First College gig…now i understand
So i finally got to spin at a house around campus, and now i understand all those pet peeves that many of you complain about.
Had a kid start touching my jog wheel and messing up the song. Had plenty of people come up telling me to play their song cause they are so “important” and “thats their song”.
But besides all of that it was awesome and i just wanted to say thanks to everyone who contributes to this forum!
yeah people touching the jogwheel are always bad.
my jogwheels are deactivated when playing, only when i press shift, i can seek trough deck a/b with them, so people can always “do” something if they want and nothing happends when they touch them out of nowhere.
congrats to your first gig. 
greets
You lost you gig-ginity 
I use Serato so once I get a song playing I immediately put it to INT. mode. So whatever someone touches then nothing will happen.
I had a drunk girl SIT on a turntable while I was playing that track. So happy it wasn’t mine.
lol
And i guess i should go about setting something like that up for my mappings
With modifiers you can set your jog wheels to automatically lock.
For example, I don’t scratch. So in my basic “play” function, when the Vinyl mode is pressed nothing happens with the jog wheels. So when people start bugging me I just hit that so in case they decide to be dickheads nothing happens.
And don’t forget you can turn them off by pressing both Vinyl mode buttons at the same time.
nice.. didn’t know that one.. thx
I remember playing a deep house set in a new bar in town. I was still using vinyl at the time and only had the one record box with me with around 100 tunes in it. It was all my own gear and I had built a set of stands for everything to sit on.
Anyway, there was this one girl who continually asked for ‘something she could dance to’. When I asked her what she wanted she said Castles in the Sky by Ian Van Dahl. I said I didn’t have anything like this and the night had been advertised as a deep house set. She then asked for Cascada and all manner of Euro-Pop. I told her I was sorry but I didn’t have any of that type of music.
She disappeared, only to return with a friend and they both began to slag off my appearance, gear and style of music. I stopped the decks, turned the power off and told the remaining punters that it was the fault of these two air headed bimbos. It was a risky move but it paid off. The other punters ejected them out of the bar and told them not to come back until they had sorted out the attitude!
The basic morale of that story is that there will normally be a larger contingent of decent folk wherever you’re playing. Try to remember they are the ones you have to keep happy. The idiots? Well, you can’t legislate for them, can you?
Re: First College gig…now i understand
Good shit krill!
Btw anyone touches my jog wheel. Imma f-en stab you! I know mexican judo!
Scottish Karate FTW.
Part of my set up is a Trigger Finger, which is unlabeled. The pads control all the transport functions for 4 decks - play & pause and also load & loop.
Of course, people think it does nothing because the pads don’t have labels and they just have to press the buttons…
Real annoying, I’m rethinking my stance on houseparties. I love them when they’re good but they’re so often crappy. I’ve almost always had better experiences in clubs.
Yeah…had a kid pick my needle up off the record that was playing once…once.
I had one drunk chick come back like 5 times asking for songs that I don’t carry on my drive. And she was all pissed that I didin’t carry a wide array of pop music.
I must’ve told her like 6 times that I spin mainly industrial/goth/darkwave/synth pop. And music along those lines. Plus it’s on the damn flier. If you want to hear the music that you want to request then come on the next night, that’s the night that spins that kind of music.
I also had some guy think that he knew everyone in the club, and strolled up to the booth and started touching my faders on my mixer, when our guest dj was in the middle of his set. Next thing I know I hear my Ministry song that I had cued for my next set blasting over his set.
Needless to say, that guy was escorted out of the booth and got a licking from some of our regulars.
So i went to my friends room today to fix a computer, and turns out her suite mate was one of the chicks asking me to play the same song i played an hour before. To bad im not one to think of come back quickly but after she gave me crap about not playing her song i should have said “I aint your ipod bitch!”
Considering i normally have done sweet 16s, and backyard type party stuff in the past how do any of you think its alright to play a same song twice in one night?
in house party? u can get away with it… but theres real danger that it is a song that is soo favorable to the audience that you might have to play it for over several times/depends on amount of drinks and drunken ppl.
I think its real shame in clubs, but i have seen Top40 clubs where big tunes are played several times per night, no sweat.
all in all it comes down to what type of music you playing and how do YOU think crowd will react to repetition.
Thanks for the post, it teaches many lessons. If they can touch your gear, they can easily take it or permanently damage it (or spill beer on it). Unfortunately, DJs are thrown into environments that attract drunk morons (as well as respectable people just looking for some fun).
?? I don’t understand. What kind of fools are actually touching your equipment while in use? I’ve never had anyone do that while I’m playing, but I’ve had them ask. If they’re cool I might turn on an effect or something and let them turn a knob or fader.
But seriously, who are these people? I don’t encounter them, but maybe I’ve just been lucky…People seem to understand for the most part that dj equipment actually does things to the sound when you move faders or jogs or needles…
They’re usually really drunk.
The drunk girls and the mister “know-it-alls” do.