Would anybody else be interested in a "How to Emcee" course?

I was thinking about this earlier this evening & yes that would be great! I’ve looked at various you tube videos on using the mic while DJing and there are so many different individual styles out there; a review of different mic styles with example audio/video would make for a rather interesting article… Eg comparing the differences between genre MCing and mic styles adopted by commercial dance DJs. How the musical contruct of tunes and transitions might affect what you would say and how you would say it… Also setting mic levels, how the acoustics of the room affect things, music volume adjustments etc… How many people out there have heard overly distorted voices on the mic as they battle to be heard over the music?!

Here is a few thoughts on how to MC fast…….
Firstly, as an MC, you cannot be shy, in fact, a degree of eccentricity and extroversion wont go astray.
Join a public speaking group so you can get ‘speaking to an audience’ experience.
Crowd reading is very important, as you need to personally relate to strangers in a split second.
You need to be a compassionate comedian.
Mc’ing is delicate balance between being engaging and overbearing.
Mic techniques do require practice, knowing good mouth to mic distance accompanied with the need to become competent in preventing ppppppppopping or essssssssssssing and also giving what I call ‘rogue’ speech givers a 5 second mic lesson then riding the eqs and faders to prevent same and feed back too (people seem to love talking in right in front of and then putting the mic down, right next to the speaker).
If you are going to speak over music, turn the music down to at least a third of your voice level.
If you are introing a song, finish speaking before the vocals start. On a song ending speak when the fade out is a third of your vocal level.
I hope this is a good beginning!

This would certainly be interesting, and it would be a great idea on Digital DJ Tips’ part!

But in my opinion, it can also be learned easily at home. I know there are a handful of people who don’t enjoy listening to their own voice, but the following advice is great practice.

I recommend picturing an audience in your room, and just talk to yourself – your imaginary audience. This will give you more confidence and ‘comfort’ using the microphone.

It also helps a lot to, before a gig, write down things you would like to say to your event. This helps me a lot personally.

In mobile DJ’ing, your MC abilities are very important for success. In fact, most of my mobile DJ gigs are mostly mic-action and less mixing action.

Hope this helped!