25-06-2012, 11:08 AM
Bit ashamed to admit this. :o
I got to my venue last night, and just as I was pulling into the venue, I thought, bugger, I've forgotten to put my backup mixer in the car, I hope I don't have a problem.
Well, a fantastic / disjointed night (due to the football) ensued for a load of medical school graduates (if I have my time again, I'm either going to become a doctor or a classical musician, and for those that have worked with any string quartets, will get the jist......;)
So, it gets to about 11pm, dancefloor is rocking, having an excellent night. at this point I notice that my radio mic is still plugged in and I wanted to plug in my cable mic.
I unplugged the xlr on my radio mic and then i'm not quite sure what happened next the music stopped either when I unplugged out of the back of my radio mic unit or when i dropped the XLR onto the mixer. Or it was just coincidence......
Everything went very quiet, very quickly, and my mixer lit up like a xmas tree (denon DNx500) all the meters on each channel and on the master came on and stayed on.
Slight panic ensued for a few seconds, switched the mixer on and off, and it lit up again, with no sound output.
So i grabbed some cable adapters, unplugged my laptop from them mixer and then patched them into the main PA system and put a mix on that I've done, all in all I think I was without music for less than 90 seconds (which felt like about half an hour at the time). I got half the pa playing and then patched the two sides together to give me the full sound output again. (I think i had the setting wrong in PCDJ which meant it was mono, but only out of the left channel. I then spent the last hour very nervously Djing off the laptop without any other kind of backup :eek:
I'll openly admit to anyone that I'm a fool because I forgot to put the backup mixer in the car, but am also quite proud of the fact that I managed to workaround the situation so quickly and get music playing in under two mins.
I got to my venue last night, and just as I was pulling into the venue, I thought, bugger, I've forgotten to put my backup mixer in the car, I hope I don't have a problem.
Well, a fantastic / disjointed night (due to the football) ensued for a load of medical school graduates (if I have my time again, I'm either going to become a doctor or a classical musician, and for those that have worked with any string quartets, will get the jist......;)
So, it gets to about 11pm, dancefloor is rocking, having an excellent night. at this point I notice that my radio mic is still plugged in and I wanted to plug in my cable mic.
I unplugged the xlr on my radio mic and then i'm not quite sure what happened next the music stopped either when I unplugged out of the back of my radio mic unit or when i dropped the XLR onto the mixer. Or it was just coincidence......
Everything went very quiet, very quickly, and my mixer lit up like a xmas tree (denon DNx500) all the meters on each channel and on the master came on and stayed on.
Slight panic ensued for a few seconds, switched the mixer on and off, and it lit up again, with no sound output.
So i grabbed some cable adapters, unplugged my laptop from them mixer and then patched them into the main PA system and put a mix on that I've done, all in all I think I was without music for less than 90 seconds (which felt like about half an hour at the time). I got half the pa playing and then patched the two sides together to give me the full sound output again. (I think i had the setting wrong in PCDJ which meant it was mono, but only out of the left channel. I then spent the last hour very nervously Djing off the laptop without any other kind of backup :eek:
I'll openly admit to anyone that I'm a fool because I forgot to put the backup mixer in the car, but am also quite proud of the fact that I managed to workaround the situation so quickly and get music playing in under two mins.