Mon Feb 7th 2011
Funkagenda was booked to play at the “Opening Fiesta” during the LYIT rag week of 2011 at The Pulse Nite Club in Letterkenny. There was also a few guest Djs booked to play on the same bill from iradio. It was unknown what numbers the club was expecting. After a conversation with the club owners we decided that it would be best to host Funagenda in the main club downstairs. The iradio guys would do support on the nite, and as a percaution I convinced the club owners that we could set up a tempory dj box upstairs in Club 2, so it could be used in the event of a good turnout. Club 2 is mainly used as a live venue so we decided we would take in extra sound as it would work well with their “in-house” system.
The first task was to get the DJ Box in Club 1 set up to the specifactions that were required on Funagenda’s rider.
He required 2 x Pioneer CDJ 2000’s and a DJM800 mixer. Club 1 has the CDJ1000 Mk2’s and the Pioneer 3000 mixer. I quickly made the discision to take the gear out of the DJ box in Club 1 and use this up the stairs in Club 2. After installing the required set up in Club 1 which also included an extra JBL powered monitor, I proceeded to start getting the live venue upstairs converted into what would be a Club 2 for the night.
These pictures give an idea of how I went about tranforming the stage into a DJ box. The first two pictures show the views from both the stage and the dance floor, followed by the two differant sets of leads I needed.
The first bunch of leads was to connect my speakers to the two channels powered amp. They Included 2 x XLR, 4 x Speak On and 1 x Kettle lead. The second set of leads included 2 x 10ft phono to phono extension leads, 2 x phono to phono connectors, 2 x kettle leads. Not included in the photos are 2 x pulg boards and 1 x extension lead.
Next up is the CDJ 2000’s and the DJM 800. These were installed in the downstairs dj box. The JBL powered monitior was placed up ion its stand and it was then connected to the booth out of the DjM 3000 mixer that was brought up from downstairs.In the picture with the Amp, it is sitting on an empty beer creat.This was to help let air circulate around it so as to help prevent it from over heating during the gig.The second powered monitor was not used this time.The last picture in this series shows how the speakers were placed on either side of the stage. I placed them side by side rather than on top of each other as a safety percaution so that the tops would not fall over on top of anyone on the dance floor.
You can now see the CDJ 1000s and the DJM 3000 sitting on a table brought up from the club downstairs as it is made from solid oak and it is extreamly sturdy. The sturdiness was needed for two reasons. The first and most important was that it was solid and it would not be easy for anyone in the audiance to move by either reaching up from the dancefloor or from trying to climb up to the DJ box from the dance floor. When the doors opened at 11pm that night it was good to see that I convinced the club owners to have the upstairs venue ready for an over spill from Club 1 as this happened and the two clubs were ready for action and it was a full house on the night.
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