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Acer make a cracking machine for very reasonable money. Ots do not officially support OtsDJ on Vista as yet but you can make it work if you follow theses instructions lovingly borrowed from "another place": I doubt I can link to another forum so won't bother but would suggest Googling "OtsDJ Support" would be a good idea and should help point you in the right direction for all your Ots related questions. smile icon Can't tell you about any other programs I'm afraid as I don't use them.

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I have read most of Gary's posts across a number of forums and if he can get in a dig he will, he is the one who is finding it hard to be objective. Rubbish, I have bit my tongue for over 4 months on this very subject whilst reading jibe after jibe from Gary about how laptop/PC users are somehow "inferior" and that the new Denon is the best thing since sliced bread and a cure for all world ills... Enough already! Big up your product by all means but stop insinuating that people who don't use it are not worthy/less professional etc. etc. etc. Take the blinkers off

So all the users of OtsDJ/PCDJ etc were not running their music professionally prior to 2007? You work for Denon, have a new product to push and don't like laptops and DJ Software, we get it already! :wall: Has anyone ever told you that trying to plug your product and do down every other possible hard drive solution in nearly every post you make is becoming very very boring? Yawn... :zzz:

It all depends on who you talk too. I have been informed by a number of Digital DJs across the pond (and by a few of the tech guys here) that WD are proving to be much less reliable (for stand alone drives that is) than Seagate. It is also worth noting that Maxtor, one of the other major players, are owned by Seagate and all Maxtor units now have Seagate drives inside.

Two points I would make in relation to the survey: I believe there has been a significant increase in the number of couples choosing to marry abroad due to the cost of marrying here, most of these will return to the UK and still have a "reception" with a disco. Secondly, after studying the figures and small print on the Office of National Statistics website I can only conclude that the above marriage figures does not include Civil Partnerships. There has been a considerable growth in these "unions" over 2006 and I believe that this trend will continue in 2007/8. Th

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Gary, many DJs like using a laptop with a software solution, have had zero issues with their set ups no matter what the temperature in the venue and are not interested in buying your new Denon unit. Get over it! :moon:

Chris I hope you don't mind me mentioning what I am about to post, but I feel it is relevant so here goes. I visit a Wedding Forum reguarly and last year I read with interest a thread entitled "How Much Is Your Disco?" which had Brides from across the UK explaining what they were paying. The cheapest as I recall was £125 and the most expensive just shy of £500. There are lots of reasons that the thread stuck in my head but there was one thing I saw I remember thinking to myself "I have to tell him" but I never got round to it. :aa A young B2B was enthusing about the profession

I respect your position and understand your points, I really do, I am my own worst enemy when it comes to discussing the "North/South" thing, I can't help stating my mind! So... So you know what your usual clientèle will pay for an evenings entertainment, but you don't know what everyone in your area will pay, that's the difference. But not all? So someone in your area is earning more money per gig then? The thing is, until I stumbled across the website of another company in Surrey that was charging £395 a gig (that was 5 years ago), I would never ha

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I don't agree, you are just talking to the wrong people. There are plenty of people in Surrey where I live and work who want to pay less than £150 for a disco and will find people to do it. I'm not interested in working at that figure so I don't get involved. When you buy a car you have a choice, you might look at a used car, a reasonably priced new car or a Porsche 911. Each vehicle will get you were you want to go but you have a budget and will go with the car that suits your budget best. You can shop in Aldi, Tesco or M&S, they all sell you food but all target dif

Just a thought for you to ponder, albeit a very basic assumption... If you go out for £125 a time and entertain up to 800 people over 4 gigs you are indeed putting yourself in front of a larger potential client base than if you do one £500 gig in front of 200. However, assuming that most people move within similar social circles you are putting yourself in front of 800 people who are only probably prepared to pay £125 for a DJ. Likewise the 200 people at the £500 gig are more likely to pay top dollar for entertainment if they have a party. Think about it, if you are entert

UK DJ's charging a realistic fee for their services shocker... :scared:

All the best for the day Pete, unfortunately I am already booked but if anything changes I will try and get along for a pint and a sausage roll. Good luck to you both. :Thumbup:

Now you have totally lost the plot... :scared:

Do business yes, but helping a colleague in trouble is never a problem for Marky (or me), it's a completely different kettle of fish. They may have lost out because they were not sensible enough to invest in a little protection for their big purchase but they certainly haven't lost anything because of me.

I fail to see how getting what you are owed is treating someone badly? You have been contracted to provide a service and they have accepted the terms & conditions of that contract. Should the need arise and you decide you have to enforce the terms & conditions because you will be out of pocket then that's the way it is. Hopefully they will have had the foresight to protect this major investment (i.e. the Wedding) from the "unknown" by investing in Wedding Insurance. If you make a business decision not to pursue the rest of the fee or enforce your Terms & Conditions

As I said to you the other day Brian i'm sure I read somewhere before chrimbo that the law (or a law) was supposed to be changing so that any self employed person working through an agent must be paid no later than 7 days after they have done the job, irrespective of whatever terms the agency has agreed with the client. I'll need to see if I can find the article again before you can treat that as gospel though! Got a feeling in my water Mikeee may have mentioned it somewhere and I read it on a link connected to that...

Do it for free? Every time I have done a gig in the past for a friend or family member they have ended up being the biggest pain in the backside! A few years ago I agreed to do a Wedding for a friend. Fairly local in a large marquee running from 8PM to Midnight on a Saturday in August. I agreed to do it for free as a Wedding present (even though we still got them something small of their list... ). I ended up setting up at Midday and finishing at 2 AM plus hiring (and paying for) an emergency generator because they did not have enough power in the marquee to run a ke

I just did a quick check on a few Wedding Insurance policies as they all have cancellation and/or re-arrangement cover and none of them (so far) use the weather as a get out clause in the small print, they will all pay out. Therefore I can't see how any court could side with a bride & groom if they tried to get out of paying by citing "act of god". If adverse weather leading to a cancellation can be covered under a standard Wedding Insurance policy it cannot be described as an "act of god". Besides i'm an atheist, they ain't getting out of paying... :devil:

Based on my current Terms & Conditions the full fee would become due regardless. However I don't have to try and enforce them so if I was free in 4 months time I would simply reschedule the booking and try and get another booking for that evening. If I was not available in 4 months time but able to secure another booking of at least the same value for that night then I probably would just retain the deposit and leave it at that. If I was unavailable in 4 months time and unable to get another gig that evening I would ask for payment in full as per our contract. After all that

A very good point that I missed... My laptop has only OtsDJ & XP on it and your test machine should have as little extra software as possible on it too.

I would charge the same rate as had been agreed for the block booking at Christmas, assuming that a little discount was applied due to having a decent number of dates at the same venue. You could do a nice freebie, they would say thanks and book again through the same agent for next Christmas, but there is no guarantee that the agent is going to get you to do the next lot of bookings is there? If he doesn't you would have done a free gig that he and another DJ will get the benefit of. No one gets any gig for free off me, discounted maybe but never free, not even family... :hide:

A good point, which is why I have ripped to Flac in the first instance, because it is exactly the same audio quality as a WAV (it is lossless), about a third smaller in size, can be tagged (like an MP3) and you can make copies using dBpowerAMP in any format you choose (i.e WMA, MP3, WAV, OGG Vorbis etc. etc.), as many times as you like. No need to re-rip any CDs. :Thumbup: