Terry_42

Yes this is sad, but you cannot go around it and the seller usually is not responsible.
For instance I DJed a wedding few weeks back, and the couple would have liked some rock/metallica songs in the mix. So they hooked me up with an iTunes voucher to buy the record, which I did. It sounded terrible and I contacted CS of Apple and they told me they did not master it. So I went out and bought the CD just because at weddings everything should be perfect… put it into my CDJ and -> CRAP. Seems like even a high profile band like metallica can produce utterly bad sounding CDs and nobody worries…. well not my usual genre anyways, but hey…

wow thanks for sharing this. I knew about the loudness, but that there is such a huge difference in density of the sound… I did not imagine before this article. thanks again.

I prepare a set not like: I play these songs in exactly that order.
What I do prepare is a set crate/playlist that contains aprox. double the songs that I would need for the time I have.
I order that playlist by my “energy rating” and secondly “popularity” and try to have an even spread throughout the “camelot scale”. However I take all of this only as pointers and do not follow it as a religion.
When I am mixing I have a general idea of the order I want, read the crowd and adjust accordingly.
If things really go bad, like you wipe the complete dancefloor etc. I have 2 “recovery” playlists that I have labled “>genre> chartbreaker” which I absolutely know will fill any dancefloor and make people go “yeah baby”. I use those only under extreme conditions 😉

Facebook does differentiate between “natural persons” and “page personas”. You can switch between both by clicking on the right top drop down (beside your name) and selecting the persona (aka I would click “use as Terry 42” when I want to imperonate my DJ persona). As a persona / page owner you cannot like other “natural persons” on facebook, only sites or comments. (You can try by liking me see link in my signature)

The 30 likes will enable you to be more visible. More people get updates and more people get “you might like XXX” and you get a weekly newsletter with your statistics.

Yes get a personal account because as a “natural person” you can do other things too.

Yes you can use custom images so called “title images” and you can post in your history specific things that define your style, persona or whatever.

I am no facebook pro, but I hope that answered some questions.

If you want to get into producing and play this “live” like etc. most DJs that do dubstep like this that I know go for Ableton Live/Studio and pad controllers.
Before you buy anything I would suggest to get demo versions of DJ and production software (there is a 30 day trial for Ableton and Traktor, you can try VDJ Home etc.) and make up my mind about the workflow and software that I want and then decide what controller(s) I need.

Try some crossover songs (aka crossover into other genre, but still house) that people would not expect.

I am a wizard and hence I was able to restore the thread here:
http://www.digitaldjtips.com/forum/threads/vdj-mapping-help.4939/

Well there is no really fast way for this.
Now reloop has promised a mapping for VDJ soon(TM), so one possibility is head over to the reloop site at:
http://www.reloop.com
Log on to their support forum and ask for that mapping.

If you want to map yourself, you first need to read and really understand this:
http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript
If you are a registered user of VDJ Pro you can also log into the download section and forums and ask for help there. Usually the guys at the VDJ site are really helpful and nice and there are tools that only VDJ Pro users can download (and for example solve any jogwheel issues).