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Well, Not sure what happened, but a couple of months ago my neighbor asked me if I would DJ a sock hop at her events center. We've boarded our dogs with her for years, and well I couldn't say no. I guess It's because I post all these pictures of my 'record parties' I have on Thursday and Friday nights.
So at any rate, I did get an inexpensive DJ mixer (Might have bought another turntable too. But I already had the pa speakers and cables and stuff, so not a huge investment. Already had the records. Went through and selected a couple of boxes of 45's and a few 12" lps to take.
Loaded up my shop laptop with my entire mp3 collection, loaded up a free DJ app, MIXXX, and set about learning how to work that with the records. I figure I'll play some stuff from the laptop, a bunch off the vinyl and have a good time.
Julie has a food truck showing up and has been advertising on next door and putting up signs around the valley. Everybody in the valley loves Julie, so I expect there will be a bit of a crowd on Friday night.
This is probably a bit outside my comfort zone, but so was joining a band and playing in front of people which I did last year.
Wish me luck!
So at any rate, I did get an inexpensive DJ mixer (Might have bought another turntable too. But I already had the pa speakers and cables and stuff, so not a huge investment. Already had the records. Went through and selected a couple of boxes of 45's and a few 12" lps to take.
Loaded up my shop laptop with my entire mp3 collection, loaded up a free DJ app, MIXXX, and set about learning how to work that with the records. I figure I'll play some stuff from the laptop, a bunch off the vinyl and have a good time.
Julie has a food truck showing up and has been advertising on next door and putting up signs around the valley. Everybody in the valley loves Julie, so I expect there will be a bit of a crowd on Friday night.
This is probably a bit outside my comfort zone, but so was joining a band and playing in front of people which I did last year.
Wish me luck!