What do you use for audio backup?

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What do you use for audio backup?

So… im going to say its safe to assume most of us here do a good amount of DJing in the technological world. And with technology one can face a plethora of problems! Computer and software crashes, hard drives dieing, fried motherboards, broken midi controller.

I am going to be relying heavily on technology (my VCI-100SE, computer, soundcard) during my first gig at a school-dance… so I would like to know:

What is everyone doing for their back-up situation… in case something happened to go wrong.

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i always have a cd with a mix with me, if there is no cdj i still got my ipod with some mixes (not the best solution but it helped me one time)

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Yeah cds… and that ipod idea is not bad. Better that than having nothing…

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Yea i also carry Cd’s, I have a American DJ MCD-510 this still allows my to beatmatch songs tempo key etc., and make the best of it.

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A good idea is , if you have made a Set for the nite, burn the set to cd and then your not screwed if the laptop fails.

Im lucky that all the venues i regularly do have MP3 enabled CDJs so i burn the whole set to 1 Mp3 CD , make second copy and have them loaded in the CDJs as backup.

I also take a second laptop but i know thats not a reality for most people.

The funny thing is i still do this every week despite never having had one crash live ever.
It just makes sense to have a backup.

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i use little brother! or if he is also incapacitated we’ve always got the pod hooked up to the mixer.

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normal gigs - back up CD or iPod cued & ready to go.

Very important gigs - 2nd laptop, midi controller & soundcard set up & ready to go.