Biggest cable fail

Ha the thing that go on in the background, how did you think of the water

Worst cable moment ever for me wasn’t dj related. I was working on a television crew covering a hockey game, and somebody laid out the main snake to feed all the cameras across the path the Zamboni used to access the rink. Anyway, it ran over the cable and shredded it. By the way, $10,000 cable. Ouch.

As for dj’ing – it was a grounding issue similar to Phil. I was working with a Denon DN2000 and one side was skipping like crazy. Couldn’t figure out why because the unit worked perfectly everywhere else… It turns out there was something wonky being fed by the mixer along the RCA and it was causing the deck to skip. I realised there was a problem when I unplugged the RCA and it the deck worked just fine again. Oh, that and I got a shock from the RCA. That was a giveaway too… 🙂

i can just picture phil doing a dj set in his bath.

i had a strange incident… i had reowrked sum 1200 for a mate.. new tone arm, rca’s, internal ground…. and when he used serato.. instead of the wave form reacting, it would scan the crates… it took for ever to realise i had switching the l/r phono lines and it when plugged into the SL1 backwards it worked fine… my oversight caused the wierdest thing…lol

I was DJ’ing at a wedding reception and the XLR cable between my mixer and amp broke (I assume short circuited) and all of a sudden I got this horrible loud static noise through one speaker. For some stupid reason I didn’t just turn it down and off, I started wiggling the cables turning the amp back up again and then ‘poof’ and that one speaker becomes virtually silent! Oh dear.

I’d damaged the main driver (would be £500 to replace on my EV ZX5 speaker), and now I’ve just got it in my house because I haven’t got round to sending off for repair. Well, actually, I did try and send it off; I emailed EV and they would let me send it to them- they told me I had to go through my local dealer.

The only thing is I bought them second hand off ebay so would feel like a bit of a pain troubling someone I don’t know about something that won’t make them any money. Must get round to it really!

Yeah, at the time I thought it must have been the amp, so I used it as an excuse to buy some new active speakers… I was actually I was a bit ‘annoyed’ when later I realised it was just the cable that had been the problem!