Quote Originally Posted by the_psychologist View Post
If you can't back your DJ collection up with a single 300GB drive, then you may want to think about sifting the chaff out a bit.

It boggles my mind that people still think backup is some mysterious process. You copy your whole DJ folder to another physical drive. Done. If both locations fail, then the gods have decided that your DJ career should end. Don't fight it.
Its simpler than that.

A single 20 CD wallet will easily contain all the music you could possibly want for a 2 hour set. And using CDJ1000/800 will mean decent control over the music.

Funnily enough i would always take a few pieces of vinyl for scratching purposes. What is a DJ if he cant scratch? I even take Vinyl if i do a live set for the same purpose.

I've always thought that to restrict yourself as a DJ to a particular style/genre/equipment base is foolish in the extreme. I mean you dont see the best guitarists only capable of playing one style, or in fact not being able to pick up a bass and use that.

Its laughable to me that there are DJs out there who cannot operate a CD deck/A turntable/Ableton/Any mixer presented to them.

Call yourself a DJ? The definition of DJ encompases many different skill sets and abilities andif you havnt got them all - get learning, because if you dont, you can be 100% sure that someone else well.