A look at a DJ flight case for a set of cdj's and a mixer.

0:00 They are in a minute

Alright folks, Jonathan here. Yes, a whole bunch of you have noticed I've got a flight case and there it is. Can you see those little bits there? I'll show you what they are in a minute. First of all, do you need a flight case? Have a think about it. First question, do you just DJ at home in your bedroom and your kit's set up in your bedroom and maybe once a year you take it to your mate's house? Well the answer then is no you don't. But, like me, do you probably take your gear out at least three, maybe four times a month, maybe even more, quite often, and it's on the road, it's in the back of the van, it's in the back of the car, it's lumped in and out of buildings. Do you need a flight case for your gear? Yes, you probably do. Maybe you don't have to. If you don't want to, you could always use cardboard boxes. But what's the idea of a flight case? Well, basically, it's a rock-solid piece of equipment, because it is a piece of equipment,

1:30 Corners as well, ideal

Your kit basically getting knackered. So what I'll do, I'll take the camera off the stand and we'll have a closer look. Hold on. Right, first off I haven't actually got this attached correctly. I've just got it on to show you what it looks like. Now you've got these things here, these are called butterfly clips. Now that will clip down there and you twist that and it actually locks it so this thing is sealed quite nicely. It's not airtight but it's sealed quite nicely. Same there. Two either side. I've got a handle that side and that's spring-loaded as well so it's not going to protrude nastily. Also if you look, it's just slightly inside the case as well which is quite good. Now you can see there these things, no I haven't at the moment but normally you would have the cables coming in and out of here. Basically it means that you haven't got any cables over the actual side of the flight case. Corners as well, ideal.

So you don't start battering the sides of anything, plus the fact if you have a bit of a knock on the corner here, you're not going to actually knacker the flight case. It's pretty sturdy and the other side is exactly the same, it's just there, but also this guy's got wheels on which is quite cool. So what you can actually do, if you're just by yourself, you can use this like a trolley and you can just wheel it in, which is quite nice, that's really good. Right, I'll pause the camera and I'll take the lid off, hold on. Right, there you go. There's the actual inside of the case. Well what you've got is you've got sponge all the way around here whereby you can actually have your pieces of gear nicely sealed in and hopefully they won't knock about the place. If you can see there, there's a bit of a gap but I've got a piece of sponge there holding that piece in. I'll just show you the lid in a second as well because that's quite important. You saw those bits there. Well guess what? What they'll actually do

2:56 You've got this flappy bit here, nice little flappy bit

Here's the CD player. You've got this flappy bit here, nice little flappy bit. Now if you can see there, just about there, that's where you would put your cables through normally. So what you would do, you'd have power going out there from your CD player, power going out of There is a reason for that because you've got this flap here. Now the flap will fit over there quite nicely, just keeping all of the cables out of view which is quite a good idea. You can see there I've got the cables over there but this is just basically because I've just plugged it in quite quickly. Like I said you would normally have.

You can just bung that in the back of the van or the car and you can bung things on top of it and you don't have to worry about your kit being knackered. So there you go, a little insight into why it's a good idea to use a flight case if you're a working DJ on the road. Practice and enjoy.

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