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Club Master Signal Vs. Record Out via Mixer
Lads and Lasses ... I'd like to share a recent gig experience with y'all and possibly get some feedback / recommendations. Just had my first international gig. It went really well overall, however, I had a couple issues that f'd up the recording as follows:

1. The club did not have dedicated monitors... only part of the master PA close to the booth. This master signal was heavily processed, so as the evening went on and I increased the master fader level - the club's signal processors kicked in to compress / limit & shape the signal. Since I'm used to having monitors that are not compressed or affected by way of signal processing, I was not aware that my EQing and volume adjustments, which sounded subtle on the main PA, were not at all subtle in the recorded set.

2. The club's DJM 600 had an incredibly weak headphone stage... this meant that I was forced to bump up the individual channel gains to the point that they were in the RED (something I hate to do) just to hear the cued track in my phones.. This also meant that I had to adjust the Traktor record gain setting in mid set to avoid clipping, which is drastically noticeable in the recorded set.

The good thing is that the club owners were really happy w/ the performance and want to fly me there a few times a year. While I'm extremely happy about the positive reaction, I'd like to smooth out some of these issues. Unfortunately, I can't count on the club taking any action to rectify their end of the problems I experienced. Has anyone here experienced a similar set of conditions? Can you recommend anything that I can do as someone who only caries a small DJ bag to gigs? (10kg is the cary-on limit and my bag hits 10kg on the dot now... so I really can't bring extra gear .)

Thanks a bunch for any input you can offer.
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