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DJPlayboi · ACAS4U - a full PHAT 11/10!

What are some of the worst DJ Mistakes you guys have ever made while performing?

When I first started DJing I was using my ipod as a "CD Player" so I would have 3 channels of music to switch from, two cd players, and my ipod. I had Sean Paul playing and was about to put on another banging dance song but instead i accidentally hit play on my ipod without looking at the song and some emo/screamer song came on.........embarrassing. Embarassed

otg · Arh baby, ACAS4U's gotta hold on me.

There are so many I've lost count. There's the classic 'taking the wrong record off the decks', bumping the needle so the record skips nearly to the end, not paying attention so a tune runs out...

Oh, and I can't let this comment go past without a dose of 'wha?'

Chunkycoldmedina · Moderator

Hehe, lets hope it was a banging dance remix of Sean Paul!!

Thats always a red face moment, I once was playing what I would consider dance Cheesy Grin

Something by Vandalism or similar which with no warning stopped mid track.
(A feature which seems to be included in most Denon CD players!!)
With nothing loaded in the other deck the 1st track I got to play on the existing disc
was a Kylie Minogues cover of Santa Baby.
To make matters even worse, trying to make light of the situation on the mic and
wishing everyone a very early happy christmas in May just resulted in a rather
uncomfortable silence Embarassed

Juggernaut · Moderator

playing a dnb set. Had Dillinja - Grimy playing and had a VIP of Thugged Out Bitch cued up ready to be chopped up n ting.
The pioneer cdj 1000 froze on "Grimy" going Gri, gri, gri, gr, gr,gr, gri, gri, gr,gr,gr etc.
and i didn't actually realise what was going on and was trying my damnest to scratch and cue up with it but it just wasn't working.

Took me about a minute to realise we weren't going anywhere and a few people on the dancefloor had stopped skanking and what not staring at me with a "what the f**k?!!" look on their face.

a quick talk on the mic getting everyone hyped up again and putting some Sub focus on instead sorted it right out.

I was on the turntables for the rest of the night...them Pioneers be shifty!

Chunkycoldmedina · Moderator

Ive played on the 1000's 6 nights a week for 8 months and only ever a had a skip on a saved loop twice!
And 2 of the players were nearly 4 years old, used 7 days a week and had never been serviced!
You have to be really unlucky or have a proper messed up disc for a 1000 to fail in my experience.
(mk2 or 3 anyway)

DJShadesUK · Moderator

henzi · ACAS4U Referral Ambassador

for me it's either
a) DJing with some crappy turntables [maybe my own Smilie_PDT

] and the stylus is so worn it ignores the grooves and tracks right across the freakin record; or
b) I'm throwing in snippets of a track using the cue function of CDJ- and i decide i'm ready to play the track- throw the fader this side and hit cue again- and we don't get the track, just that -eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh
all my good work for nothing Embarassed

SWADE23 · No longer the Rookie

PULLING THE NEEDLE OF THE RECORD THAT WAS PLAYING LIVE NOT THE ONE THAT I WAS FINISHED WITH...

PUTTING THE NEEDLE ON THE WRONG TRACK OF THE RECORD AND DROPPING IT W/OUT DOUBLE CHECKING IF IT WAS THE TRACK I WANTED...

AWW MAN I MISS RECORDS.... Cheesy Grin

simonburrell · ACAS4U Referral Ambassador

had an intro disaster the other day, didnt realise just how long the solo drums intro to a phones track was so mixed it way too early leaving the floor to enjoy 2-3 mins of a nice kick drum :-s didnt go down too well lol

diyeiFlash · ACAS4U Referral Ambassador

worst mistake ever was when i pressed the power button off on my computer accidently and it turned off on me while using serato in front of of 250 + people good thing i always carry at least 15+ vynyl with me and in 10 secs i had billie jean on da soundwaves but it threew eveyone one off embarrasing moment

diamondsandgold · ACAS4U - a full PHAT 11/10!

saying stupid things on the mic is usually what I do wrong.

diamondsandgold · ACAS4U - a full PHAT 11/10!

also one time my searto was in the wrong mode and the music sounded like it was being put through a blender.

Dizzyfool · ACAS4U Referral Ambassador

Was playing with a mixer which had a broken crossfader so i was just using the 2 volume sliders to fade the tracks in and out, and forgot that they were both on full volume, and started listening to the track I was about to mix into to beatmatch, and ended up playin both at once! ugly!

blank420 · No longer the Rookie

DJShadesUK · Moderator

retrorespect · No longer the Rookie

meowmixx · No longer the Rookie

i agree with chunky*

tobacco_slammers · Special Member

Getting drunk and getting hold of a mic would be my fault too! I can't stand djs that yap over a mic yet I shout the odd "here we go" when I get a good drink in me! Totally cheesy and annoying. I must admit i've not done it for a while now though;)

Yeah, add the usual lifting wrong record off etc etc to the list too. I think it's a pretty boring night without one fault! lol

Whilst writing this post it reminded me of a time when a punter came upto me (an older chap who was wasted) and asked "have you got that special d tune?" during which he knocked the needle clean off the record on the right hand side that I was playing! I said back to him " aye, that was it f****n playing!" lol, was so funny at the time!

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