The most embarrassing DJ mistakes you've made..

[Musicgateway]

Yes!

Share it, spill the beans, leak the secrets... There must be a good few out there that are worthy of a mighty fine cringe.

(P.S - When I say name, I don't mean 'Bob' or 'terry' haha)

[Smallz]

Welcome to the forums Musicgateway!

I would say my most embarrassing mistakes would be involving the cross fader. Where i think i'm cross fading into one song, I accidently cross fade into silence. oops!

There was one time where I was cueing up one track and accidently put the track on the same deck that had a song currently playing. that was...unfortunate.

[Musicgateway]

Welcome to the forums Musicgateway!

I would say my most embarrassing mistakes would be involving the cross fader. Where i think i'm cross fading into one song, I accidently cross fade into silence. oops!

There was one time where I was cueing up one track and accidently put the track on the same deck that had a song currently playing. that was...unfortunate.

Thaaaanks

pahaha, I've done similar. years ago I mixed into the next track but then took the needle off the track I'd mixed into. Silence... But silence for quite a while as I panicked and stopped functioning like a normal human being

[manoaboi]

At a huge halloween party I was DJing in college, a guy comes up and asks me to play some Lil Weezy. I'd been playing mashups and remixes all night and thought I might as well switch to original tracks at that point anyway so I said sure. Yeah I spent the next 5 minutes searching for "weezy" in my library cause I didn't know who that was. Got some great sideeyes from that guy for the rest of the night.

To be fair, he never once mentioned the name Wayne to me. Also to be fair, I should probably never spin top 40.

[Adzm00]

I really cocked up the other week, definitely the biggest cock up I did, I am still not sure what happened, and fortunately it was my first mix before anyone was in the room, but there was about 0.5 secs of dead air, and then what I mixed into kicked back in.

I'll blame it on a technical issue.

I've never really messed up playing a gig, and I have played many of them. However, being off my face mixing at home is another story.

[NickJames]

This past weekend I killed the wrong deck right before the drop... Which tends to be the most embarrassing thing I screw up.

[Finnish_Fox]

A friend asked me to play his trainer's backyard b-day party. Nothing fancy... was switching USB sticks, forgetting that the track playing was playing off said USB stick. What made it worse was the fact there was a spare USB port on the other CDJ. Whoops.

[Finnish_Fox]

However, being off my face mixing at home is another story.

I know that one... LOL. In the middle of recording some epic mix while wasted and everything goes to shit.

[JackStalk]

I wasnt looking at the mixer and forgot which deck was live. I hit cue, thinking I was launching the next track but it effectively paused the playing track right at the drop and killed all the sound in the whole room. I've also launched the wrong track before and once I mixed a song into the same exact song (wasnt too bad)

[electricsmooth]

One of my decks was set to reverse and I couldn't figure it out before the track on the other deck ended, resulting in about 20 seconds of silence on my part and chanting from the crowd. Horrible!!