djsteve10
17-01-2010, 01:18 AM
Well what a night I have had tonight!
Tonight I had my final mixed Christmas party at my regular hotel in York. It was situated in restaurant and there was 100 guests in total.
The load into the hotel as I know is a pain in the back side. You have to go up 3 steps at the main doors, Across into the lift and then out of lift and down a corridor. Stop the trolley at the top of another 3 steps, Lift the gear down and you are faced by 2 small steps and then 10m or so to where you are going to be setting up.
Luckily it isn't a big room so I used a HK Audio Lucas 600 system which was adequate all thought I could feel the tops being pushed a little bit and had them distorting a fraction when using the mic. so I just backed everything off and it was fine.
Lighting wise I used 2 Prolight Imove5s moving heads along with a single Martin EFX500 which to be honest was abit more than enough for the room.
I started at around 9:45 with the disco and there was alot of young ones there so I played dancey remixes of Cherly Cole - Fight For This Love, Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill, Lady GaGa - Bad Romance etc.
The floor was full within minutes and I had a few requests for some 70's and 80's which I intended to do anyway. great crowd and they were up for it all night long and the dancefloor was rammed all the way through until the end.
A few people came up and asked for cards which is always a good sign. A nice round of applause at the end too.
I also got to try out my new Sennheiser G3 radio mic which I have to say is a very nice piece of kit and I got it at a very good price through somebody I know who has a trade account with Sennheiser.
All in all it was a good gig and I do hope to have more like that.
Tonight I had my final mixed Christmas party at my regular hotel in York. It was situated in restaurant and there was 100 guests in total.
The load into the hotel as I know is a pain in the back side. You have to go up 3 steps at the main doors, Across into the lift and then out of lift and down a corridor. Stop the trolley at the top of another 3 steps, Lift the gear down and you are faced by 2 small steps and then 10m or so to where you are going to be setting up.
Luckily it isn't a big room so I used a HK Audio Lucas 600 system which was adequate all thought I could feel the tops being pushed a little bit and had them distorting a fraction when using the mic. so I just backed everything off and it was fine.
Lighting wise I used 2 Prolight Imove5s moving heads along with a single Martin EFX500 which to be honest was abit more than enough for the room.
I started at around 9:45 with the disco and there was alot of young ones there so I played dancey remixes of Cherly Cole - Fight For This Love, Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill, Lady GaGa - Bad Romance etc.
The floor was full within minutes and I had a few requests for some 70's and 80's which I intended to do anyway. great crowd and they were up for it all night long and the dancefloor was rammed all the way through until the end.
A few people came up and asked for cards which is always a good sign. A nice round of applause at the end too.
I also got to try out my new Sennheiser G3 radio mic which I have to say is a very nice piece of kit and I got it at a very good price through somebody I know who has a trade account with Sennheiser.
All in all it was a good gig and I do hope to have more like that.