Terry_42, post: 24397, member: 1843 wrote: you truly could not have said it any better 😉 +1000
let me give u a short story of mine. we got a gig to play in a club for the first time. we made few mistakes, we went a lil later and then we realized that there was a sound problem in the speakers. we were getting nervous as the club owner was fixing his mixer with his amps. there was some volume problem with his system. after the crowd waited for a while, the system was fixed. then you know what?? we were hearing the same sound from the speakers and headphones on our mixtrack pro with pc. we played several times in smaller events and nothing went wrong so we had no pc backup or controller backup. assuming everything will go well we followed the trail. now no matter what we did with vdj pro in config nothing worked.
so there was no use of headphones, we had to fake that the headphones are on but we disconnect them from the controller. it was our first time, i was completely scared when it happened. we had 75% songs cued. thanks to my partner and vdj effects that we really managed everything well. that means the whole night went without headphones at all. i knew the music thoroughly so i knew when to change to what and my partner was very smart to do it. everyone enjoyed the night and appreciated apart from the fact there was no music in the first hour. whenever i think of this i still get scared.
you know what was the problem, vdj pro had got corrupted (it was pirated version tho). when we tried the le installed on the same pc, everything worked flawlessly.
also recently i saw a dj who ‘threw’ his headphones in front of the audience and rocked the whole crowd without any. so i learnt that a dj should know his music in and out and also expect the worst circumstances and be prepared with all the backups.
but that experience + tips from the members here have made me more stronger to face this kind of situation.
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