I was DJing at John and Colin's party in Ad-Lib on Friday, which was nice. It's been years (literally) since I've played records in front of more people than the teddy bear that's jammed down the back of my wardrobe, so it was cool to break out some choons for folk to nod their heads to.
Unfortunately, most of my set was played with the mixer volume set waaaayyyy low and the sound system set waaaayyyy high, so it sounded crap until we got the barman to turn the amps down. Right at the end of my set. Never mind, at least I got The Resident out while it was sounding good.
Si brought his Traktor setup, since he's too lazy to use vinyl any more. Impressive stuff.
Equally impressive was the monitoring for the decks - a big fat PA speaker, hooked up to the booth output (yay!) on the DJM 500 (yay! we love the 500) for fingertip deafness control.
Unimpressive was the way that the bar sound system was louder than the dance floor system.
Anyway, this gets me to thinking - maybe a page on basements/bars you can hire out for wee DJ nights is in order. So far I can think of:
Ad-Lib
O'Henry's
The Rockgarden
McPhabbs
The Iron Horse (maybe not, though...)
Anyone got any more?
