Blown out speaker!

I agree on both points.

I still tell anyone who buys a laptop from Best Buy to buy the extended warranty. I had Toshiba laptops that worked beautifully, but the power cables were not well made. Went though four of them at one point, each replaced with the Best Buy Service Plan. Totally paid for itself at that point.

Good mentality on just keep playing. Most crowds aren’t as savvy on it all as DJs are.

For me, I’ll often times have a problem hit me early in a set. It could be a bad blend, or some piece of gear messed up, or even DVS problems (in the past when they were not as refined). I’ll tell you I’d let it get to me and make me nervous as hell. It was a lot for me to take a deep breath, maybe do a shot, and just keep going.

Crowds are very forgiving, and I’m happy they are. You sound like shit the whole set and they’ll notice. You mess up once and they usually overlook it.

Worst time was when the guy before me kept playing with the EQs as he finished his set…and left them all turned down on the channel. I got on and thought the mixer was busted and kept looking for what was wrong. That really pissed me off. I’ll usually notify the next guy if I did something like that or turn the EQs back up so he doens’t get a surprise.

Still…I remember going into that set feeling nervous. Took a lot for me to calm down.

jezalenko, post: 6029 wrote: It’s just like hitting the cue button on the wrong deck – 5 seconds after the music re-starts, they crowd has completely forgotten…..

(and not that I’ve ever done that :oops:)

Yeah damn those cue buttons! Thats my (least) favourite screw up.

if its torn and the coil is okay, a good repair could be possible using a tube of silicon. I have repaired a speaker like this before and it worked a treat!

But as he has the extended warranty why bother?

True. It was more for those that don’t have an extended warranty, that need a quick cheap fix. If he gets to keep the speaker, my answer would be ‘Just for the fun of it’.:)