do you have an emergency kit in your gig bag?
do you have an emergency kit in your gig bag? Posted on: 30.08.2012 by Taren Wurstner things i carry2 sets of rca cables. bad cables = bad day. 1 cd with a hour long mix on it. buys you time in case of major component issues. 1 headlamp that have both with and red LEDs. sucks when the booth is very dark and the lights on the TTs are out, does not make for a fun evening . extra sets of AA and AAA batteries. extra needles. can't count on clubs having a set or the ones they have being in good condition RCA to 1/8 inch adaptor, to use with ipod incase they don't have CDJs or you can't use your emergency backup cd. 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch and 1/8 inch to 1/4 headphone jack adaptors. played a club that had a 1/4 to 1/8 adaptor perma-stuck in the mixer. extra USB to sound-card cable. anybody else carry items like this in their gig bags? | |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Evalyn Voges 31.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Mr_Moo
eyeball-paul.jpg (I assume your "intern" carries the rest of your emergency kit?) :P |
| Shonda Soulier 31.08.2012 | A ground loop isolator... 4126523.jpg It eliminates hum and noise 99% of the time. You never know when a booth has something ungrounded or hidden audio cables laying on top of power supplies. It always works regardless of the source of the problem. |
| Taren Wurstner 30.08.2012 | things i carry 2 sets of rca cables. bad cables = bad day. 1 cd with a hour long mix on it. buys you time in case of major component issues. 1 headlamp that have both with and red LEDs. sucks when the booth is very dark and the lights on the TTs are out, does not make for a fun evening . extra sets of AA and AAA batteries. extra needles. can't count on clubs having a set or the ones they have being in good condition RCA to 1/8 inch adaptor, to use with ipod incase they don't have CDJs or you can't use your emergency backup cd. 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch and 1/8 inch to 1/4 headphone jack adaptors. played a club that had a 1/4 to 1/8 adaptor perma-stuck in the mixer. extra USB to sound-card cable. anybody else carry items like this in their gig bags? |
| Yer Brandis 01.09.2012 | Upppp hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!......... |
| Golden Faubert 01.09.2012 | 2 full sets of cables spare, netbook, cd wallet, blank cd's, earphones, external hdd, memory stick with my serato crates, spare mic. |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.08.2012 | squeeze one of these in your bag |
| Roseanna Signorini 31.08.2012 | extra laptop, extra controller, extra soundcard, and another hard drive with all the same music..... |
| Edwina Fagel 31.08.2012 | What I have - Booze - for the shitty gigs. Extra money - Just in case so I can get home by taxi. Spare cables - You know what for. Water - Stay hydrated. Promo mixes - Just in case. Bandages - DJ booths tend to be razor-shape when your in a hurry. Spare t-shirt - Preferably by st |
| Evalyn Voges 31.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Mr_Moo
eyeball-paul.jpg (I assume your "intern" carries the rest of your emergency kit?) :P |
| Shonda Soulier 31.08.2012 | A ground loop isolator... 4126523.jpg It eliminates hum and noise 99% of the time. You never know when a booth has something ungrounded or hidden audio cables laying on top of power supplies. It always works regardless of the source of the problem. |
| Warner Rotberg 31.08.2012 | 1 bottle of vodka |
| Nena Leos 31.08.2012 | In my dj bag, I have extra RCA, Mic, xlr cables, RCA to Mini just incase I need to play tracks from my phone. Recently I just started carrying a few vinyl just incase my serato ever craps out. |
| Lashawn Maycock 31.08.2012 | Most important for me, is simply a bag of vinyl for that 'if all else fails' moment. |
| Paige Colpo 30.08.2012 | A pair of spoons... |
| Ara Tima 30.08.2012 | Spare USB cable, 2 x RCA cables, 1 x earbud headphones (if my main pair goes belly up I have a small pair, never needed them though), 1 x OSX USB install, 1 x portable HDD with music/software, 2 x USBs loaded with music, RCA to 1/8 cable (I have a few mixes on my phone), ipod/iphone charger, torch, my old CD wallet and a handful of headphone jack adaptors (people always borrow them and I never see them again) That said I've never needed 95% of that stuff... |
| Jonas Hanway 30.08.2012 | Spare cables, torch, blank CD's, iPod with mixes on. CD wallet. Had to use the cd wallet on Sunday when Traktor crashed on me. Only had to mix 1 track on the CDJ before I got Traktor running again.. Flapped it when deck A froze and wouldn't let me load another track onto it. |
| Ashanti Andreacchio 30.08.2012 | I have an USB thump drive in my 2 American Audio radius 3000 connected with RCA to my VMS4 if computer chrasses I switch channel 1 and 4 to analog and can continue mixin with CDJ's til computer reboots. Althoug it never failed me yet. |
| Ossie Pooley 30.08.2012 | Extra cables, duct tape, flashlights. All of it was needed at one point or another |
| Pansy Shiveley 30.08.2012 | Extra RCA and USB cables, and I always make sure I've got some appropriate mixtapes on my phone in case anything goes wrong. Then again, if my computer completely craps out on me the phone isn't going to save me for the entire evening
so I should definitely start looking into something more foolproof. I've been waiting for tablets with external soundcard and MIDI controller support, and recent rumours indicate my waiting may soon be over. Extra tablet + Audio 2 DJ in my gig bag and I'm pretty much foolproof. |
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