• KV2 Audio
• Mastermix
• Chauvet
• Guy Napthine & Co. from QSL our featured retailer
• Houseproud
• Denon

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Our first offer was pushed out by email to the membership this morning and offers you any disc, whether it’s physical media or download, from the Classic Cuts or Number One’s range will cost you just £3.00 when you use a special code.

The offer is valid only between the 1st and 15th February.

If you haven’t received our email this morning and you are a SEDA member then please get in touch!

http://www.mastermixdigital.com

Mark has spent his entire life in the entertainment industry, dipping his toe into a wide variety of disciplines – from theme parks to radio, night clubs, voice acting, television, and even dancing on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. The last 15 years have been dedicated to improving the mobile DJ industry worldwide, with an acute eye on why. His end goal is to multiply the impact he and Rebecca have had on the lives of their clients and extend that impact to the clients and audiences of those they train. Simply put, he wants DJs to do a much better job so that their events would be amazing, which can change lives and make the world a better place.

- Mark Ferrell

Over the years Mark has helped hundreds of Wedding DJ’s improve their presentation skills by providing inspiration and information conducting MarBecca DJ workshops, seminars, and discussions all over the USA.

Next April, Mark is bringing his Bronze MC Workshop to the UK.  The workshop is spread over two dates:

• 18th & 19th April at Warbrook House in Hampshire (already sold out)
• 24th & 25th April – venue still to be decided

The course itself is an introduction to being a true Master of Ceremonies, including the definition, duties, and elements for proper execution of those duties. The workshop covers the basics of the physical, technical, and emotional aspects of of the job and puts you on the path to “Mastery”.

The workshops are limited to only 8 delegates and costs £1,000.00 and this also includes a membership to the Mark Ferrell Community, a fee-based community that offers discounted prices, free seminars, and many other benefits.

• Novation
• Pioneer
• DeckBooks
• Glosticks
• Denon
• …and our featured retailer, West End DJ!

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Hi I have a web-based event management software built for DJs which is due to be released publically in November/December 2011 and was wondering if you have any events coming up which I can bring it along to demo.

Naturally, we were only too pleased to get this guy down to SEDA to show off his software, especially as he’s a local chap based in Kent.

DeckBooks slots in right alongside other event planning software titles such as DJ Intelligence and DJ Event Planner.  It runs and stores all of your data and information “in the cloud” (albeit UK clouds) and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via your computer or smartphone.

It’s based on all current web technologies, HTML5, CSS3, Ajax and jQuery.  If you don’t know what any of that means then do not worry, all you need to know really is that this web app is an absolute joy to use.  Here’s a list of just some of its features…

• Full event management.
• Client, Venue and Performer management.
• Extensive reporting and financial information about your business at your fingertips, all exportable to CSV for importing into spreadsheets.
• A portal allowing your clients to see information about their event, manage their playlists using a unique “drag and drop” system, make payments (through Paypal and Google Checkout.  Worldpay, CardSave and SagePay are in the pipeline) and more.
• Full HTML editor allowing you to create your own document templates such as letters, invoices and hire agreements, etc.
• …and lots more!

We caught up with the Developer, Lee Mills to find out a little bit more…

Who is Lee Mills and what is your background?
I am a full-time senior web developer and part-time DJ. I have been DJ’ing for nearly 6 years now doing events for friends, families and at my local club.  I am experienced in numerous programming languages such as PHP5, AJAX, CSS3, HTML5 and user-interface design.

How did DeckBooks come about?
DeckBooks got started was when I was doing events for friends, families and clients when all the information for the events was all on paper; which as you can imagine is a handful. So I started looking into the various other event planning software to help manage my events and those didn’t really cater to what I needed or was too complicated to get setup and running on first run. Also a big factor for me was UK support so I could get help quickly should I become stuck and the simplicity of the software.

During one late night waiting for a server to configure, I start writing a very basic system to enter my events into; slowly it started gaining more and more features, a user interface and developed into what you see as DeckBooks now.

The future
In the future I hope to grow DeckBooks into becoming the number 1 DJ event management and planning software in the UK and then expand to worldwide support whilst still keeping the ease of use and community driven features at the heart of DeckBooks.

So, we’re guessing you want to know what it looks like? Here are some screenshots to wet your appetite!

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Lee will be at our next ShowNight on the 20th November 2011 to show off DeckBooks in action. He’ll also tell you about a fantastic exclusive offer he has put together for SEDA members so if you’re looking to move away from that old-fashioned diary and pen into the digital world then you need to be at our next ShowNight!!!

Customers can look forward to exclusive promotions, special discounts, last-chance buys, featured products and their popular prize give-away, plus much more…!

• Bargain goods and special offers
• 10% off everything
• Sound and light demonstrations
• Special offers on ex-demo equipment
• Meet sales & technical staff
• New product demos
• FREE light-refreshments

Doors open from 11am to 5pm. Terralec would like you to call them if you plan to attend so that they can assess attendance on the day.

Terralec Ltd
Osprey House
Featherby Way
Purdeys Industrial Estate
Rochford
Essex
SS4 1LD

Tel: 01702 547571

Web: http://www.terralec.co.uk
Email: sales@terralec.com

We imagine it to be Traktor and Virtual DJ certified, in fact if you look very closely at the picture it clearly says “Traktor” at the top and on the other side you can see a “3″ so we can only assume it will be called the MC3000 although Denon continue to remain tight-lipped about what it is.

What we can say though is that we will have this controller, whatever it is, whatever it’s called, at our next ShowNight in November when we showcase quite possibly the largest selection of current software controllers ever known. If you’re into digital DJ’ing and can’t decide on what software controller to go for, the next ShowNight is the place to be!

Another fantastic night featuring…

• Brooke Lanta with a huge variety of products to look at.
• Pioneer CDJ2000, CDJ900 & DJM2000.
• A speaker showdown featuring the HK Elements, Bose L1 classic and the LD Maui 28.
• Dave from RSD.
• Disco Dykes and his monstrous retro speakers.
• Second-hand table.
• …and more!

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