This might have been covered before, but if it hasn't this really winds me up.

Why do people do it?

I don't have speakers on stands, so mine are always liable, being the right height, to have bottles and drinks put on them.

I always ask people to take them off as soon as I spy them making a move, but it's not always possible.

Don't get me wrong, if you suggets politely that it's not a good idea then people do remove them. But if you don't, within twenty minutes they're full to the brim with peoples unwanted dregs!

Anyone put signs up, or got any ideas about this?

I use subs with poles for the tops, and get the same thing on the subs. I gave up telling people not top put their drinks there years ago.

I tried signs - drunk people obviously can't read.

I just let them do it, then use an old cloth and some bottled water to wipe the sticky glass marks off the top at the end of the night.

But one club that I used to work at had a good solution. The subs were on both sides of the dance floor, and very convenient for dancers to place their drinks. So they added plywood "pyramid" tops to the subs. It was impossible for anyone to leave a glass on the sloping surface.

You could make a fold flat version of this from thin plywood, or even card. Another idea is to fix rows of triangluar section wood on the top, so that it is impossible to stand a glass up on the speaker.

I found that drunk people will try and balance a glass on anything flat looking my roadie spends the night removing these glasses to a safe place.

I've had that before. It does annoy me.

The worst is when you're DJing in a club with the DJ stand on the same level as the dancefloor, and people drunk as anything, place their half empty drinks into the DJ stand, spilling it over you at the same time, sometimes oblivious that you're even there!

Or leaning over to ask you for a song and spilling drink over the gear.

People almost expect it dont they...

"Hey cool, these drink stands have got music coming out of them..."

I used to have the same problem with light screens but used short lengths of "half drain pipe", round~side UP...

Speakers can be similarly protected by sections of "egg crate" acoustic foam...you know, the dimpled stuff....one look at that and they wont even try to put a glass on it...watch out for cigarettes though, depending on the shape of the edges...

Lightweight, reusable, easily stowed/transported...could this be another group buy?

I have tried the pyramid, half round pipe solutions and found that while they work on most occasions, all that good work is undone the night you get someone that doesn't realise why he can't put his drink down and keeps trying. They REALLY make a mess...

The end solution was cheap, and one of those doh! moments that I didn't think of it earlier.....rope lights.

I have never come across someone so drunk they tried to put drink on top of subs with a rope light on top coiled barb wire style.

Best of luck with your problem, I hope this helps...

Take them away and drink them as they were left on your property.

The wedding I did on Saturday I tried something new as there was limited space.
I put the speakers under the stand so they were behind the curtain.
I have to say it made for a very neat looking setup, but they still manage to hang their hand with the drink in it over the front of the stand when they come to make a request.

Hi

After a quick announcement that anybody found placing drinks on the speekers wll either end up with a huge repair bill or a drink poured over them solved my problem.

Darren

Rope lights work for me when using my small set up. For the bigger venues the speakers are on stands so unless you are 7' tall you won't think of putting drinks there!

Cheezy

Alternatively, get one of those rubber bath/shower mats with the mini suction cups underneath, and place one upside down on each speaker.

Not only will this offer a water/drink proof layer to the top of your speaker, but will also mean that the the glass of drink stays put until the drinker pulls with enough force to shower themselves with the former contents of their glass...

s my girlfriend works in a pub she let me nick some beer towels from her. I put 4 ontop of each speaker. When they put drinks on them I ask for them to be removed, but for the little while the glass was on the speaker it hadn't made a mess. I think the Pyramid idea is a really good one!!