Sorry in advance but this is my first big rant on this forum...
Last night I had an issue arise at a gig and it kinda put me in a bitter mood so I wanted to rant here and see opinions from team djtt. So I show up to a bar last night to play (using an s4 setup) and the bar manager brings me a pile of cables/wires, an old ass mixer, old amp, and had two big speakers already placed with no connections running to them and then leaves assuming i'm putting it all together. Well I wire everything up how I see it should run and I get no sound out of the speakers. So the manager and his friend come over who also cannot figure out how to fix the sound issue and we all try to mess with the connections.
Well the manager's answer was that the talent usually set up all the equipment so he didn't know what to do with troubleshooting.. They then started blaming my equipment which I argued I used everywhere with no issues at all so I pulled out my ipod and told them to get music playing from this to the speakers and we still couldn't get sound... well long story short I called it quits after an hour in of trying to get the set-up going and didn't get to play out at all and it was such a busy night for the bar . The manager said I could have another night soon and blah blah but it just pissed me off that so much pressure was on me as the dj to know how to do all the sound connections, etc. Has anyone else had this issue with a venue before where they assume you should know how to do all things sound related and not just know how to set up your own equipment...
One more rant while i'm on this, lately in my city it seems like everyone is becoming a dj and it seems like more and more people are competing for the same spots I usually play at. Do you all ever have issues with other djs taking gigs from you, replacing you, etc.? Prime example is this club manager I use to play for is now becoming a dj and using his power with his own club to get gigs all over the city, easily, since he is already well known in the scene. Just pisses me off that I have to work so hard to land a couple good gigs when this guy who cant mix for shit gets gigs just on who he is alone... Sorry for this rant feel free to say whatever, last night really just bugged me out because this was my first gig out in over a month and I was really looking forward to it and had such a good turnout of fans to come support and had to let everyone down... =/
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