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Posted by roosh on Oct-24-2004 08:00:

DJ'ing nightmare

I was spinning at this lounge/club and getting the crowd really pumped... a college fraternity/sorority was hosting the party and suprisingly i got them moving to house.

At about 1:30am, a drunk frat boy spills a drink directly on the mixer and cd decks (there is an unprotected ledge in front of the booth). He quickly left after dropping the drink. I try to dry everything quickly and pray that it won't break (i still have 1.5 hours left). Unfortunately the tempo adjust on cd deck 2 stopped working so beatmatching wasn't going to happen. My set was killed... I dropped in a couple more house tracks radio-style but it sounded awful so I switched to hip hop where I kept dropping. I told the owner and he just said to do the best I can.

Then I figured out that I could beatmatch using only cd deck 1's tempo adjust. So I had the cued track ready and to match I would change the tempo of the song playing. I did it slow and had the Master Tempo button pushed so people can't tell. I did this for the last one hour and the mixing was passable, but I was upset and most people went upstairs during the 30 minutes of bad mixing right after the spill happened.

So yeah, clear all drinks from the equipment.

Posted by Freak on Oct-24-2004 15:52:

Ive had bottles of sticky VK or beer spilled/thrown more times than i care to list.
Its a pain in the ass- well done for coping!
Some years back i was doing a party room (hey it pays the bills), and some dick dropped a bottle , and it snapped the cd drawer (denon 2000) off.
As it was a back room, and was purely cd (no turntables) i had to improvise somewhat... we grabbed a discman from the head doormans car and i was using that for the rest of the night as the second deck. No cue facility, no pitch etc... great fun

It all adds to the experience and makes you a more competent dj able to cope with more situations at the end of it all.

If you play there reguarly, get them to put a strip of perspex up-most venues ive worked in have this to prevent most similar accidents.

Posted by Rikki on Oct-24-2004 21:46:

Only DJing nightmare I've had was when the needle snapped at 2am at the club I was working in. You guessed it, no spares to be found! Had to grab the finishing record, swap a new vinyl down and slam the groove. Sounded awful, people stared but what ya supposed to do!

R.

Posted by djtrinity on Oct-24-2004 21:53:

I was play'n at a lounge were the 1200's pitch was really messed up bad....then to top it off a monitor falls on the turntable and scratches up my Transa 'behind the sun" in the middle of the set

pure DJ Bliss!

Posted by Luke Terry on Oct-25-2004 00:50:

lol, ill write mine when i can be arsed, theres a couple of clangers like