Gig Log Aberystwyth Mobile Disco Service

0:00 I've unloaded and getting everything set up

Alright guys, follow me. I'm at the gig and I've just got set up. I've unloaded and getting everything set up. Here we are. Excuse me, I'm running nose. We're in the golf club. Well, in a golf club close to Aberystwyth. Let's just get a bit brighter on here. Alright, I've set up the audio. About to do the lights. Here's some real thumb for you. Something that you should stick by as soon as you get in. To your gig, PA first. Very important. Because if anything's wrong with your sound, you've got time to fix it. Then you do your lights. Let's look at it from another point of view. If you can't set your PA up and you've got no sound, there's one option. And one option only. Go home. If you can't set your lights up for some reason, you can probably talk your way out of it. But seriously, sound is the important bit, so make sure you get that done first.

Okay, a set of the Intimidator Spot LED 450s from Chauvet, which were in those boxes. Bloody heavy, nearly 20 kilos each. We've got these here, which are the Intimidator Spot 100s and the 100 IRC. I like them. That's my hand. Look at this size difference there compared to that. Immense. I've also got the Cam Hyperscan 3D. Now that is a Class 4 laser, so that's not going to be pointing at anybody. I might sort of point it against the wall there. So pause the camera for a bit. It's a bit of a mess here, but I'm setting up at the moment. Right, another tip for you as well. If you're doing what I would class as a medium-style gig, you've got one amp, you know, you've got maybe 500, 600 watts worth of lights, then all you really need is...

2:14 Always start from source

Two power cables. I always have two separate, one for lighting and one for PA so I could put L and P. So for example if all of a sudden something goes wrong with the PA you're pretty damn sure it's gonna come from the one plug. Always start from source. There's no point just jumbling around the kit because it could highly likely be As simple as a fuse at the source, and if you start fumbling around sort of here, you could be wasting time. So, it's still a bit messy at the moment. I need to tidy up cables and whatnot. Story of my life. But, okay, the show is we've got the Intimidator Spotful 50 LED, which are monsters. We've got a couple of the IRC100s from Chauvet DJ as well. Very nice fixtures. Again, very small, compact.

Decent price. You know, years ago, if they'd have had these, I'd have just bought oodles of them. I mean, moving heads when I started DJing weren't even around and when they did finally come about, they were an absolute bloody fortune. Chauvet 4Play CL. CL is for clear. Now, if you are just starting out, I'd look at something like that because a couple of those and you've pretty much got a complete light show. Very good. I've also got the Corbar 4, which I haven't plugged in yet. I've got that sort of four mood lighting, so I'm going to just maybe have one of them behind me, a couple on the ceiling, one against the wall, just to add some colour to the room. I've got the intimidators set to slow because it's...

4:36 I'll give you the modern number

The bride and groom have already got married, they got married abroad so this is sort of a party for guests that couldn't make it abroad. And I don't really want to blast them with club lighting even though they are better suited in a nightclub. That should not be there. That's a hoop for swinging on. I do have a smoke machine but it's highly unlikely I'll be able to use it. Troubles with that, it's so powerful. It's the cam atmosphere. I'll give you the modern number. Yeah, I do apologise. All of a sudden my nose has started to run. It's the KSM Vegas LED smoke machine. I've used it in quite a few gigs. LED smoke goes vertically up and it is frigging powerful. Comes with its own key fob and it's the sort of key fob where you don't let anyone use that because you could pretty much smoke out an entire room so user beware.

6:29 I just sort of put the camera on and say stuff

Ladies and gentlemen, another gig log for you. Don't really know what I'm going to say actually. I just sort of put the camera on and say stuff. It's how it rolls, isn't it really? But today, wedding in the golf club and yeah, it was a really good night, very good. Started off, alright tunes, what are we playing? Right, started off playing old school stuff. Probably didn't really get going until after they had the buffet. Then they had the first dance, and then I played a bit of old school. It didn't really work. So I put some pop on, popular music, today's chart stuff, and they enjoyed it, carried on doing that, carry on playing that style. But then I changed it. Why? Well you've got the older generation there as well. So yeah, you know, I could have carried on playing popular music practically all night.

But then you're not pleasing everyone. And what I find is by moving to other genres, well-known genres, well-known tracks in certain genres, you can capture the whole room, the whole audience, all of the audience, which is what I wanted. There were a couple of ladies who really enjoyed themselves. It was great fun. In fact, there were two ladies who were very drunk and enjoyed themselves. And I went a little bit mad and mental behind the decks. And it's just, it's what you do as a DJ, alright? You don't take piss, you don't shout abuse at people, you're not racist, you're not religiously inclined to go, oh you this and you that. No, you just act silly and daft but in a professional manner. And you could make someone's day, some people may think.

8:59 Back to the new music and the old

What an absolute idiot. What on earth are they doing? A lot of people are just looking and think, yeah, you're the DJ there to entertain and make us happy, which is what we do. So, yeah, started off playing in oldies, didn't work, then played some popular music, got people on the floor, and then I went back to the old stuff. Originally started playing sort of disco, didn't work. Later on in the night it did work, so, you know, I tried it. And then after the popular music, sort of played a bit of the 80s, 90s, that worked. Back to the new music and the old. What I try not to do is play like one new, then one old. One new, one old. It can work very well if you try and keep the continuity of the key, the flow, the vibe. It doesn't work if you're playing an old track and then a new track and the keys come

Thank you for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe to my channel. Pretty much every single person on the dance floor. There was three, just kidding. That's great. But if you, you know, there was... I don't really know how many people were there but at one point there was over half of them on the dance floor and they were just rocking, having some fun. And again, you can make the atmosphere, you can make the fun. And it's... I've given this analogy before. You've got a huge, big, massive wheel in front of you that's Very heavy, it takes a long time to push that wheel. Once you've pushed it and you put your energy and time and effort into pushing that wheel the wheels own momentum will keep it going and that is what you can do as a DJ but it's the hard work first that matters. Pushing that wheel and struggling sweating bloody sweating but once it starts moving

You're just going to then tap it along very nicely, hard work's done. So a big shout out to The Wedding Party. I don't really like giving loads of names on the web, just in case they don't really want their names. So I'm not going to say who they are, but I do know them and they're a good bunch of people. So thank you very much. And yeah, let's see your gig logs. Come on, you do some if you're out there with your camera. Take it to a gig, let's see your setup, what lights you've got, what PA you've got, how you're plugging in and just show everybody else. People like to see what you've got because then they can work out pretty much what they want to get. I mean I've got a Wolfdale PA system, the Delta 15s, they're 1500 watts RMS each and they kick ass. I've got a cam amplifier that you'll see pictures, I'll put a link to the Facebook page and you'll see all the pictures.

That just purred all night. It purred all night. Cam laser, show me lighting, the Pioneer hardware, and very soon I'm hoping to use some Denon hardware, so that'll be interesting. I've always admired Denon. They've stuck religiously up here, so we're going to give that a shot as well. The light console, console, of course, and moi. Practice and enjoy. Do you know what? Because I do. Thank you.

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