Arthol Gibson

🙂 My regular gig is an outside deal.. I will snap some pics for you when im due back!

DJ GRE, post: 73 wrote: What is it that makes Serato such a club favorite?

I think Serato’s rise to fame was from what D-Jam and a few others said about DVS setups and using vinyl but I also think it’s because it shipped and still ships with alot of the hardware that clubs and DJs would employ… I could be wrong, don’t quote me but from what I’ve seen with packages and the like it seems to be the case.
Nowadays you’d see the likes of Traktor and and other titles because they jumped on the bundling wagon.

Also it would kind of seem like a commonsense thing to learn/stick with if you have/had someone teach you the ropes of DJing using SSL or if you get booked at a club with it’s own setup and they have Serato boxes/Rane mixers or other mixers fashioned for Serato usage :/ would save you alot of setup time if the software YOU like clashes with the setup you have to use.

*shrug*

This is a great question.. most of my responses have been laid out by a few of you and I do love Emma’s input.
Oddly enough, just socially, alot of girls have come up to me or engaged convo around the ins and outs and learning the basics of DJing. So, unless theyre just that type of girl, I sense the stigma slowly breaking.. especially in an industry where ‘sex sells’ :rolleyes:

DJ Max D., post: 1030 wrote: “hey man can you play some David Guetta?” I have “Memories” playing at that moment. After that I play that new song “Sweat” and “Love is gone” after a few tracks I give in and cut in “The world is mine” and finally he recognizes the track and gives me thumbs up and all that..

LOL.. that is such a classic reveler.

Riding on that though.. the folks that peeve me the most are the “Umbrella Requester” you know, the ones that give you a general heading hoping that the Ms. Cleo in you can interpret the specific song they want to hear.

I started with VDJ up to vers 7, will always love it. For work I had to learn the ropes with Serato SL and I kinda dig it.. I stayed away from it for years because I didnt have the gear to warrant learning it (AND because it always seemed to follow the ‘all the cool people are doing it’ ideal). In a week or so I’ll be running with ITCH’s four-deck version.. also have Abelton and MixMeister Fusion, both of which I’ve been procrastinating with learning

Digitall DJ, post: 225 wrote: I am swayed towards the Sony Vaio series, but no-one has mentioned them…

I used to be a sony fan myself but I find that alot of their options are proprietary and they can weigh heavily on crunch-time performance. With vaios too.. if you opt to do a clean install of the OS like D-Jam suggested you can lose alot of the functionality and in a few instances OS-specific drivers can be hard to come by. These findings are a few years old but are just a heads up.

I currently have a Toshiba Satellite with 4gb of RAM. Hasnt made me swear during a gig yet 🙂

When I first started I had a pair of Numark HF125’s and I bought me a set of SkullCandy Hesh cans.. Theyre pretty solid, aside from the build quality. I get decent sound from the 50mm drivers and the clarity in sound is great enough for leisure listening and not too distracting, as I find the Beats by Dre to be.. I dont think Ive been around, headphone-wise to make any recommendations yet 🙂