Five Essential Resources and Websites for New DJ Releases

Being a DJ means that you not only need to be a master of mixing and putting on a show but also a professional music hound.

After all, it’s the music that you play that ultimately shows off your skills but playing the same tracks or ones that are overused time and time again will get you nowhere. Okay, here are five websites and resources where you can find new DJ resources …

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Best DJ Programs for Beginners

Supposing you’re just getting started with digital DJing, you’re in the market for a DJ program that can handle your mixing, have a few built in effects, probably doesn’t cost much and will let you record mixes so you can share them with friends and the rest of the web.

Awesome, you’re off to a good start since you’re here. What I’ve done is put together a list of some of the best DJ programs for beginners. These aren’t what I would call “high end” DJ programs but they certainly get the job done and can get you started before you drop serious money on the higher end DJ software like Traktor, Serato or Ableton.

Okay, enough of all that, let’s take a look at what’s available out there as far as DJ programs for beginners …

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How to Build a Home DJ Studio

Do you want to setup your own radio show?

Maybe have a studio for making music and starting your own netlabel?

Or maybe you just want to have something professional for anything music related?

Check this out; this is a quick guide on how to build your own home DJ studio.

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DJ Name Generator: Free Tools and a Tip

Are you getting stumbled on creating a DJ name?

Don’t worry because a lot of people get to a point where they can’t quite figure out what to call themselves. Coming up with a DJ name is a little stressful because it’s going to be what people call you by and you don’t really change it down the line after you start to become successful – of course, you could always.

So, I found a couple DJ name generators online that could potentially help kick up a few ideas for your DJ name, check them out …

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Virtual DJ Tutorials: Videos, Articles and More

Since I assume a lot of you will get your first introduction through Virtual DJ (seeing that you can download free trials and it’s packaged with nearly every bit of midi equipment these days), I’ve decided to throw together a list of videos, articles and resources for getting to understand and use Virtual DJ.

Nothing is really in order but its all good Virtual DJ tutorials worth checking out:

One thing that I highly recommend is to NOT USE THE SYNC button that you may see in some of the videos because this will prevent you from learning how to beatmatch properly – don’t rely on software for this because you’ll only be hurting yourself when learning to mix.

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