So let's talk about our worst live gig experiences involving our digital gear.
Mine is a little old. I travelled up to my old stomping ground of Albany, NY to help open up my friend's new club night. I was spinning on Traktor/Final Scratch. I brought up my turntables, mixer, laptop, whole deal.
I get to the venue early, unpack everything I have, and I realize I forgot my power strip. Well, it's a show venue, lots of concerts and the whatnot, so I figured I'd just use theirs. Well, being my Scratch Amp and hard drive both had wall warts I needed an extra power strip. The only one left after I plugged everything in had no grounding plug.
Me in my infinite wisdom decided this was okay and I just threw it in and away we went.
Well, the gig starts, small crowd (it's Albany, what do you expect for a goth/industrial night). I start spinning. "Holy shit" I think to myself. My turntables are set up backward. So my left channel is my right turntable. YAY! Time to get creative.
After a few songs I get kinda confused. It sounds a little weird. There's bass and all, but I am cranking out the sound and my LED's aren't even blinking yellow. I'm cranked on the board, but it just sounds muffled. I look down and... my mic switch is hit over to "Talk Over". I try bending it back but, well, that just creates chaos. So I hit it back and deal.
So later, I'm in the middle of this live mashup of a tribal power noise song (yes, that is a genre) and goldfrapp. My friend is on stage and we're rocking out when all of a sudden the sound stutters... I get a blue screen of death and everything's gone. My hard drive crashed. I frantically restart as another DJ plays a song... and get it running again. Five minutes later it dies again.
I proceed to throw a HUGE ego DJ bitch fit, pack up my shit and get really drunk.
Bad night all in all. And the last time I spun live on my turntables, although it had nothing to do with the gig.
Yeah... so anybody else got any nightmares?
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