PSA - Watch for that keyboard's off button...

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Ed Witles

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Thank goodness for backup gear.

Take a quick raise of hands poll. How many:

...have a backup amp? I see several hands.

...have a backup mixer? Well, still I see hands are raised.

...have a backup computer? Hmmm, some more hands came down.

...have a spare monitor/mouse/keyboard/hard drive? I think I lost even more.

Well, this past Sunday, my Zippy glow keyboard started acting stupid. Letters were repeating themselves. Unplugged and plugged into different port. Same. Inadvertently pushed the POWER button. Guess what happened?

I won't say WHEN this happened :sqembarrassed: but 3 minutes seemed like forever. Got through that via mouse and when the cake cutting adjourned for 15 minutes, allowed me to get my spare keyboard from the van.

Event finished w/o further issue and got a nice tip from the couple.

Except having something to kick in immediate, I have a backup of EVERYTHING.
 
back up gear is only worth anything when you have back up EVERYTHING...or...can do without it.

I don't use external keyboards or HD's. I use a laptop. But I have a denon 2500 and a pacemaker plugged into my mixer in case the computer ever went and I needed time to get the back up computer up and running.

If the mixer went, I can plug the pacemaker directly into my amp to get music running while I get my back up mixer up and running.

I make sure I have back up cables for these components as well.
 
I keep some music on my Iphone for that reason. I've had to do the inevitable reboot in the middle of a set before and it allowed me to mix into the music on the other device, get through my reboot, and then mix back into the laptop again.... Now don't get me wrong, I do have a spare laptop with me too, but when it's something simple like that the Iphone is just faster...
 
Ed Witles said:
Thank goodness for backup gear.

Take a quick raise of hands poll. How many:

...have a backup amp? I see several hands.

...have a backup mixer? Well, still I see hands are raised.

...have a backup computer? Hmmm, some more hands came down.

...have a spare monitor/mouse/keyboard/hard drive? I think I lost even more.

Well, this past Sunday, my Zippy glow keyboard started acting stupid. Letters were repeating themselves. Unplugged and plugged into different port. Same. Inadvertently pushed the POWER button. Guess what happened?

I won't say WHEN this happened :sqembarrassed: but 3 minutes seemed like forever. Got through that via mouse and when the cake cutting adjourned for 15 minutes, allowed me to get my spare keyboard from the van.

Event finished w/o further issue and got a nice tip from the couple.

Except having something to kick in immediate, I have a backup of EVERYTHING.
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Every event we do has a back up of all this stuff. It is one of the reason though that my mixer has a CD player. Even though I don't use it. There is a copy of the brides special music in one CD player and dance music in the other. I have only had to use it one time. Two years ago at our new years even party.

I accidentally pulled out the USB cable from my hard drive. I knew I had about 5 seconds before I knew it would quite. I pushed play on the CD deck and brought up the volume. They never even knew there was a problem minus me changing the song on them. It literally saved my ass.
 
I didn't even think of using like an Ipod as a backup, thats a great idea...I will have to use that in the future. Well, rephrase hopefully NOT have to use it in the future, lol.
 
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