Posts Tagged ‘dj equipment’

If you have read my other articles on How to Be a Great DJ on my website, you already know that I constantly emphasize the subject of the People, in phrases like “Know Your Client,” or “Listen to the Audience.” If you are ever to reach the elusive goal (and I don’t claim that I have, or ever will) of being a “Great DJ,” you must follow this advice, wherever it leads you. I could give you an example or two of times when I failed to follow this advice, but they didn’t turn out pretty, and I try to forget them as much as possible. Maybe it would make me feel better to give you a positive example: I took a call from a motorcycle “gang” one time, who said that I had been recommended by a friend, and they wanted me to play for a wedding reception of one of the couples in the group, and that the reception would be held on the shores of a houseboat community in the San Francisco Bay Delta.

Amplifiers, Speakers, Turntables, Disk Players,Computers & Mixers

In Lesson #1, I indicated that a great DJ must have a practical, working knowledge of his client. In Lesson #2, I gave some tips on how to handle music, and Lesson #3 covered a very profitable line of DJ work, The Wedding. In this lesson, I wish to expand upon the few comments in Lesson #2 regarding equipment.