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  • December 27, 2012 at 10:41 pm #34156
    NewportDJ Drew
    Participant

    My worst situation was an ‘all in brawl’, no security and being stuck with no escape route. I was very young at the time (17) and most of my equipment was damaged. I hid below my decks until cops came and calmed the place down. I almost stopped djing after this.
    Feedback- I just say it’s electronic or some quip that comes to mind, same with stopping a playing deck. I might say something like ‘who gave the barman a remote control to my decks’?

    December 28, 2012 at 8:14 am #34172
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I had so many things that I cannot remember any “worst” one hehe
    Thing is just keep on going and work with it.
    I guess one real bad evening was when 2 turntables broke down, I was new to CDJs and had only couple of CDs with me, rest vinyl and then thankfully the mixer started acting up too 😛 This was really bad, but … go with the flow hehe Everytime the crossfader reversed itself and I cut the music I shouted “Wooooo” into the mic and soon the audience cheered in and everytime the mixer cut the music everyone was going “WOOOO”… hehe

    December 28, 2012 at 11:42 am #34191
    NietzSKY
    Participant

    My first gig when I couldn’t split channels and had to blind mix with no prepared set. Was a roller coaster ride of a mix, and I must’ve chained 4 cigs when I stepped out to smoke one.

    December 29, 2012 at 9:37 am #34237
    railings_731@yahoo.com
    Participant

    Laptop battery died (with 3 hrs of ‘charge’ left) in the middle of a set to a 400-person university-sponsored event… FAIL!!

    December 31, 2012 at 9:36 am #34300
    Richard Driver
    Participant

    man, i played at a shady bar once. got way to drunk and was train wrecking bad! the only thing that saved me was that there was a shooting outside where 2 people got hit. whoa, crazy night that ill never forget

    January 2, 2013 at 2:30 pm #34361
    DJ Menno
    Participant

    The other day I was replacing a friend at a karaoke animation, thus it wasn’t my material. Just had a pc playing music and sending video to the beamer.

    I wanted to prelisten a “happy birthday” song to see if it was the right one (it was the owner’s birthday)… so I just unplug the headphone connector to plug in my headphones, and at that moment realize that it was sending the music to the speakers…silence in the bar. Not to worry, just plug it back in. But the mediaplayer didn’t play anymore…

    so I ran to my bag, took my smartphone, plugged it directly onto the mixer, and started a song. Then I had time to restart the mediaplayer on the computer…

    There was maybe 30 seconds without music, felt like it was days…

    January 2, 2013 at 11:24 pm #34388
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    …always disable the crossfader in Traktor if you are not using it. And if you are using it, tough to avoid touching S4 crossfaders with a leather jacket as I found out one evening…

    January 2, 2013 at 11:26 pm #34390
    NewportDJ Drew
    Participant

    …always disable the crossfader in Traktor if you are using it

    +1

    January 2, 2013 at 11:37 pm #34391
    squarecell
    Participant

    I always have my DJ2GO and DJio in the bag in case my main gear lets me down (hasn’t happened yet, thankfully), plus I always have my iPhone and a y-cable just in case.

    January 2, 2013 at 11:40 pm #34392
    NewportDJ Drew
    Participant

    I always have an iphone and y cable as well, The i phone is loaded with three or four pre recorded 1 hour mixes of various syles so it buys time to fix whatever or to bail me out if the problem cant be fixed.

    January 4, 2013 at 2:55 pm #34472
    TeflonDon
    Member

    If playing out has taught me one thing then that is whatever can go wrong will go wrong at some point.

    This is why i always carry spare cables, spare laptop (with both laptop’s keyboards mapped so i can control them) as well as a phono to minijack cable to put my phone on if need be.

    A regular old boyscout i am and like they say I always like to be prepared.

    January 6, 2013 at 12:40 am #34512
    NewportDJ Drew
    Participant

    Well, last night was one of those bad, bad nights. My wife and I working an 18th, had just got an hour into ‘cranking it up’ after two hours of laid back, when two guests found people outside tampering with cars (it was in a huge hall). They ended up getting a bottle smashed over their head and other got stabbed in throat with same bottle by the crims. The entire party of 100 people swarm outside. I turn off music as I thought it wasan internal fight. There were young children there as well, so while I am off finding out what was going down, my wife puts on some music for the youngies, which was a great idea. We then started music back up to get people back inside, but it turns out the police advised clients that the crims were part of prevalent and large violent gang that were coming back in numbers and party needed to end. Packed up in less than 10 minutes(record time). Party over at 10pm. It’s a sad world we live in.

    January 7, 2013 at 7:06 pm #34618
    Juan Harry
    Participant

    mmm i think it was the second time ever, + with 200 people after a great chilean rock band…. i have all set but in the middle of the band set, i restart the pc, so… somehow traktor forgot the channels and i just only got 5 seconds to fix it and test the monitor and the blah blash blh.. .. . the solution just play without any headphones, just enter with the levels down and watching the blend. now i think the error was just keep the calm down..

    when everything goes wrong is by far the best way to learn when you are starting

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