A look at the Vinyl control 5 from DJ-Tech

0:00 Whether you do or don't know, I like vinyl turntables

Right folks, whether you do or don't know, I like vinyl turntables. One of my dislikes though are belt drive turntables but I wanted to give these guys a go. These are belt drive turntables simply because I was quite amazed at the actual price. Now they're from a company called DJ Tech. Two turntables and a two channel mixer and you get a set of headphones and you can plug them into your PC, you've got software so... You can use the music off your PC as well. Now, all this lot was relatively inexpensive. Now first of all, there's something that myself and Brian S Red have both come to the conclusion, and this is what we both agree on, and that is if you haven't got much money, then theoretically with the way things are going today, you can still become a DJ because there's kit out there. Now admittedly, admittedly, admittedly, it may not be the best quality kit in the world, but...

If it enables you to become a DJ and you can fulfil your dream, then all the better. Also, here's a fact as well, I mean let's be honest, let's say maybe you're thinking, well do I really want to be a DJ? Well, without investing thousands of pounds, maybe something like this, you can actually give it a go. Now, the price for something like this, I mean, you know, you could literally give it a go, you could ram them for about 6 or 7 months. And if you're bored and had enough, you could sell them in a car boot sale and maybe still have enough money to go out for a good night on the tiles. So what I'm going to do, right, I'm going to pause the camera, I'm going to give it a bit of a, give them a good old going, well no actually I'm not going to pause the camera, what I'm going to do, I'm going to do an actual mix here and I'm going to edit it so you'll see me actually mixing and whatnot and then after that...

2:11 £10, you're going to expend £10 worth of quality

I'm going to give my honest opinion on what I actually think. Now first of all, what I have noticed is the platters are wobbly as anything. But, you know, then again, at the end of the day it goes with the price. You know, if you're going to pay a vast amount of money you would expect top notch quality. As you go down the scale, you know, you're going to have to think, well, you know, at the end of the day, if I'm going to spend £1,000, you would expect £1,000 worth of quality. If you're going to spend £500, £500 worth of quality. £10, you're going to expend £10 worth of quality. So everything is relevant. So what I'll do now, we'll bung a few tunes on and we'll give it a go. By the way, look to the side of the video for the actual track names. Right speed for a start. Tune this one.

6:58 We've got a basic belt drive turntable

Alright, what have we got here? We've got a basic belt drive turntable. Now what I have actually noticed, one point I don't like about this, one point I do quite like about it, the one point I don't like is that platter there is very, very wobbly. Now again, it's not going to start wobbling when it's turning but you do have to take great care when you're moving this back and forwards. The pitch seems quite responsive. We do seem to have a relatively good quality pitch there. Mixer, interchangeable crossfade which is quite good and theoretically should be box standard in my mind with all mixers now anyway. Phono and line both there. Bass and treble on these and again control on each channel. Again, bass, treble, we've got no mid. But there you go. Gain control, that's the separate volume for each channel. Master level, that's of course the master volume. A microphone level and a cue level here. And then that's the level for your headphones in Cue Select. So over there to channel 1, over there to channel 2. Now again, you can plug this via your PC as well. Alright, so just bear that in mind. Alright, so what do I think?

What do I think? Now, me personally, if let's say I was an aspiring DJ, I wanted to become a DJ, I wanted to play vinyl and I didn't really have much money, then there's a possibility I would maybe get something like this because at least I could give it a go. On the other hand, if I was a pro DJ with loads of money, I would not buy this kit at all. In fact, I wouldn't even look at it twice to be quite honest. But! Like I said earlier, you know, there are a lot of people out there that cannot afford a Technics turntable. At the end of the day, one of those, okay, the price for those three and the headphones and the software, you're looking at maybe being able to buy a third of one of those turntables there. So I suppose, bit of advice for you, bit of a mix and hope you enjoyed that. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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