Mobile DJ TRY Video Mixing to Gain More Revenue

0:00 You're a basic mobile DJ and all you play is music

Alright guys, hopefully this video will inspire you, a bit of a demonstration tutorial, but mainly inspire you into hopefully taking your DJ show, your roadshow to the next level. So, you're a basic mobile DJ and all you play is music. Now I have in front of me the DDJ-RB from Pioneer. It's at the moment September 2016, their entry level controller. This controller, the RB, comes with rekordbox software as standard. In the box there will be a small card with a code on. Go online, download the rekordbox software, type in the code and you will have the rekordbox program so you can use that to mix with, along with the hardware, the DDJ-RB. So, you buy files, mp3s and you play them. That's pretty much all you can do. You haven't got anything else, you've just got the audio file.

But imagine if you started mixing video as well. Now, I need to make this very clear and it may not sync in now, but hopefully in a half an hour later or tomorrow, or you're on the bus and you go, bloody hell! And everyone around you will go, what's wrong with him or her? It will sync in and you'll have a eureka moment. When you buy an mp3 file, that's all you can do. You can just play the music. Nothing else, you just play the music. When you buy a video audio file... You can just, if you want to, just play the music. You don't have to have video as well. Even though while the music file is playing, the video file will be playing also. The video program will be playing in the background. But you have two options. One is you can go to a function and you can say to your client, I'm a regular DJ, I can play normal music, thank you very much.

Here's the amount and away you go and you play normal tracks, mp3 tracks. The next week you could be playing exactly the same tracks, but you could have a big screen in front of you and you can be playing video as well as audio. So you've got the two options. Now this video also is about showing you how you don't have to beat match. You don't have to mix. I know a lot of mobile DJs including myself who will spend 90% of the time at a normal wedding function not mixing. There's no point. You chop one in, chop one out, chop one in, chop one out. Just so long is the part. The times where you chop them in work, it's in key, they sort of gel together, it sounds good. That's all really that matters. Most of the general public out there who go to a run-of-the-mill mobile gig wouldn't know a mix even if you threw it at them and said look, bang, here it is.

They'd go, uh, sausages.

2:54 My laptop's playing up at the moment

Uh, hello. They wouldn't know. Alright? So, Gordon City ready for your love and okay imagine this is playing along in the background. I'm just going to skip a little bit through to this. We'll go to about there. Hold on. It's alright. My laptop's playing up at the moment. It's not the program. I'm going to go to Jessie J and Domino. Alright so again, alright now imagine now that's playing in the background. No actually I'm going to put it to there. Otherwise it's not going to give me much. Much time. So, what I'm about to do now is what you'd be doing on the headphones. So this is headphones now. Okay? So I've cued that up. So, we're into Jessie J. Alright so Jessie J's playing in the background. Let's find something else.

4:18 To you how easy it

Have a look. Um, I think I was going to use... Yeah, that. Now this is actually one of my favourite tracks. It's very commercial but I do like this track Scream and Shout. So, just like the bass line as well. Okay. Okay, so let's go towards the end of Jessie J. Both volumes up. So again very random sort of demonstration straight tutorial. But mainly what I'm trying to do is explain to you how easy it is. Um, alright there is a cost involved to get video files. Now there's a website out there called Extendermix.eu. There'll be a link in the description down there. They do video files. Now like I said at the beginning of this video, you do not have to from day one think you have to become a video DJ. But let's imagine this.

Let's just imagine for one second. Let's say you've been a DJ for ten years, a mobile DJ. If you'd have started investing in video files three or four years ago, by now you would have a substantial back catalogue that will enable you to become a video DJ now. So you know, you can earn more money. You can definitely earn more money because you're bringing something else to the table. No longer are you just a regular DJ playing music. You are a DJ who can become a video mixing DJ. Now also if we go back around about ten years, you would have had to have bought a very expensive video stroke audio mixer and a couple of players. And ten or so years ago, I don't think so. But you know there weren't any video files online for you to download.

I don't think so. Don't quote me there. But you could of course buy the DVDs that were very expensive. Put them in the players. They took a long time to load. It was fanatical. It was a nightmare. But actually the amount you spent on a mixer and two CD players or DVD players, you could have pretty much bought a brand new family small clip. Literally. That's how expensive it is. Nowadays, the DDJ-RB, you can pick one of these up very, very cheaply and you can become a video DJ. How have I got this set up? Very simple. Audio out via the RCA into little monitor speaker over there. USB into my laptop. Out of my laptop, I've got that into the monitor. That monitor there is just for gaming. For demonstration purposes now.

But it's no different as, let's say having from the out of each either HDMI or the blue cable. I forget what it's called. Please tell me down there. Duh! You can go directly into a projector, a massive projector and if your projector has got in and outs you can go from the laptop into the one projector in and then out of that into the next projector. So theoretically, you could have an entire room full of screens and you could be deeply DJing on something as simple as the DDJ-RB. Alright? So I hope that's been a help, bit of inspiration there. Get out there and start earning a bit more money. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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