Ikea DJ Booth Problems !!

Haha nah, I know of tons of local Dj's that are technically better. But a very wise dj once told me long ago. He said "you are there for the people, not for yourself. So put on a show they will never forget." I try to make every gig memorable in some way.

Places where i dj, i definitely want to see people, and interact with them. I will often pull people onstage, let them say something into the mic, or press a few buttons on the midifighter. Sometimes i'll leave the booth with my ipad running lemur, and go into the crowd, and ask some random person if they wanna mix in the next song, lol they totally freak (obviously i help them). It's all about the fun, and the crowd loves it. Djing is about creating atmosphere, and it doesn't really matter how you do that.

You missed out;

'I hate to be the old guy....boring performer....and unable to give the people watching me a proper show, but I love having giant, un-needed pieces of wood blocking my view of a crowd and wrapped around my CDJs which when Pioneer change the shape and I wish to upgrade my mixer will make this stand useless'

Seriously dude, if you believe his comment about not being able to see the DJs face was wrong - you need to get out of DJing right now. Just quit. As you've just answered your own questions to perhaps why you don't get as many gigs as you want.

DJing is much more than standing behind a booth pressing some buttons and chopping some channels. 1985 called, they love your DJ style!

I recently moved from Ohio to Chicago and am living in a small space, so I couldn't take my Ikea larger DJ booth(yet). I was going to build a smaller one that would fit in my current place and went to Ikea in Chicago...was sad to find that they don't have the Capita angle brackets there. I wound up with just one of their desks and shelf brackets (~$40 total)...sufficient for now, but the desk height is too low.

Anyway, does anyone know if the Capita angle brackets are still available elsewhere?

Is that because you play bars mdc??? bars are not clubs, people go to bars to drink socially and talk with their friends, they usually couldn't care less about what the dj is doing as they will go to a club after having a warm up in a bar. On the other hand people go to clubs to

1. pickup
2. get drunk etc..
3. dance
4. listen to music "this is after dancing as most don't care what you play they just want to dance to fulfill No 1"

Probably in that order of importance... Granted your list while being similar is probably in a different order, but most of your crowd believe about a evening out in a club like that.

That is retarded bro, you are there to entertain the audience... How are you going to know if they are enjoying themselves if you just stare at your screen or controller.. I by no means believe that you should play top 40 and sell your soul to please a crowd, but the dance floor has changed from the early 2000's when I started going out, now about 80% (yes I pulled that figure out of my arse) of the crowd just look at the dj the whole time.

Also when you say you don't want to be admired for standing there, you do want to be admired for your creativity behind the controller, in reality you are ruining songs to boost your ego. Dance music survived 20 years with just a filter on the mixer, nothing has changed about the production value, in fact I would suggest that more effects get used in production than ever before, why do you need to add more???

Maybe Sobi isn't an extrovert and believes the music is the most important aspect of a gig. I dunno!

Haha nah, I know of tons of local Dj's that are technically better. But a very wise dj once told me long ago. He said "you are there for the people, not for yourself. So put on a show they will never forget." I try to make every gig memorable in some way.

Places where i dj, i definitely want to see people, and interact with them. I will often pull people onstage, let them say something into the mic, or press a few buttons on the midifighter. Sometimes i'll leave the booth with my ipad running lemur, and go into the crowd, and ask some random person if they wanna mix in the next song, lol they totally freak (obviously i help them). It's all about the fun, and the crowd loves it. Djing is about creating atmosphere, and it doesn't really matter how you do that.

Bolingbrook location? I was just there and they don't have them

I'm going to Schaumburg this weekend and hopefully they will have them.

Is that because you play bars mdc??? bars are not clubs, people go to bars to drink socially and talk with their friends, they usually couldn't care less about what the dj is doing as they will go to a club after having a warm up in a bar. On the other hand people go to clubs to

1. pickup
2. get drunk etc..
3. dance
4. listen to music "this is after dancing as most don't care what you play they just want to dance to fulfill No 1"

Probably in that order of importance... Granted your list while being similar is probably in a different order, but most of your crowd believe about a evening out in a club like that.

That is retarded bro, you are there to entertain the audience... How are you going to know if they are enjoying themselves if you just stare at your screen or controller.. I by no means believe that you should play top 40 and sell your soul to please a crowd, but the dance floor has changed from the early 2000's when I started going out, now about 80% (yes I pulled that figure out of my arse) of the crowd just look at the dj the whole time.

Also when you say you don't want to be admired for standing there, you do want to be admired for your creativity behind the controller, in reality you are ruining songs to boost your ego. Dance music survived 20 years with just a filter on the mixer, nothing has changed about the production value, in fact I would suggest that more effects get used in production than ever before, why do you need to add more???

Maybe Sobi isn't an extrovert and believes the music is the most important aspect of a gig. I dunno!

You having a bad day petal?