Some advice, if you please

LOL … bring a clear glass “canopy” to place over your controller and laptop and go for it.

If you have something like the ProDJUser stand, you can prolly easily attach a front cover or old scooter windshields …

Back in the day when I DJd college/frat/sorority parties I always had some ‘police line – do not cross’ barricade tape with me so I could rope off a small area for myself. Not as safe as a glass canopy but usually did the trick.

Dizzle the Dj, post: 42514, member: 1780 wrote: Yea that or make sure your table is just big enough for your gear so that there’s no space for ppl to put drinks down on it. My mates used to bring their CDJ ‘coffin’ to house parties all the time… They can be the most fun if you have a good crowd and not too many d-bags or spoiled drama queens demanding their fav song haha

The thing is that frat boys walk around with their drink in their hand at chest height all night. Somehow that liquid has a hard time staying inside the glass, especially as alcohol intake starts to limit physical control. The will dance with the beer in their hand (even above their head) and drink be flying everywhere, including onto your gear. … yikes.

Is it possible to have the client responsible for any accidents that happen to your gear while DJ’ing the party? Perhaps they have a solution to keep folks away from your gear? Also, what if you had a side kick to help you take requests and be a second pair of eyes to be sure no one came around the gear?

You know the kind, DAP, American DJ/Audio, Citronic, Skytec. Craig’s List, e-bay, don’t know musician’s friend but guessing that too. Although the jogwheels on them are not worth a whole lot, double CD-players could be an option. They are for sale for like 50-100 bucks used, add a 50-75 buck mixer and your entire setup is between 100 and 175 bucks.

I saw this one on a used gear site here in Holland:

Asking price: 80 (euro). I am guessing that I can probably end up getting it for like 50-ish. So, get two for about a 100. Gonna take some shopping and dealing. But can be done. When you have two, keep your eye out for a really cheap third one for spare. They are halfway decent for the purpose. Plays MP3 CD’s (saves you about 80% of the CD’s to bring) and are sold under various names, like Citronic and Skytec. So easy to find an identical one even if the name is different. The frat boys won’t care.

This mixer was sold for 25 or 30 euro. It’s even got digital FX in it. Channel EQ, assignable crossfader, split cue headphone, mic channel for those important shoutouts. Zone (like a booth) output and faderstart capability. So, you’d have a setup with two CD-players and a mixer for around 125-150 euro. I found this shopping on our local second hand site in about 5 mins.
I am sure they will be the same amount but in US, stuff is lots cheaper there new, so lots cheaper second hand.

For many years it’s bigger brothers (CDI500) were my primary players and I still use them for backup (this picture is from a charity event I did outdoors in a medieval castle last saturday. It’s got FX (which I just about never use) but otherwise they are the same inside as the 300s.

You are not gonna get any ooohs and aaaaahs over your gear, but if you give me two of those players and this mixer, I’d bring my CD-wallet and would get a party going no problem.

You can see how losing the mixer to boose would be less of a problem if you paid 25-30 euro for it and you can charge the fratboys 50 if they break it (they’ll still think that is cheap).

Another thing is that if you get drinks on your kit, once the liquids hit your gear, pull the power plug immediately (forget the on/off switch). When you come home hang it with a piece of sturdy rope from a hook or clothes line and let it dry thoroughly (days!). It might just have survived.

Hope that helps,
Greetinx,
C.