Want to start dj

I used to run a 2 x CD system in a Knightclub in a Medieval Theatre Restaurant (No... not a spelling mistake) with a simple desk, cross fader and light and smoke machine and now do swim meets and competitive carnivals with a couple of iPAds into a 4 track mixer fed into the club's PA system. By no means professional, but a sound knowledge of target audience keeps them moving and awareness of BPM keeps the flow. Your drummin gexperience should help greatly withthis, as many people just can't seem to get it right.

Sorry if you were after more about recording side... my DJ experience is purely entertainment.

drummers make great club DJs, all my friends who spun great sets in teh rave era were drummers first

other than that DJing is not hard.... vinyl is harder but still not terribly hard unelss you're going to do stunts like scratching. You need a good pair of DJ headphones and to elarn how the mixers, decks and/or controllers work. Not complicated stuff. I've enver done modern Cd or p3 DJing, i used some denon CDJ stuff in the 90s, but that's hopelessly antiquated now... I mostly spun 12 inches and favored technics of course. The other thing you need is taste of your own and a little sense of humor and playfulness.... this is a curatorial process mainly and the creativity is mainly in addng some fects with EQ and muting to build the itnensity for dancers and more importantly its in song selection that has a sense of excitement and an occasional wink and a laugh. Or that's what I think. i ahd a buddy who opened with the 20th Century Fox fanfare and then used to always mix in the theme froms tar wars somewhere later with some minimal kick-driven techno holding down the beat udner it, dead honest. You get it.

cheers, pick a format to start on (I really recommend vinyl as it will teach you a lot about beat matching and creating counter rhythms during crossfades to pick thigns up or slow them down.... also, extending drum breaks and stuff on old records is way cooler with double 12" copies), gear up and get practicing at your house -- I always liked to keep some classic shit that's more songish in my sets like donna summer, kratwerk, isaac hayes, depeche mode, curtis mayfield, steely dan, p-funk, rick james etc and if you have double copies and people don't wanna hear the whole song you cna extend the aprt that's exciting them by cuing anotehr copy or you can sue soemthing mdoern and electronic aginst these tunes and crosfade fully to the modern techno or house record while you re-cue the big dance section of that vintage, non-electronic funky-dico-ey shit

https://youtu.be/g8huXkSaL7o?t=12s

I actually am really tickled by the way this guy said "we all want the production of the good sound". That syntax is great.... "THE good sound." Its also funny he posted this in the a DJ thread in the synth forum. Spam smarter people, spam smarter. I mean, its possibleeh's some sort of semi-sentient spam-bot I guess. Do they have that sort of technology? This is just coherent enough that if it was done by a spam app its pretty impressive.