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roosh
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Maryland

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.

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Oct-24-2004 08:00 United States

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Freak
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: On a plane probably...

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.

Oct-24-2004 15:52 United States

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Rikki
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Glasgow, Scotland

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.

Oct-24-2004 21:46 Scotland

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djtrinity
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Registered: May 2002
Location: NYC

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!

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Oct-24-2004 21:53 United States