If you're like many people these days, you may be thinking about using a home stereo or renting equipment and hooking up your MP3 collection to it for music at your upcoming event. If you are reading this, I suspect you may be debating hiring a professional. Let me give you a few points you may not have considered.
Keep in mind that there is a lot more that a DJ does besides playing CDs or MP3s of other people s music. For a typical holiday or corporate party, we at Sound Perfection will spend close to 20 hours preparing your event. If it's a wedding, that number pushes 40 hours and beyond. We don t just wait until the night of the event and start pushing buttons. We correspond with you about your music tastes and the demographic of your guests.
We begin selecting tracks that we think will work well. If you have special requests, we hunt them down and listen to them to make sure they don t skip or stutter.
At the actual event, we coordinate with other vendors to make sure that everything happens on time. This is a very important job that many do it yourself DJ s forget. If there is no other event coordinator, WE become that person by default. Every professional DJ will be well versed in running and scheduling an event from beginning to end.
During dancing, the DJ is a master at reading a crowd. A playlist can only shuffle or play in order. A DJ will keep bringing the tempo of songs up and down depending on the mood of the crowd while at the same time, blending from one genre to the next seamlessly.
If you decide to rent equipment (if you need microphones you will probably have to) there is a learning curve just trying to hook it up and run it. A DJ is a miniature sound engineer. We hook up and run professional equipment that is all owned and maintained by Sound Perfection. None of our gear is second hand.
We have equipment that is specialized for reducing feedback, vocal effects, signal processing, crossovers, amps, active and passive speakers, mixers, dual cd decks, compressors, noise gates, and auto channel scanning wireless microphones. Needless to say, the cost of hiring us is a small fraction of the cost of equipment we bring to you. Add to that the cost of thousands of songs and time spent educating our DJs and the choice becomes clear.
To sum up, a professional DJ wears many hats including:
Event Planner
Event Coordinator
Social Engineer of the Dance Floor
Sound Engineer
Master of Ceremonies
Party Motivator
Walking encyclopedia of Music
This is just a glimpse in to the job that a DJ does for you. At Sound Perfection, we pride ourselves in giving every customer the attention they need to make their event memorable. We do this because we love it. We love the music, the equipment the people and the parties. Please call or email and request a quote today so we can get started planning your next event!
Roland and Paul
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