Submitted by Nick Manganiello on Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 3:52pm.
This is why our entertainment field is so over-saturated and ruined. I've been DJing since I was 10 years old, and have been DJing for 10 years, and I've already spent about $15k on equipment upgrades, repairs, and modifications. Do you, the consumer, understand how much thought and effort is put into MCing or organizing the flow of a wedding? You're going to put an iPad in place of a professional, with a toy mixer attached, and expect that to work out for you? Really? With speakers big enough for a small bedroom, made with poor quality components? Now now, you should know better if you've ever been to a proper wedding before.
I don't charge a ridiculous sum for weddings at all, and yet I meet with my clients, sit down with them, get an idea for their vision of their wedding (I do a lot of architectural lighting that goes with the decor + the venue) and make sure that everything is perfect to the T. It's not as simple as plugging in an iPad to some computer speakers.
Add in the equipment maintenance, the years of experience, the song selection (not just a playlist, but reading the audience and mixing seamlessly on the fly), making room for any discrepancies, etc... that only a professional DJ or production company would be able to do.
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This is why our entertainment field is so over-saturated and ruined. I've been DJing since I was 10 years old, and have been DJing for 10 years, and I've already spent about $15k on equipment upgrades, repairs, and modifications. Do you, the consumer, understand how much thought and effort is put into MCing or organizing the flow of a wedding? You're going to put an iPad in place of a professional, with a toy mixer attached, and expect that to work out for you? Really? With speakers big enough for a small bedroom, made with poor quality components? Now now, you should know better if you've ever been to a proper wedding before.
I don't charge a ridiculous sum for weddings at all, and yet I meet with my clients, sit down with them, get an idea for their vision of their wedding (I do a lot of architectural lighting that goes with the decor + the venue) and make sure that everything is perfect to the T. It's not as simple as plugging in an iPad to some computer speakers.
Add in the equipment maintenance, the years of experience, the song selection (not just a playlist, but reading the audience and mixing seamlessly on the fly), making room for any discrepancies, etc... that only a professional DJ or production company would be able to do.