Your Mobile Bedroom Radio and Club DJ Questions Answered Video 6

0:01 Sorry for the delay

Right, ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the delay. This is questions answered. Video number six. By the way, if you can hear some strange sort of munching in the background, it's because I've got the cats eating crunchies. Okay, so let's start off. Keens Van Veldhunds, I think that is. I'm 45 years old and last year bought some old school hardcore records in two decks and a mixer. Thank you for these videos, my mixing is acceptable, at least I think so, or it is. Now I just can't stop buying old school records from these early days. Good on you, well done. I mean, you can't beat the classics, okay? Alright, Gerrit Springs, best way to introduce yourself as a DJ to spots in a new city. Well, again, you've got self-promotion and whatnot. But let me give you a really good analogy. Years ago, everyone used to send letters to get themselves noticed. And then, of course, you had a fax machine. Then most people nowadays just send a text or an email. Well, let's look at that from another perspective. And that is that a lot of people now will upload videos, send links, watch my video.

Probably the best bet is to dress up smart and personally go and see the management. They'll like that because that shows that you're really interested instead of just clicking a button and saying watch this link. So try if you can to go and visit clubs, ask to speak to the management or the entertainment manager. And see what comes of that, let me know. Now again, you know, I'm no expert, so please don't take everything I say as gospel. I'm only doing the best I can, all right? So Calco Cooper Fan, when it comes to weddings, which are the busiest months and which months do you see the least amount of work? Basically, what are the seasonal trends like? Well, in the UK, you know, it's sort of summertime, May, June, July, August. Again...

2:37 Slowly bring it up to build the energy of a track

A lot of people do have weddings earlier or later in the year because it's actually quite cheaper for them, but generally you tend to find summer months. Okay, Paintstruck01, what effects do you think really drive a crowd wild and can you ever use them too much? Sound colour effects are good, also the filter is probably one of the best effects because it just... Accentuates the track. Filter up, filter down, or you could start from filter down so you've got that rumbly bass sound. Slowly bring it up to build the energy of a track. So just give that a go. Oscar Smith stuck in a rut of just cutting and filtering out tunes after the blend. Any other ideas to share? Spinback is a good one. So, you know, you've done some kind of transition.

And all of a sudden then you just spin the track out. That's a good way of maybe finishing as well. Okay, cutting and filtering out. You can use an echo, another good way. But sometimes it's a good idea to just get two tracks and go through your effects. So get a mix together and then go through the effects one by one. Use the same transition point and just try a different effect. on Pioneer CDJs. I saw another question about headphones and I'm sure you must have tried a few over the year of your career or maybe not. Do you have any favourite sets or comments about different headphones? Maybe. I do like the V-Moder.

The M100 are exceptionally good, very good for noise cancelling or getting rid of ambient sound. A couple of times at gigs I've actually had them on, been listening to a track I'm cueing only to find out that the room's silent because the track that was actually playing through the PA has stopped playing. That's how good they are. Also, they can handle up to 3000 milliwatts. So 1000 milliwatts is one watt, so that's three watts. So again, advice is always be wary about turning headphones up. And if you are allowed in an allowed environment for a continuing amount of time... Then it's always a good idea to have your headphones on all the time with no volume so your headphones really are acting like ear defenders. So just a little bit of some advice there for you. Okay, so DJ Ben Grist. I'm starting DJing again but I'm struggling with what to get in terms of DJ controller with laptop or all-in-one system from Denon for mobile DJing.

5:39 Apparently the Denon Go is supposed to be very good

Apparently the Denon Go is supposed to be very good. They do have their Prime series, but the Go seems to be sort of an all-in-one. I believe it's battery powered. It's not a toy at all. Let me know in a comment if anyone out there has used one of the Denon Go, but I haven't heard any bad reviews about that. So that's possibly a good idea. Again, with a laptop, you know, you need to spend a decent amount of money. And again, with a laptop, make sure it's got a good processor and also you want a minimum, and I mean a minimum of 8GB of RAM, 1632 even better. But, you know, your ready available memory is one of the keys to making the program run smoothly really. Okay, I like this. SpaghettiPie101, it's just the name, amazing. Is YouTube to MP3 good enough quality for DJ sets or do you need the proper downloads when you start playing live? Really silly sort of question in a way because you do need good quality. So what happens with YouTube, they compress it. So you're probably only looking about 240.

7:43 Stuart Paul, you need to do one on sales and marketing

Whereas, you know, the lowest you want to go really for quality is 480, ideally 720. But if you can go WAV, you know, many years ago people used to use MP3 because it was difficult to get loads of tracks. WAV is the one. There you go. Stuart Paul, you need to do one on sales and marketing. All the stuff on YouTube is American. Okay. Well, sales and marketing. Yeah, probably a good idea to update that. I've done a few in the past, but yeah, that can be a good video or videos, a selection of them on marketing yourself. I agree 100%. So let's get to that some point. Renato has given me some thumbs up, thank you. Glenn Wise, I've always wondered where your DJ name came from. Well, I did explain, but Ella, the part Ella is from my youngest daughter, Ella, and then I just added skins at the end of it, and that's it really. The master headphone ever. I don't get that one, sorry. The master headphone ever.

Sorry, don't get that. Is DJing with real turntables still wanted? It is actually. I believe in some nightclubs in Germany you get paid extra and also it looks good. What you've got to think of here is a great analogy. Let's say you look at all the cars on the road today and you don't think twice about them. You don't look at them because there's so many of them. But over time, those particular cars, say that a particular model of Ford or a particular model of Audi or BMW, slowly but surely they are going to be reduced in numbers through accidents or MOT failures or basically people just scrapping them. So within time, a certain model of an Audi They will be limited in numbers on the road, so eventually when someone sees one of those they'll reminisce and go oh I remember having one of those from years ago. I mean I had an XR2 Mark 1, it used to be called my Scooby-Doo, and you know I drove that around in the 80s early 90s. Nowadays vehicles like that are worth an absolute fortune and you hardly see them.

Exactly the same with DJing. You know, years ago, vinyl was it. CDs sort of appeared, a lot of people turned to CD and then there was 50-50. Eventually a lot of people moved away from vinyl, went to CD. While CD was prevalent, then a lot of people went to laptops and now we're moving away even from laptops to streaming. So, you know, we're getting to the stage now where if you do go to a nightclub and you see a DJ playing real vinyl, it's something to watch. It's something to look at instead of just listening. So absolutely, you know, it's go with vinyl. Okay, and last one, Jean Raphael. You know what, mate? Not a lot of people know that. And Jean... I hope this video has been a help, ladies and gentlemen. This is video number six, questions answered. Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy.

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