Recent content by Jim Davis

... says every successive generation ever since recorded music has existed 😉

Man, I haven't participated on this forum in several years (stopped doing weddings in 2017) but you're in luck -- I still get email notifications on thread replies! Here you go.

My girlfriend wanted to book me for a last-minute gig but I stubbed my toe and found a pot of gold in my basement, so fortunately I can fix my roof. Hired the contractor from McDonald's where I live. My partner ate all the fries though, don't wanna get into it right now. By the way I bought a...

Thanks for the discussion, guys. I went $500 and they were interested (even considering moving the date based on my availability - it was a referral) until they found out $500 didn't include uplighting. Uplighting?? For a high school reunion??? For the record, I let the woman know that dance...

Thanks Taso, I should clarify that the event is out in Warminster, not center city or anything like that. (Jealous of my wedding DJ (Cleveland Morris) who landed a regular gig at the Plough in old city...) I'm not desperate for the gig, maybe I'll float $600 out there! I've never aimed to be...

Good point, I suppose a lot could potentially be background music. (Unless it's an open bar!)

So I'm just going to get right to the point - I don't DJ as many gigs as I used to. However, when I get a friend referral, I'll usually take the gig if it's reasonable. I've always been on the cheap side for the Philadelphia area, I think. I was initially thinking $500 for 4 hours for this...

Bump - has anyone tried the CP12's? I have the original K12's. I'm interested in the ~10lb weight savings... at least for certain gigs. Wondering how the low end response compares. I frequently use my K12's without a sub.

You could look at Promo Only's current and historic Hit Lists. For some reason they omit the word "Latin" from the genre headings, but it's the ones that say Tropical, Regional, Pop and Caribbean, starting below Country: Promo Only: #1 DJ Source for Music Downloads and DVDs -...

The thing I like about PO (and formerly PrimeCuts, or somebody like RPM or ERG) is that you can just download their packaged releases and be pretty confident you've got whatever will get requested. On iDJPool or BPM, you don't have curated/packaged releases, so you have to go manually select and...

My main controller is the Numark NS6 (Numark has replaced it with the NS6ii). To be honest, though, I've started using my backup Mixtrack Pro more often because it's smaller and much easier to lug around to gigs. It's definitely on the cheap end, and it looks cheaper, but if you don't use...

I have a CD-R set of the Platinum series that I bought from the former president of ETV network that he had listed on Ebay. Evidently they continued supplying sets/replacements to existing subscribers under the radar using disc duplicators after the copyright shakeup and this was one of those...

If anyone spins Ultimix/Funkymix and wants some older back issues, they're selling 20-disc lots for $1/disc over on eBay: Ultimix Funkymix Records | eBay Stores - (https://www.ebay.com/str/ultimixfunkymixrecords) They're not contiguous ranges of issues, but I guess that's part of why they're...

Personally, I wish they would have the "Mainstream Top 20" and other genre top 20 lists archived for download later with only incremental updates as new songs break the top 20. (As of now you can only download the current one before it disappears with the next update.) That way you could just...

Are you downloading weekly Express Audio or just monthly releases?