dealing with software failure
So I was DJing this college rave party the other night that was going really great. I stepped off my booth and went out in the crowd for a few seconds of dancing and to check the sound, but when I walked back up this completely trashed girl was standing at my table and started pressing things on my computer.
She said she was looking for Tik-Tok by Kesha... yep, kill me now.
I was trying to get her down, but she pushed me and lost her balance and then spilled her beer right next to my hardware. I started freaking out at this point and then BAM! All of the treble and mids were gone in my left deck on traktor. Some guy grabbed her and got her down, but I could not for the life of my figure out what was wrong. For about 10 minutes I had to mix with one deck and since everyone at this place was wasted no one really noticed, but of course I was quite stressed.
I ended up doing a quick switch into my Ipod and reset tracktor. Things worked fine after that and the party continued.
I had a dream last night that I was in a big club and had some terrible software/hardware malfunction that I couldn't figure out, despite being pretty experienced with live sound. The crowd started booing and the club owner threw me out and replaced me with a DJ with awesome golden turntables... What a nightmare.
Has shit like this ever happened to you guys? And how do you generally deal with/ resolve the issue?