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Posted by jpisani on Jan-19-2005 03:58:

Other people.

Most people here have put at least $1000 into their equipment, and care for it greatly, I'm just wondering if you let one of your friends who has no idea about DJing play around with your gear?

Posted by TranceSpeeder on Jan-19-2005 04:07:

i do all the time... if u trust him...

Posted by dj chex on Jan-19-2005 04:57:

I did till my styli and vinyl got jacked up. After that, if anybody touches my stuff, I use their car as a target for my paintball gun.

Posted by Allied Nations on Jan-19-2005 05:42:

my trusted freinds in my home when im there.. and when they get to drunk, i mske sure they get off

Posted by Wraith on Jan-19-2005 05:58:

Re: Other people.

quote:
Originally posted by jpisani
Most people here have put at least $1000 into their equipment, and care for it greatly, I'm just wondering if you let one of your friends who has no idea about DJing play around with your gear?

Yes, but I'm always standing right behind them watching intently. I've already lost 1 stylus to some carelessness.

Posted by Tegu on Jan-19-2005 06:17:

Re: Re: Other people.

quote:
Originally posted by Wraith
Yes, but I'm always standing right behind them watching intently. I've already lost 1 stylus to some carelessness.

how did you lose a stylus? honestly, what does it take to break one?

Posted by Allied Nations on Jan-19-2005 11:48:

a drunk elbow.

come smashing down on the stylus/vinyl, and next thing u know, u have to pull out those extra styluses u wanted to save til next year...

Posted by Nemesis44 on Jan-19-2005 13:37:

Unless I'm teaching, which I do from time to time I have to say that I totally hate letting people who aren't DJs use my gear.
Constant trainwrecking and spin backs irritates the shit out of me.

Cheers
Nem

Posted by amartinathome on Jan-19-2005 13:51:

Posted by djxtension on Jan-19-2005 13:55:

None of my friends even want to touch my equipment, because they are afraid they will break it.

Posted by farris on Jan-19-2005 14:26:

quote:
Originally posted by Nemesis44
Unless I'm teaching, which I do from time to time I have to say that I totally hate letting people who aren't DJs use my gear.
Constant trainwrecking and spin backs irritates the shit out of me.

Cheers
Nem

So true...and how about those friends that do a quick fade from track A to track B and look at you as if they just made the best transition anyone ever made .
Basically if they can't tie their own shoes, I won't even let them look at my gear.

- farris

Posted by dex316 on Jan-19-2005 14:32:

NEVER!

ive only just bought my decks and everytime i use them my housemate comes in pretending he's like gods gift to scratching and im scared shitless he'll ruin summat

Posted by DannyO on Jan-19-2005 15:12:

I only let people that I'm teaching touch them really, and some people that are interested and don't really want to touch them as they know its expensive stuff, my friends that are kinda full of themselves, well when they go near, I got my fist pulled back and ready.....JUST incase.

Oh yea, other DJs can play on them for obvious reasons.

Posted by SUNWmsf on Jan-19-2005 16:25:

I never let them touch my vinyl, unless its another experienced DJ and I've informed them to *only* touch the outermost and inner-most part of the vinyl. I generally don't like peeps to use my vinyl. If I see that they dis-obey the vinyl rules, they are cut off from using my records.
As for my Turntables - Unless you know how to use the TT's, and have experience with them, then you can use them *with your own* records.
I teach peeps the art of beatmatching/phrasematching on my cd players. Since I have the old-ass American DJ DCD-pro400 , I don't really care what they do to it. Hopefully the cd players break when they use it so that I can demand that they pay half for a set of new,replacement cd players. haha. j/k

I know..im a dik with my gear.

Posted by D Dubya on Jan-19-2005 17:06:

sure, i dont care. they can't break all that much. I have bought a total of 6 ortofon cartridges now because people break off the handles (I really hate that about them). They really can't harm my equipment much and the vinyls I give them are one step from the trash anyways. I let them use the CD tables without any worries because they're not going to break those. It's mostly girls I bring over who want to play on them anyways -- and they are never rough with the equipment to begin with. But tons of people have used my equipment since I bought it - including the A&M football team and the equipment has survived just fine.

Posted by Exodus17 on Jan-19-2005 17:31:

quote:
Originally posted by DannyO
I only let people that I'm teaching touch them really

Oh yea, other DJs can play on them for obvious reasons.

+1

if its someone who has an idea of what they're doing then yea...

one thing that i cant stand... when i let a buddy spin and i tell him to put everything up when hes done, i come back and all hes done is press stop - needles still on the records, sleeves all over the place(i dont understand how it would make sense to need to pull out the entire sleeve and lay it down somewhere just to play a record - just grab the vinyl and leave the sleeve in the bag/case)

Posted by Wraith on Jan-20-2005 03:27:

Re: Re: Re: Other people.

quote:
Originally posted by Tegu
how did you lose a stylus? honestly, what does it take to break one?

Well, my carts are Whitelables and the metal portion which holds the needle was all bent to hell. Funny thing was that I didn't notice it until the day after when I attempted to mix. Talk about a suprise. I'm not to sure how it happened but I suspect someone knocked the tonarm off it's rest and it smashed the stylus into the side of the platter. Oh well, you live and learn and my local record store carries the Whitelable styli for $20 so it wasn't that bad of an experience.

Posted by Tony Morello on Jan-20-2005 18:48:

my friends are almost all djs (my guy friends that is)
and anyone who isn't a dj either knows how to handle the equipment or just doesn't touch it

Posted by Eric Siefer on Jan-20-2005 19:14:

Select friends I'll let use them. But there are some who aren't worthy, either that or they dont care to have a try.

But there was this one little punk at my first show on NYE, while I was getting ready to cue up my next track trys to fucking scratch on my shit! Needless to say I was a bit pissed and got his ass far away from my tables.

It was a semi-crude setup that was too accessible to the party but still you just dont fuck with a dj's shit while he's on.

To my satisfaction he wound up in a fight with my brother in which I promptly jumped in and hammered on him.

I guess thats his payback for messin with my shit.

Posted by Derivative on Jan-20-2005 19:14:

i dont have decks but i do have about $1500 worth of studio gear for production and i dont mind my friends using it since they tend to take of care of it anyway. BUT. we are all smokers. and smoking over my gear is a big no no since some of my mates do it without thinking. or cuz they are a bit stoned and forgot. one of my mates has been smoking over his DJM 500 and hes fucked it with spliff ash in the channel faders. 2 of channels no longer work and the crossfader has a gritty feel to it, probably grinding up bits of bud and tobacco with every use. crying shame. for this reason, id like to be around when they do use my gear so i can jump in with an ashtray when the ciggy/spliff starts to hover around my access virus b.

Posted by tu_face on Jan-20-2005 19:33:

realistically, if you touch my decks and don't know what you are doing, you die.

i only let people that i KNOW have a clue touch them.

Posted by Derivative on Jan-20-2005 19:34:

i can spin but every 2nd tune would be a trainwreck. could i touch your decks without dying?

Posted by Basstard on Jan-20-2005 20:20:

i generally dont mind people using my decks as long as they dont fuck around on them. coz when they try mixin then i do a mix for them - they think im god
the one thing that all my mates (who dont know anything abt decks) do when they are in my room is play with the pitch fader. theyre fukin fascinated with the thing!

one time i was makin a CD for my then-girlfriend. i was in the middle of a mix when she became curious as to what that little funny shaped slider was for. so she pulled down on that bad-boy and a trainwreck insued. i was furious. kicked the bitch out!

Posted by jethro on Jan-20-2005 21:46:

if im there in person sure why not, i dont see any harm in it since im there to 'supervise'

i would never lend it out though

Posted by Max Thomson on Jan-20-2005 22:17:

Hasn't been an issue, only DJs touch the DJ gear. The other people that come in my room stay away cuz (a) they know it costs a lot, (b) they know i will murder them if they break anything, and (c) it looks fucking intimidating!

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