Newbies: If you had no choice but to bring 25kg’s every gig, would you bother ?
In light of the number of peeps saying that everything is, too big, too heavy, too arkward etc …
I hearby ask the question - if you HAD no choice but to bring 25kg+ of gear with you to every gig, would you still be bothered DJing, would you have got started in the first place even ? or would you see it as too much hassle ?
One day when I got some money and some old geezer like yourself gets pissed off at his crates of records and decides to sell them, I’ll take em off his hands and lug a few crates one day. I will also get two turntables.
I can see where people going around on planes can want portability due to fees and shit but I used to play in a band and lug around equipment, and I’ve had my midi controller out on a gig too. Its all alike if you ask me. If its not 25kg plus its 25 cables+. There’s good and bad to everything.
I thought you were talking about nose powder 
only 25kg
Anyway, a strange hypothetical. I imagine some dude in Brooklyn back in the day not allowing the night’s DJ into the warehouse because (the horror!) he has too much weight. :X
Man its bad enough lugging round two backpacks and a box of beer 
[quote]One day when I got some money and some old geezer like yourself gets pissed off at his crates of records and decides to sell them, I’ll take em off his hands and lug a few crates one day. I will also get two turntables.
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Haha, I’d be happy to donate them someday (apart from a few rarities) havent played a single vinyl in the past 4 years (boooooo) and havent had any turntables for over 10 years (boooooer).
And OI! Definetly not that old, just started pretty young
@ Jester.NZ … good point, less gear, more beer …
edit: @ Jester.NZ. You have to bring your own beer ?
my brother usually makes me carry plus his CD case!
I thought you are the older brother? best be setting him straight. cook me some eggs…:eek:
he’s getting married in feb so it will be him cooking all the eggs.
I lug around my coffin case with all my gear to gigs occasionally. Definitely don’t mind having to do some lifting in order to get the people dancing!
pfff, what an enormous presumptuous topic this is. Well, good for you, how cool you are… Wow, so old school and awesome…
Just because one day people walked the face of the earth to get places, doesn’t mean you can’t strive for a better car…
FYI; i’ve been carrying around vinyl too, so don’t go there…
[quote]pfff, what an enormous presumptuous topic this is. Well, good for you, how cool you are… Wow, so old school and awesome…
Just because one day people walked the face of the earth to get places, doesn’t mean you can’t strive for a better car…
FYI; i’ve been carrying around vinyl too, so don’t go there…[/quote]
Take a chill pill dude, Perhaps not, but price of a car and road quality might be a factor in considering if you wanted to drive ?
As an example I’d never considered drumming due to the space, noise and Size and price. But with V-drums becoming considerably cheaper its became an option.
I would never have tried my hand at production had it not been for Reason being released, which (at the time) was pretty much an “all you need” package at a reasonable price and easy enough for a newbie who knew his way around a studio desk to use.
And so the question is one of, did the portability and accessibility of lightweight DJ systems “poke you” to start up, and would you have bothered getting started if everything was still stuck the way it was 15 years ago, big n’ heavy.
Says in the title, its a question for the newbies to DJing (not this forum)
This must be the most stupid thead ever, ofcourse who doesn’t??? :S
25kg? pfff, not even the weight of one sub!
Try lugging around an entire sound system, light rig, turntables, records, etc up and down 2 flights of stairs.
Only then will I empathise with your supposed pain
But yes, I am more than happy to lug around half a metric ton of gear to make other people happy. Even if they dont appreciate it! (not bitter . . . . much)
I’d always rather use what’s already set up than bring my own stuff. If there’s no house gear, then what I’m willing to bring would depend on how serious the gig is.
[quote]Try lugging around an entire sound system, light rig, turntables, records, etc up and down 2 flights of stairs.
Only then will I empathise with your supposed pain.[/quote]
It was in my previous job description few times a week (sound hire), but I was taking about lugging the music alone and assuming the rig was already set up.
Meh, let it die .. see you in hell my ol’ thread
Just bringing a vinyl crate isn’t too bad (until its compared to a cd book or usb drive, at least). Its the setup/testing/teardown of gear that’s a real bitch.
Wow, so much hostility here…
I would have no problem with 25Kg. Back when I got into drum and bass and jungle, I used to help my buddy lug his crates, his tables, a sub, 4 speakers, and all the stands and cables. 25 is eaaaaasy.
try working in the construction industry lugging plasterboard up into attics, bags of plaster at 25kg each, 25 really is nothing to be honest, what stopping people driving?? every gig ive ever done ive drove to, if people want to drink then its there own fault..
I hear ya Stiffy, used to frame houses, lugging sheets of plywood up and down stairs all day. I don’t feel bad about this going OT, the OP said let it die. Hahahah
yeah im a carpenter by trade so do a lot of framing, but getting supplies for my own trade and other trades was a heavy job, trying to carry 3 bags of skim at once to save the amount of trips to the van