Gig log July 2010 Shrewsbury

0:00 Manchester, do stuff, come home, more

See, occasionally I can't look relatively smart. Booted and suited, as they say. Could have done with a shave, but you know what? You ask Lee Mills. It's been just... God! It's been busy this whole week. So last Saturday it was gig, go home, sleep, get up, go to Manchester, do stuff, come home, more stuff, and now I'm working. So tomorrow I'm going to sleep, you know? What have we got here? Move LED. I don't like the sound of that. There's something wrong there. There's the cam, Tri-260 left scan, 4Play, 3D, and we've got the Laser Galaxian Move, sorry. Another X-Move LED as well. So short and sweet to the point. Got some uplighting in there. Smoke machine, because of course we're in a marquee so we can theoretically get away with it.

By the way, that is from DJ Skirts. Now, I think that looks relatively tidy. Alright, we could have put a scrim on there. Might do that later actually. Just to tidy up that corner. Same on the other side. There you go. This is Michael Jackson. Right, got the RCF Event 6000s. We've got one and a half inch compression, eight mid, two 15s, but I've got a problem with that CD horn. So I need to check that out. I don't know whether it's the crossover or the diaphragm itself. Good and bad point. The good point is they're easily accessible and I can fix it myself. Bad point is the diaphragm can cost a shitload of money. If you think you're spending 100 quid on your speakers, On a full set of speakers, then you're probably looking at the same amount just on the diaphragm for one of those. So I'm not going to be a happy bunny if that's gone, but then again, it's just part and parcel of the blinking job. Right, Dave's happy because he's got a couple of 2000s and we've got an MEP to mess around with. Amplifier, what have we got? StudioMaster AX3500. Okay, let's go and take a look around.

2:40 We were getting an awful bit of delay

Now again, for privacy reasons, I can't say where I am, but as you could see earlier on it's in a marquee. There's the property. On eight grounds. Beautiful. Now, not necessarily a problem, but if you can see, there's the house and the DJ setup is just down there. And to begin with, the speakers were facing directly towards the house. The trouble is... We were getting an awful bit of delay. So what I've had to do is move them in at a 45 degree angle. So hopefully that will compensate. But, here's the but, we're in a marquee and because we've got that wall, the sound will be a lot louder than let's say if we were just in a marquee with no walls around it. I have delved on this particular subject before, but when you go into a marquee and you have your PA system,

You may find that it's not as loud as, let's say, it would be if you were in a building. The reason being is because the sound will bounce off the walls. So when you're in a marquee, you've only got sort of a very thin material so the sound will just like go. It'll do stuff and disappear and go to some farmer and annoy his sheep and things. But when you've got a wall, it hits the wall, bounces back and... You keep, I mean really what's happening is you're keeping some of the sound in because behind us as well we've got half a wall. So you've got a big wall with windows and half a wall with sort of no windows. Right. Okay. Right Dave, you brought some up lighting today as well. What did you bring? Yeah, I've got two panels underneath there that I got from Mike at Phase One. Okay. And how about the long one? What's that?

That's an American DJ LED bar. Cool. As I was just saying today, what looks pretty good is we've got a nice little effect on the top of the marquee as well. Again, it's sort of broad daylight. It's really difficult to quantify whatever it'll look like in the dark, but you know, we'll see. This guy here is the ADJ46HP LED and I've got that. Just facing behind us to sort of give a bit of a wash. The one beauty about when you're in a marquee and everything's white, you know, you've got... It's a bit like... Oh, what's the terminology? Artistic, you know, thingy... Oh, just tell me. And just sort of do what you want. All you've got to remember is cables, leads. You've always got to remember the idiot factor. If someone's going to trip over it, someone's going to trip over it. So you'll notice there...

6:09 Theoretically no one really should be going behind there

Alright, few cables there. None there. So theoretically no one really should be going behind there. What I might actually do is that flight case just there, put that across there. No mind you, nah, sorry, I'll leave it there. As usual, this time at night when we finish which is half past 1, which isn't really that late but still late-ish. This is when you're sweaty, horrible, dribbly, wrinkly and knackered. What would you say about tonight then Dave? It wasn't a too bad night was it? Yeah it's pretty good they got going didn't they? They did yeah. They like their sort of cheesy cheerful stuff and everyone seems to enjoy themselves but as usual you know beginning and end but not often beginning and end I talk about certain aspects of DJing. One thing I'd like to talk about

At the end of this particular video, there was a lady that came up to me at the end of the function and said, that wasn't a very good song to finish with. I could book you in the future. I want something else for you to finish with. And I played American Pie, then I played Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, which is always look on, and people liked it. But I think she just got on her hobby horse and decided, I want something else. I'm very posh and I want something else. Well... You know, I'm paid to do a job. I was paid to finish at quarter to one and I carried on until about one-ish, something like that. Actually, bloody good time, innit? Backing up in half an hour. But it was her attitude. She was like, come on, I want it now. And the thing is, is that the lady of the house said I had to finish at quarter to one. I finished slightly later, so I really gave them the benefit of the doubt.

But also, when you do get someone all of a sudden deciding that they're in control, they're taking over and they want their song at the end of the night, you have to very politely say, sod off. I mean, not really like, sod off, but excuse me, I have, you know, I've done my bit, played the songs, everyone's happy, I do apologise. But she even was going like, oh, there are people who might book you here in the future. It's like, well, you know, a lot of people were dancing and enjoyed themselves and you were the only one that complained at the end. It could be your time of the month. You're going to come again, alright? And it's just a wonderful experience my friend. Wonderful experience for me, for Dave, for Ange, for everyone who helped you have an enjoyable time and also as I'm sure it was a wonderful experience for you. So in the realms of those fantastic words, Dave will say... Practice and enjoy. What was that again? Practice and enjoy. Good to see you then, nice one.

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