The first hour or so of the gig was dinner music, so we just ran a bunch of christmas CD's. BTW, the JBL EON15 G2's we bought were very impressive in this venu. Anyway, once dinner was wrapping up it was time for some announcements and then open up to Karaoke. Well we threw in an SCDG for Daryll (my business partner) to warm up the crowd and guess what? Player froze! Would not play any of our SCDGs. We had a couple CD+G discs with us, they worked fine. Seems our Brand Spanking new CAVS player has a logic board issue
We had tested our entire new setup repeatedly prior to this gig and didn't experience a problem, but as murphey would have it, get to the gig and it crapped out. Luckily we had a backup strategy and things turned out ok but time to look at some different options. The big problem being the amount of money invested in SCDG discs.
The player will be repaired, but I don't trust it much anymore. I think we'll be switching to a PC real soon. CAVS makes players that can play the SCDGs on the PC, or for about twice as much I can get an MP3+G player and the software to rip the songs off the SCDG's. Don't know which way we're headed yet but let this serve as yet another example of why backup equipment is SO important.
