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Spotify has terms that clearly say it's for personal use only, and they follow this up with specific statement that it's forbidden to use it in public places like clubs, restaurants etc. Having this in mind - is anybody from Europe able to explain the following scenario? The venue obtains all the necessary licenses for playing music in public from relevant organizations, like PRS in UK or GEMA in Germany for example. The venue hires a DJ to play the music - what copyright law is being violated and how copyright owners rights are being violated when the DJ is using Spotify as a source of music for that public performance? Can the venue or the DJ himself be penalized for this by copyright owners/the organizations like PRS and GEMA? The DJ is using a legal source of music + the venue is paying for that music being played in public = how does that hurt the copyright owners?

EDIT: I'm not trying to justify doing something against the law. I'm genuinely trying to understand the mechanism of how anybody is being hurt in this scenario. So I'd much appreciate if people downvoting this thread and my comments could explain why.

Hey all, I'm looking to downsize so I need to sell an expensive piece of equipment. I know of Reverb, but it's not very popular here in Australia. Not sure of other platforms except eBay and Marketplace.

I've sold a car on Marketplace but nothing else of high value. I'm not sure what's safest/easiest, though I'm not in a huge rush to sell.

For those who have sold their gear in the past, what would you recommend?

I am NOT selling it on Reddit so don't get any ideas

Share your mixes, videos, music, routines etc here.

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Hi, just looking for a general advice from a DJs perspective. My wedding is next month. We have been working on preparing different playlists for cocktail hour, during dinner, after dinner, late night, etc..

We don’t necessarily want to tell the DJ to only stick to what our playlists, but we are pretty particular about knowing what we like/want in terms of music. Mostly well known classics and hits. From your perspective is it annoying to be told to just stick to the playlist or should we give the DJ freedom to kind of mix their own thing in here and there? We have heard stories about DJ’s kind of doing their own thing and it not being what people wanted. We’ve also heard of people giving “don’t play” lists, which ended up getting played anyway.

Edit: you don’t know what you don’t know. I appreciate the help, we are planning to talk with our DJ again. To be fair to the DJ he did have us fill out a form and did a phone call. We were the ones who were a little stubborn about using our playlist. After your recommendations, we will try to narrow it down to a few must play songs during each period of the wedding and let him handle the rest.

I’ve got a pair of Technics 1200 Mk2s that have been sat in their boxes now for years. Depresses me that they are just doing nothing. Wondering how much demand there still is for these in 2026? Has everyone moved on?

 

First bought approx 20 years ago, one brand new and one in very good used condition, and used mainly for scratching. There are some superficial marks etc on the outside casing, but as far as I know everything was working flawlessly the last time they came out of the box. How should I go about testing them? What are the common failures, etc?

 

Should I get them refurbed before attempting to sell, or sell as is? How much generally should I expect them to be worth in either case?

My old ass finally got a controller after 30+ years of only owning 1200s. I picked the rane one mk 2 and am looking for a case/bag that fits it. Something that will protect it but especially something that will make it easier to carry (no plywood road cases!). Bonus points if it can carry laptop/headphones or can be worn as a backpack. Thanks in advance!!

Post about your gigs here - success stories? Disasters? Lessons learned?

Im a vaporwave dj and every show I do I struggle with gain staging because of loud club subs with lots of sub bass. Many songs I use dont have much bass so its difficult to balance them with dance songs with bass. I tried using luf meters at different frequencies, monitoring with atm50, hd 560s, and turning up my own subs, but it doesnt work well. Are there headphones that have a similair clear and powerful sub bass or is there a certain technique?

Recently played b2b with a great DJ who told me he always keeps it within 2/3 bpms. I often do bigger changes and it sounds good to me, but wondering if that's just me and everyone else's in pain while listening to that

I'm sorry I had to post this here. I hope he doesnt use reddit I swear it's nothing personal to this guy but this is awful and I cant stop cacking about this in my group chat. So a friend asked me if I would be interested in a gig he was turning down and proceeded to send the deets and said he would ask around if someone was interested to work the event. Love that I have friends that pass work to me but this was a complete LUL. Promoter is hilariously delusional like dude literally sent me a microsoft spreadsheet of what I could only describe as a spotify playlist he made with a bunch of songs in no logical theme, key or bmp with various notes on the transition points. Not only does he want a 60+ list of songs specifically played but he wants them in the order he made, with notes on the cue points and he used a bunch of fake dj-jargon and I have been laughing at this shit for the last 11 hours. Take for instance this one nugget:

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ARTIST ----- TRACK ----- PLAY WINDOW ----- MIX IN ----- MIX OUT ----- TRANSITION

Beyonce - Partition - hook/bridge - "blend under instrumental" - echo vocal - 16 bars > Rihanna

Rihanna - Sex With Me - chorus - "blend instrumental pocket" - bass cut - 8 bars > Drake

Drake - Nonstop - 1:20 -"hard drop on 1" - quick cut/echo - echo out > Sza

Sza - Shirt - hook - "smooth blend" - filter down - 16 bar blend > Rihanna

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I swear this is one of the most cringe things I've ever seen in my life. Nevermind Partition is like 90bpm going into Rihanna at 120 and then Drake at 155...no key relevance...no nothing

I think the most egregious thing is the obnoxious notes telling me how to start the transition, using hook/chorus/bridge interchangeably and then telling me how many bars I need to use in order to get to the next song

Like its funny. Its insulting. Its obnoxious. Its delusional. I absolutely had to share this. Like, I want to send other Djs this excel file just to marvel at the amount of time this dude spent working on this...literally just make a playlist I've never had someone try to hire me for a job and proceed to do the job for me. So on track 45 if I high pass filter at the chorus instead of the outro will I not get paid because I didnt follow his chart to a tee? lmao....am i supposed to practice this? Or is he expecting me to read through these notes and react to them in real time? Some notes have specific cue points like "start at 2:03" ....

I've had some experiences but this one really takes the cake.

Anyone know why Kieran switches between the PlayDifferently Model 1 and Pioneer V10 mixer when playing DJ sets?

He remains as one of the very few DJs that use Model 1 mixer nowadays, so I kind of wondered if that was his preferred first choice mixer, and whether using a V10 is when the festival / organiser cannot source a Model 1 and is more of a backup / second choice mixer.

If Model 1 is his preferred - I don’t understand why he wouldn’t just travel with one in a Peli case to each show like Richie Hawtin for instance..

They are quite boutique / niche and it’s really cool to see Kieran still supporting this fully analogue DJ mixer!

Hey guys,

Next week I'm playing in a festival, promoter put me in B2B with someone I know a bit, we've been partying together. But we've never played together. We talked about what the energy we wanted and so on (we are opening the fest). Moreover I've never have a real B2B, the only form of B2B I know is just jamming at friend's house and saying ''Bro I have something that'll fit perfectly with this tune''

But is there like unknown rules I should know before an official shit like this ? (I think the other one never have a B2B tho)

25 years ago, I started DJing by beatmatching and creating smooth transitions with two turntables and a simple mixer with a 3-band EQ. Over the years, I regularly changed my equipment: mixers with effects, CD players with loop functions, a sampler, and so on. Eventually, I ended up with a Pioneer DDJ-1000 combined with two Technics SL-1210s using timecode DVS.

That setup works perfectly well, but to be honest, I don't use many of its features. I rarely use effects, but I do use the filter. I don't use quantize or key lock because I simply enjoy manually beatmatching much more. Hot cues are useful to me for cueing the first beat, but I don't really use them during the actual mix.

Perhaps I can summarize it like this: there are a lot of new technologies that make DJing much easier, but I've found that I don't really need most of them. I only DJ as a hobby at home and have absolutely no ambition to play outside the house.

My DDJ-1000 is currently temporarily unusable. It became hot in the sun, and the cue buttons in the mixer section have melted and become deformed. So I can't preview anything through my headphones. The repair will probably take some time due to a lack of replacement parts, and this may actually be a good opportunity to take a step back and see whether this is really the setup I'm looking for, or whether there is equipment that suits me better.

I'm happy with the Rekordbox DVS solution. I've now also bought an Interface 2, so I can use DVS without the DDJ-1000. I already had a DDJ-XP2 pad as well, so selecting and loading tracks works perfectly and the loop function is easy to use. The only thing I'm missing now is a mixer...

If I make a quick list of the mixers I've owned over the years, there have actually been quite a few: Pioneer DJM-700, DJM-800, DJM-909, Dateq GPM 8.3, Xone:62, Gemini UMX, Ecler Nuo 5, Ecler Evo 4, and I'm probably forgetting a few.

My fondest memories are of the two Ecler mixers and the Xone, particularly because of its 4-band EQ. They were mixers that simply sounded great by themselves. For my next mixer, I'm really looking for an analogue unit with excellent sound quality, and a good built-in filter would be a major advantage. I'm no longer considering Pioneer mixers because, to me, they lack a certain musical magic.

Based on all of this, there are quite a few options. A rotary mixer could also be an option. I have absolutely no experience with rotary mixing, though, and to be honest, I don't really understand the appeal yet.

Obviously, the channel EQ makes sense to me, but how do people get so excited about a 2-band EQ, or even just a high-pass filter, as on the Union Audio Orbit 2? And I'm also curious about the 3-band isolator that seems to be a feature on so many rotary mixers. What are you actually supposed to do with it on the master?

When mixing, you want to make space in the old track for the new one, or perhaps "dim" the new track so that it blends into the mix almost unnoticed? If my previous mixers had had a master EQ, I probably would never have touched it, because I use the channel EQ to shape the mix.

So I would really appreciate your opinions, experience and thoughts on what direction I should take with a new mixer.

The safe choice would be an Xone:62 or Xone:92, but that doesn't really give me anything new, since I've already owned both. An Ecler Warm 4 definitely appeals to me. I also use this setup for listening to vinyl albums, so excellent sound quality is very high on my list of priorities. But it has no filter, it's a rotary (and will I actually enjoy that?), and then there's that strange isolator on the master again. On the other hand, it does have a 3-band channel EQ, so I can mix in the way I'm used to.

The Ecler Nuo 4.0F also looks very appealing. That warm, analogue Ecler sound combined with two analogue filters sounds almost like the ultimate combination to me.

But then there's the Union Audio Elara. It has the filter, a 3-band EQ, Allen & Heath roots, a crossfader, and that isolator that I'm curious about but which doesn't necessarily have to get in the way. It's roughly twice the price of the Ecler Nuo 4.0F, though. There isn't necessarily a hard maximum budget, but the extra features have to be worth the additional money.

The Union Audio Four.Valve seems to offer quite similar features to the Elara, but with rotary controls. Does that actually add something worthwhile, or would I simply be paying more for a different way of controlling the same things?

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! I'm genuinely curious to hear your thoughts and experiences. One moment I'm absolutely convinced that the Elara is the one, an hour later the Nuo 4.0F has become my favourite, and by the time I go to bed I'm somehow convinced that the Xone is the right choice again because of its 4-band EQ.

I'd really appreciate any input from people who have experience with these mixers and can help me understand what would actually suit the way I DJ.

UPDATE

I got an Subzero DRM-400 (similar to the Omnitronic TRM402) and quite enjoy the first mixes on it!

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I have not been always happy with either of the big systems stems, but have not found a better alternative without high fees. What are yall doing and which systems are working best for you?

I'm an unc dj from the era of vinyl and piss poor digital, all we had were instrumentals and acapellas at best with low grade extras for live playing. The new controllers and stems are cool as hell for live remixing and flips, but they separations never feel right.

So I'm asking what the rest of us are doing, whats actually working for you live vs studio. This ol dog wants to learn the new trick or at least the better tools to use crew.

I’ve been trying to start posting mixing content this summer and some of my less effective reels (the ones that get 20-30 likes) have been getting a lot of shares.
When I see this on my page it’s usually due to people mocking the DJ and finding the reel so bad it’s funny so they need to share it.
I primarily want to know this in order to think about whether I should raise my standard for postable mixes.
Any advice to raise engagement and boost the reels success would also be greatly appreciated!

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im getting the Numark NS7II soon and im really pumped. i found out there was a screen display i can get for it but i cant find it anywhere not even second hand. am i not looking hard enough or does it just not exist anymore?

TLDR: Looking for a quality XLR splitter - 2in / 4out, so I can hook up 2 pairs of speakers

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I use a pair of Focal Shape 65's as my dj monitors. Recently I came across a crazy good deal on a second set of the same speakers and bought them. I'd like to see how it sounds in my space to use all 4 speakers, and feel surrounded in sound.

I use a Xone 96 mixer which has multiple outputs, so under normal circumstances I'd have no issues making it work, but I also have MasterSounds FX unit and a desktop isolator w/ 2 outputs, which adds a wrinkle into how the sound gets outputted to the speakers.

Normally the isolator gets plugged into the Master Insert on the Xone 96, but the MasterSounds FX already occupies the Master Insert, because that's how the filter section connects. So if I want to hear and record the final output of the mixer, fx and isolator, I have to connect it this way:

1. MasterSounds FX into Master Insert as well as Send/Return
2. Xone 96 out to Isolator
3. One isolator output to 1 pair of speakers and another isolator output to my recording device (Scarlett 2i2 >laptop).

This means I have no more outputs on my isolator to plug the 2nd set of speakers into. If I plug the second set of speakers into an available output on the mixer, those speakers won't capture the isolator in my recordings.

So is a 2 into 4 XLR splitter the best way to run 4 speakers, or is there a better way without compromising sound quality at all?

Thanks!

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