Small DJ Set up Gig Log in Wales Cardiff Casino February 1st 2026 Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 For a very long time, doing

Right, first one for a very long time, doing a bit of a gig log. I'm in Cardiff at the Grosvenor Casino and we're seeing New Year's Eve and they've got a little function going on today so again I'll be limited on the amount of videoing I can do in there of course because it's a casino but we'll have a look at the kit anyway. Okay so I'm set up on a small stage And today I've just brought a couple of 12 and horn, got a couple of moving heads, got some flashy lights, box of cables, got the AZ with the deck saver. Again not trying to promote too much but I do highly recommend these simply because well I've only got a Ford estate and Limited on space, I'm probably going to get another vehicle at some point. But this is great because you can put things on top of it and get away with it. Alright, you're not going to put a box of records or heavy flight cases but if you're just going to bung some stands on there, a couple of lights, you're fine. So yeah, let's get set up and see what we can come up with.

2:00 A Darby DMX from Nova Pro

Right, so I'm all set up and a quick sweep of the casino. There it is. It's open 24 hours a day and it's in Cardiff. So now that is quite a good effect. I like that. And it's really simple. So if we just scoot around here. There you go. That's it. A Darby DMX from Nova Pro. Simple. Also got a couple of other Nova Pro here. These are the Gobo Spheres, so they're like the opposite of a mirror ball. Your pointer light is a mirror ball, it shines out. That's got a light in it that shines out. Here, Pam Darby effects bar. So you've got a couple of Darbys there and a couple of LED... I suppose powercans, really. Again, cheap and cheerful light, but I've had these if you've watched some of my old school gig logs from probably five or six years ago. I had them then. They still work. Same on the other side. And here, now this thing. I must have had this for like a very long time. It's from Laser World. It's the GS400 RGB.

And it's an outside sort of garden laser, but it's pretty bright. So that's still going strong. Here, these are known as the Demon's Eye. The code is the LM1200 from Beat Topper. Really nice effect and you get a nice looking effect from this kind of, it's not glass again, it's plastic. It's the sort of thing you'd have In a bathroom, well maybe not to that effect, it's not that sort of pattern but it does give a really nice effect to the LEDs inside. Now PA wise I've got the EV ELX 12 so I'll turn it on now normally as you know or don't for that matter I come with let me just zoom in I normally have a set of base cabs the it's not really i don't think this gig is meant well people can dance if they want but it's really just sort of listen to the music so if i press down here we're on club mode on tripod and earlier on i had to set the crossover frequency so again we can use uh if there's an 18 sub so what's quite nice is it's linked

5:49 I advise this 100%

Quite nicely with the ELX series, so we can have an 18 sub, 15 sub. We can cross it over at 150 hertz, 120, 180 or off. So I'm going to put it on off. Generally when I'm using my subs, I cross it over at 80. So there you go. You've got RCA input as well as XLR here and you can link out. Yeah, just turn that off. Under there, I've got the Alpha Theta Opus, I nearly said Opus Quad then. Sorry, I used to have one of those, XDJAZ full channel. Now what I'm doing tonight is I am running Virtual DJ and again, comment please, but anyone who says Virtual DJ is rubbish, you're an idiot. It's never let me down and I like it. So... We've got Virtual DJ and I've also got here a 1TB, this is SanDisk, 1TB hard drive there. Now that's got about 3,000 tracks on it so I'm going to plug that in here. Now the reason I bring this is at the end of the day I could just use a laptop but if for any reason something happened to the laptop at least I've got a backup there.

I advise this 100%. If you're going to any event and you've just got one source of music, then you're an idiot. You need to make sure you've got a backup. Even if you've got the likes of a DDJ-400, a very simple controller, make sure you do have another laptop just in case. You may never need it. Never, never, never. But when you do, you'll be thankful. You see, that is a really good effect. Very simple. Does the job. There you go. All right, so I'll do a bit more recording. But again, as you can imagine, it's quite difficult. It is a casino and they don't really like people using cameras. Well, I mean, you wouldn't want to see, you wouldn't want your missus watching you lose the mortgage. But yeah, okay, right. Thank you. I will catch up with you just like that.

All finished. Sorry I didn't get much footage, but like I said, it's a casino and you can't really start throwing a camera about the place. People sort of moved a bit, tapped their feet, a couple of people jigged around, but it wasn't really for dancing. It's mainly what they were doing is promoting the slot machines. So every half an hour there was a raffle, someone won £100, there was a little buffet, but everyone enjoyed themselves. It's now just gone 10 o'clock, managed to pack up. Thank you for watching. Don't forget, leave a comment, let me know what you think. I will of course start doing more gig logs. Got another gig next weekend. Thank you for watching. Practice. And enjoy!

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