SwingDJs

... forcing vintage recordings on dancers ironically ensures that the music will die. These bands are forced into the bar and club circuit and struggle to exist because many of their target-market DJs (*US*) only play music from dead musicians; which, in turn, makes it difficult to find out about t...

Nathan has demonstrated his system to me, and it is a lot of work (mostly in categorizing each and every song in five to ten different ways), but it is amazingly useful. If I had the time, I would do it, myself. He really uses the database capabilities of DJing off a computer to its fullest.

Because we are playing to modern audiences who are accustomed to not needing to struggle to hear the basic rhythm, no less the subtle nuances. Because listening to music is an audible, not just an intellectual, experience, and most dancers need to be able to hear the music easily in order to dance t...

We get "paid" only $15 for an hour at the local, weekly swing dance that draws hundreds of college kids. It is a rather nominal fee from a non-profit organization, but we have a surplus of DJs even at that rate, so it works. Governments generally are not obligated to accept the lowest bid;...

You left out all the details about the event, which would completely determine the market price. If it is a huge gala event, $50 per head, black tie, then you would bid more than if it is a casual weekend dance under a small gazebo in a city park.

Also, price varies among regions.

I give my CD's free to DJ's who play them at dances, and to radio stations who play them. To me, it is simply good advertising!! Yes, but it is still not mandatory that any musician do so; it might be bad business, but his unwillingness to give out freebies to some random guy who approached him at ...

What a shame. One of the last of the legendary, great jazz musicians. Truth be told, he had declined musically quite a while ago, so his impact the past ten years were still only in his recordings. As such, musically, he remains just as "alive" to us today as he was years before he passed ...

I agree if you mean the physical convenience of a small card; I use the tiny Turtle Beach USB card that is the size of a flash drive mostly because it is so damn convenient. Do you have the micro or the amigo? I'm guessing the Amigo is the newer one since it's more expensive, but I can't really fin...

I haven't tried it. The reason I like the Echo Indigo is precisely because it is a card (one of its greatest assets IMHO). Thus anything else is less appealing to me personally. Not sure what he meant by the Numark device being "a step up". I agree if you mean the physical convenience of ...

Here are some examples of what I call 'hiss' on old tracks. They all have noise in the mid to high range. If you can't hear the hiss, turn up the treble and you'll hear what I mean - If you can't hear the hiss with the treble turned down, then why do you turn the treble up?!?!? Vintage music sounds...

I would default to finding a better source in lieu of fixing a poor quality source. But if every available CD release of a track has too much background noise, where do you find a better source? First, alternative sources are available for a lot of vintage stuff. I have three or four CD versions of...

I think the needs of DJing a dance are slightly different to listening at home: I'm more likely to put up with some noise at home than when i'm dancing in a noisy venue where I can't hear all the instruments anyway. I wish others would make that same realization that I made ten years ago. As for th...

No, they have personal computers. I mean the REAL PCs that 90% of the civilized world uses and enjoys, no matter what clever, witty marketing scheme they might cook up.

My advice: Get a PC. I don't have any of those compatibility problems on my PC.

Wow, even Ron Bloom, who (when I lived there) was the #1 go to guy for djing in S.D. got burnt out. Is there hope for the rest of us... Burnout is normal in anything, not just Swing dancing or DJing. It is "nature's" way of ensuring that you remain well-balanced. And, generally, the more ...