Terry_42

Honestly I can do all the scratch stuff and fliptop and turntable tricks on the controller as well. Just needs some practice and costs way less than 100+ bucks a months for DVS upkeep.

Welcome! Love SD, I think you will have plenty of opportunities there.

Welcome back to the fun crowd 🙂

Honestly, you have simply too much music.

That does not mean you need to get rid or delete stuff (but many of us do), however you should simply limit your DJing collection to well under 1k songs.
A DJ needs to know his collection intimately to know breakdowns of songs, key phrases, mix-in and mix-out points etc. etc. and most importantly “what song next to play”.
There simply is no way to be familiar with 6k+ songs and unless you are a wedding DJ who has to cater to whatever anyone says, you do not need to.
Quality over quantity is the key here.
I for example am now limited myself to 600 songs. Whenever I add a song to the DJ collection (which I have in iTunes) I back up one old song and delete it from iTunes.
600 songs is still well over 30 hours of music at least and those consist only of the best 600 tracks I know to date…

There are good articles on this topic on our main site, just use the search “organize music”.

Honestly if you want a setup where your mixer and effects are as small and battle worthy as possible I would go with the AKAI AMX + AFX setup.
It is the smallest sized down battle setup there can be for DVS, of course only Serato DJ. Yes you need to buy the Serato DVS upgrade, but since the controllers are so dirt cheap it totally makes sense.
I saw a scratch world champion take on those 2 (and cannot say his name since he is sponsored by another brand) but it was mind blowing. These things may look like toys, but they are for real and sound quality is over the top.

I would still strongly recommend against the 450, while Pioneer is good at advertising, they are not good at delivering that promises all the time… not unlike Mercedes (which many buy because of brand name) when every Mazda 6 will blow away any Mercedes C-Class in performance, features and reliability.

Also check this out:
https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2013/04/beginners-guide-to-pa-systems-part-1-basics/

Wow you did get some features wrong there, the 450 is bad in so many ways… check the real features.

The worst thing is in the cold: Condensing water inside your gear.
There are those heat thingies:

However you need them to be placed correctly so you do not get water in the end.
The cold is really not the problem, but static charges and condensing water… it also depends how the whole setup looks, how much wind there is etc. so there is no definitive answer what to do.