Reply to My last gig thoughts and some basic DJ etiquette guide.

So a couple weeks ago I ended up helping out a really cool dude throw his party. It actually started out that I was only going to be DJ'ing. That is until I found out we where going to be using 90% of my DJ gear. My inventory includes:

DJM900NXS Mixer with Flight Case
2x Techniques 1200MKII with Flight Cases
All My cables and DMX Cables
10 260mW Laser System
6 Foot DJ Table
Skrim DJ Table Cover
2x Light Trusses
Projection system that I designed to display each DJ Name as a Background. That included Logos

Seems like no DJ came early to help set up. Mind you every single DJ was a local DJ not a headliner by any means. This included me. So me and promoter set everything up. Then I set up my system to inteface with the house sound system. This was a black light event so the promoter was a couple black lights short. So I purchased 2 more to help out. We started set up at around 3pm finished by 7pm. Once again no DJ came early enough to help out.
Event Start Time 8pm. The opening DJs come in. To my surprise every single DJ either used a laptop for Ableton Style DJing or Brought a S4 to Mix on Traktor. Here comes the problem. Not one DJ had any clue how to jack into my mixer. Really a Traktor Certified Mixer. /rollface
So I helped each one just use a channel on my mixer instead of using the mixer as an audio card.
The next events is pissed me off. After the DJs finished there set. They left and took small group of people they came with in the same car. So basically each DJ brought around 4 or 5 people. So as the evening came to an end we had no help tear down so we could have gotten out of there quickly.
In my day DJs had to earn their spot and pay dues. I will present the rules we used to live by.
1) Promote the event your playing at.
2) Come early and help set up. This includes knowing where your gear will set up. If you can have a sound check that would be awesome.
3) After you complete your set. Stay and support the other DJs and also this supports the promoter who is doing the event. This also allows you to mingle and network yourself to other promoters and EDM fans.
4) At the end of the event offer to help and tear down the system.
Last Advice: Please don't use Youtube to MP3 rips. 96kbs/128kbs MP3 sound horrible

Thanks for reading guys and hope this helps others out there