Have you ever made any big mistakes while mixing and DJ'ing? If so how did the crowd react? How embarassing was it? Share your stories

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I'll tell you on Tuesday after my first club gig on Monday night...

I was spinning a party in Guelph and as I watched the record go more and more crap just kept on building up and up until the point where the needle just slid across the whole record making a great scratching sound as it went! All I could do was take the shit off and start it again! Fortunately there weren't too many people there...

I once had the pitch contol on the turntable go out while I was playing, the record sounded like and alvin & the chipmunks song. All music in the club stopped for about 15 min while they tracked down a new table.

One time in a middle of a gig the amp blew up.. there was no music for about 20 minutes till someone brought a new amp.

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I was DJ'ing at this party back home...my friend and I were alternating sets...I'd play for an hour and then he'd play for an hour...The person who wasn't playing at any given time was drinking...and its safe to say that by my like 4 set at like 2:40am..i was drunk as balls. I started putting on the Beegees and shit..."Uh Uh Uh Uh, Stayin' Alive" ahahah..


Rock the Kazba

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^^^^LOL! "stayin alive! stayin' alive!" that's tight!

i'm a rookie so i haven't played in a club yet but the first house party i did.... well i was mixing into lost tribe's gamemaster and it was probably the first transition where i had beatmatched well. (i was playing for friends so they weren't too hard on me). but anyways i was all stoked cuz it was a good mix and i'm just dancing away behind the tables with my eyes closed. then when i open them everyone is just standing around staring at me. i figured it's cuz i'm dancing like a fiend and all but then i take my headphones off and realize that there's no music coming out of the speakers cuz i left the crossfader all the way to the 2 position when i was spinnin' gamemaster out of 1. the perils of being a headphone dj. that's the best story so far but i'm sure i'll have more to come. i've got my first club gig on oct. 13th possibly. it's my friend's bachelor party and we're renting out a venue to throw him a rave and they might let me spin the first hour or so. i'll let you know how it goes if it happens.

lost

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i was really high on a couple of hits of XTC on new years eve and i was spinning up a great set at my friends party... anywho, i was so high i was running around while not mixing and hugging the speaker towers and shizat

not really embarassing, but stupid nonetheless

um, as for embarassing....
i blew a speaker once and it was spewing out smoke
i just calmly unplugged it and turned it around while i blew all the smoke out of there
ahh, that was a night i'll never forget

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it wasnt me but it was funny. i was at a house party and this happy hardcore dj played for about 10 minutes, with this stoned mc going crazy. i think hardcore rave music is so shit its funny, anyway the dj went to swap records in the box and him and the mc collided sending his whole collection flying! some people picked them up but most people started throwing them round, everyone was totally drunk. needless to say the dj has since become less of a show off and likes hard house now.

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Originally posted by Lost ^^^^LOL! "stayin alive! stayin' alive!" that's tight! i'm a rookie so i haven't played in a club yet but the first house party i did.... well i was mixing into lost tribe's gamemaster and it was probably the first transition where i had beatmatched well. (i was playing for friends so they weren't too hard on me). but anyways i was all stoked cuz it was a good mix and i'm just dancing away behind the tables with my eyes closed. then when i open them everyone is just standing around staring at me. i figured it's cuz i'm dancing like a fiend and all but then i take my headphones off and realize that there's no music coming out of the speakers cuz i left the crossfader all the way to the 2 position when i was spinnin' gamemaster out of 1. the perils of being a headphone dj. that's the best story so far but i'm sure i'll have more to come. i've got my first club gig on oct. 13th possibly. it's my friend's bachelor party and we're renting out a venue to throw him a rave and they might let me spin the first hour or so. i'll let you know how it goes if it happens. lost

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well i have this friend who is a DJ at a club, which i might get the job at next week ... cross your fingers guys.... anyways last year before i even thought about becoming a DJ i was up in the booth with him and i kinda had an idea of how things worked. well my friend asked me if i'd like to do the next mix cause he wanted to run off to the bar or something. anyways i was mixing from a hip-hop to another hip-hop and as i moved the fader across there was no sound and i started panicing, whats wrong? i was petrified. its playing and all but no sound... so he comes running up to the booth and lifts up the volume knob, i hadn't relized it was down... well he said it was also his fault and that the break wasnt for long and no-body even recognized it (ya right) needless to say i felt really bad afterwards... oh well there werent more than like 10 people on the dance floor

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Originally posted by DJ_Shockwav i was really high on a couple of hits of XTC on new years eve and i was spinning up a great set at my friends party... anywho, i was so high i was running around while not mixing and hugging the speaker towers and shizat not really embarassing, but stupid nonetheless

HEY THAT WAS MY HOUSE!

heheh..umm..most embarassing, well beside my boss being a complete fool on the mic and makin an ass of us both, Id say it was when I blew main power 6 times in 30 minutes, I couldnt figure out what was goin on..the I realized that the playstation we had was plugged into the same circuit, so whenever the kids started to play on it, power would blow..then my crossover fucked up and I lost channel 2 on the bass amp...so I had to double up on the banana clips and run mono for the rest of the dance. Oh did I mention this was my first show by myself? I was on the phone with Tech support tryin to make sure I had done everything possible b4 goin from stereo to mono...

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