Hi hi! I am starting to get some cool little opportunities and I am in need of a speaker that I can afford but will work for small rooms/parties. For example, coming up, I am DJing a yoga class and a pool day on a bachelorette trip! This is listed on FB marketplace near me in the box for $150. I have the FLX4. Do you think this is a good deal? https://www.bestbuy.com/product/pioneer-psx615-700w-15-party-speaker-with-auracast-rgb-led-lights-includes-wireless-microphone-stand/J3PR7PXRXX/sku/12312317

Hey everyone!

I'm having a really frustrating issue with my home DJ setup and I'm hoping someone here might have an idea.

I have an AlphaTheta DDJ-GRV6 connected to a MacBook running Rekordbox, and whenever I connect it to my Fosi Audio BT30D amplifier, the capacitive touch detection on both jog wheels stops working.

Here's what I've found so far:

• With the Fosi turned off, both jog wheels work perfectly.
• As soon as I turn the amp on, neither jog detects my hand anymore.
• My MacBook is running on battery power, and the GRV6 is powered through the MacBook.
• I've tried different cables (RCA-to-RCA and 6.3 mm jack-to-RCA).
• I've also tried routing the audio through an external sound card, but the issue remains.
• I bought an RCA ground loop isolator, but it didn't fix anything and introduced crackling noise.
• Touching the metal ground/chassis doesn't make any difference either.

Interestingly, I also tried connecting my MacBook's audio output directly to the Fosi using a jack-to-RCA cable, and the same issue occurred.

So far, everything points to something happening when the Fosi is powered on and connected through an audio cable, but I haven't been able to identify the exact cause.

I actually had to replace my first BT30D because it was faulty and had other issues, so I'm wondering whether the amp or its power supply could be generating electrical interference that affects capacitive touch detection.

Has anyone experienced anything similar with a Fosi amplifier, a BT30D, or capacitive DJ jog wheels? Could this be related to grounding, electrical interference, or the amplifier's power supply?

I'm also contacting Fosi Audio support, but I'd really appreciate any suggestions before buying more equipment just to troubleshoot this.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

EDIT : I found a source. I guess its from parasite EMF. Wehn the Fosi amp. have not any copper cable, everything work fine, but can find the correct way to make the setup... or i think buying ferrite ring
for exemple, when I grab firmly any speaker or RCA cable, and touch the jog, the capacitive work ^^

what are some examples of things that might sound OK when mixing in your headphones, but can sound bad on a larger scale sound system?

Hi all, please be patient with me, a dad who knows nothing but would like to buy a DJ controller for my son's 18th. He's doing a music production course at college, uses a Mac to make music, etc, has MIDI keyboard etc. We thought he might like a DJ mixer too. Can someone advise on a starter DJ controller that would work with Macbook / spotify premium account we have / smartphone type setup, for around £150? I understand some will/won't allow you to hear the next song to cue up in your phones, or you'll need to plug in phones a particular way to do it, is that true?

Anyway thanks for any advice you can offer.

hello! first time posting here

I'm not a new DJ in terms of gear and basic technique (i bought a Traktor S2 MK3 controller in 2021, learned how to DJ using some F1 and X1 controllers owned by my bf then)

However I still feel pretty new as a DJ, mostly because I rarely play to people. Most of the time it's me DJing for myself. I used to have a friend with nice gear setups and a subwoofer so we would meet and play, but she moved cities so I'm back at my room

I do feel confident in some of my abilities (I think my EQ is decent and can create some decent transitions using the magic of looping). But still, considering I have no other DJs to talk to, I'm not sure how good I am (my machine might be 5 years old but I definitely don't practice as much as I should)

I guess I wanna ask: what makes a good DJ? are those qualities unique to a certain genre or style?

I'm sure there's no definitive answer and tbh I just wanna read some discussions about it, mostly to self-check my competence and try to educate myself

Thanks!

For the love of music.

Please leave headroom in your club music 🥲

Other than out-right, poorly-mixed music, its such a shame to come across good tracks that are ruined by being peak-limited beyond what humans thought possible.

Luckily in the genres I primarily like mixing, it isn't super common, but if i dare listen to newly-released tracks in genres like dubstep and drum & bass, half the music is blasted to all hell. Which kinda sucks.

Im wondering if this is to do with the primary scene for that kind of music being around festivals, big and small? Does the FOH go into overdrive (no pun intended) during festivals in order to compensate the horribly mixed/mastered music?

My spotify has been working with Rekordbox since I got rekordbox and my ddj flx4. I have spotify premium. But suddenly, it stopped showing songs inside spotify playlists in my rekordbox and just has a circle spinning. What is the issue? I have completley reinstalled rekordbox multiple times. Nothing works. My free trial has recently ended -- would that be the reason why?

Team,

ecstatic, the energy was crazy. I was a bit nervous starting up but man that was the most fun I’ve had in a very long time. Hopefully this can motivate some people starting out.

I started DJing 3 and 1/2 years ago but mostly stuck in my bedroom minus some work events. I’ve been making 1 hour to 1 1/2 hour mixes to post on soundcloud / YT every few months that has been my most significant means of learning. I never did any tutorials. The road of learning was plenty frustrating. The only time I really ‘practice’ is when I find a new slate of songs I really want to mix and share with others and then get to mixing all of them (I do this once every 3-6 months, taking about 3-7 days to finish the mix). Outside of this, I have gone months in-between mixes without touching my deck.

I collected about 90 songs in the cue (45 brand new songs downloaded this morning/last night I’ve never mixed before) and took about 2-3 minutes for each the day before on a dry run feeling out how each song works and finding good transition points. I went off track a little bit the first 3 hours but the last hour and a half was straight improv picking songs to match the crowd’s energy. The crowd wasn’t there for house music at all (morale day work event) but I had people jumping up and getting loud (yes, at a work event) for the entire final hour and a half.

Earlier times I performed I would rarely go off-script from what I know but what has helped me get really good free-styling was:

- Practicing mixing with songs I’ve never mixed before, trying something out while continuing to the next transition even if the last one didn’t work

- Having/practicing a good set of go-to mixing methods that work for literally 90% of my transitions

- Forcing myself to recover from mistakes in the moment while practicing rather than restarting a transition

- And the most significant: getting over the fear of putting myself out there and finding opportunities/events to mix at. Every time I’ve mixed this year infront of a crowd was straight from volunteering and inserting myself, and every time I did this the experience made me a 10x better DJ. Same as signing up for a race to motivate someone to start running, signing yourself up to DJ forces you to train out of a desire to want to do good when the day comes. Both occasions, I ran out of planned songs and had to go off-script and both occasions end up garnering extremely good results and a ton of compliments.

The plan is to start DJing at venues when I’m able to in a few months, I feel overwhelmingly more than ready now whereas as a few months ago I had a ton of nervousness around that.

4 1/2 hours all on a cheap DDJ FLX-4! I hope this pushes someone else starting the journey.

Curious what’s your favorite. Mine are below. Happy Sunday. May you listen to great music and take things one moment at a time.

I absolutely love a 7am sun rise set where I start slow with cup of coffee and build up energy. A good 2-3 hour set.

4-7pm. Sunny out and then playing in golden hour. Magic.

9-pm til whenever I get tired. This is awesome on a Thursday night when work will be light the next day or Friday night after a week of work. Crack open a beer, have a mezcal, and light one up. Drift off into the night.i I’ve done doing 2-5 hours sets this way

Has anyone else had this issue with Rekordbox before when using a FLX-200? The option 'Use monaural for Master Output and Headphones Output' in preferences keeps unchecking itself when I close the preferences page, screenshot in comments. I'm almost certain this only started happening recently so I'm guessing some update broke it, but I haven't updated Rekordbox in a very long time so it wasn't a Rekordbox update. The output volume in the speakers lower when selecting which song to cue or when using master cue. I'm pretty sure this option deselecting itself is the issue.

I’m a beginner hobby DJ using a SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7 that I already own, connected with a 3.5 mm cable.

I mostly play at home or with friends on a FLX4, and I haven’t had any issues with the headphones.

I recently played my first gig at a medium-sized outdoor event using CDJ-3000Xs and a V10. I brought the same headphones and had no trouble cueing or hearing what I needed.

I see the HD 25 recommended a lot, so I’m wondering whether dedicated DJ headphones would make a noticeable difference for my use. Is there anything I might be overlooking with the Nova 7?

I don’t gig regularly and don’t expect to anytime soon. Would you keep using them until there’s an actual problem, or is there a good reason to switch?

i havent bought a real deck but i got virtual dj down. i have a show next week and have a mix ready; but i only know how to play it off my laptop. my friend has a dj deck that they’ll let me use, but i dont know if I have enough time to translate it over

I really need help finding the bpm of "2special" by Swimming Paul. Most of the internet says 82-83, beat port says 100, rekordbox says 87.

None of them fit the beat grid right.

Does anyone have advice?

I recently posted about a private event that I was DJing and whether I should let tracks play out or mix quickly. Well, here are the results.

I arrived about an hour before I was set to play music. The venue is a restaurant/bar and they had their own controller, a DDJ-1000srt. I have been practicing on a FLX-4 and honestly, it was a bit intimidating. Anyway, I open my laptop up and launch Rekordbox, and nothing happens. I'm playing around with system settings before I ended up googling for help. Well, I found out right there that this controller is only compatible with Serato. Great.

I download Serato quickly and then connect the controller. Now It tells me I need a driver. Download the driver and then I kept getting an error message "Failed to connect to audio!" Great, another hiccup. Keep in mind, I'm using my wife's Mac, and I am not a mac user at all.

Anyway, finally figured out that issue and then came the next one. Since I just got started with DJing a few months ago, I stream my music from Spotify. Serato keeps telling me "Streaming server could not be reached." I closed Serato, reset the laptop a few times and kept getting this message. It's now about 15-20 minutes before I'm set to start. I'm sweating bullets.

I am so fortunate (and 1000% grateful) that my friend came by to check his laptop (he was going to be DJing the following day) with the controller. His worked perfectly fine, including Spotify streaming. He let me use his laptop for the evening. Thank goodness.

On to the set. I mentioned that I have been using Rekordbox, where all of my hot cues are programmed. Sooo basically I had zero cues and had to do a bit of improvising with tracks. Not going to lie, some of my transitions were messy, but you know what? No one noticed, because the music kept playing. I weaved in and out of hip hop, house/edm, and latin/reggaeton. People were vibing, and I only made quick transitions when I felt like the energy was changing. At times, the booth speaker would cut out randomly. I thought maybe it's because I didn't use a quarter inch jack for my headphones, although I'm not sure.

All in all, the event went well and I received positive feedback on the music I played. People were vibing, socializing, having an overall good time. I kept spinning afterwards for the afterparty, so I did 6 hours total. The last 15-20 minutes I played some afrohouse that was solely for me as a congratulations, but people seemed to enjoy that too!

I suppose my advice for other beginners is, be prepared to deal with technical issues. Also, in this particular setting, the music was more important than the transitions.

Take from this what you will, but thank you to this community for the support and insights!

I've always been curious how the big guys program a long set, so I pointed my data skills at Black Coffee's Burning Man 2025 set.

• First hour he flips the mood almost every record. Then he holds one dark sound for 52 minutes.
• Tempo creeps 120 to 122 by 1:31, then sits. You never feel it.
• Only 3 of 18 transitions in key.
• At 1:35:00 he cuts the bass through Tsa Ma Ndebele's break for 74 seconds, builds a noise sweep, chops the off-beats, then drops it all on the one at 1:36:19.

Made a short video of it here: Link

This is a creative outlet for me, hopefully you find it helpful!

curious how people actually do this. do you plan the order beforehand, or just pull a crate of 30-40 tracks and decide on the fly?

and if you do plan it, what do you go off first: energy, bpm, key, or just vibe? feels like everyone has their own system, keen to hear what works for you

It’s not my stylus, headshell, tonearm pins, connector socket, rca cables or anything with my turntables, it is 100% a mixer issue. You don’t even want to know how much time I’ve spent to figure this out. It’s definitely the mixer. So I’m assuming since I’ve sourced the issue to the mixer, specifically the right channel, that it’s an issue with either the rca jacks or the circuit board. Is this a fixable issue or should I just buy a new mixer? I have the xone 23 so it wasn’t really expensive so I don’t really give a crap honestly. If it was the tonearm I think I would have lost my mind, I’ve been looking for an excuse to upgrade my mixer anyways (I’ve only had it for a few months, bought it used). In the meantime while I save for a new mixer (dropped 1k on speakers, cables and records this week:/) is this potentially a fixable issue? Like temporary fix? It’s not bothering me to the point I won’t use my equipment but it’s pretty annoying.

Beginner bedroom dj of 6 months here who has just recently started DJing parties for the first time. I really want to start playing without having my laptop with me. I recently came across this attatchment for the FLX4 that acts like a screen and has a usb port.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these 3rd party attatchments that allows me to grt rid of the laptop or is it just worth upgrading my decks eventually

For those who play background-to-party gigs in restaurants and bars: what did you have to unlearn from club mixing?

Longer blends, fewer drops, lower BPM, more vocals? Curious what actually made the difference for you.

Beginner question here, can't find any solid info.

My friend is offering me this unit for cheap, and I'm looking to mix with headphones only as I don't have a lot of room for speakers in my dorm. I briefly had a Numark Mixtsream Pro before, where you were able to use split cue in either ears and then listen to the track all together, however I can't see this dial on this unit. Is this a function that is available? My main goal is to be able to mix with headphones only.

Thanks!

I play RnB, hiphop, afrobeats, etc. (basically anything that isn’t house) and I struggled mixing it on a CDJ today at a gig because my mixing technique didn’t translate well (I have a FLX-10 that I own and practice with at home). My mixing technique is to swap the highs, swap the lows, and the seal it with swapping the mids (the mids on the incoming tracks are always at 9 o’clock) at the right moments. When I practice it at home, it sounds great (sometimes I’ll have to turn up the mids to the tracking playing because the highs suck out some of that element when I swap them). When I did it tonight, the first song fell super flat and led to moments where the music was lacking texture and thump when I was mixing. It was rough and noticeable to some fellow DJs.

Anyways, I’m feeling pretty ashamed with my performance. It was extremely humbling. I would appreciate some help with accepting what happened and moving forward (I am very hard on myself at times). Would also appreciate any insight as to why my technique sounded bad on the CDJ but fine on my FLX10. Also would love any mixing advice to improve my mixing and to hopefully avoid this from happening again.

Yall are the best. Appreciate it in advance!

Has this happened to anyone using Serato ? All the files disappeared even my streaming tracks

Hello! I just got home from my STRESSFUL set. The controller (XDJ-AZ) didn‘t find my playlist on my stick.

Fortunately, I got a backup stick with me, on which the controller found the playlist. On there about 50% of the tracks didn‘t have any of my cue points so i had to freestyle A LOT.

Also, I recently played on the CDJ-900 nexus without any issues. And I prepared my songs on rekordbox on my FLX-400.

I‘m very unsatisfied with my set rn because I failed so many transitions that I practiced so much the last few days. This was my third live set so I‘m rather inexperienced with different DJ gear, so:

Does anyone have any idea what the issue was? Was it my stick? Did I prepare my songs wrong? Because the other DJs didn’t have issues.

Thank you!

Edit: 50% of my tracks didn‘t have any or just my first hot cues. My set cue points were COMPLETELY gone on every track. What the hell??