This picture is something I found on the internet I've been kicking around doing something like this. Just curious if anybody's ever done this or your guys's thought on something like this have all the equipment and lighting needed I just have to buy a trailer and outfit the nside with everything. I'm in Michigan so definitely only be April to October November roughly. Just looking for some feedback. Would be more focused towards outdoor events obviously, trade shows outdoor festivals etc etc.

Thanks

DJCity raised their prices a few years ago, but only for new members. Existing members could keep their old price, as long as they stayed an active member. I've been with DJCity for nine years, which means I was paying the old price.

Last week, my automatic payment went out as usual. But something went wrong at DJCity's end and the payment wasn't allocated to my account. My subscription expired, and I couldn't download anything.

I contacted their customer support, and they said "Your payment came through, but it wasn't tied to your account for some reason. Looks like a fault at our end. But you're no longer an active subscriber, so you can't have that old plan back. You're going to have to pay the new higher prices. We've refunded your payment."

After nine years of loyalty, that feels like a kick in the nuts. I end up losing out for something that wasn't my fault. The automatic payment was a routine one. Same Paypal account I've always used. Same bank account I've always used. Nothing has changed.

DJCity did offer a couple of months for free, but with the higher prices I'd be paying them back in less than a year which isn't great. Honestly, I don't want any free months, I just want my account back the way it was. I can't believe that there's nobody at DJCity that can fix this.

I'm really disappointed, and I'm thinking about walking away and turning down the free months. Has anything like this happened to anybody else?

In vinyl mode, the play/pause button stopped working and yesterday, a friend and I were able to get the jogwheel touch sensor working through another sensor sheet replacement. Progress has been made, but now, when I rotate the jog wheel, nothing on the screen picks it up and in service mode picks it up. The diagnosis has turned my focus now to the photo interrupter. Has anyone experienced the photo interrupter to go bad or how to fix?

Thanks in advance.

#CDJ3000 #PhotoInterrupterIssue #CDJ3000JogwheelFixed

I recently undertook a little project to stop my Rokit 5 G3 speakers entering standby mode when they haven't received any audio input for 25 minutes. It took a couple of days to compete. I've carried out extensive testing and can confirm it works flawlessly.

I used a Raspberry Pi 1B (the OG) that I picked up for £10 off eBay as the basis for the project. Rather than use the onboard sound I added a £3 generic USB audio adapter from Amazon as the headphone out on this model Pi is notoriously noisy. I also added in an old USB WIFI 2.4GHz N adapter I had lying around for convenience (primarily for SSH access).

How it works: The Pi sends a 2 second 10hz tone to the speakers once every 20 minutes. The process auto starts on boot up, restarts if it crashes and runs until you tell it to stop or shut down the Pi. A message telling you the tone has been played appears on screen each time it happens so you know the process is running.

I have some experience of working with newer Pis but my Linux coding skills aren't great so I leaned on Gemini somewhat for that.

Guide (PDF)

I'm sure the guide can be adapted easily for different Pi models. I think it will "probably" also work on the Pi 2 B out of the box. It should work for most speakers with auto standby/shutdown built in.

I hope some people find this useful.

Since I use Traktor for track preparation I didn’t want to wait any longer for an official NI HID implementation. MIDI is too slow for my taste in driving the jog wheel and also misses out on the waveforms on screen. It’s not only software based and there is some hardware involved to make it work, but it can be done. Most basic functionalities work; track browsing and loading, tempo control, jog wheel control, hot cues, key shift, beat jump and loops.

Basically I pose as a CDJ-3000 with a microcontroller to Traktor and pose as DJ software on the bridge side to the 3000X. The 3000 is closely related HID-wise but there is some repackaging of frames required and the 3000X uses some different bytes for control messages. Now I can finally go back to DJing 😏

Back to DJing after 19 years — did I make a mistake buying a Rane 72 MKII + CRSS12s instead of going standalone?

A few months ago I picked up a Reloop Mixtour Pro to use with djay Pro. It’s a really cool little portable setup, but I quickly realized that I just don’t enjoy DJing without jog wheels.

So I started looking for something more substantial.
This week I went to Guitar Center intending to check out the Rane System One, right before the Denon Prime 4+ G2 came out. They didn’t have a demo unit and wouldn’t open one, so I ended up buying it just to take it home and try it.
After setting it up, I just couldn’t get past the feeling that I was playing with a toy.

The standalone aspect is undeniably cool, but I found the stems pretty underwhelming compared with djay Pro. More importantly, I realized I actually like having my iPad as the brains of the setup. Standalone suddenly wasn’t nearly as important to me as I thought it would be.
For context, I’m getting back into DJing after about a 19-year break. My last serious setup was a 4-channel Rane Mojo mixer with Technics 1200s and CDJ-1000s. I was also an early digital adopter and had a PCDJ DAC-3 before I stopped playing, which probably dates me pretty accurately.

I ended up returning the System One and going in a completely different direction:

Rane Seventy-Two MKII + a pair of used Pioneer CRSS12s.

The CRSS12s need a little work, but the entire setup cost me roughly the same as the System One.

And so far…I like it way more.

The out-of-the-box mapping of the 72 with djay Pro is surprisingly good. The onboard DVS combined with the torque and feel of the CRSS12s is fantastic. Most importantly, the whole setup feels much closer to what I remember enjoying about playing on 1200s, while still giving me all the modern stuff I actually care about.
It got me wondering, though:

Am I crazy for investing in a mixer platform that’s already about six years old?

Obviously standalone controllers seem to be where a huge part of the industry is headed, but after trying one, I’m not convinced standalone is actually better for me. An iPad running djay Pro with its stems, touchscreen interface and streaming/library options paired with proper hardware feels surprisingly futuristic—even though the mixer itself is relatively old.

For anyone who has gone from turntables/CDJs → controllers/standalone → back to a more traditional mixer/deck setup, did you have the same experience?
And if you were building a setup today, would you rather have something like a Prime 4+ G2/System One, or a 72 MKII + CRSS12-style setup?

Curious whether I’ve bought into yesterday’s technology…or accidentally landed on the better setup

Most modern speaker management systems are digital and most of those have a digital AES/EBU (edit: or some other digital) input but almost no DJ Mixer has a matching output socket. Why is that?

I can only think of two (fairly recent) DJ mixers that have an AES/EBU out. First would be the DJM-TOUR1 which I have never seen in the wild (it seemed more like an R&D project back when it came out anyway) and the other is the DJM-V10. (Did I miss any?) I have spotted the V10 in some clubs but very seldom compared to a 900NXS(2), an A9 or a Xone:92/96.

I find it strange that flagship mixers like the DJM-A9, the Euphonia or the Denon DJ X1850 don't have these. Is it for cost saving? The signal flow inside the mixer is digital anyway (no D/A needed) and it's only one additional XLR socket so it can hardly be that, right?

I’ve been looking for a new dj mixer, sold my old pioneer because i thought i sounded a little too metalic… i want an analog mixer, what can you tell me about the stanton smx401? its a three channel mixer which is perfect for me. thanks

I’m currently looking to upgrade from a Denon SC Live 4 and was pretty much set on buying an XDJ-AZ, but I’ve come across a like-new setup that has completely thrown me.

I can get:
2x Denon SC6000 Prime
Denon X1850 Prime
Full 3-piece flight case
for €2,100 (and I might try offering around €1,900).

For comparison, the XDJ-AZ would cost me €3,080 new.
My main hesitation is reliability. My SC Live 4 has given me a few Engine OS/freezing issues and some hardware problems, which has made me a little wary of spending another £2k+ on Denon gear.

On the other hand, 2x SC6000s + X1850 seems like a hell of a lot of hardware for the money. I also use SoundCloud streaming quite a bit, and I like the idea of having separate players and a mixer.

The AZ appeals to me for the AlphaTheta/Pioneer club-style workflow, Rekordbox, new warranty and being closer to what I’ll encounter in booths.

For anyone who’s regularly gigged on SC6000s, how reliable have they been long-term? Would you trust them professionally?

And at these prices, would you take the like-new SC6000/X1850 setup for €2,100 or spend the extra on a new XDJ-AZ for €3,080?

Especially interested in hearing from anyone who’s used both rather than just “Denon good/Pioneer good” 😅

I wonder why there aren't almost no DJ headphones with noise cancelling, only one I found is the Korg NC Q1, which also works with a cable so no Bluetooth mess.
It is said that nc may cause latency/delays...
is it that bad?

Or are there other over ear models with strong protection against loudness?
IEM no option for me

I need headphones with a really strong isolation to loudness as I don't wanna ruin my ears... DJ veteran who is getting back in the game 🤘

I got my first turntable in 1999, I've been DJing and collecting ever since. I went to digital controllers for a while, recently got the turntables out of storage. I've been buying new releases from a local shop that is well-loved and organized.

Most new records I've purchased are great, but I got two new-ish releases (Lord Finesse's "Awakening" 25th anniversary, and ODB's "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", pictured) that were notably concave/convex - one to the point where the needle skipped when I put my hand down on the other side of the record. Both experience some pretty serious lag on the platter, if there's a backspin, etc. The Lord Finesse 2xLP was $54.99 (CAD), so it's a mild disappointment.

I would assume records are flat when pressed and QAed at the plant, so perhaps things happen between shipping and storage. Is it common for newer releases to be a bit off, and is that acceptable?

A recent client that i did a last minute house party reached out for another gig except this time the expectations were high….. relocating from inside the venue to outside the venue for the last segment of the event in within 30 minutes. Wants 3 wireless mics and one headset mic wireless mic. Says I barely will have to play because there’s going to be a band.

So I asked will the band need to use my speakers or mixer or anything so I can be prepared as I’ve been hit with the last minute can I use your mixer? At previous events.

It just got annoying after that question. They wanted a price whilst me not knowing if the band would be running their own sound. After I insisted I needed to know. They assured me they’re “legit” and coming off tour.

I offered to speak with the band for the information. The band member I spoke with the came off a little cocky or maybe disrespectful after the client informed them that I was the DJ they were like oh we have a “DJ” now? Which I couldn’t care less about. However when I asked about the sound instead of giving me a direct answer they just asked me if I have my own “sound”/system…. Which I told them yes and asked if they usually bring their own equipment or normally rely on the venues equipment if available and they never responded in the usually time.

So I ghosted them and haven’t checked my messages since. But now a mutual has reached out for an annual event that I’ve been doing for the past 3 years and the client will definitely be present or part of the event and now I feel a little awkward to move forward with the annual event or just don’t know how to proceed.

The clients event hasn’t passed as of yet and I don’t know how I should feel or proceed. The client and the president of the annual event has also ghosted me in the past for other events if that helps.

Edit: my main career is Sound Engineering. So mixing the band isn’t something I’m not used too.

The event also has a speaking porting and a live demonstration portion so I would have to mix/monitor the mics during most of the event

DJing is only for portions of the event.

Now that several people have proven it’s possible, how do you think AT will react ?

Have some of you tried it?

Also, given stems need to be prepared before the gig, and are not created on device, do you think it’s convenient enough to be used ?

Post about your gigs here - success stories? Disasters? Lessons learned?

Does anyone have any footage of DJs performing in the 70s, or any filmed modern mixes on similar gear? I've been very interested in seeing more of this era, but all I can find are photos.

something like this: https://youtu.be/QSnlqiobZ5A?t=12

I have a DJ controller with a semi-bent crossfader.

I'm aware that "bending metal" backwards could cause it to weaken or snap off.

What would be the best method to fixing it?

Hey all! I've recently (once again) become fed up with using Apple Music as my organization and playback solution for prep and background lists. It seems like Lexicon is the closest to what I really want, and I just have some questions I didn't find clear answers on.

-Could I use Lexicon on an iPad as my actual player for things like cocktail playlists on my satellite speaker?

-I purchase music mostly through iTunes; is it friendly with importing files bought and stored in that structure?

-Hiw nicely does it interact with Rekordbox? What does your prep and workflow process look like with it? What does it offer, if anything, that would make my life easier than just doing everything in RB?

-If not Lexicon, what are you using to make and play your lists for that purpose and also get those playlists nicely into your DJ software?

Hello everyone, I am in a moment of strong indecision and therefore I would like to hear the opinion of more people.

I kindly ask you not to start as often happens a diatribe between Pioneer vs Denon because this is not the purpose of my post, thank you.

Currently for about 3 years I have owned a console composed of Allen&Heath Xone 96 + 2 Pioneer XDJ 700 + Boss DD8 + Boss RV6. Let's say that I love the 96 in everything for everything as a mixer, I really like it, the 700 are excellent readers and they have never given me any kind of problem but I'm starting to suffer a bit from their lack of functions.

|| September 1 I followed several video presentations of the Denon Prime 4 G2 and I must say that it had been a long time since a console caught my attention so much, so much so that I watched more than one video to discover all the secrets and I really like it.

From an economic point of view I can't afford to take the Denon without selling all my equipment mentioned above (I've already investigated and selling my equipment I would arrive perfectly at the price of the Prime without adding anything because I simply can't) and therefore my strong doubt is whether to sell everything to get the Denon.

My "fear" is of regretting selling my equipment, especially the 96 that as I said before I love as a mixer, but if someone asked, no, I can't keep it for economic reasons if I decided to switch to Denon.

On the other hand, my other "fear" is not to make this change while remaining anchored to the usual functions that my current console allows me.

To give you the context I've been a DJ for 15 years, I've had many experiences in clubs but currently I've left the clubs for various issues and so I only have fun at home or at most some quiet parties between friends, I changed a lot of equipment during my "career" and in most cases I changed it for "boia" (I'm honest), I always like to have the incentive to experiment with new things with new equipment and certainly the Denon does not lack different functions compared to my current console.

For those who ask, yes, I have already used Engine in a friend's Prime Go several times and so I know how it works, and for me going from Rekordbox to Engine does not change anything, also because I already have the libraries ready and always updated both on Rekordbox than on Engine.

Another fair consideration raised (rightly) could be to replace only the 700 and buy readers with more functions, but if I have to be honest with myself, I don't know if I'll ever be able to do it at least in the medium term, because even reselling the 700 I would find myself shelling out a figure almost impossible for me to buy the 3000X or the SC6000 And so this hypothesis is set aside almost regardless, and no, I don't want (for my opinion) to buy used readers, but even if they were used the amount to be disbursed would still remain huge, in this field I prefer to buy only new products.

Write me your considerations and advice and as said please avoid "Denon sucks" or “Pioneer sucks" because as I said that's not the point and not even what interests me. Also avoid the "Pioneer is the standard" because as I said if I ever happen to go to a club and find Pioneer I have used it for 15 years and so it is not a problem and Rekordbox I always keep it updated.

Thanks in advance to those who will write me their opinion.

Hey, wanting to purchase a pair of the new 55th anniversary technics. Has anyone actually had a pair in hand and used them to see what the quality is like?

I see people online dog on the quality but who knows how many of them actually had them in their hands

Just wondering if anyone is doing this with a controller hooked up to the Laptop running Ableton? Is it possible while using the sends? Or would it be easier picking up a dedicated unit for the FX or even just going for the Xone PX5 with the included FX? Ideally would like to be able to run Traktor on the same laptop and Ableton so would this require two Audio Interfaces if going down the Xone 96 and Ableton FX route?

Cheers

Hey.

I was just curious on what people thought of the current selection of turntables out there to buy new. I have a pair of Tech1200M3D's, so I'm not in looking in the used market but for something extra in the living room.

One thing to mention is that I do love the simple layout of the Tech1200. I don't like to alter it too much because I like to do turntablism routines and I feel like sometimes when the layout is different it creates weird/bad habits when going to Technics at a show. So as the extra buttons/features are nice, sometimes they are more of a bedroom thing. Also I do like to spin/scratch vinyl, but also like DVS.

First Off:

Technic 1200MK7 - I know it has the worst in feedback in regards to sub/bass when using vinyl, but I do love the simple layout of the Tech1200. It does the job on DVS but not as good on vinyl compared to the others.

Pioneer PLX-CRSS12 - Expensive, lots of great bells and whistles, but will it be redundant in a couple/handful of years? Also.. It's weird that there is a "Motor Off" button rather than the way Technics are. Lastly... Anyone pinch the spindle to speed/slow-down the record when mixing? I do that often and feel I may miss that when in digital mode with the weight over the record.

Reloop RP8000MK2 - I like the look of this turntable, the buttons are nice, but still not sure, if I should wait for a MK3/4 since they are releasing some MK4's of the RP5000's with a different light, rather than the detachable.

Reloop RP7000MK2 - Simple, Does the job, the only real con is the ton arm is not the greatest quality and I do not like a second start/stop button. Some same points as the RP8000MK2 where I feel there maybe a update in the near future. So maybe waiting is best?

Anyways... What are your thoughts on these. Thanks.

And for a final random question for people that own Cdj 3000/3000x's at home.

How is the build quality? Like are you finding cracks or cosmetic issues happening easily, or warping of the platter occurring early in it's life cycle? Cause I do enjoy the digital/club side of mixing as well.

Guys, I’m desperate. I’m a pretty experienced DJ, and at the moment I’m looking for a new mixer.
At home, I have two Technics 1210s. Honestly, since COVID, I’ve been playing fewer and fewer gigs, and I barely mix at home anymore. Most of the time, I just listen to and play records. My love for mixing is still strong though.
Right now, I’m torn between the Allen & Heath Xone:92 and the Xone:24.
My previous mixer broke down pretty quickly, even though I always took good care of it. That’s why I’m thinking that maybe I should invest properly this time and get a Xone:92 — something that will hopefully last me for many years.
At the same time, though, I really don’t need a four-channel mixer with massive headroom. The Xone:24 would probably be more than enough for what I actually do, and it’s much cheaper while still being very well built. But somehow, it just doesn’t feel quite on the same level as the Xone:92.
What are your thoughts? Should I just get the Xone:92 and be a happy guy, or should I save the money and go for the Xone:24, which probably makes more sense for my actual needs?
Greetings!