My set up ATM (impovement ideas welcome)

[BigDave]

I have a garage im converting into a mini nightclub its about 13' wide and around 25' long.

Currently my equipment are as follows

- Panasonic AK770 Sound system 700 WATT with a 16" subwoofer.

- 30mw Green Laser cant remember the make but its one of those not-so-good-quality items (possibly going to burn the house down at 1 stage)

- Wikid mini fog machine (terrible and overheats all the time)

- Mini 20 WATT strobe light (feels and looks cheap, because it was)

I want to make improvements on my current equipment but i dont know where to get them from, i want decent items but not at a stupidly extortionate price. (not that i wouldn't pay it its just my fiancee would cut my nads off)

[Charlie Brown]

Are you a DJ or just a bedtime DJ? :)

[Mark Wild]

Are you a DJ or just a bedtime DJ? :)

Bedtime? :muppet: :lol:

[hammy]

Are you a DJ or just a bedtime DJ? :)

Did you mean bedroom Charlie lol.

Sounds plenty enough for that size area, I would IMO get rid of the strobe though

[Dynamic Entertainment]

Id be tempted to buy a mixer and some cd players ;) lol

[BigDave]

Are you a DJ or just a bedtime DJ? :)

not a dj as of yet, but open to options lol, got a serious passion for music and even starting to create my own dubstep tunes with FLSTUDIO 9.

[Booche]

PLI/PAT/PPL/PRS ? :sofa:

[BigDave]

PLI/PAT/PPL/PRS ? :sofa:

what are they? im a new member lmao

edited - Dave we don't allow text talk on the forum, otherwise many posts would ends up being unintelligible to those of us who don't understand it :)

[funkymook]

Are you a DJ or just a bedtime DJ? :)

As tactful as ever Charlie - there are ways of asking politely if you have a question!

May I suggest you read your posts back to yourself before hitting submit - it will avoid you sounding rude and making errors!

[Charlie Brown]

Sorry Dave.

I meant are you performing to crowds/earning money out of it or is it just a hobby?

I don't know how else to word it? :shrug: :o

[BigDave]

Sorry Dave.

I meant are you performing to crowds/earning money out of it or is it just a hobby?

I don't know how else to word it? :shrug: :o

Just a hobby at the moment, working on the best house party of all time i suppose haha

[simonp]

PLI/PAT/PPL/PRS ? :sofa:

not if he's playing to himself in the garage Boochy lol

[BigDave]

not if he's playing to himself in the garage Boochy lol


not playing to myself lol, house parties lol i have friends y'know :p

[Booche]

I have a garage im converting into a mini nightclub


not if he's playing to himself in the garage Boochy lol

Be a really boring nightclub then Si lol ;)

[Mark Wild]

What's your budget Dave?

[hammy]

What's your budget Dave?

I will have a few led lights up for grabs soon, Including a quadzilla

[BigDave]

What's your budget Dave?

never thought of a budget yet like, probs

around or less £150 for laser
around £70 for smoke machine
under £60 for new strobe light

Open to new ideas on new stuff, but i dont see the point in getting wizards or things along that line since it would be a waste of money :\

i seen this store on the alibaba website called reke lasers... she hit me up with a price list and i was seriously impressed :cool:

Sorry funkymook >.< its a habit

[Mark Wild]

never thought of a budget yet like, probs

around or less £150 for laser
around £70 for smoke machine
under £60 for new strobe light

Open to new ideas on new stuff, but i dont see the point in getting wizards or things along that line since it would be a waste of money :

i seen this store on the alibaba website called reke lasers... she hit me up with a price list and i was seriously impressed :cool:

Sound and play out first Dave I reckon ;)

[hammy]

never thought of a budget yet like, probs

around or less £150 for laser
around £70 for smoke machine
under £60 for new strobe light

Open to new ideas on new stuff, but i dont see the point in getting wizards or things along that line since it would be a waste of money :

i seen this store on the alibaba website called reke lasers... she hit me up with a price list and i was seriously impressed :cool:

Surely an area that size you wouldnt need to spend that much on a smoke machine ???
I think in this instance fleabay is going to be your best friend

[BigDave]

Sound and play out first Dave I reckon ;)

im not up to date with disco speak... im going to be brutal here.. what did you just say lmao


Surely an area that size you wouldnt need to spend that much on a smoke machine ???
I think in this instance fleabay is going to be your best friend

Fair play on the smoke machine thing ... its just my experience (limited it is i know) with smoke machines is poor... iv'e got this terrible handheld one and the fill ratio is terrible. What sort should i be looking at ?

[Daryll]

For a small room , I can recommend.
http://www.rsdmusic.com/products.asp?prodid=1077&catid=88&mcatid=15 for a smoke machine , That`s all I use.

Daryll

[hammy]

I have one similar to what Darryl just posted £18 + delivery if you want it

[BigDave]

I have one similar to what Darryl just posted £18 + delivery if you want it

i get paid on the 19th, keep it for me =D cheers

[STEVE HANLEY]

im not up to date with disco speak... im going to be brutal here.. what did you just say lmao



Sound and play out first Dave I reckon ;)

He means speaker,amp, and something to play your music through mate.

Another Geordie I see. You're going to fit right in son:D :D :D ;)

[BigDave]

Haha nice one, like i said i have a 700 watt sound system and i live in quite a decent area, im [Admin edit] annoying my neighbours enough they can hear the bass from 2 streets away, just a matter of time befor mr. solicitor pays me a visit haha >.<

Geordies for the win lol (apart from geordie shore....)

[Mark Wild]

Well, if you have to wait until the 19th of this month to get paid to buy an 18 quid smoke machine, this could well be a very long and drawn out process for you ;)

watt watt watt :)

[BigDave]

Well, if you have to wait until the 19th of this month to get paid to buy an 18 quid smoke machine, this could well be a very long and drawn out process for you ;)

watt watt watt :)

nah man this months been hectic just spent around £150 on a house party pal plus i moved house 6 weeks ago lol... my bank balance aint happy at the moment ;)

[DeckstarDeluxe]

What do your neighbours think? Soundproofing might be required before you go Ott with this project?

[Corabar Entertainment]

Dave: sorry to be on your case, but please do have a read of the forum rules. Funkymook has already edited you for text speak, now I'm afraid I've had to edit you for substituting asterisks in to swear words! :p

:thanks:

[STEVE HANLEY]

Dave: sorry to be on your case, but please do have a read of the forum rules. Funkymook has already edited you for text speak, now I'm afraid I've had to edit you for substituting asterisks in to swear words! :p

:thanks:

Dave for godsake pull yourself together son :D :muppet:

[WWDJ]

ok, here we go ....

This is what I would do with a £280 budget ....

For sound, assuming you don't live in the middle of a field and have some neighbours, then I would leave this as is, but think about, if you haven't already hooking up a laptop/computer to this, which will make song selection easier and potentially your guests could choose what they want to hear.
Media Player, Itunes, Media Monkey or Virtual DJ Home make good free players. You may wish to route audio through a better soundcard if the audio quality is not up to scratch such at the numark DJIO.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NUMARK-DJiO-USB-AUDIO-INTERFACE-FAST-DELIVERY-/260774240421?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cb75b20a5

I would spend the money on lighting and smoke and look at second hand items that you can get under control.
£30-35 pounds gets you a basic smoke machine which will more than fill a garage. Plenty of examples of ebay.

Then would look at getting some DMX effects second hand. Halogen effects are 'out of favour' generally at the moment, so there are plenty around. As you are allowed to use smoke, scanners would look brilliant and look no further than the Acme Dynamo range. The 100w will be bright enough and would look great with 4 units surrounding your dancefloor area. Pick them up off ebay and look out of a CA-8 controller included which gives basic control (this was included in a lot of packages that were sold).

In terms of lighting I would then look at some LED wash lighting. Firing down the long end of the room, one par 56 or 64 would be enough at each end or if you have a defined area with tables and a dancefloor perhaps a single par 64 covering the dancefloor and 2 colourburst uplighting the table area (as mood lighting). Set the colourburst to static and the par 64 to sound to light for colour changing.

Keep your laser and add a simple switch next to your playout area so it can be switched in. Fire it down the long end of the room towards the dancefloor. Even cheap lasers look great with smoke.

You may wish to do this with the strobe too, or perhaps gain control over your new DMX lighting with a cheap DMX controller (slight DMX learning curve needed). Plenty around second hand on ebay ..
e.g. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chauvet-obey-DMX-controller-/190551719813?pt=UK_ConElec_LightingLEDsStrobes_RL&hash=item2c5dc47f85
Then you could strobe your scanners and LED lighting via DMX control and set up some chases for slower fades and quicker stuff for the more upbeat music.

Feel free to ask questions. This sounds like an interesting project!!!

[STEVE HANLEY]

[ if you haven't already hooking up a laptop/computer to this, which will make song selection easier and potentially your guests could choose what they want to hear.
Media Player, Itunes, Media Monkey or Virtual DJ Home make good free players. You may wish to route audio through a better soundcard if the audio quality is not up to scratch such at the numark DJIO.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NUMARK-DJiO-USB-AUDIO-INTERFACE-FAST-DELIVERY-/260774240421?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cb75b20a5]


Shhhh !!!!!!! I was going to try and sell him a Numark (all flightcased up) twin cd decks and mixer.

Guess you've just put paid to that??????????????;) :D :D

[Corabar Steve]

Dave: sorry to be on your case, but please do have a read of the forum rules. Funkymook has already edited you for text speak, now I'm afraid I've had to edit you for substituting asterisks in to swear words! :p

:thanks:
& I'll just delete anything I see that's breaking the :Censored: rules :sj:

[BigDave]

Haha mods are on my case big time and ive only started posting 6 hours ago ... bad times >.<

[BigDave]

Dh140770 that was quite an answer, ill definatley be looking up pretty much everything you said there.. would it be easier if i could give you links/photos to what im working with here ?

[BigDave]

YouTube - &#x202a;Garage Converted Into Club III&#x202c;&rlm;

thats das video, a few things have changed... the garage is empty, strobe light is in top right hand corner of the garage and the laser is hanging from a wooden roof beam on a shoestring!! haha.

p.s i click my fingers because its sound activated not automatic ... =S

[Booche]

YouTube - &#x202a;Garage Converted Into Club III&#x202c;&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOJRMg9QJmI)

thats das video, a few things have changed... the garage is empty, strobe light is in top right hand corner of the garage and the laser is hanging from a wooden roof beam on a shoestring!! haha.

p.s i click my fingers because its sound activated not automatic ... =S

I used to have the same laser and i still have the same smoke machine lol

Never use them now tho as ive gone for a wireless remote smoke machine and the laser has gone to a brummy i know lol

[BigDave]

[QUOTE=Booche;552999]I used to have the same laser and i still have the same smoke machine lol

Its a small world my friend, very small world, im probably going to buy a new wireless smoke machine too since the wikid one has been discontinued.

[Mark Wild]

I'm speechless, are you taking the :Censored: ? what is it that you're hoping to achieve from your venture in that garage?

[Charlie Brown]

I think we've got somebody taking the mic... :whistle:

[BigDave]

what did i say previously ..... its for house parties.. nothing more nothing less?

I didnt want to turn it into a fully functioning nightclub....

[WWDJ]

YouTube - &#x202a;Garage Converted Into Club III&#x202c;&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOJRMg9QJmI)

thats das video, a few things have changed... the garage is empty, strobe light is in top right hand corner of the garage and the laser is hanging from a wooden roof beam on a shoestring!! haha.

p.s i click my fingers because its sound activated not automatic ... =S

Is there another part to the garage, no way is that 13ft x 25ft??

[funkymook]

what did i say previously ..... its for house parties.. nothing more nothing less?

I didnt want to turn it into a fully functioning nightclub....

Dave - to be honest this is a forum for Mobile DJ's, and we're more than happy to help anybody if they have genuine Mobile DJ related questions.

It appears you are having a party in your garage using a home stereo, a few lights and a bit of smoke - we're really not the right place to seek advice about that sort of thing.

If you want to become a Mobile DJ please feel free to browse the forum using the search facility where you'll find the answers to most of the basic questions.

But please no more posts about a party in your garage.

[WWDJ]

Aw. I was hoping for an invite .... :D

(you might want to change your location BigDave or a ban is imminent ....

[juicylucy]

I was surprised that wasnt spotted earlier.....

[Booche]

Aw. I was hoping for an invite .... :D

(you might want to change your location BigDave or a ban is imminent ....

Too late lol

[funkymook]

BigDave has been banned for unacceptable language.

This thread is now closed.

[Corabar Entertainment]

I was surprised that wasnt spotted earlier.....
Thanks for your concern, Lucy, but it didn't say that earlier. Several 'other' changes were made that were completely off the wall, too.

We really do not need childish people on here who do not know how to behave themselves in decent company, so it's 'Bye, bye Dave!'