Other DJ's in the crowd.

[Nicadraus]

I don't let such people jam with me even if he's someone I know. I will only let another DJ jam if he's a close friend, plays the same music to keep the vibe, doesn't act like a superstar, and gives respect.

[Duluxx]

I set up one time, walked across the street to get some chicken for dinner before the event got started, came back to two old folks setting up to do Karaoke (in addition to my services) & they were plugging their mic's etc into my equipment. What????? Oh, no.... this aint happening grandpa.

After that, I added a clause to my contract:
"Client agrees to prohibit any person, access to the DJ area in the absence of the provider or its employees. Client agrees not to authorize any person, guest or vendor, access, use, control or authorization to “plug into” in any manner, the work area, authorized area, equipment or property of the provider. This includes the two required outlets reserved for DJ, provider & its equipment.
In the event that any equipment is accessed or used in any manner without the express written consent of the provider, client agrees to pay for any use, time &/or damages. Time is calculated at a rate of $200 per hour or $3.34 per minute.

Client agrees to pay for any damages to providers equipment or property resulting from any unauthorized use or access by any person whether invited or not. This includes unloading, loading, setup, tear down or any times at or during the event whether actually on the property or not."

Since I require that the client & myself meet & discuss every paragraph of my contract prior to signing, I havent had an issue with this since. I think the wording was enough, but the price is discouraging as well.

Awesome. Has anyone jumped on your stuff since this?

[Manu]

Once at a private party, I had left my setup all plugged in and whatnot and almost everyone went to bed as the night was well spent, a few stayed downstairs to kill another few bottles. Getting into 40 winks mode and all of a sudden, Slusher / half dollar's YEAH YEAH YEAH blasts up in the house, someone obviously had to touch. I didn't even bother going downstairs, the lady of the house did so and gave the 2 drunktards a stern choice of words.

Incident over and back to sleep. In hindsight I should have removed a couple of power leads and that wouldn't have happened. Still, tardbuckets with little common sense made themselves (and the neighbourhood) jump with some unexpected decibels in their faces. Retardinio was trying to find the volume control and cranked the master all the way up, so full blast it went



YEAH


YEAH


YEAH,




YEAH


YEAH

[South Rakkas Crew]

How could someone have access to your setup? I have had guys come up and ask if they could mix a couple of songs but any real DJ is going to know their place. When I used to tour DJs would come up and ask about your gear; I use Virtual DJ software so I would have Serato or Traktor users asking about the program or my controller.