Sound Source DJ & Karaoke

Amateur DJ, too expensive for service provided

Unfortunately, we had a poor experience with this DJ. Paul seemed very professional at our initial meeting and in his communication with us in the months leading up to our wedding, but his performance at the actual event was amateurish.

The Good:
- Nice client section on his website where you can take a look at the available songs and construct your own wedding playlist.
- Flexibility of music selection: if you can't find what you're looking for in his song library, Paul will let you give him a CD of songs you'd like to be played.
- Good e-mail communication: usually responds to questions within a day.

The Bad:
- Even though we had agreed on a schedule with Paul, he didn't stick to it (or rather, he stuck to it very, very loosely). I had to remind him three times about announcing the best man's toast and he still wouldn't do it until the best man went up to him personally and asked him to announce the toast.
- We created a playlist of songs we wanted to be played during the reception, but Paul also included choices we hadn't selected. The reception was five hours and we made sure to have enough songs to cover that amount of time, so he shouldn't have needed to pad our selection with his own. He also allowed people to come up and request songs, which we didn't want him to do either. What's the point of having a playlist if you're not going to stick to it?
- Although he agreed to us giving him a CD with additional songs to be played, Paul only played maybe half the songs from that CD (there were only eight of them). Most of the songs on the CD were ones that meant a lot to our parents, so I would have preferred him playing those than something by Christina Aguilera, which we hadn't requested.
- He messed up during our first dance!!! He played the right song, so that was fine, but about a minute into the song he hit the wrong button and the music stopped. Then he had to restart the song, which almost ruined the moment.
- I specifically wanted to hire Paul because he advertises himself as a DJ with karaoke. Just like we could select the dance playlist, we were able to select the songs we'd like to have for karaoke. Well, it turns out Paul forgot to bring his karaoke booklets with the song list on the day of the reception! And what's more, his karaoke selection is miserable. I mean, we weren't asking for obscure titles - just the kind of stuff you'd find at any bar that hosts a karaoke night (e.g., some Beatles songs, "Kiss Me" by Sixpence, "Sunglasses at Night"). He had almost nothing we asked for! Then he tried to make the excuse that most of his karaoke selection was online and there was no wifi signal in the banquet hall, so we gave him a cell phone that acts as a wifi hub. Of course, his computers then started having issues and we didn't get to do the karaoke after all. If you're looking for karaoke, don't turn to this service!!

Being a DJ at our wedding shouldn't have been that hard: we told Paul which songs we wanted and we gave him a schedule of events. He just had to provide the equipment and play the right songs, but according to him "these receptions never go according to plan." Paul actually had the nerve of saying this to me when I asked him why he hadn't announced the toast yet; everything else was going smoothly and the only thing that wasn't going according to plan wasn't doing so because of him.

Response from Sound Source DJ & Karaoke:
Mr. Pasic is certainly entitled to his opinions. Please Contact Us directly and I will gladly provide you with the contact information for many other completely satisfied clients that have totally different opinions of the services we provided for them over the last 23 years. This review is only one mans opinion.