lol angry Skream gives away cdj2000 to crowd
rock n roll
This is worse than animal cruelty.
I’m curious, what mixer was he using?
was that his way of reimbursing them for his abyssmal set?
DJM900
Guy looks like a total and utter chav. People like that shouldn’t even be allowed in a club, let alone behind the decks.
I warned you guys about the “ego masturbation” and it directly relates to most extended 6 hour + sets.
There you go babies. You can feel his ego being flossed because baby didn’t get to play the set he wanted. He sucked.. it’s o.k. there’s always tomorrow. Hold your head and walk.
It’s the same with stand-up comedy. You will see some stand-up comics want to stay up on stage indefinitely because they are striving for that laugh, that high, that crowd appreciation. Ego masturbation.
Sometimes you just can’t reach that climax.
Everyone has a bad set. It’s how you handle it.
I had a bad set once. After my hour was up I packed my shit up and left. Quietly.
Then came home and cried about it on DJTT 
what a douche.
Boiler Room is like “Sure, whatever. We’ll send you the bill.”
But if this happens at my stage, FOH will mute everything. Inexcusable behavior.
Why’d he get kicked off I wonder?
as you can see in the video, he was in the red clipping the whole time. it was risking the house speakers so they had to shut it off.
He was probably cut off because of Austin’s strict sound ordinance. Especially when there are shows all over the city during SXSW, they make temporary venues stick to the provisions in their sound permits. Skream’s set was the last of the night, starting at 1:15.
Even the smallest of venues typically have inbuilt limiters WELL down the signal chain from the booth; I highly doubt that was the reason. From what I could make out of him on the mic, he knew they were switching him off at a set time and basically just refused to stop.
whether the club has compressor or limiters, red gains still ruins the dynamic of the music. but simply not arguing here, just laying that that could be an option. my other guess is that he went over his time frame and so they had to cut him off on top of clipping. if i was the sound guy, id be worried.
“In the red” is a myth held over from the old days of audio when the top of the meters reflected the end of the headroom. DJMs clip literally 8db above where the meter stops reading (equivalent visualisation of the meter running to the edge of the faceplate). In the video, the meters were bouncing, meaning not only was he at yellow RMS, he wasn’t even close to resembling any kind of clipping in the mixer stage. It’s time to stop perpetuating the “any kind of red is bad” old wives tales that reek over amateur audio engineering.
i didnt say that “any kind of red is bad”. i touch red all the time when i mix but keeping it there is a different story.
yes the meters were bouncing in yellow, and you might not hear any clipping in the video, but there were many times when it would bounce in/stay red. when a mixer does that, it leaves no room for the sound guy to control so that’s my reason why they would shut him off. i wouldn’t want to risk blowing my speakers because this guy thinks its ok to blast his gains.
edit: with all due respect.
This
You’re missing my point. If you’re worried about the equipment because it’s “in the red,” you’re an idiot, and responsible for far too much for your level of understanding of the hardware. Unless the meters were slammed at flatline double red RMS, and then turned up an extra 25-30 or so degrees on both the channel and master gains, then you would be approaching activating the built in limiter, and “clipping” in the sense that it exists today. Dynamics dont magically die when the volume goes up, that only happens when the headroom is hit and above. DJMs sit at around 18db of headroom.
Bouncing the meters with a peak in red or double red isn’t “Im worried about the equipment” it’s normal use. By running it at 0, you’re just making the amp gains work harder, and actually presenting more of a threat to the sound system due to the possibility of you balancing the amps for 0 flat (and running them hotter than normal due to the low signal from the mixer), and having someone crank them up to 3 yellows+ RMS with dynamics peaking (the normal running rate, and around the level it was running in the video, ironically, the dynamics that “disappear when you run that hot” was the only thing making the mixer hit red).
If you’re actually concerned about the equipment, utilize and understand the mixer properly. Balance the amps for 3 yellows RMS, set the attenuator depending on how ADD the DJ’s are, and then boost/fine tune the amp by ear from there. The attenuator combined with a modern amp gives you more than enough breathing room for even the most hardcore redlining. Balancing the meters high, using the attenuator for breathing room, and then running the amps low actually lets you worry less, due to the fact that if a DJ runs super hot you’re already low, and if a DJ plays quiet, you just turn the amps up per taste.
1 bad set? C’mon, you’ve had more than that… 
Shame really, Skream alway’s seemed like a pretty level bloke in any interviews i’ve read.