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  • in reply to: Getting lowballed? #2192721
    DJ Malsidious
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    My lighting rig isn’t top notch yet and I haven’t gotten around to purchasing one of those cool screen things I’ve seen some of the more upscale wedding dj’s use yet. Figured I’m not quite at that 150 an hour range yet.

    I have decent light poles, but lot of cheap lights and no DMX controller just yet. The lights do put a on pretty “busy” show and light up the area nicely. I really need to hit ZZounds once I’m done paying off the DDJ-SX2. 😛

    in reply to: Getting lowballed? #2191611
    DJ Malsidious
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    All things considering even with the great gear I’ve invested in, (love this controller). I’m not a seasoned vet either and definitely not Tiesto. I’d say I’m between a beginner and seasoned. I’ve decided to come out and play after years and years of working the corporate machine. Needed a way to fund this project back into existence. So I really wasn’t anticipating a large pay off. I’m glad to hear that I wasn’t too high.

    I figured that I should be charging around $75-100 an hour. There was some great youtube videos that a DJ answers some of these harder to hit questions and once I factored in the $5500 invested / estimated rental cost I thought I was pretty spot on for that range. Would you guys feel this is accurate?

    in reply to: Beginner Dj – should I go for Virtual DJ or Serato? #2112501
    DJ Malsidious
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    I have Both Serato and VDJ.

    For EDM, Serato is a much better way to go.
    For Weddings or Bars, or when you’re lazy and want to leave automix on while you handle your business in the bathroom, VDJ is much much better.

    Other thing to consider is cost. VDJ has a 1 time purchase of $300. Serato will require expansion packs for certain features and will have more long term cost but shorter initial cost.

    I do have to make mention that Serato does seem to have more inaccurate beat counts than VDJ. I have songs I know are around 140 bpm that Serato pins around 71 bpm. It’s bit frusterating.

    Lastly, If you want to keep from getting court summons and have a legal library, VDJ does have a sub service you can get to allow you to get as many songs as you want for $10 a month. http://www.virtualdj.com/products/contentunlimited.html, It only works on VDJ and no other software, however if you stick with this software only, that should keep you from ever getting in trouble. It’s the most cost effective way to have a library going without spending $1000’s in music.

    For that feature alone has me sold on VDJ.

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