specialists are involved, who preliminarily write a light composition for a music track, which is subsequently used during the SHOW. A lighting engineer is a composer of light, and if such a person knows his business, then you can really see a beautiful light spectacle, but more often this is not the case, more often it is a chaotic control of lighting devices, with the option that somewhere, somehow, the light will hit the beat of the music, and that's good. There is another weakness of the software visualization of the SHOW, that such a visualization is written “only once”, with frequent repetition, it becomes boring to the viewer and becomes uninteresting, the so-called fatigue effect sets in. This is due to the fact that visually a person has a large visual memory and he simply remembers subconsciously everything he sees, and if what he sees is repeated, then interest in him simply disappears. RTMV-technology is free from this effect, it allows you to always generate a new visual show for the same music track.

For DJ which uses live music, the version of the preliminary program description of the future SHOW is not suitable, such SHOWs require real-time visualization. For beginner DJ modern visualization tools are in principle unavailable, and if there is an opportunity to purchase them, then hiring a lighting engineer to write a composition of a specialist, and this is no longer realistic. In such cases, the DJ himself has to study lighting engineering and try to somehow visualize your performance.

My technology enables DJ concentrate on the piece of music and leave the visualization to the electronics.

CLUBBEST visualization tools for myself and use them while listening to music. I really like it, but as the saying goes - “there are no friends for the taste and color”, so I began to make videos of real musical compositions and DJ performances so that you can show them and get people's opinion about how they perceive this type of visualization, how this visualization corresponds to the music that it accompanies. And it would be interesting to get the opinion of practicing DJs .

But here it is better to see once than to hear twenty times .

P.S. if my developments are of interest, I could tell you more about the project.
 
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Definitely want to take some time to read all the bios here! Looks like I'm in great company. Not much of a formal DJ. My work has almost exclusively been on the engineering side for commercial broadcast and event sound systems (head ends, delay units, speaker arrays, etc). But I do have a modest mixer and speakers and have provided music for gatherings, graduations, and lectures, both indoor and out.
 
Good Morning everyone,….introductions eh…. Where to start..

My name is Justin and I’m from Sudbury, Ontario and am currently a retired DJ (sort of but I’ll get to that) . I’ve been retired for over 10 years, prior to retirement I was in the business for about 15 years…ish

I started off as a nightclub Dj for ladies nights ( I was horrible lol) but of course the ladies weren’t there for me ( they were there for cheap drinks and strippers…oh the stories lol). From there I moved to being a wedding DJ and grew my business to a fairly successful sole proprietorship. I was booked almost every weekend from May to September, had a few months off and then Christmas parties would start keeping me busy from the end of November to Christmas with the occasional New Year’s Eve wedding thrown in. I typically had winters off, wedding season really quiets down here in winter and that was fine with me. Something about dragging gear from the house to my van and from my van into the venue in snow just didn’t hold any appeal for me lol

Anyways, it eventually got to the point where kids were getting older and being on the go with a full time job, busy Dad and successful DJ business got to be too much. I started to not enjoy it any longer and Ive always believed, “if you stop having fun - get out “ and after some soul searching, I decided I’d finish out my summer bookings and pull the plug. Already having most of my next summer already booked, I called every bride, returned their deposit and that was that, I was done.

So in a nutshell , that was my DJ career until last year, I was at a recurring corporate event and after each event wrapped up, there was always a social aspect and I noticed a few ladies hanging around the mixing board with their phones plugged in playing some music over the PA system, they’d play a song, dance, skip one, play half a song …you get the picture and It was horrible…. after witnessing and enduring that for a couple of events, I offered to help out ( for my own sanity lol) and now I’ve got a regular gig after each event. Go figure…

The best part, I just got an email from one of the early weddings I played asking if I was still in the biz and if I would be interested in playing their daughters wedding…..how cool is that.

I was just rereading what I wrote above, I don’t want to come off sounding like I’m an amazing DJ… I’m not, I’m average. My mixing skills are meh, my skills in front of an audience…meh. What I do well with is I got good at building a great relationship with the bride and groom and made sure I was the best DJ for them and that seemed to be all that mattered.

Anyways, not sure why I rambled on.. was nice to take a trip back down memory lane while writing this. I’m happy to be here and look forward to talking to a few of you.

Justin