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was doing a gig the other night and it was 5 mins from the end and the ife decided to pull the plug on one of the lights and i lost all sound ,i can only gather it was some kind of surge prob or something ,nothing went off but dont know if its to do with the usb connection with my mixer or some king of cut out somewhere .
i have a 10 space surge tower extenion which most things go into but the cable isnt long enough to reach the main so is plugged in a reel extension along with the extention for the lights.

I'm a little confused by your post. Are you saying that things aren't powered up now or is everything powered up but you have no sound. If things aren't powering up, check everything in the A/C supply chain for circuit breakers and reset them. If you did get a surge and everything is plugged into single power supply strip, it is possible that it's protection circuit blew and just needs to be reset.

If everything is powered up fine but you're just getting no audio, then walk the audio chain. Check each input for signal and follow the path all the way through. It could be something simple or it could be a catastrophic failure in an amplifier or something.

If you can provide more details on exactly what's happening that would be very helpful.

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DJ Tony
Let It Rip Karaoke

Hi Letitrip ,sorry for confusing i lost the sound but after pulling the usb lead and restarting my software sax and dotty i got it back but was still no go on the traktor softare as it was close to the end i didnt bother restarting that.so i guess it has to be usb related from either the mixer side or pc side.
as you also said i think it could be with everything going into the one socket.
would i get the same problem with all the main equipment gong to the tower extention socket connected to a single extention in one socket of a double wall socket and the cable reel comming from the other socket on the wall to for the lights and tv to plug into it?

Running lights on the same circuit as your audio system is usually a prescription for dead air.

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Jeff Wheeler, moonlight DJ/KJ

Hey zonerc, so if I've got this right, everything is powered up and running fine you're just not getting audio from the PC to the console? Then yes it's PC related. Are any of the USB accessories powered externally (i.e. with a power supply not powered off the USB itself)? If so, they may have cut out briefly causing Windows to believe that they were removed. Now that you've shut the PC down I'm betting the next time you fire it up everything will be working fine. I would try doing that before your next gig just to make sure, but this doesn't sound like it was anything major. Let us know though.

With that all said, I do have to say Jeff is right. It's never a good idea to run PA and Lighting on the same circuit. That's just frought with potential for disaster.

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DJ Tony
Let It Rip Karaoke

Thanks jeff will be changing that and letitrip yes already tried everything ,got karaoke running on sax and doty on the night but being as the night was over there was no need to mess around with the dj program at the time.