Short tips for the mobile rig
On YouTube this video is called MOBILE DJ TIPS. Small videos with advise.
What this lesson teaches
Two minutes, half of it an invitation and half of it a single tip.
The invitation
He asks viewers to post their own mobile DJ tips as video responses, with rules that are better thought out than most of what the internet produced:
One tip per video. Not a list.
About a minute. Because people do not want to spend hours watching a video. Short, sharp, sweet and to the point.
Describe it properly - mobile DJ tips, lighting; mobile DJ tips, PA; mobile DJ tips, software - so somebody looking for a specific thing can find it.
The topics he suggests give a fair picture of what a mobile DJ actually worries about: setting up lighting, programming a DMX controller, where to put speakers, how to set up a console.
Worth noting as a piece of the channel's character. A lot of these lessons end with him asking somebody who knows more to make the better version - the bridging lesson, the acapella lesson, this one. That is unusual and it is why the catalogue covers as much as it does.
His own tip
And it is the same one that tops his list in the large-room lesson, which tells you how strongly he holds it.
If you have 10, 12 or 15-inch-and-horn cabinets, do not put them on the floor. Invest in tripods.
Three reasons, and the third is the one about sound:
They get kicked over. A speaker on the floor at a party is in the way of everybody.
Drinks get put on them. Which is how a cabinet dies, slowly, from the inside.
A full room cannot hear them. With people standing in front, the high frequencies go into the crowd and the sound is muffled and short-range. Up on stands, it travels over their heads, further and clearer.
Why this is the tip he picked
Because it costs the price of two tripods, takes two minutes, needs no knowledge, and makes a bigger difference to how a mobile rig sounds than anything else on the list.
If you only take one thing from this stage, this is it.
Contents of the video
Alright folks, this is the tips for mobile DJs video. This is what I want you to do. I want you to post a video response underneath this video giving tips for mobile DJs. Give one tip per video. Try and keep your video to around about one minute because at the end of the day people don't want to spend hours looking at a video. Keep it short, sharp and sweet and to the point. In other words, have you got a tip about setting up lighting? Have you got a tip about maybe setting a DMX controller? Have you got a tip about maybe putting speakers in a certain place? About maybe setting up an actual console? Anything like that. If you have, then do one video per tip, stick it underneath here so mobile DJs around the world can have a look through and maybe get some good advice. So the second part of this video I'm going to give you my one tip.
Don't forget in the description to put what your tip is all about. So try and edit mobile DJ tips, lighting, mobile DJ tips PA, mobile DJ tips maybe PC programs, anything like that. That means it's a lot easier for people to find a specific video they're actually after. Okay here's my one tip. If you've got small speakers, in other words maybe 15 and horn or 12 and horn or 10 inch and horn, don't put them on the floor like that because they can either get kicked over, drinks put on them. More importantly when you get a room full of people they won't be able to hear the sound very well. It's well worth investing in a set of tripods just like these. You put your speakers on the tripods, now the speakers are out of harm's reach and also the sound now can travel over people's heads and it'll sound a lot better and the sound will travel a lot further. Practice and enjoy.
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