Want to be a DJ?

DJ - disc jockey, I am referring to the person who mixes songs in clubs or discotheque, not the one on fm stations or radios. With new technology and advance computers, we can learn how to mix music in just an hour or a day. Today, it is so easy and if you have the right equipment you can be a dj for just an hour or two, so what are the basic equipment :

This setup is what we call "in the box" because we will be using a computer and a software for mixing the music.

•  Desktop or laptop computer - probably a dual core processor with 1gigabyte of memory, 250gigabytes of hard drive will do or you can upgrade to a much higher hard drive if your audio database is so big. You can also use an external hard drive for you audio database.

• Audio mixing software - there are a lot of audio mixing software that you can use. Some had free trial and free to download as well. We had Virtual DJ, PC DJ, BPM Studio and many more. You could use the basic program. Important to check on this mixing program is that they have a cue button, pitch or tempo control, a crossfader panel and maybe a bpm (beats per minute) reader.

• Headphones - this will be used for cueing  the next music to be mix.

• MP3 music - this will be your choice of audio format for the music that will be used for mixing on your audio mixing software. Use your friend google.com to help you where to download remix or extended songs. If you had cd audios, you can try to ripped those songs to mp3s.

• External speakers - for audio monitor, you can listen your mixed songs and check if the beat are in sync. You can add stereo amplifiers for your speakers.

Some audio mobile used this kind of setup, others used an external mixer where the laptop or desktop computer are connected.

So, if you want to give it try, give it a shot, who knows maybe next month your on the club scene and your mixing the beat.