Some vendors do their job well… and then there are the ones who become part of your story. That was our DJ: Erik Redmond! From our first conversation to the last song of the night, he completely understood the vision we had for our wedding—a relaxed, love-filled backyard pool party on the 4th of July. He didn’t just play music; he created the atmosphere. Every song, every transition, every announcement, and every moment was timed so naturally that the entire day flowed effortlessly. He knew exactly how to read the crowd, and our guests were having fun all night. We were having so much fun that we asked him to stay an extra two hours because none of us wanted the night to end! Looking around and seeing everyone laughing, dancing, singing, swimming, and making memories is something we’ll never forget, and he played a huge part in creating that. We are beyond grateful and couldn’t imagine our wedding without him. If you’re considering hiring him, do it—you won’t regret it.
Erik Redmond a.k.a. DJ Richterscale
- 338 hires
- Based in Riverside, CA
- 19 years in business
- 1 employee
- Background checked
About Erik Redmond a.k.a. DJ Richterscale
Hello, I would be happy to bring everything you need for your event. I have over 20 years of experience as a DJ and MC. I bring a powerful sound system, exciting dance lighting, wireless microphones and a wide variety of crowd pleasing music to every event. Your tastes in music are the biggest influence on the music played at your event. I take pride in listening to my clients and making their visions come to life. I work on a first-come, first-served basis Thank you for your consideration, Erik Redmond
Reviews
DJ Erik was incredible to work with for our wedding! He is so knowledgeable about music for a couple of different activities throughout the night we didn’t even give him songs we just let him do his thing and everything went so smoothly! He was kind and incredibly helpful the day of as well as leading up to the wedding with great communication.
I haven't had my party yet but he has been very communicative.
Great DJ, did midriff both for wedding and reception, had the place jumping.
11/2025 bride here I found Erik, on thumbtack about a year ago. His reviews and his charismatic personality on our first phone call, sold me. In hindsight, looking back, it was a complete sales pitch. To the point he is even bringing up reviews that I never even saw, and discrediting bad reviews that I’ve never even brought up. 17 days before our wedding, we had our phone call.. this 40 minute phone call was by far the worst part of my entire wedding planning experience, keep in mind I planned all aspects by myself. We ran into our first problem immediately within the first five minutes of the phone call. He was looking at the timeline incorrectly or looking at the one that I had sent him months ago, but had recently sent him a revised and updated one to the T. -so instead of taking the correction when I kindly shared that, I think we’re looking at two different timelines. He doubled AND he tripled down on the fact that he was NOT and that I am wrong when I was clearly looking at it on my computer and spent my time making it. And instead of taking the correction humbly, you can tell that that fueled his attitude throughout the entire phone call. -Anybody who does any sort of event planning knows that you need a timeline, what is an itinerary or a timeline without time? The fact that I included times on my timeline. It was beyond silly for him. To the point, he called me and my email silly over five times. Even said “ I am not trying to make a joke out of you.” But continued to make this whole situation “silly”… For me: nothing about this phone call was fun or silly and I worked extremely hard on that email in time line. -We got to the portion of guest photos. And he was still looking at it incorrectly. And in a condescending tone asked me “if I am expecting my guest to come up and take photos with me without even feeding them.?”. Once again, I corrected him. Grand entrance, first dance, dinner, pics -as we narrow down what I want for guest photos, before I can even go into explaining- he quickly starts telling me how he will go about photos. He is a DJ/mc? And how he will go table to table and relieve guest to come take photos with me. I made it very clear from the beginning that I am not spending a bunch of time taking guest photos.- the idea was to play a fun song, each guest has seven seconds to get their photos in and we keep playing songs until everyone is satisfied. Fun game, right? Not to Erick- he proceeded to literally argue and tell me how this is not going to work. That is not how things go… yada, yada, yada, yada. To the point, I literally had to cop an attitude and say no. This is what I want and this is what we are doing. He finally swallowed his tongue and said OK with an attitude, of course -the entire phone call he would ask me a question. Give me about enough time to get ONE sentence out, and then go on a 5 to 7 minute tangent as he TALKED OVER me and then explaining why things are the way they are and why weddings are the way they are… when that 5 to 7 minutes had passed and he realized I was just silent the entire time he finally would come back to the original question that started his tangent… we spent the entire 45 minutes going in circles. Because he never actually let me answer a question. By the time I got off the phone call I was floored!!!!!!!!! Three great things, I was able to find a DJ the minute I got off the phone with him and Erik was nice enough to give me my deposit back by 6:30 AM the next day. And my guest photos- was the highlight of the night. My favorite part of the night and everyone had such a blast! This was a fine example of narcissism and toxic masculinity, poor customer service etiquette. Overall rude and needs to work on communication skills on a personal level Wouldn’t recommend it to my enemy! Happy wedding planning, gals & gents, I hope my review helps you
Erik was an amazing DJ! He accommodated to our taste and gave good examples to pick through. Very punctual, responsive and even included a specific song in another language for our father-daughter dance! Overall, very great service!
We had a wonderful experience with this pro. He was thorough, attentive, and knows how to read the room musically. He is also great at engaging the crowd, would definitely use in the future.
Erik DJ’d my wedding 9/1/19. Let me just say, he did an awesome job! He was fun, polite, energetic, and he bent over backwards to meet all the crazy expectations and rules of the venue. Erik even got down on the dance floor to teach some of the younger crowd dance moves:) I would definitely recommend him for any event. Erik will not disappoint.
Erik Redmond is an amazing DJ! He took all my ideas, worries, lists of songs, hopes and dreams and turned my 40 year Anniversary Party into a fun and romantic event! He listens when you tell him what you want and viola, it comes together even better than you dreamed. He’s got all the music and the way he mixes it is awesome, my party had four generations and I can honestly say everyone danced from the one and two year old to the 80 years old who attended. He made the party fun, we sprung a newly wed game at the beginning and hadn’t prepped him, but he surprised us with the theme song and all the sound effects!!! Best party ever.
I first found out about DJ Richterscale (Erik) on Thumbtack. It was about 2 months before our wedding and the DJ we originally hired was no longer able to DJ for us. I went on thumbtack and received a bunch of responses to my post but DJ Richterscale stood out to us. We contacted him immediately and he was quick to respond and able to meet with us within a few days. Within the first 5 minutes of meeting him we knew it was only for the best that our first DJ didn’t work out. We met with him for about an hour and he already had a good idea of what kind of music we liked and didn’t like. Within a few days he sent us a ton of music choices for all of the dances (mother/son, father/daughter, cake cutting, etc.). The day of our wedding Erik was awesome! He set up everything he needed for the ceremony only to find out by the wedding coordinator that it all had to be moved. He was able to quickly move everything around and get settled before the ceremony was set to start. Also, our wedding coordinator had to leave the reception early and Erik was able to take over and keep things going. He was the one to coordinate the grand entrance, the toasts, releasing tables to eat, the cake cutting, the bouquet toss/garter removal and all of the dancing in between. He also worked with our photographers and videographers to make sure they knew what was next so they were ready to film. The Party- DJ Richterscale was AMAZING! He was so good at reading the crowd to see what type of music everyone liked to keep the party going. He is a true DJ and the music flowed so effortlessly from one song to the next. Everyone had so much fun at our wedding and it is all thanks to DJ Richterscale. He played all of the music we requested and allowed our guests to make requests as well. One person requested a song that he thought we wouldn’t like since it was on our “we’re not really a fan of this type of music list” and he even checked with us to make sure it was ok to play. The best part is he is so passionate about what he does, you can tell he loves what he does and he is so good at it. Thanks to him our wedding went so perfectly. I will definitely keep him in mind for future events and will recommend him to anyone that needs a DJ.
Very enthusiastic and easy to work with. Provided all the songs and downloaded one from us even. Kept the party flowing and took requests that made it a great time. Zero technical issues too, mics and speakers with great with none of that second rate crap going on like feedback, static, or glitching that can ruin a vibe. Thanks Erik