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Originally posted by StephF Hey Sista! I am from NY and NJ! Thanks for your email. I have DJ'd private parties (about 4-500 people)....I have also DJd a batmitzvah. I am definitely not going to be a club DJ although I will go where life leads... i really want to use it to possibly get those 'uncool' boring wedding gigs and use it as extra cash while doing something i love.....working with music and party planning! i am learning to beat match now.....a tough mastery.....but I mostly play hip hop (and 'vocal' house mixes), not trance, so it is harder to beat match snoop doggy dawg into Jay-Z....ya know what I'm sayin'? I sort of bought the DJ set on a whim (actually I was talked into it over a few margaritas but don't regret it!) and am running with it but now that it's been taken awaqy from me I have realized how much I loved having it. SO - besides a Stanton.....the guy at the DJ repair shop sells Vestax....he said he can get me a PMC 15 mk2 for $200 BUT I read that they have bleeding xfaders (not good!) and have been discontinued...I am thinking 'not a wise investment'. The Stanton that Guitar Center has is RM-80. Do u think your Stanton issues are related to the model # you have OR Stanton altogether? Knowing my luck these days (who would have ever thought someone would PEE on a mixer!) I would get a lemon. Also - I looked at mixers on EBAY....but I just don't trust it......how would I know if I got a bum deal. So = what do ya think now that i've told u a little bit more!? Also - I am concerned about having 4 channels or 2...as my last mixer had 4...should I be concerned about that? When you say LED's - you are just talkng about the light guidance to show pitches of songs? (I know - dumb, NEWBEE question!) Thank you so much for your advice! ALSO - any advice on getting more into weddings or marketing myself as a DJ? A fellow DJ chick.

hey..hehe do you mean thanx for the response? cuz i didn't email you...
um yeah stanton sucks ass for mixers. do not buy from them. just don't.
as i said get the behringer djx700 for 200 bucks if you are looking for nice sound quality. a bonus is that is has a lot of nice features.
i cannot help you with the whole wedding thing...i know NOTHING about that, i am strictly a beatmatchin, music-obsessed club dj... hehe..just out of curiousity, do you beatmatch? you spin trance?

"DJ'ing" at weddings and events that just require you to fade over from 50 cent to some 80s classic can be pretty lucrative. but as it's been said, you really have to belong to a business. you can't really do it individually, you know? well that's all i know about that subject..hehe

oh and leds are the bars that tell you how loud your output is, even if your channel isn't up. basically you want the leds to be the same length (the same volume).
hope that helps a bit..

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Hey Miss Creant and Montie.....

eh - email...response...all logistics.

Yes - i do like spinning trance, house and D&B. I actually spin vinyl on my friends turntables. I like vinyl far better than CD's BUT for me, my place is private parties, weddings,etc....that uncool stuff! I just got a Barmitzvah gig....I am sure u r both yawning on that comment! I can't see myself ever being a trance DJ at a club....esp since I am about to go to med school Just won't happen!

Thanks so much for the advice from both of you! This forum has helped. I did just purchase a Denon Dual CD...got a good deal off the floor of a store! Also purchased a Vestax mixer from my repair guy - quite a surprise - he gave it to me for $125.....I think he is fishing for good karma...isn't that Darma? So - the hole in my pocket is not nearly as big as I thought it was going to be although I may have to cut a few weekends of partying out! HEE HEE!

By the way - I checked your site out, Miss C - your comics r so funny! In my short stint as a DJ, I have already experienced the miscellaneous guy standing behind me, slurring his words, as I was clearly NOT paying attention to him...although he was a hottie....but annoying! HA! HELLO - I am being PAID for this, it is work not chit chat! GGRR! But he slipped me a $20 so I like him! HA HA AND I do know that one DJ who is in it for the girls! So annoying and sleasy!

Montie.....r u liking USC? Biology huh!? I am taking chemistry right now - oh joy.

Steph

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Originally posted by dknylady listen to me very carefully... DO NOT BUY A STANTON MIXER , THEY SUCK REALLY HARD (refer to the list about my mixer HERE ok that said... yeah just get one that has leds, gains, bass and , well, highs aren't that important but they are nice. are you going to be using your mixer to dj (the beatmatchin kind!) for your own use? cuz if you are, maybe you can pick up a behringer of some kind, the 300 or even the new djx700 ($200).

sorry.. i disagree. i have the stanton rm-80 and am really satisfied w/ it. i got it on a really good deal so maybe thats y im satisfied but to tell you the truth, im impressed w/ the sound quality from this mixer bigtime. its better than i thought it would be. but, i can only speak for the Stanton rm-80 mixer, i have not used any other stanton mixer so for all i kno they could be shit, but i can vouch for the rm-80 and i give it thumbs up. if ur looking to spend around $300 and u are looking for a 4 channel mixer, this one is a good choice, its got the general assignable xfader to any channel, or u can bypass the xfader but i dunno y u would wanna do that. its got fader start for stanton cd decks (again i think this is useless but at least it comes w/ this feature if u use it).. only thing i don't like is there is a fader for the headphone cue instead of a knob which is what i am used to.. but after awhile i got used to the fader so its no big deal. if u have any more questions PM me cuz i probably will forget to check this thread again.

lol wrong forum...put this in the Humour section

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Originally posted by hapamoto sorry.. i disagree. i have the stanton rm-80 and am really satisfied w/ it.

Yeah a mate of mine had an 80 till it got ripped off at a gig and his insurance company proceeded to follow suit and further the injury by paying out just $400 hundred on his $1800.00 loss. He Bought a new Bheringer 700 and really likes it. Sounds good and clean and has gotten good reviews.

If you are doing the Wedding DJ thing which is fine then as has been said, don't worry about fancy effects on-board on the mixer, see if you can get one with Sends Per channel and you can add effects like an Alesis or Kaoss Pad later IF you need it, You save a bunch of money that way! Make sure you get a mixer with a Mike input coz if you are going to do weddings you will need to do the M.C thing to do it right. Also dunno know if you already know this, over at WWW.PCDJ.COM there are a bunch of guys in the Forums there who are Wedding DJ's and they are really helpful, some with 10+ years experience so you could learn loads there too.

Phil

that sucks

I hope you made him pay for the mixer or slashed his tires