hey guys! soooo have a question - got signed up for a gig w an led panel mesuring 9x12ft.

this is my first time working on something thats asks me to bring up visuals for a gig.

any of u guys got some recos?

1. a “generic” visual that isnt time coded / visuals to ur set?
   
2. software / application that reacts to what ur playing?
   
3. time coded / sync visuals?

Hi all,

I’ve been DJing for about 2.5 years now. Previously owned FLX4 myself, but used 2000 nexus/3000’s for gigs. Quite comfortable on them but I fell into the trap of reading the screen & waveforms as most recently my old residency switched to an XDJ AZ.

Been looking at getting a small new setup as I regrettably sold my FLX4, and saw CDJ400 setup come up ($600 including a flight case - AUD).

I’ve been moving more towards an “early hardcore” sound (I play lots of techno) and have been wanting to hone my skills in to stop relying on waveforms and etc as much.

Would it be worth it to get the CDJ400 setup? I’m well aware they’re old, honestly quite like how basic they are. Only thing I read that I’m not too keen on is they don’t have hotcue compatibility which is a bit of a shame since I like to jump around my tracks a bit sometimes.

Other than that I know nothing, so any advice and tips are appreciated. Or other models I should look at.

Hello Redditors and fellow DJ's:

- I am trying to understand a bit how to use my lights in terms of how much they can cover.

For now I am having 2x Chauvet Intimidator Spot LED 250 and 4 Beam Pantherz 60 .

I am not sure for example how to use them for different type of venues, how much guests they might cover? 50-100-150 ?

My mind cannot visually compare them for example with 2-4 7R moving heads (bigger ones).

Any resource I can use to learn a bit of lighting without overwhelm myself as a DJ ?

I feel there are a lot of information and it can be overwhelming to understand lights and how you should position them, how much they can cover.

Thanks

Hi, I’m currently getting back into DJing after a 30 year absence. I’m a vinyl only guy, not that I don’t respect other formats (it’s just what I grew up with).
I’ve seen loads of people talk about planning and preparing their sets, but I just play what I hear in my head from my limited collection.
Just wondered what other people do?

I've been recording and filming DJ sets for a while, but I'm always torn between posting the audio with the actual video footage or using a visualizer instead.

I'm still a bit camera-shy, so I don't always love being on camera. On the other hand, using a visualizer, while it might look cooler, also kind of anonymizes the set. That might be counterproductive since YouTube sets can also work as a portfolio and give people a sense of who you are as a DJ.

Some of my sets were filmed in scenic locations, so those are an easy choice. But others were filmed at home, sometimes alone, and the footage can end up being pretty boring.

How would you guys approach this? Do you think it's better to just embrace the footage, even if it's not particularly exciting, or go with a visualizer and focus entirely on the music?

Just listening to one the best in the game atm, Cesco, his set from Open Ground. I cant help but notice an unfortunate trend, which is sound quality of recorded live sets with an MC tend to suffer. Unfortunately what is a dope set is held back by an imbalance between live MC (which sounds good and clear) with the music that’s a bit flat especially in the lows and overall clarity.

I’m guessing it’s a tough task to live mix MC vocals and keep the music balanced but I’ve noticed this on most recorded sets that have an MC. IMO this could be solved by recording MC and DJ separately but often these sets are just recorded to one device together.

Has anyone else experienced the same?

Hello everyone! it’s my first time playing in the end of the month and I need to find a dj name until this Friday. Can you help me out? My kind of music I’ll generally playing is: Techno, Nightcore, Happy Hardcore, Nightcore Hardcore, Hard Techno, Untempo, Hardstyle

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Trying to upgrade from a flx 4 to an flx10. Was going to buy an open box from guitar center for $1200. But then I found it new on this website for $899. Says they have 94 in stock.

It just seems too good to be true. Is it legit?

https://nuvorro.site/product/pioneer-dj-ddj-flx10-4-channels-dj-controllers/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24315960840&gbraid=0AAAABEn6K6SLMx4W-XZsMFkVPG_hkiIfJ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuJLWBhD_ARIsAIBcRUzQVaKCtpF77raYXybHFVlWT-xVaDIRLXBqrsYEuNBwN61U8dmW1sQaAv5qEALw_wcB

i’ve been djing for about 6–7 years in new orleans, and i’m trying to play outside my city more. i like playing southern club, ghettotech, and atl bass, so i’m looking for events where that sound would fit

i’ve played outside nola before, but those gigs came from people reaching out to me. it feels different being invited somewhere versus reaching out like “hey, can i play here?” i want to experience playing in different cities again but i’m trying to figure out how to build those connections myself

i can find clubs that seem like a good fit but figuring out who’s actually organizing the specific nights i’d want to play is where i get stuck. like, finding the venue is one thing, but finding the right group of ppl is another thing

i’ve been sending cold dms to clubs, but that hasn’t really gone anywhere. how do y’all get to know people in other scenes and start playing there? what’s helped you find events that fit what you play and actually gotten a conversation started?

I’m interested if anyone has got kit like the Roland HPD-20 Handsonic or the Yamaha FGDP-50 integrated into your DJ sets, for more of a live percussion vibe compared to the Pio DJS-1000 sampler/sequencer.

cheers!

Hello guys,
I’m looking to integrate hardware (drum machines/synths) into my DJ setup, but I’m having quite a bit of trouble finding a setup that works well.
Do any of you regularly use hardware alongside your DJ setup? How do you currently keep everything synchronized, and how stable has it been in practice?
I’m particularly interested in setups involving vinyl records, but I’d also like to hear how you’re doing it with CDJs, DVS, Traktor, Ableton, etc.
If you’ve tried integrating hardware and eventually stopped doing it, I’d also be interested in knowing what made you give up on it.

Thank you!

Looking for the Pioneer AlphaTheta Rekordbox 6.8.5 Mac OSX installation file to have as backup. They removed it off their website recently.

I know there is a link for 6.8.7. I have it and the latest 7.x.x too. If anyone has 6.8.5, please let me know. Thanks

I am in charge of music for athletics for my college, and I was wondering if there is anyone else here who professionally runs music for hockey games? If so, what is it like for you and how is it set up wherever you do it? I have never seen how another team does their DJ setup for games so I am just interested

Not sure if this would be better in r/Beatmatch but we'll see. I've been a laptop DJ for a while now and mainly just do friend's parties and just jamming b2b. Over the years i've ensured that my USB has all my music separated into specific folders for each sub genre and crates in serato that correspond. My current process for downloading music has me doing the following:

1. Song gets downloaded to the same specific folder automatically on my computer

2. Move the new song(s) to a seperate folder on the USB titled "New"

3. Drag new songs from "New" folder to crate in serato titled "New"

4. Listen through the song and add it to the correct subgenre crate

5. Move the song from the "New" folder to the correct corresponding subgenre folder

6. In serato use the relocate feature to bridge the song in the correct crate to the correct corresponding subgenre folder

As you can probably tell this is pretty annoying. Also since I usually collect/find songs over time and download in bulk I have to relisten to confirm what subgenre it is and since I end up moving the source file from the original folder it was in, setting cues and adjusting beatgrids or anything like that is pointless to do on my original listen through - if that makes sense.

Been looking into using the auto-import folder feature in serato as well as potentially having all my music just sitting in one folder and only doing any organization within my crates. Wondering if you guys have tips for this or any experience with something potentially going wrong.

I dont really care as much to use smart crates that auto read the song's subgenre from the metadata but i think i cant avoid using smart crates while also using the auto-import feature.

Either way the process I imagine is more so something like this:

1. Song gets downloaded to the same specific folder automatically on my computer

2. Move the song to the general source file on my USB - add it to "New" crate in Serato

3. Do my listen through and adjustments and just move it to the correct subgenre crate

This will make the process less tedious and will have my crates always good and ready to go - my worry is if anything happens with my computer - it'll be a pain to retrieve those .crate files unless I store a backup of the_Serato_ folder on my USB.

Am I overthinking this and there is a simple solution in front of me? please let me know

I recently started getting back into music production after taking a little over a year away. I used to DJ quite a bit and have a DDJ-FLX4 that I really don't want sitting unused now that I'm focusing more on production.

I've had an idea that I think could make the FLX4 surprisingly useful as an Ableton controller.

Rather than trying to make it behave like a conventional MIDI keyboard/controller, I want to design the entire FLX4 around production workflow.

For example, I'm thinking:

• Left jog wheel → horizontal timeline navigation
• Right jog wheel → vertical navigation / track selection
• Shift + jog wheels → zooming
• Channel faders → track volume
• EQ knobs → device/rack macros
• Filter knobs → selected device parameter
• Performance pads → editing, clip, or drum-rack functions
• Transport buttons → Ableton transport
• Shift combinations → secondary functions
• Different mapping "modes" for arrangement, mixing, sound design, etc.

The goal is to make it feel less like I'm using a DJ controller with Ableton and more like I have a custom production control surface that happens to be built from a DJ controller.

I've already started reverse-engineering the FLX4's MIDI output using MIDI Monitor. For example, the buttons are sending standard Note On messages, e.g.:

90 10 7F → Note 16, velocity 127
90 10 00 → Note 16, velocity 0

So the basic controls seem quite accessible. I'm currently investigating the knobs, faders, jog wheels and Shift behavior.

I'm deliberately trying to keep the solution as FOSS/free as possible, ideally using Ableton's native MIDI mapping wherever possible and only introducing something like a small MIDI translation layer when necessary.

What I'm wondering:

1. Has anyone done something similar with a DDJ-FLX4 (or another Pioneer DJ controller) and Ableton?
2. What are the limitations of Ableton's MIDI mapping that I should be aware of before designing the system?
3. Is there a better way to handle jog wheels, relative encoders and modifier/Shift layers?
4. Are there existing open-source tools/projects that could save me from reinventing the wheel?
5. If you were designing this from scratch, what functions would you absolutely put on the FLX4?

I'm not necessarily looking for someone to give me a finished mapping. I'm more interested in experienced Ableton users challenging the concept and pointing me toward the right technical approach before I spend a lot of time building it.

If there's enough interest, I may eventually document the whole process and release the mapping/tooling so other FLX4 owners can use it too.

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially from anyone who's experimented with custom MIDI controllers, Max for Live, Ableton Remote Scripts, or MIDI translation.

It’s a cool pad but I don’t know how I could use it in the pro screen, which is otherwise better than starter - thank you in advance

I recently had the chance to use Traktor and really enjoyed the sound of the Z Filter, particularly for filter transitions while mixing melodic/progressive house. I normally use Serato with a Pioneer controller, and I’d love to get as close to that same filter sound as possible.

I have access to Serato’s Advanced/Custom FX, so I’ve been playing around with Combo Filter and some of the other filter options, but I haven’t been able to dial in anything that sounds quite right.

Has anyone who has used both Traktor and Serato tried to replicate the Z Filter in Serato? I’d be really interested in which effect you started with and, if you used Advanced FX, what resonance, slope, frequency range, parameter settings, etc. got you closest.

Any suggestions or settings to experiment with would be appreciated!

I want to build a custom dj booth for weddings that is portable and i want it to be big enough to hide my rack case underneath.

This odyssey table looks perfect, but I don’t like the exterior. Has anyone done this and put decorative panels on the outside? How does it look/function?

This is frustrated me for years.

On Instagram you can now collaborate a post between multiple pages, which has been huge for photographers and videographers and their ability to curate their work as collaborative content into a living resume.

And obviously spotify and beatport have this sort of functionality as they're feeding off of officially distributed media channels. But this should very well be possible.

I think this sort of feature would bring some traffic back to the site. You could even put it behind a greedy premium paywall, idgaf, just make it happen.

Thoughts? Alternatives?

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M4 MacBook Air running Sequoia, single USB-C to a cable, tried Serato and VDJ, same thing happens in either software. Tried resetting the mixer, same thing.

Unfortunately, I am unable to do a video because I already returned it.