- Nice! Do you have any tips or recommendations for a decent setup?
- You might have a bit of confirmation bias based on the particular environments you've been in.
Having taken part in various types of electronic music/art scenes since the early 2000's, I've met all kinds of people. Local hobbyist bedroom producers playing for free. Semi-professional artists juggling gigs&touring with one or more side jobs. Full-time DJ's playing everything from small underground parties to some of the biggest parties/festivals at the time. They all cater to their audience to varying degrees, mainstream or not.
Granted, the scenes I've bumped into tend to be on the non-mainstream side. That's where you can actually go professional being that "innovative, crate digging music nerd" you refer to (removed "slightly pretentious" because that hasn't been my experience). It's tough, but it can be done, and it's a larger group of people than you seem to think.
I've also met some professional DJ's that fully cater to the audience in the way you describe. Many of them make statements like yours like e.g. "99% of the time", "almost exclusively hobbyists", "slightly pretentious", etc. I really don't get why, because it's just not true, and it comes across as a bit defensive or passive-aggressive to be honest.
I mean, of course there is the mainstream audience of the type you describe. But even that audience changes its opinion about which 50-100 tracks they expect you to play on a regular basis. That change has to come from somewhere, otherwise they'd still demand disco tracks from the 70's. That somewhere is the stuff that hasn't gone mainstream yet, and while the percentage of people that can make a living of it is probably not very high, it's a lot higher than what you claim it to be.
That vast overlap between underground/alternative scenes and the mainstream is super interesting, and I'm pretty sure that if you included that part into your statistics, you'd see a different picture.
NB: I might have a bit of confirmation bias based on the particular environments I've been in ;)
- I'm somewhat disappointed:
- You don't have a "free" option with a nefarious EULA for one thing. That needs to be there.
- Something something telemetry opt-out (but hey, if you opt-in, it actually works!).
- Discord. With a minimum of 10+ outdated text channels. No mods.
- An open source project on GitHub to empower devs with the option to self-host. That's always nice. Just make sure to leave enough spaghetti in there so that most people give up trying to get it running after a day or two. Probably doesn't hurt to "forget" a file or two from the private repo either, just to be sure.
Am i forgetting something?
You cannot test yourself for ADHD - you need to do the actual work that is required for a proper diagnose. And you cannot test yourself for anything at all by taking amphetamines. Seriously. You were using it recreationally. When you post stuff like this online, people that believe what you write could get hurt.