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indrora 7 hours ago

A friend of mine works AV at shows that have rotating DJs and one of the things she has on her mixer board is "The Suck Button."

It causes a mic at the other end of the room to get cut into the DJ's live feed monitor with a semitone shift down and some reverb. This causes all sorts of inner-ear chaos and usually clears a DJ off the stage when they're over time within a few minutes at most -- usually under 30 seconds. One time they were trying to figure out why it wasn't working and discovered that the DJ had muted their monitor feed, which explained why they were not only peaking the meters but over time: They hadn't heard the FOUR warnings from the back of house that it was time to wrap up.

inlined 6 hours ago | parent [-]

There was a coffee shop ages ago in SF that would every few hours play a cacophony (e.g. multiple songs at once). I assume it was to drive away people camping on their laptops to rotate tables. Understand but super annoying to people like me who had a timer to but food or drink no less than hourly to be a good citizen

acomjean 6 hours ago | parent [-]

We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.

reincarnate0x14 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I introduced my local restaurant owner to Mongolian Techno and the late night bar flies and some of the kitchen staff have never forgiven me. He won't admit if he plays it for himself, or because of them :)

fragmede 3 hours ago | parent [-]

eg https://youtu.be/9uMtnH7cABg for the curious.

WalterBright 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I play disco music to keep the kids off my lawn.

bigiain 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A live music venue near me plays this when it's time for people to GTFO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was at a coffee shop once that was playing metal while my writing group was meeting there and I just thought they had excellent taste (it was not near closing time)