DJ Gig log 40th Birthday Party in Ceridigion West Wales United Kingdom

0:01 I'm going to swear now so I do apologise

Alright guys, another gig log for you. I haven't done one of these in a while because, well, it's been going through. I'm going to swear now so I do apologise. Fucking shit time in my life. It's not over yet but we're getting there. I can see the end of the tunnel. Irony is I started the whole bloody gig logs in the first place but it's very good. If you're still doing gig logs then go for it. If you don't know what a gig log is, it's about a DJ Or for that matter, anyone, entertainer going out and just showing it how it is. It's the real stuff. We don't want to, of course yeah, edit and do your thing but then the more real life it is the better. I set up doing a 40th birthday party on the west coast of Wales and I always don't like to say exactly where it is because

It's a private sort of function, people don't want to know names of towns and streets. So I've set up, there's a band playing as well, and it's a fancy dress, looks like it's something to do with Hollywood, so of course Hollywood film stars etc. I'm sat here now having a caramel sandwich, in a bit I'm going to show you the setup. I've decided to take the SVM and the video stuff because I enjoy doing that. They have requested sort of 70s and 80s and 90s styles, so they want the oldies. Got some new stuff as well. And we'll see what happens. I've got a lot of kit. Well, I wouldn't say a lot of kit. There's an adequate supply of kit. Took me quite a while to set up. And that is really down to the venue or the tent. No offence to the chap who booked...

2:30 Not 2 inches, maybe 6, 7, 8 foot but that's about it

The DJ Tutor, the DJ Tutor. You haven't got much space at all, there's absolutely no headroom and you can't put any lights higher than about 2 inches off the ground. Well, not 2 inches, maybe 6, 7, 8 foot but that's about it. So, it's taken quite a while to set up but I have tried to get lights in and around everywhere. I've got some of the new Chauvet stuff so you will see all of this later on. I've got a smoke machine, it won't probably do much good because there's gaps everywhere so it'll be blown all over the place. But, for the first time in a very long time, it's a sunny day. It's like, oh my friggin' goodness, it's actually sunny. So, I've set up and I'm not sure of the time now. I think it is about, um, it's 1925. There you go. That's a good year that. 1925 and people have started to arrive so I'm going to take the camera and have a little look around to show you the kit, how I've set it up.

Try to be as discreet as possible where the cables are. And a couple of tips for you as well. If you're in a marquee, especially or tent, and especially if you're in a marquee or a tent where it's not being put up... When I say... No, I can't say it's not being put up correctly. Someone's just sort of stuck it into the ground. Professional companies who put marquees up, what they will do is they'll make sure the floor is elevated and it's completely watertight. This one here, it's sort of on the ground and it's a bit on the soil, on the grass and pathway. So one tip is always make sure your four-way power supplies are off the ground, they're not on the floor. That's very important because if it does rain then water's not going to go into them. And also try and make sure that water can't go down. Water can, you know, in other words...

Don't have the plug facing down, have it sort of facing up so the water can't get through. I mean alright you know that's going slightly way over the top but hopefully you'll see in a bit how I've set it up and there's loads of cable ties all over the place so yep we shall see. Hopefully it's going to be a great evening and I'm gonna chill out have a couple of beers and I will speak to you in a bit.

5:12 All the bands on, I'm going to tell you what kit I've got

All the bands on, I'm going to tell you what kit I've got. Lighting up the band is a TAM power bar. They didn't bring any lights so I thought I'd help them out. We've got the Intimidation Spot Duo here from Chauvet. Color band picks are blue. I've got them on Santa light and they're working really well. DDJs and the SVM, I've got another one of them. And another TAM power bar. These speakers are, hold on, it's gone blurred. We'll get it gone blurred in a bit. There they are. Walkdown Prime, 15 and a one and three quarter inch, or one quarter inch, sorry, CD horn. And that is powered by the amp under there. I'll tell you about that in a little bit. And then over here, Cherry Cubics. Admittedly, I didn't bring the correct attachment there, but I have.

I've got another intimidation spot, and over there a rather nice laser cluster with an LED. The gig log ladies and gentlemen, it is now very early in the morning and I'm on my way home. Someone actually told me they said that birds in the road will always be able to fly away from the car or van whatever you're driving, bus, lorry, truck, boat. And if you do happen to run them over, it's not because you run them over. No, well, of course you did run them over. It's probably because they're ill or they're dying. I don't know. I beg to differ. But anyway, so it was very good fun this evening, this morning, last night, whatever you want to call it. Great crowd of people. It was fancy dress, Hollywood styley. And as ever, I try and give you a few tips.

And one tip I'm going to give you is about tie clips, tie wraps, those plastic things that you pull and they lock in place. Is if there's no need to pull them tight and all you need to do is just form a circle so you can attach something to or poke something through, then yeah, all you do is you just... Hold on, I'm just going to the corner. All you do is pull them through and then put whatever you've got to through, whatever you've got to through that hole. And then once you've finished at the end of the night, if you cut it in the right place, all you're doing is you're reducing the size of that tie clip, tie wrap, and it means you can reuse it. Very simple. I'll probably do it in a video at some point. Very simple and easy thing to do, but it does mean that it will have another life.

It was great fun and what I was very pleased about was the smoke machine because I was in a marquee with like more holes than some of the smelliest cheese on this planet and the smoke actually stayed in the marquee which gave a great effect. I loved the Chauvet picks, the move, stunning light and admittedly I didn't really, I mean I had those two sensor lights so they weren't really well. The other lights they were just flashing and moving around and I didn't get them to do their best effects. So what I will need to do is take more time looking at them, setting them up to get them to do better effects but I will in future videos and gig logs for you. So I will say practice, enjoy. I'm going to go home now, unload and I've got to help Yvette all day today.

Boah! Hard work, but it's good fun. Great to sit and enjoy, thank you.

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