Marcel Wambsganss

As Terry said, its never to late. It maybe a bit more challenging, because noone gets younger. But impossible? no. As for DJs, the audience cares more about the right music played than the skills.

For the stage fright, i had to deal with it myself. But not primarily as a DJ, but as a theatre actor. My advice – leave out the drink. And practice. Get some friends to listen to your mix. I have stage fright everytime i do something in front of people – presentations, dj, theatre… Stage fright a is part of the perfomance. If you dont have at least a little bit, you’re lying 😉
As a tip: I do a few simple yoga breathing technics to calm myself down.
The best thing is that, mostly, the stage fright leaves you if you’re 10-15minutes in it.

Don’t give up your dreams because you’re to “old”. I started learning the piano at the age of 24, which is too old considering the meaning of some people. But to i care? no, i have fun, make little progress each practice-session and go on. The most important factors are, as stated by Terry: Love it and love the music you play! Everything else comes with time. You have to start somewhere! Or would you like looking back to today in 20 years, thinking “aah, why didn’t i started?”. I did that mistake by myself – mainly because of the opinion of others.

You find your way, i assure you – some way or another 🙂

Greets,

clockwise

Or just use MIXXX ( click ) 🙂 I used it with my Hercules MP3 DJ Control before getting a S2 (and Traktor, obviously). Its a great piece of DJ software, has an excellent mapping for the Hercules Controller and the best of all – It’s totally free.
And it runs on MAC/PC/Linux. Definitly recommended.

Better than loading some cracks for Traktor and wrecking your PC – Or telling someone you dont want to know it your CreditCard informations 😉