Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Living in Connecticut, Partying in New York
Worst DJing Experience
Thought I might make a nice new thread with something that didn't appear on the search
Alright so my experience was at a house party. At first i didn't even want to do the house party because i had no speakers and the pay was only 50 bucks. However after talking with the girl, i got a pay increase to 80 bucks which is a bit better.
In any event, i still had no speakers and so i decided to use the speakers that my school provides to on campus organizations. So i went up to the manager where you pick up the speakers and asked to borrow a speaker for a middle school dance (which i did dj for but earlier in the day). I decided to use that same speaker (a jbl eon g2) for the house party.
So i get to the party thirty minutes late and set up. I am djing the and for some reason my headphones give out. Only one channel on my head phones worked and at that time i didn't know how to mix with the one ear one cup method. So now a good portion of my mixes were trainwrecks. Things got worse when some girl knocked the power cord of my speaker. I had to walk across the room in order to plug the speaker back in, pushing drunk people out of the way. Then this happened again and again. I had no sound for three instances and these weren't brief periods of no sound either...they were like 2 minute interims. Well in any event, that night sucked and i just hated everybody in their and was an absolute grouch by the end of the night...i never to dj a house party for those people again. Which i found out later was because of the price increase. WTF? who gets upset about paying 30 bucks more when if they split it across the 5 residents is only 6 bucks a person.
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Jun-28-2006 04:42
spdandpwr
DJ in the making...
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Living in Connecticut, Partying in New York
I take this experience as a lesson learnedd...bring an extra pair of headphones, learn to mix one ear and one cup and finally place the speakers closer to me.
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Jun-28-2006 15:15
T-Soma
The Sky Was Pink...
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Chair
quote:
Originally posted by dj_palm
if u didnt charge money and had a drink and had fun with the people instead of wineing u would had alot better dj experience. i promise. things will never work as it should any way so dont take it serious. but if u dont are serious you should not charge money. just do it for fun and the girls.
Maybe if they actualy like music that was enjoyable to play and not top40s crap.
Majority of house parties you do that are not for close mates will probably be work and crap work too.
I actually had a worse experience on Saturday night...
Was djing a party for a friend's bday and it was absolutely horrific! No monitors, shitty sound, could barely get a beer played til 4 AM with my friend- it was so shit. Shittest party ever. Worst club ever, in the worst room... ugh- it was disgusting.
AND - I didn't even get paid.
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Jun-28-2006 19:59
richg101
1010101010101010101010101
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: a universal nation
i get booked for the best club in town...!!!! booked from 12.30 till 2.00. they have the best sound system ever! 250 capacity and a 20 000watt system. monitors are beautiful, carl cox mixer... brand new techs and cdj 800's.
now... onto the shit!
1. the club is usually drum and bass. its known as a d+b club. so no trance fans will know about the night unless its advertised. anyways the promoter got given the night.. god knows how! because....
a. he did next to no promotion. i did nt see one poster or flyer(and i had my eyes open)
b. the promoter had arrived too late to get the sound engineer to set up a locked rig. so the system was locked at safe levels. this didnt matter tho! cos three people came to the night. LITERALLY!
and one of the bastards asked me to play 'three lions' cos the football had been on.
2. the system was so nice to mix on i said fuck it, ill make the most and enjoy using a proper clean tidy rig in a proper club. OH NO! the promoter is pissed off cos no one has come so he gets in a strop and shuts the place down after 50 min of mixing.
at the end me and my mate said he will lose the place if he didnt do proper promotion. the promoter said he had done loads. sent out emails, text messages and posters. however i didnt see one piece of advertisment.
been booked again. he's got another night. god knows how. but he has it in his head that trance and hardcore go together.
the whole thing is an embarrisment.
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Jun-28-2006 21:27
T-Soma
The Sky Was Pink...
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Chair
I remember doing a house partie where the poor girl had bearly anyone show up. I got paid $100 AU but didnt even realy mix. I had turntables + Laptop but put the covers on the tts and just used the laptop to mix then I went and sat down between songs. There where like 10 people at this party haha. I just mingled
Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
I remember doing a house partie where the poor girl had bearly anyone show up. I got paid $100 AU but didnt even realy mix. I had turntables + Laptop but put the covers on the tts and just used the laptop to mix then I went and sat down between songs. There where like 10 people at this party haha. I just mingled
yeah i had exactly the same lol!
Jun-30-2006 01:51
chojin
<3 Leah
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Bedfordshire, England
quote:
Originally posted by richg101
he has it in his head that trance and hardcore go together.
the whole thing is an embarrisment.
I played trance at a hardcore night in swindon before and it went down really well. it was only in room 3, but everyone loved the 'classics'. i just played loads of stuff from the kevin and perry soundtrack and tracks that even the most casual listener would know...along with some new stuff to try and broaden thier horizons.
got another booking for a hardcore night but i dont know whether the promoter's putting me on first as a warm up set
so yeah, sometimes it can work, depends on what the crowd's like.
Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
I remember doing a house partie where the poor girl had bearly anyone show up. I got paid $100 AU but didnt even realy mix. I had turntables + Laptop but put the covers on the tts and just used the laptop to mix then I went and sat down between songs. There where like 10 people at this party haha. I just mingled
Even if there was no one there, why would you not mix on your tables? You only do it for a specific amount of people in the room?
Jul-01-2006 17:14
T-Soma
The Sky Was Pink...
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Chair
The safety of my equipment. I didnt want to leave my decks open, some drunk person wanted to keep scratching. I covered them up and with the laptop I could just use auto-dj.
Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
The safety of my equipment. I didnt want to leave my decks open, some drunk person wanted to keep scratching. I covered them up and with the laptop I could just use auto-dj.
I'm doing a house party today. The person who is hosting loves trance and house and so do some of her friends so she said she wanted a dj who spunn that and NO hip hop, so I said Im her man. BUT, I am the kinda person that if someone comes up, drunk or not, and starts fucking with my shit I'll throw down. I have no means of replacing anything at this point and that would totally be a slap in my face.
So, I get your point now.
Jul-01-2006 17:45
mzvirbulis
"Boom Boom"
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Ballarat, Victoria
lol are there an t-shirts saying stay the fu$% away etc.
cause im the same at some house parties, all they wanna do is scratch the bloody record to its death!
