Rich Wells is a disc humbug who has provided music for more than 600 weddings in Cincinnati since 1992 It has been a virtuous business.

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Rich Wells is a disc humbug who has provided music for more than 600 weddings in Cincinnati since 1992 It has been a virtuous business, earning him an average of $650 for five hours of work.

on the other hand Wells sees a competitor upon the horizon: iPods and other digital music players. Instead of hiring DJ like Wells, an couples are choosing the fit dispositions themselves. They are programming music into iPods for their receptions and plugging them into vigorous systems so guests can dance to the "Chicken Dance" and the "Macarena."

Wells, 51 thinks the use of wedding iPods "will race its course."

however many DJs fear this newfangled music regularity isn't a fad. Ken Wilson, a 47-year-old DJ in San Diego, says his colleagues have called iPods the "downfall of the DJ industry."

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Audio rental companies say they are seeing an increase in customers renting amplifiers and whole systems, which can cost $150 forward average for the evening. by dint of contrast, the cost of a professional DJ varies at location. In Cincinnati, DJs typically charge $125 an hour. In Manhattan, the price can skyrocket to $4000 for five hours of work.

IT'S 'NOT BRAIN SURGERY'

John Ragusa, proprietor of John Ragusa Music, a of the present day York company that books bands and DJ estimates he may have thrown away about 3 percent of his wedding business last year to iPod users, unless he still was hired for 80 consequences

Allison Emmerson a 24-year-old graduate bookish man at the University of Cincinnati, married Nate Emmerson in July 2005 and went the iPod path at their reception.

"Playing music is not brain surgery" she says. "If you have suitable music and you have a drollery atmosphere, you're going to have tribe dancing."

'IT'S AN ART'

DJ say that despite the convenience and splendor efficiency of iPods, the tiny music player is no match for a DJ's musical timing and experience with canzonet selection. "DJs can think onward the fly and make adjustments," says Ragusa. "The whole idea of a party is that it's fluid. It's dynamic. It's an art."

an couples have tried to hire Wilson, the San Diego DJ to mind their iPod playlists during their wedding, moreover he refuses.

"I'm certainly not going to just sit beside the table and make safe their iPods don't get stolen," he says.

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