If you’re a new DJ, you might think YouTube is a fantastic source of music for mixing with. After all, it hosts an incredible amount of music. Plus, it’s easy to download videos from YouTube and extract the audio. Meaning you could build a considerable track collection in a matter of hours – and all … Read more
In this guide I want to show you an easy and fast way to extract audio from YouTube videos. This tutorial can also be used if you want to download videos from YouTube and save them to your hard drive. I will also show you how to do this whilst trying to preserve audio and … Read more
Are you a DJ, musician, or a producer? If you are, you’ll know it’s important to share your tracks, mashups and DJ mixtapes. It’s a critical part of music promotion and marketing. If you don’t put your music out there, who will hear it? And these days it’s hard to build a fanbase if your … Read more
In my last blog post, I mentioned the bandwidth problems I’d been having with this website. As my site visitors have grown, I’ve been nearing my monthly bandwidth transfer limits. And I’d been getting repeated warnings of this from my hosting company. In this post, I want to explain how this problem happened, how I … Read more
One of the best things about running your own website is you control everything. Also, because you own and run the platform, you can use professional analytics tools to make investigations. And these tools can show you how visitors use your website. A good analytics tool can give you insight – showing you what’s working … Read more
DJing with turntables is hard, tricky to master, and expensive. Yet many people still mix tunes this way. And many DJs say they find it rewarding and more fun than digital DJ’ing. But how do you actually DJ with turntables? And there any differences DJ’ing with turntables when compared with other types of DJ’ing? Now, … Read more
Are you looking for the latest image dimensions for SoundCloud, Mixcloud, and Hearthis.at? I know I was. And I couldn’t find any good guide on the subject, so I made my own. Every DJ, musician, artist, podcaster and producer knows they need artwork for their favourite music distribution platform. A good looking Soundcloud banner, profile … Read more
The first CDJs were released back in the mid-1990’s. During that decade the availability of dance music on CDs increased, and so did the demand for CD turntables which emulated the look and feel of DJ turntables. Once the first CDJ was released many more DJs started to use CDs in their mixsets. Because DJ’ing … Read more
In recent years there’s been a revival in vinyl sales, resulting in more DJ’s choosing to spin the black discs. So, it should come as no surprise to find that DJ equipment manufacturers are now selling turntables again. Also, the widespread use of DJ’ing programmes, like Serato and Traktor, has accelerated the use of DJ’ing … Read more
A DJ mixer is a tool which allows a person to mix several audio sources and output them as a single ‘mixed’ audio output. DJ mixers work similarly to mixing desks. And mixing desks are often used by bands and they can frequently be seen in music studios. In each case, the audio mixer ‘mixes’ … Read more
I started this website back in 2006. And email has been the primary way I’ve for communicated with my fans since. It’s been the basis of my music marketing. I love email marketing. It’s easy to use, it’s free, and it’s not subject to any algorithmic shenanigans (I’m looking at you Facebook). Now, many will … Read more
Are you a struggling artist or dj trying to grow your fanbase? Are you looking for ways to get more listens, plays and downloads for your tracks, DJ mixes, and mixtapes? Would you like to learn some alternative way to promote your music and your produced tracks? If the answer is a ‘yes’ then read … Read more
DJ’ing Facebook groups – you either love them or hate them. Either way, they’re still a useful method of for promoting your mixtape sets, live mix, production tracks and events. Although this guide mainly focuses on promoting DJ’ing mixes, you can apply the methods outlined to other music you produce and even club nights. In … Read more
Are there still any DJ forums on the internet? Can you still find forums which will allow you to post and promote your DJ mixes? Or has Facebook destroyed them all? I’m still a big fan of internet forums. Even after all these years, I think they provide a better user experience than Facebook groups. … Read more
If you’ve been DJ’ing for a few years, eventually you’ll play at a gig where the DJ’ing equipment is faulty. An easy way to minimise these problems is keeping an emergency DJ equipment kit with you as a backup. This which can help you to solve (or minimise) any problems which may affect your DJ … Read more
Album artwork is essential if you want your DJ mixes to stand out visually. Ideally, every mix you create should come embedded with an individual piece of artwork which advertises your DJ mix, brand and musical theme. Not having an album cover included with your mix makes it look sloppy. Also, the lack of an … Read more
This record ripping guide is useful even if you’re not a DJ. The methods I outline will work for anyone who has the problem of digitising a large collection of filthy vinyls whilst trying maintain good sound quality. Also, the sections on cleaning and handling records is useful for any person who owns a record … Read more