Gig Log Feb 2012 Y Maes Bangor in Capel Bangor close to Aberystwyth Karaoke night

0:01 Meisterbanger in Kappelbanger near Aberystwyth

Alright guys, today's Saturday and yes, this morning I flew back from the Mobile Beat Show in Las Vegas. But, you know, gig's a gig and I'm doing a karaoke event this evening here. Meisterbanger in Kappelbanger near Aberystwyth. Okay, we've got one bar here and it's the other room. Right, here we go. What I've done, I've tried to keep the set up to a very, very bare minimum. The rooms are very small, as you can see. A Wharfdale active speaker there, facing the crowd. And I've also got another one then on the floor as a small monitor for the singer or singers. There is a small monitor there. We've got this player here that I'm going to use just for tracks, you know, music in between. Let's say the karaoke and then that one there. That's the Pioneer MEP.

And the mixers, the DJM5000, that is playing what are known as the CDG discs. And here they are. Big shout out to Master Mix in the house, geezers. It's a nice little setup. Apparently you can update these as well, but I've got the basic pack that you get with 30 of them. Not that much modern stuff on here, but... Like I said, you know, you can update them. But having said that, you know, there's a lot of the classics. At the end of the day, if people want karaoke generally, they just want their classics to sing along to. You know, they don't really want track 7 from unknown LP from made in 1857. Well, alright, not 1857, perhaps 1858. Now, what I do like about this mixer, you have your two channels there for...

2:33 I've got that nice little light there to shine at the crowd

The mic, low, mid and high. And also effects on here as well. On-off, very simple. We can have reverb, echo and reverb. Octavia, which I'll show you, and pitch. Pitch is great to mess around with. You can have some real good fun with the crowd. I've got one mic on a lead, you can see there, and then the other one is a radio mic. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to give that to the people who want to sing, but quite often at the end of the night, especially with karaoke. You want to get couples who come up and have a little sing-along, so I've got one with a cable. The only reason for the moment I haven't got two mics, radio mics, is a bit concerned about feedback where the signals are concerned there. So I know you can, I think Brian S. Red in America has done a video on one unit that you can plug in four cameras to, sorry, cameras, four microphones to.

I've got that nice little light there to shine at the crowd. And over here, stop it going blurry, there we go, I have the Cam LED Derby 2. So that's just a nice little LED effect just to brighten up the room and that does, that fills the entire room. Okay right, very straightforward setup, very simple and I'll explain exactly how things are plugged in etc. So we have channel 1 into that side, no sorry it's not channel 1, beg your pardon, 1, 2, 3 but... Channel 3 into the right hand side of the player, channel 2 into the left hand side of the player, channel 1 into that CD player. So of course now I can leave that just to playing CDJs and then leave that one just playing CDs. The output is going directly into the powered speakers, they're from Wharfedale, they're the 12 actives, so 12 inch and a 1.

4:36 We've got reverb, Echo, and we have Octavia

And I think it's either a 1¼ or 1¾ inch CD horn. Always go for CD horns, compression drivers, a lot more efficient and better quality sound. Going into this input here, you can see that's a jack input, and volume control, we can leave that sort of halfway, and EQ, I'm going to leave that flat, which is another way of describing 12 o'clock, so leave that like that. If I want to then I can increase, decrease the bass on the mixer. A good bit about this particular CD player is ideal for the likes of a mobile DJ, especially if you're doing karaoke as well because we've got two here separate inputs for microphone. There is a third mic input as well but I like these guys because you can have effects on the two channels. We've got reverb,

Echo, and we have Octavia. We have pitch. Pitch is a great one for messing around with because you can make the person talking or singing in the microphone have a higher or lower voice. From the back of this guy there is a video out for CDJ so we go out of there into the video in on the screen. Small screen but if you wanted to and you've got the relevant hardware there's no reason at all why you couldn't have The DJ Tutor allows you to have not just one screen, but have 50 of them. If you're in a bar, pub, club etc., they should have provisions for you to plug directly into their system so you could have the karaoke all around the room. Think about it, then you've got everyone singing. A couple of lights, we've got that nice little wash there and also we've got, where is it, a cam there. Cables wise, there's a few, but what I've done,

Make it as neat as possible. There are a couple dangling down. I might try and sort those out. But it's just a very small, compact setup because the room itself is tiny. I'd say you get 20 people in here and it would look very, very busy. Right, stop going blurry. There it is. I'd take this opportunity to thank Ryan Berger of The Mobile Beat Show. For letting me play a part in the show here in Las Vegas and also I'd like to say thank you very much to Pioneer Europe and Chauvet Lighting for helping me get to the show. The next video you see after this one will be the video of the Mobile Beat Show. What I'm going to do, I did a couple of reviews on kits so they'll be separate but you'll have quite a long video of my random sort of punks sort of thing about the show. It'll be interviews and stuff like that and demos

9:07 Relatively short gig, didn't go on for very long

There'll be a look around, a chat with lots of people and it'll be a very random thing. So if you do see yourself in there then in a comment, bong, you know, in a comment and say it was me at 2115 or whatever. Hi guys, another great night. If you want any information by the way about the venue I will put a link, it'll be a lickable clink in the description that will take you to the venue. Very nice, very posh. What is quite... It's not strange, but how many times we go up and down a particular road and we see a venue here, a venue there, but it's always there. But you never stop and go inside. And again, I mean, I've lived around this area all my life and I didn't know how clean and tidy and posh the place was. It was really nice. But mainly about the place, there was a warm, homely atmosphere there. Fantastic.

Relatively short gig, didn't go on for very long. I was there for a couple of hours. It was a hen night and what they were doing is after having a bit of karaoke and some great food there, they went directly into Aberystwyth to party, alright? So, fantastic night. Also, I just want to say a big shout out to everyone who gave me some love in Las Vegas. Thank you very much indeed. And, you know, we're going to go from strength to strength, alright? This is what DJ Tutor is all about. It's a bit of randomness, it's some vlogs, it's some demonstrations, it's some tutorials, you name it. This is real life, it's really happening, this is punk styley, which is, maybe it'll stay like this. It could get a little bit more professional, who knows? But whatever happens, it's true and it's real. So a big shout out to the bride-to-be,

A big shout out to the management of the venue and I will finish off with much love and practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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