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plug pulled on them in the middle of a packed dance floor? I've been mobile DJ'ing for sixteen years and that happened to me this weekend. I looked to the left when everything went silent just to see the caterer with that "deer in headlights" look holding my plug he thought was to a heater.

Well he plugged the system back in, I popped in Usher on CD while the system rebooted and got back into the thick of things in no time.. No harm done. Just something new for me. I've popped a fuse or two, had the cops called on me a couple times, drunk naked girls (and a couple guys) jumped in the pool, entire wedding party cut their tux pants to shorts length, I am sure I can think up some more, but never had my plug pulled until Saturday night....
 
Mensajes Mon 24 Oct 11 @ 9:04 pm
we've had our moments - plugs are all out of the way so no one can get to them - but we've had power outages from thunderstorms and once we had the transformer in the back corner of the parking lot hit by lightening. on a busy payday weekend friday night. electric company didnt get that one fixed till after 1am.
 
Yeah, I have. But, it wasn't the power plug that was pulled.....
 
Sure, a couple of times. By accident but also on pupose by a very drunk birthdayparty guest who wanted silence so he could sing in front of everybody. How he managed to focus long enough to figured out which plug to pull I'll never know

The good thing about it is that everybody can see that it's not the DJ's fault, since we can do absolutly nothing without power :)

/Klaus
 
If I am in a location that requires me to plug into a socket thats not directly behind me, and is accessible to people - I'll put tape over both the plug and the switch, so it's then pretty damn obvious even to drunk people that they shouldn't switch it off or pull it out.
 
The worst one for me was when a chef plugged a big long silver serving thing into my extension without me knowing, ended up with the extension on fire.
 
Only once had the power cut from my laptop(did not notice and the battery went dead). This is why I have, and always will use CD player controllers like Numark / Denon and Pioneer CDJs with HID.

With CD controllers I always have a CD full of MP3’s loaded in each, and then it’s so fast and easy to go straight to CD and keep the party going when the laptop powers back up.

This is also the reason why I think CDs still have a long life left in them.
 
ianmelville wrote :
Only once had the power cut from my laptop(did not notice and the battery went dead). This is why I have, and always will use CD player controllers like Numark / Denon and Pioneer CDJs with HID.

With CD controllers I always have a CD full of MP3’s loaded in each, and then it’s so fast and easy to go straight to CD and keep the party going when the laptop powers back up.

This is also the reason why I think CDs still have a long life left in them.


I totally agree!!

I am primarily a club DJ. I can tell you that one of the reasons club DJ's hate controllers is the fact that when it craps out or your laptop crashes, you are dead in the water and for the most part, unemployed.

I had Traktor freeze on me mid set. I switched my Denon from MIDI mode to CD. Put in my back up CD. scrolled to the song I was playing and went on with my set.

Also having a CD or thumb drive back up is much easier to get going than waiting for you laptop to boot up again.
 
That's why it is important to learn to dj by ear and not rely on software all the time. DJs that learnt the hard way and can dj by ear can always get things started again so much faster, and it wont sound any different (no train wrecks).
 
Charlie Wilson wrote :
The worst one for me was when a chef plugged a big long silver serving thing into my extension without me knowing, ended up with the extension on fire.


Had that happen once.
All set up early as usual to kill off problems.
Then the caterers show up and start plugging hot plates all over and before long POP!


As for outlets and plugs and people, been there too.
Had people move cords and had them fall out of weak outlets.

Now at every gig I use right angle plugs on break out boxes with 12-3 awg and 25' cable with 2 and 4way boxes on each.

Good subject for the argument of laptop over desktop.
 
Or having an UPS handy. Been using one since I went MP3 back in 2001.

Mind you it won't keep power to the amp but at least keep the PC console happy until power can be restored.
 
As I said in that other thread, a ups is what made it a final decision for me.
A voltage sensing circuit was trippin out and shutting the power off, that was enough.
My mac can run video show on battery for 3 hrs with a standby light use of 7 hrs if I need it.

mp3jrick wrote :
Ok now this is real time, like last Saturday night.

Working in a gym that is ready to be demolished but they had no other place to have their homecoming dance.
There was no power in the gym at all and we had to run power from locker rooms.

So I am working with two outlets/circuits, one has a weak plug and the other is tight (sloppy tension).
I break my power with my system and powered tops on one circuit (the tight outlet) and my amp for my subs and lighting on the loose outlet.

An hour into the dance with 800 kids in front of me, the tight outlet pops the breaker despite unplugging the TWO Coke machines that were on the circuit.
So at this point I decide to swap my circuits and do so.
Go back to my machine, click config/sound, reapply my sound settings and I pick up EXACTLY where I left off in less than a minute, no program restart, no windows reboot which would include my light show software at this point and away we go.

There is no way without a UPS that a desktop could do this particularly when as I said I had a UPS trippin out which shut my show down twice a year ago. That was the last straw for the desktop.

That's the point where I made my decision, and the main reason was weight and the ability to keep it up and running.

For home use, desktops are fine.



http://www.virtualdj.com/forums/155054/General_Discussion/anyone_DJ_off_a_desktop_instead_of_a_laptop.html
 
Never happened while I Dj but I was preforming live at a festival once and one stupid guy unpluged my power supply for the soundcard and windows wasn't clever enough to regonice it again until I had done a reboot. took several minutes to get up and running again and also had to skip one song to keep the program of the festival. F'n idiot that guy.
 
I always 100% of the time take a UPS with me. Although the laptop has its own power, I need to keep the mc6000 and 2 external drives alive. So if there is a power cut whether it is a plug being pulled or not. The DJing continues the moment the plug is inserted or power is reumed. P.S. I always plug lighting rig and controls and PA into separate sockets to establish a full power cut or a plug being pulled.
 


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