Mobile DJ You Can Buy a Whole Mobile Set up for EURO£$500 :)

0:00 You can earn money from it

The question is there. Everybody wants to know, can you get a full, a complete mobile DJ setup for 500 pounds, euros or dollars? Well yes you can! You can do it! And you know what? You can earn money from it. You can actually make money from 500 pounds, dollars or euros or whatever. But you probably need a little bit more in other currencies. Well, in fact, you spend £500 on kit and you could, if you're professional and if you know the right market and if you're good at strategy, you could pretty much potentially earn all of that money back. All of it. I mean, all of it. In less than two gigs. Amazing, eh? Just think, £500 will buy you a complete roadshow. It will. A small cheap controller, a couple of powered speakers, a couple of flashy lights, some form of console, but you don't even need to have a console. You could walk up to the venue and request a table and stick a cloth on it. You don't need a console. £500, you've got your kit, and away you go. The trouble is though, it's not as simple as that. It's not. Trust me, it is not as simple as that.

Now, yes, you can earn money. You can become a mobile DJ and you can just go out there amongst millions of people and just do a gig, walk away happy. But the trouble is when you start to buy the cheaper end of kit, the lower kit, the sort of stuff that you see on eBay for £49 for a controller because they're out there. Don't ask me where, but they are out there. Just look for them. Or £29.99 for a moving head. Or, for example, 50 quid for a set of powered speakers that are 1000 watts PMPO. You'll be like, whoa, look at this! And they've even got blue LEDs that flash to the music! And they've got 10 speakers on either side and the top ones are piezos. Well, they're not good. It's going to sound rubbish. Trust me.

2:28 Spent, were professional, unknown reason

If you see a set of speakers for about 50 or 60 quid and they look robust, and they look like beefy, and they say suitable for a thousand watts with an eight inch driver or a six or five inch or four inch driver then when they come through the post you're going to be exceedingly disappointed not only at the build quality but also The sound. Now that's the most important part, the sound. So let's imagine you've spent your 500 quid, you've got your cheap dodgy controller there, you've got your laptop which could be a MacBook Pro or it could be some form of other laptop that you probably spent double the amount on it than the entire setup you've got. And you plug it all in and the lights are flashing and everyone's happy and all of a sudden someone says can you turn it up? Will you turn it up? And nothing happens.

And I mean literally. Literally nothing happens because all of a sudden, after you turn that volume up, the speakers have gone, hold on a minute, we're not used to having this much power pumped into us and we can't work. We're going to fall asleep right now for the rest of our lives. Bang, they're dead. They're gone. They just stopped working. And you have a thong of people in front of you. There they are, they're dancing away and all of a sudden they're like... And they look at you. They're not going to look at each other. They're not going to walk away and go, oh, let's go to the bar. They're going to look at you. And they're going to maybe sort of do this or question mark or what's wrong. And you're going to stand there going, I don't know. Because if you were professional, if you were professional, you would have not spent £500 on your entire setup.

5:21 All in good quality kit

If you had possibly spent £500 on your console, you would have spent £500 on one moving head. Now what you have to remember is that when you are booked for an event, you are responsible for that event. You are the entertainer. You are responsible for entertaining the public from the beginning to the end of the night, whatever time that may be. If your kit stops for some unknown reason, and I mean literally unknown reason, you are not in a position to walk up to the people who booked you and go, I'm very sorry but my kit stopped working, it's not my fault. It bloody well is your fault because you were the frigging idiot who spent a pittance on shit in the first place. You must invest. All in good quality kit. Now, I had a conversation with a gentleman who phoned me up, who I've taught via Skype how to DJ, or I've helped him how to DJ. And this chap said that he spent £200 on a set of speakers and he wasn't very happy about the mid and high. My answer was very simple. Well, what do you expect spending £200 on a set of speakers if you spent maybe £700

Good quality powered speaker, you would not only get better volume but you would also get clarity and quality of sound. On the other hand, you could for example spend 50 quid, 100 quid secondhand on eBay on some dodgy looking controller. On the other hand, you could fork out a thousand pounds and get a good controller. Lighting. Now, there is cheap lighting out there, alright? And lighting... Doesn't matter so much if you're just doing a run-of-the-mill wedding, but you don't want to turn up with two flashy lights and one stop working and you're left with one. It looks a bit stupid. On the other hand, if you invest in good quality lights and one stops working, it still matters. But if you're professional, you will have backup. Whenever I go to a gig, I've always got two or three lights in the back of the van. I've also always got a spare speaker in the back of the van.

I've always got a spare laptop. I've got a spare CD player. I've even got sometimes a spare mixer. In fact, if all of a sudden the marquee I'm in just lifted up into the sky and all of my kit, I waved it goodbye, that rhymes, I could quite happily open the van, set up a new load of kit and continue. I would have to apologise for the... Thank you for watching. See you next time. If something goes wrong, because if it does, just get something else. On the other hand, if you've invested in good quality kit, it theoretically shouldn't go wrong because the company have invested a great deal of money in their pro high-end kit to make sure you, the end user, gets the benefit, not only the benefit but the peace of mind knowing that when you start your event, you can finish it, walk away, everyone's happy, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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