and one of my resolutions this year
is to get on the microphone more,
and to do a bit more
MCing during my shows.
This lets me build more of a connection
with the audience apart
from just playing songs,
and I think I did a pretty good job.
I did a little bit more MCing
than what I was used to,
stepped outside my
comfort zone a little bit.
So I was kind of pleased about that.
It went really great,
but it reminded me of a
couple of funny mic issues
I had in the past with
sound system suppliers.
So what I do is,
usually I turn up at the venue
and the way weddings work
here in the Philippines is,
there would already be a sound system
that would be supplied by the venue
or the bride and groom.
And you just turn up
with your DJ controller
and get ready to rock the party right.
So I turn up with my controller and
I'd ask the sound system guys for a mic,
and they'd be like,
"Okay, we don't have a wireless mic,
but we've got a wired
one. Is that alright?"
And I'd be like, "Sure cool!
I've got a combo XLR TRS
socket on my controller."
And they'd be like, "Huh? What's that?"
And I'd be like, "Dude!
You don't know what a
combo XLR TRS jack is?"
And then I'd show them on like my DDJ-RZ.
"Here is the jack."
And they'd take a look
at it and they'd be like,
"Uhh, we still don't know
what kind of jack this is."
And I'd be like, "Dude!
It's a combo XLR TRS mic.
I know it looks kind of weird,
but here's what it does.
Basically what you can do
is you can plug either,
an XLR cable or a quarter
inch cable into it.
So regardless of whatever
kind of mic cable you've got,
it will fit into a combo XLR TRS socket."
And they'd be like, "Ah okay!
So you know, here you go!
Go ahead and have fun with it."
So it just kind of reminded me guys,
like take a look at the
controller that you're using,
check if it's got that combo jack.
If it does, that means
you can plug in either
a quarter inch jack, or an XLR cable.
A lot of high end controllers have this,
as well as club mixtures
such as a DJM-900NXS2.
Now again, here's a little hack if you
don't have a microphone with you,
or even if like the
sound system guys forgot
to take along a mic for some reason,
don't forget that you
can use your headphones,
as an emergency microphone.
All you got to do is to
plug it into the mic socket.
Again, if your mic
socket has combo XLR TRS,
you can plug it straight into there,
or if it's a quarter inch jack,
that's fine too,
just plug it in there.
However, if it's just an XLR socket,
you're out of luck,
you're just going to
have to find another way
to address the crowd.
I suggest screaming at
the top of your lungs.
That's what I do sometimes.
It doesn't always work, but hey,
if you've got a pretty loud voice,
and it's a pretty small venue,
it might just do the trick.
So that's it for this very short
Mobile DJ Tips and Tricks video.
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Now get good, get out
there and make the moment.
