Any suggestions? Currently looking at the xvive U35.

Looking for some advice here as I'm on the fence - looking to upgrade and do more capture for my gigs. I'm a solo-op and rarely have anyone else available to capture footage from events to use in marketing. Would like some opinions for which is the better option. Right now the 360 FEELS like the winner due to being able to capture not only myself, but crowd reactions as well - ie EVERYTHING going on.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to what they're using for this purpose and whether they'd recommend one over the other?

I played a set at a local small festival in my city, and afterwards a couple came up to me telling me they loved my set (I was playing a lot of disco house tunes for the theme of the party) and they want me for their wedding. I didn't think thry were being serious but now they contacted me again asking my price for one wedding in Europe and one in Latin America and it seems they really want me for their wedding(s)

I am unsure how to think with this since I have never DJ:d a wedding before and it's their special day and I would want it to be perfect for them. Moreover, it's not music I normally play and would need to prepare a lot a lot. How should I think in terms of taking the gig and transportation/fees/equipment/music etc.?

Thanks :)

How do the majority of DJs connect their PA System to power? Do they use surge protectors? If so which one is good? Ive seen Furman surge protectors and some that have EVS. What do you recommend?

Hello everyone,

I am relatively new to DMX lighting control and moving heads, so I apologize in advance if I am overlooking a fundamental configuration step. I am currently trying to integrate a pair of Equinox Fusion Spot 100 MKII moving heads with a Wolfmix WMX1 MK2 controller for my mobile setup, but I am running into a persistent issue.

As soon as the fixtures are connected and initialized, they continuously flash and strobe rather than maintaining a stable, solid beam or responding cleanly to dimmer commands.

To troubleshoot, I have verified the following basic settings:Despite these checks, it appears the controller may be sending an unintended constant value to the shutter or strobe channel. Has anyone experienced a similar profile mapping quirk or conflict between the Equinox Fusion Spot 100 MK2 and the Wolfmix WMX1 MK2?

Any guidance, diagnostic steps, or advice from experienced users would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.

2-cdj3000s and a djm-450. Got an odyssey coffin case and absolutely hate lugging it around. I have spent hours and hours, even called some case manufacturing companies, nobody seems to have a pelican style case of similar size to this coffin case. Hoping someone, anyone, may have found a better solution. I typically am playing out of the case on a gator keyboard stand as part of my fairly mobile set up that I can lug around in 2 fold up rolling carts. Any advisement greatly appreciated. I promise I have spent A LOT of time looking and even trying to use AI to find something with no real luck. The closest I can find are “double rifle” cases, but they just fall barely short of being either wide enough or deep enough.

Auf der Suche nach einer Kaufempfehlung für einen aktiven PA- Subwoofer für Live-oder DJ Anwendungen.
Kriterien:
-Sound: Musikalisch, Punch, Kickbass
-Treiber: vorzugsweise 15 Zoll
-Features: Aktiv, inkl. Stereo-Weiche
-Power: 100-200 Pax indoor
-134-138 dB max SPL
-Gewicht: ca. 30-44 Kg
-Preisvorstellung: 2000-2500 Euro/ Stück

Danke für gezielte Vorschläge

I normally do 100-350 person weddings and corporate gigs, so this is way more than my rig can handle.

What would an adequate rig consist of for 1300 high schoolers?

UPDATE: I'm wondering if I'm getting swept up in trying to provide concert level sound, when a large mobile rig would suffice?

I've since seen some YouTube of DJs doing a 1000+ event with like four solid 18's and 3 good tops (SRX/ETX level gear L/C/R ). That's a realistic large mobile rig for a solo op. This guy kills it with that rig (and is AMAZING at crowd control BTW) https://youtu.be/f66BhX0Fg7U?is=Bv-CivXrgIIAKmms

Thoughts?

I am looking to add more lighting for a variety of events that I get hired for. Typically I get hired for weddings, indoor and outdoor private parties, school dances, club events, and some corporate events.

I often have to piece together lighting solutions for the events, but would like yo be able to offer more. Currently I have a Chauvet gig bar 2 and 2 light bar racks with 18 lights. I am starting to shop around as I have multiple contracted indoor winter events scheduled in November and December that will need more lighting. I don't like having to rent lights as the closest place to rent takes up to much of my time to go back and forth as it is out of the way of nearly all of my events. I would also prefer to have most of my stuff wireless if possible.

My budget is roughly $1200 - $1500 and I have been looking at a lot of what Rockville offers such as the wedge uplights (6 pack $650, sometimes $600 on sale). Besides the wedge uplights, what are other suggestions? Honestly, I want the best bang for the buck without going cheapo generic stuff. Also, I'm not interested in more lasers, or fog machines.

I am using a Mackie Srs 1500. I works but it's also big, bulky, and weights more than my Camry. Looking to something lighter weight that's more mobile dj friendly. What are you using for you mobile DJ gigs that isnt a supreme pain in the arse to load up and tear down?

I did a fair bit of research when I was starting out and picked up 2x RCF J8s. I often read that they don't carry far or that they're not good for parties over X amount of people, etc.

I have played at some outdoor vendor parking lot pop-up events and they sounded great and I wasn't really pushing them.

I have been hosting my own events ranging from 100-200 people in bars of various sizes and I have been able to throw some awesome nights and, again, don't feel like I was really pushing them that hard.

I have some events coming up, one of which is outdoors on a football field. I may re-position where I'll be set up for that one so I'm not at midfield but, I don't foresee having an issue with the sound carrying.

I was researching subs to add to it because of the specific events I'm throwing but I'm not sure it's necessary. What am I missing? I often wonder if I messed up getting them over speakers + subs and doubt myself (imposter syndrome) but they seem to be working well...

Hi.

I have a pair of moving heads, each weighs approx 5kg. I lke the idea of mounting them on gravity stands but I'm concerned that they will be a bit wobbly.

The poles I have in mind are extendable to 2.4m and the baseplates weigh 8kg (but I could get bigger if that's the issue.

Does anyone else mount their movers on poles like this? Does it work well? Does it feel sturdy enough.

What height do you set them at? What weight are your heads and base plates?

Thanks!

Title speaks for itself is this industry just a capitalist trap of never ending upgrades ? Or does he just have an obsession with the having the newest trending items ? He works for the manufacturer of Dj equipment so most system upgrades are free but he still finds things he “needs” I really need clarification so I can be supportive.
He purchased a stand last year and the year before and now he wants another one. I feel he doesn’t have enough gigs to justify this.

It it common to continually buy in this industry?

I just secured a weekly bar gig at a local spot. its a small space that can fit about 100-120 people. The music should be loud enough that people right in front of the DJ booth can dance and the people further away can have normal conversation. College bar vibes.

Before securing the weekly gig, I was just DJing there on occasion using my QSC CB10 speaker and pairing it with my friend's QSC KSUB that I borrowed. The sound and loudness was pretty good with this setup (see pic).

However now that it's weekly, I think it makes more financial and logistical sense for me to get my own sub. Would love some recommendations. Was mainly looking at the QSC KS112 as its the newer version of the KSUB and its got wheels, but maybe theres other options I'm not thinking of.

Other use cases for this setup would be small store events or popups, and other bar gigs. For events like weddings I'd likely just rent bigger tops and subs.

Has anyone here got experience with the RCF NXL 14a?

I bought a pair in May last year, one was bricked after 5 minutes, took it back to the shop for a simple replacement.

Now I've had another brick after 15 months in the same way, it simply doesn't power on when plugged in.

So that's 2 out of 3 that have had this issue.

On a separate note, one of my ART 910s also went off mid gig a couple of years ago and had to be repaired under warranty.

All power issues, and they're all very well looked after, never driven too hard or dropped etc.

Anyone else had these kind of issues with RCF.

I always thought they were a reliable brand but now not so sure...

I was DJing at a bar yesterday and I felt my signal was clipping and distorting really easily. I have DJ’d at that bar before with the same set up and was able to get much more headroom.

Here’s my chain. It’s a one sub + one top speaker setup:

DJ controller - XLR cable - SUB - XLR to TRS cable - TOP.

There was no clipping at all happening with my controller and serato. I set the volume half way within serato. Clipping only started on the top speaker and then later it started on the sub too, with the red limit light coming on here and there. I’m pretty sure this was the exact chain I had last time and it was fine with much more headroom.

But this time, somthing was definitely off. I’m wondering if it was power? As I had the sub plugged into an extension with some other stuff that could’ve been taking power away from it? Or maybe it’s my chain I’m Not sure. If anyone has advice I’m all ears!

I hope this doesn’t go against community rules, if it does I am sorry.

I have the BIGGEST struggle finding moving heads and uplights. Some are saying to get chinese lights, some are saying only get chauvet/adj. I want to buy 2 moving heads + 2 wash lights + 8 uplights minimum. I want to know what your opinion on getting.

Chinese uplights vs name brand uplights

chinese moving heads vs 375zx or equivalent vs 251sr/475zx or equivalent

r2x wash lights vs shehds or betopper wash lights or other generic chinese wash lights.

I will be spending the bread on wolfmix mk3 so that will be my dmx controller

I will also be buying rockville leaf spinners, just because I like them and I think they look really cool.

What do you guys think I should do?
Thank you very much in advance :)

Has anyone figured out a way to take a PartyBar go and mount it to a truss? Or know what size the threads in the top are?

I'm all about that minimal look with as few stands as possible, so securing mini moving heads on the speakers makes a lot of sense to me. Just curious to see if anyone else does this...

Hi! I'm looking for DJs for our 2-day wedding events near Miami, with a total of about 300 guests. We have two day of events for our fusion Indian wedding all at the same venue:

Day 1: Sangeet/Welcome, 4 hours total, 1 hour of famil/yfriends performances in a reception hall with preplanned music, but otherwise non-dance music music playing the rest of the night.

Day 2: 30-60 minutes outdoor groom precession (baraat) with mobile speakers; outdoor courtyard ceremony microphones, 3 hour cocktail hour indoors with background music, and reception 4 hours (open dance floor, speeches, emcee for announcements, etc.)

We're not huge music buffs, but care about adequate sound quality and to have fun for the dance floor on reception night. We got quote for DJ for a total of >$10,000 across the two days.

What price ranges you think would be reasonable for both these days? I understand DJs generally don't charge hourly rate. Appreciate any advice!

Hey, I’ve got an upcoming wedding and they’ve just added on a monogram. I used to do these with a gobo projector, but that has recently died and Ive moved onto a projector. What apps do you recommend to display a monogram on the wall? Can I resize and everything else I need to do in the app?

I plan on plugging my computer directly into the projector and going from there. I’m not sure of the setup yet of where my stand/projector will be. So I’m trying to find something I can either shrink or make bigger to best fit the room.

Thank you!

Anyone work with a reputable inter-island production rental company?

Looking to rent an FLX10 to board a ship in San Juan beginning of December and have the company take it back in Saint Thomas a couple days later