Always about helping you learn to become a DJ

This site has always, and will always be here to help you learn how to become a DJ. This 'home' page on this site contains news and info about the book, and the rest of the site contains info about DJ equipment, how to mix, and some video and audio clips to help you, and support the info in the book.

It's been a busy time since the book's release, and I still need to edit and upload pages on here about Advanced Mixing Techniques, Scratching, Professional DJ Equipment, DJing Live, Getting Work as DJ - and a few more - but I think the black-spots on the site have now disappeared for the time being. Take a look through the menu bar at the top, and you'll fine all the aspects of how to get you started as a new DJ.

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We all know it's dumb, but face it, we all have a MySpace page. Feel free to add me as a friend if you're involved with any of the following (clicking on the link takes you to my page):

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Chatroom

As an extension to the forum, the UserPlane chatroom allows us all to 'chat' - but more importantly, play music over the internet to each other.

Check out the forum for instructions on how to make this work, and to log-in to see if anyone's online.

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Digital DJing

The New Era

Digital DJing has moved on from just the realms of (now pretty much defunct) MiniDisc and the every popular CD DJing - the laptop and PC DJ is considered as the new kid on the block. Over the years I've ran this site, it's been interesting to see how, at first, nearly all questions were about vinyl, and then from about 1998, there was a huge shift to more people asking about CD equipment - and now, more and more, I get asked about what to do for laptop DJing. And, as this is something that's not covered in huge detail in the book, I figured it was about time I threw something on here.

I've gone digital

Well, not quite yet - but like it says on the front page of this site, I'm waiting for the arrival of Traktor Scratch - the full set up with time-coded CDs and vinyl.

Why? Well, two reasons. The first is that I really miss using turntables, but it's easier, and cheaper to get music as CDs or MP3's, so I've been using the CDJ1000's for a couple of years now. But the second reason is that Digital DJing is becoming more and more popular, and I'm getting asked more and more about it. Though I'm happy to answer setup questions etc, I'm the kind of guy who isn't happy talking about something unless I know 100% how it connects, sets up and works - so I figured I'd splash out on the full set up.

I'm going to make a video 'blog' on here and on YouTube covering setup, quirks, and the use of it - so hopefully any questions you'll have will be answered as you see me going through teething issues with it. Hopefully it'll work out alright!

A bit of a cheat

In the meantime, by 'throw something up here' - I'm just going to leave a link to the Native Instruments page - which covers your options incredibly well. Sure, you can look at Torq, Final Scratch, Serato, PCDJ and many others too - but Traktor, by Native Instruments is my current favourite, and if nothing else, this page on their website goes through the many options available to the digital DJ, from basic laptop DJing to full on vinyl controlled computer DJing.