So this has happened to me a lot of times in the past during my short "off bedroom" career. Whenever I get to the booth and start spinning, there's always someone who'll come and have a chat with me. Granted, some times they are just there for a couple minutes and then just walk away after noticing I'm kinda busy. But sometimes there's that insistent chatterbox person who just won't stop talking to me no matter what, messing up my concentration and leading me into less ideal results in my mixes.
This actually happened to me last night at a bar night where I was being tried out. Since I was spinning mainly deep house/tech house I wasn't so strained in concentration as I would be while spinning an electro house set. But anyway, the sound tech guy comes in and start chatting his ass off about this and that, he was a friendly guy, but I still had to devote a lot of time to the guy out of politeness sake, and didn't know how to just shut him off. Usually some people take the hint when I put on my headphones, lift my hand in a "wait a second" gesture and then I carry on for a couple minutes just enjoying the mix. This particular guy just didn't get it so I ended up not enjoying about an hour of my 3 hour mix, but hoping that at least I could be remembered as "the nice new guy from the other day".
So what do you guys handle this?
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