New Years Eve Gig Log Telford Golf Club 2016 PT 1

0:00 New Year's Eve 2015 to 16

Alright guys, New Year's Eve 2015 to 16. So next year is 2016. Set up in Telford Golf Club and Spa. What I've tried to do is pretty much fill the room. Got two screens with video projectors behind. It's all video tonight. I'm going to use this laptop here. Video, Wego and CDJs. The DJ Tutor is available on Sky News. What the management want is they want Big Ben chimes and fireworks, so this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to have that plugged in, so I'm pretty much just going to transfer the VGA from there into that laptop, put Sky on and put it onto the screens. What I'm also going to do, just in case, is worst case scenario, is I'm going to have the phone ready with BBC Radio 4. And we can have the chimes on there as well. So I may put the audio from the phone and the video, but it would probably be okay just to have the video and the audio. I would have thought we'd get the audio from the fireworks as well anyway, so probably no need for the phone. But the phone is another backup. It may not show the fireworks, but at least we get the chimes. Okay, so where else are my backups? Now I've brought pretty much a shitload of lights.

2:19 My classic there, I love it, the Chauvet 4Play CL Clear

My classic there, I love it, the Chauvet 4Play CL Clear. I've got two, one in this corner and one in the other corner. They are the Chauvet Intimidator Spot 450i LEDs. Fantastic. And I've also brought two more QSC K12s. They're powered 12-inch speakers, 1000 watts RMS. I've brought those just in case. So let's imagine all of a sudden... The main PA, they are the K18, oh sorry, I'll tell you in a minute. Sorry, I beg your pardon, they're 18 inch. We've also got the KLA-12s and KL-18, I think, hold on, sorry, I'll tell you now. KW-181, I beg your pardon. KL-12s, these are, okay, they're line array speakers. I'll tell you what, they are just shit ass. They really are, they just tickle. The DJ Tutor allows you to play the music and they purr along quite nicely. And when they get to their peak, you know what? They don't distort. They just say, excuse me, I'm just going to turn myself down a little bit so you get absolutely no distortion whatsoever. There's a very rather nice sexy lady in there doing stuff. Okay, we've got a couple of screens. I've tried to put some scrims in places so the kit is not obtrusive. It's like not in your face.

4:14 I've also got one behind the deck as well, lighting up the deck

Again, I've tried to fill that space and keep it symmetrical at the same time. I've got to move a few odds and ends from under there. Now this light here, I've had this for like six million years, God knows what it's called, QTX light. It's, well, there you go, it's an LED and it's a laser, red and green, and it does its job. So over here we have the CAM LED power bar. Got one there. I've got one over there. I've also got one behind the deck as well, lighting up the deck. Got another one of the 450s down there. So that's my lighting for front of house. If we move over to the back, we've got what's known as a star cloth there. That's not mine, that's from a company called Solid Gold Entertainment. Check it out, solidgold.com. And if you're interested, he's an agent. His name is Mr Paul Cowdroy.

And he's always looking for other DJs, so you might want to give him a bell. Alright, we've got another cam LED power bar there. I've got them all on switch switches today, so it means I can set them to be one colour. At the moment I've got all of them now, just sort of slowly going through different colours. We've got the Chauvet Intimidator Spot 350. On the 1.5 Chauvet DJ Totems. Now, I haven't got any scrims on these. In hindsight, I should have probably bought them because that would have got rid of the cables. But there you go. And we'll go over to the other side. I've got the same over here. There you go. So that sort of gives this side of the room a nice kind of feel. I'm going to play around with the lights.

6:42 You haven't really got much time to do much else

I don't want to go OTT because the emphasis is on the video. Now, I did talk about downlighting, or sorry, cross-lighting is in the new up-lighting. Well, check this out. I'm just going to take that off there and turn that on. And take that off. These are the Chauvet DDJ Freedom Power Quad 4, and they're IP rated, which means you can pretty much stick them in a bucket of water. Thank you for watching. Thank you for watching. You haven't really got much time to do much else. I've got my whistle over there, I've got a nice pair of shoes and I'm now going to have a well-deserved pint of water and a sandwich. So, you see again, people think DJing is easy. They think, you know what, look, all you do is you go and you set up and you play music for three hours and you go home. It's not like that.

It's 12 hours if you're doing a big gig. It's a minimum of 12 hours from putting the stuff from out of the house, into the van, out of the van, into the venue, through doors and god knows what and corridors and then set it all up and then when everyone's drunk and pissed and had enough at half past two in the morning, you've got to dismantle it, you've got to pack it away correctly and then... Thank you for watching. Enough of my waffling and let's continue this video later on.

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