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Graeme Barrie is hanging up the headphones after a solid 33 years in the business.

What that means is, we’ve an opening for a DJ and ceilidh caller to perform at around 100 weddings each year.

Could you be that person? Do you have the experience? Would you like the training to be that person?

Over the decades, Graeme has taught many people to DJ, to ceilidh call and to operate sound and lighting systems.

Why not get in touch to chat through the options?

Graeme Barrie has a test facility in Maudeth Road in Broxburn but does not keep any kit there. We’re now aiming to provide weekly reports of kit testing, from sexy lighting systems, to charged battery LED systems and sound related kit – If there is any kit you’d like to see tested, get in touch.

The Denon MC7000 – our first choice of kit for weddings and party nights

There are many controllers on the market ranging from £ to £££, this one is more of the ££. It’s not light in weight, but what you get in functionality and effects is huge, and definitely worth the weight. Ours is flight cased with a Seinnheisser G4 radio mic and a connectivity panel. The panel has powercon in, XLR outputs for speakers, extra mic input along with an input from a band’s desk to the Line 4 channel fro the nights we’ve a band with us. The panel also has three USB charge points fro those nights when someone needs their phone charged.

Denon’s best ever controller was the MC6000 and they packed in every function you could imagine into that. We have three of them and love them to bits. The 7000 has all of the functionality of the 6000 but with more buttons, which means fewer multi-use buttons.

It works with the laptop running Serato – other software will work too but we figured the Serato label on the controller would likely mean planned mapping between the two – and it works beautifully.
The Denon Prime units work as standalone units without the need for laptops – but we have laptops and prepare the playlists from the bride and groom’s requests whilst st in the office meaning we don’t need to get a Prime unit out to get the tunes sorted…

Graeme Barrie has a test facility in Maudeth Road in Broxburn but does not keep any kit there. We’re now aiming to provide weekly reports of kit testing, from lighting systems, to charged battery LED systems and sound related kit – If there is any kit you’d like to see tested, get in touch.

With Graeme Barrie no longer doing the number of weddings he used to, We now The Behringer Xynyz mixer is a great value 14 channel mixer. It’s not the best on the market, but then the price is quite reasonable! If you know how to set th levels correctly, you will make this mixer sound as good as most, but at a fraction of the price. No, it’s not controlled wirelessly via an iPad from the middle of the dance floor during sound check, you’ll actually need to walk to and from the desk, but the price is right and the sound is fine.

19” rack mounting to flight case, standard IEC power input and a choice of output connections and plenty channel controls mean you’ll be working with this in no time.

Graeme Barrie has a test facility in Maudeth Road in Broxburn but does not keep any kit there. We’re now aiming to provide weekly reports of kit testing, from lighting systems, to charged battery LED systems and sound related kit – If there is any kit you’d like to see tested, get in touch.

I know many of you are still looking to move on with your plans for your weddings and normally, we’d be right there with you in the studio to practice those first dances.  Sadly, due to the current restrictions, we are unable to do our dance lessons as the hands-on nature of the lessons simply can’t be done in the same way.

We’re really missing our ceilidh sessions and really do wonder when we may ever be able to do this safely again.  Fingers crossed!

Carlowrie Castle is a lovely venue and with 200 guests, the new Mr & Mrs Herriot made sure they partied hard!

Big Marquee tonight

Trav Saxingh on the sax, accompanying the tunes

What’s important to a prospective customer? We ask all of our clients if they would put down a few words to describe their experience of using Graeme Barrie Wedding Entertainment so that others can learn from others’ experiences. It has to be said, it is lovely when we get the kind words back. Here are some words from Debbie, who got married last weekend in Musselburgh –

Hi Graeme

Just wanted to say a big thank you for making our day so special. I really appreciate you playing all our songs we wanted and the ceilidh was also great. I will definitely recommend you to anyone that wants a DJ or ceilidh.

Many Thanks,
Debbie Brown

Guys and girls , I did something very stupid with the website and managed to delete it, completely!  Despite their best efforts, the backup files didn’t help, so we’ve had to start again.  Should be back to normal now, but if you spot anything, let me know!

A lesson learnt!

Now all working fine, just click the menus and off you go!

Another new testimonial! Thanks guys!

Graeme,

Thanks so much for last night, you were absolutely brilliant and I’ve had nothing but positive feedback all day from folk. I’ve passed on your details to the owner of the hotel who was asking about you. What a great night, hope you enjoyed it too,

All the best, Graham.