Life in a Gig Log Day The Movie 24th july 2010

0:05 My gear back

Hey YouTube, what's up? DJ Brian, another gig log for you. Let me show you my gear back here. We have it all loaded in. We're doing the full sound and light setup today. B-52 system with the LS50T truss from American DJ with my two Revo sweeps, Revo 4 and Megapixel running off of my DMX from American DJ. So I'll check in with you once we get there. See ya! Hey YouTube, what's up? DJ Brian. Waiting to get into the gig. It is locked. This is a community center. So let's take a look inside there. Not too big, but we'll show you the inside in just a few minutes. Hey YouTube, what's up? DJ Brian here. We're eating dinner because I can't show your faces. I'm wearing a laptop with the lights. I have a CDJ set up. VDJ. So, uh, my DMX there. That's, um...

See that video coming up soon. So we will see you in a few. Don't get any more footage, I'm sorry. Bye. Hey YouTube, sorry I couldn't take too much footage. It was kind of busy and happening. People wanted a bunch of requests but it went pretty smoothly. Lighting looked awesome. More videos to come on the setup. This is DJ Brian Barnett saying practice and enjoy. Okay, it is 4.22. Everything is loaded in to the hall and we're just about to start putting it together. We've just finished setting up, it is exactly 7.30 which is the time for the party to begin. This is the front door, this is what the guests will be seeing as they arrive. There's obviously the DJ setup over there. I'm actually just quietly, not exactly finished, still making some final adjustments. Four lights but I'm 95% finished.

2:44 First in last out

It's taken two of us, two hours, so four man hours to set this up. I'm not quite finished but it won't be long. We're going to be taking a look at first in last out. I'll actually show you what that means here in a little bit but then you can think about it. Now I'm sure by now everybody's seen my truck how beautiful it is and how much I love it but it's never been empty when I've shown it to you and the other day I was looking at my van and I was like, man, that is huge. What are you talking about? Well, let me show you. Take a look at this. It's what we call wheel gap. And I have it set at the one foot mark, so we're looking at about five and a half inches of wheel gap. So, my truck actually has a little slant, right? Well, in all my years, I've always been hauling stuff or been loaded down with it.

Ready to go in a moment's notice. We're about to see what a thousand pounds of equipment can do to that five and a half inch wheel gap. Okay, first in, last out. You have to plan how you're going to pack the truck. You can't just nilly willy put the stuff in and expect it to come out. Remember I told you my show comes in on three dolly loads? Well, they are specifically planned for a particular set of events that... Enable me to get in quick and get out quick. Here's the space that we have to work with. A long time ago, when that seat wasn't there, I could go all the way and my packing was significantly different. I used to put, let's see where would it be? It's been so long. I'd put the subs over here and then I would lay the tops right down next to it.

11:49 It goes all the way across

A bunch of support bags and then this whole little section all the way out here was for my support cases and my extra lighting and stuff. But the family car broke down and we still needed to get around so I went to the junkyard and bought this Dodge 4th row. So it goes all the way across. I did that intentionally. I didn't want to leave that little gap right there. So you can access the back. You need as much seating as possible. So, let's get some gear in here. Let's get to work because we are looking at 1135. Let's see what we can do. Alright, that's pretty much it for the load-in on a normal typical show with the exception of this case here which is the Intimidator 1.2 and the lighting controller. I don't normally bring that with me.

13:55 I'm pretty darn happy with that

Show you this nifty little tool I got. Solid PVC rod, a little bit of PVC there and this hose clamp was just there to hold it while the glue dried and I just never bothered to take it off but I'll show you why I made it. My dolly here sits on top of the subs and if you take a corner too hard or whatever the dolly shifts off to the side and starts rubbing on the whatever and then when you go to get it out it's kind of hard so... I made this little bugger. It can't go nowhere. It's locked in there. I'm pretty darn happy with that. Alright, now let's load the Reign 38s. Wheel gap. Our one foot mark was a starting point and it looks like we've dropped somewhere in the neighborhood of two inches but we still have three inches of wheel gap. I'm not intimately familiar with the towing package on this van.

I'm not sure if this is a stock setup or maybe they beefed it up a little bit. I bought the van five years ago and this is a 2000. It was always intended to be a cargo van so maybe, maybe they did put a little something extra on it. It has a V6 but it is a big V6. We're talking 4.2 liter. Get 13 miles to the gallon. Okay, that about wraps up the load in. Now let's go get to the gig and do the load out.

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