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Originally Posted by NewRomantic
It would depend on what they're teaching you. See, if it was club-style jocking, it MIGHT be worth the exorbitant amount they mentioned. That's what gets the jobs these days. If they're only teaching you what a mixer is and watching the cake cutting, it's bullshit because half of it is common sense and the rest can be learned on almost any crappy "so you wanna be a DJ" websites.
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This is true. Big clubs want the mixing skillz. I'd probably even consider that price if it could lead to getting paid to re-mix tracks, either directly for an artist or through a remix service.
I won't knock non-mixing DJs neither, mobile or otherwise, because they all have to deal with unpleasant people at one time or another, and that alone takes a special skill. It's like me going into your place of employment and telling you how to do your job. Not cool unless you're paying me well to do the job for you.
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Originally Posted by NewRomantic
Honestly, I think these people are wasting their time unless you have money to burn. The music and equipment investment is damned expensive and it takes time to get started. I think they're also going to run into a mentality out there they won't enjoy these days when "bridezillas" are considered entertainment.
There's also a flood on the market now because every jackass under-30 wickprick with a laptop or an iPod and an iTunes account thinks they're a DJ. And because of that, no one wants to pay much now. Anyone remember that last bitch that tried to get me to do her daughter's birthday party for $150 because she was "just a poor single mother" who OWNED HER OWN IMPORT/EXPORT COMPANY? She wanted the prick with the iPod, not me. See why I quit that aspect of the business now?
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Vandelay Industries?
Kidding aside, I agree that the market has become too saturated for this business and people are trying to take jobs for cheap. I've seen ads posted on craigslist in the Phoenix area asking the n00bs to stop lowering their prices because people will come to expect to get the service at a low rate. Standard rate for Mobile DJs is (in my experience) $75+/hr. And that's on the low end. Additionally, the technology available now pretty much does the mixwork for these wickpricks. It's nifty and all that, but give me an analog mixer and turntables and vinyl any day over this PCDJ-iDJ-SeratoScratchmynutz shtuff.
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Originally Posted by NewRomantic
Ultimately, I think it's just going to make things even harder for the DJs that have been busting their ass for years. Besides that, I gave up any real hopes of being a hotshot DJ and earning that kind of admiration and respect and crowd-love a long time ago. I'll save my money and just keep anonymously broadcasting out of my spider hole.
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I always disliked doing mobile gigs - except that the money was decent. I had a residency at a dive bar for 5 years and didn't make much money there, but I usually had fun working. And I like what I'm doing now and having the opportunity to use some creative license here.
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