MantraSound Wedding Discos

MantraSound today provided music, sound system and lighting for the Powys County Times "Win a Wedding" competition at the Royal Oak in Welshpool. MantraSound was at the event to promote its wedding discos, corporate discos, PA hire facilities and Recording Studio Facilities. The results of the competition will be listed by the County Times at this link .

MantraSound will provide a free five hour disco for the winners.

MantraSound is also currently offering a three hour hen party recording studio experience at £199.75. The hen party recording session is lots of fun and results in a lovely personal souvenir CD of a great day.

MantraSound is providing a range of recording studio experience days as a part of its association with the Beehouse Recording Studio in Llanfyllin, Powys.

Karaoke DJs

In line with its new development phase, MantraSound is now looking to bring onto its books karaoke DJs and those hiring out karaoke equipment for do-it-yourself events. Until recently, MantraSound was primarily involved in discos or disco karaoke, and this is in fact the area where we are currently offereing the most services - however this situation will soon change, with more of our enquiries requesting specialist karaoke services or karaoke hire. We are therefore about to open a new website, karaoke-djs.co.uk offering the mirror product, different packages, and a different price range. We will also be inviting advertisements from karaoke suppliers, backing track supliers and other related products, to cater for the increasing number of our customers who want to organise themselves.

MantraSound karaoke djs will also be marketing the recording studio experience to would be pop stars across the country, and our incentives scheme will encourage karaoke comperes to sell studio experiences of all types, but first and foremost pop singer experiences to interested singers up and down the country. A system of 20% discount, with the discount going to the DJ will be operated in this exciting new venture. Any interested karaoke organisers or DJs should submit their details to MantraSound at the following link:

DJ work opportunities

Cancellations - how DJs should handle them

When you first hear that a customer has cancelled a MantraSound generated disco booking, it's important to consider the contractual situation the customer is in. All bookings arranged by MantraSound are regulated by a contract between the DJ and the customer. So if you become aware of a cancellation, you should first of all reflect on whether or not you have received the customer's signed copy of the contract for that event. If this has not yet arrived with you, there isn't much you can do to retrieve any money from the situation. If, however, you are in possession of a signed contract, please check condition 10 to establish how close the booking is, and how much is owed by the customer.
You should then write to the customer on headed notepaper, informing him or her of the arrangement between you, and the amount owing. This shoud be done in a matter of fact way, and with some tact - if the customer has called off the wedding disco because a marriage is not to take place, then please treat the matter sensitively. This should nonetheless not prevent you from seeking the payment which you are owed.
We do not have many cancellations at MantraSound Disco Agency. I have only been aware of less than a dozen in ten years. Although they are obviously rareties, they do sometimes cause aggravation between agent and DJ, and we are keen to point out that, through our system, the contract is between the DJ and the customer, and therefore it is important that DJs on our books pursue the contract and ensure that they are in possession of it at the earliest moment possible, to give them the most rights in the situation.

DJ Equipment Trade

If you have disco equipment or DJ equipment to buy or sell please post it here.

DJ Work and Disco Work - We welcome your comments

Hi everyone.

Please feel free to add your comments about mobile disco or DJ work to this blog, or indeed and thoughts relating to karaoke or PA hire and sound engineering. Unfortunately we aren't able to accept links to any disco, karaoke or sound hire websites, but we welcome links to your personal pages or "day jobs". Or just any site you may find relevant.

Have you ever been to a gig where you weren't paid and how did you deal with it? MantraSound has a structure in place to avoid this unpleasant eventuality, but we'd like to hear your stories as every situation can be learnt from.

Submit to this blog about your experiences.

Disco work from MantraSound

Disco Agency Work

As a disco agency, MantraSound liaises with the customer in the first instance in order to select a DJ who is well equipped to serve their requirements. We have a number of parameters. All of our DJs are contracted to carry PLI and to PAT test their equipment adequately. In addition, DJs are requested to accept a playlist of up to 30 tracks from the customer which can be used to build a set. We do not generally expect DJs to play every track in a set order as is occasionally requested, since we believe some faith must be shown in the abilities of the DJ to keep things moving in his own style. We do however ask customers to state if they have a preference for genre or era, so that the DJ comes well prepared.

Another requirement is that the DJ contact the customer a minimum of two weeks before the event to review music styles and payment preferences. According to our system, the DJ fee is paid to the DJ on the night, and this has rarely been a source of dispute. Becasue of the nature of events covered, we have never known of an issue with cheques. although we leave this matter to the discretion of the DJ.

Underpinning our whole ethos and expectation of the DJ is a contract which is signed between the DJ and the customer after we have received our disco agency fee. This contract is there for the protection of the DJ and the customer and outlines what we consider to be the minimum good conditions under which DJs should work, what their commitments are, and where responsibilities lie with regard to security and other insurable matters. Therefore it is of the utmost importance that the DJ signs his contract and send it to the customer, and receives one in return.

Public Liability Insurance

All MantraSound DJs are expected to carry their own Public Liability Insurance. A very economical way of fulfilling this criterion is to become a member of the Musician's Union. Other ways are through your ordinary insurance supplier, through Pavilion or MusicGuard MusicGuard or through E & L Insurance. PLI protects the DJ in the possible situation when his equipment injures a member of the public and he is construed to be at fault. If you do not have PLI MantraSound will not offer you contracts, so this is a sensible admin item to sort out before coming onto our books. We also ask DJs to PAT test their equipment regularly, and be prepared to show evidence of this to venues.