A mix using a CDJ and a belt drive Handy trax portable vinyl

0:00 It was an absolute nightmare

Right folks, Jonathan here. A while ago I did a mix on a Citronic Twin turntable from the 80s. Now it was an absolute nightmare. Firstly because of its belt driven, secondly because the pitch controls were about 5 miles away from the actual turntables themselves, but mainly because the belts around the actual decks were really old so they were worn away and there was a lot of slack there. Now with regards to this guy here, this is known as a Handy Trax. And it's the sort of thing you can take anywhere. You can take it into the middle of the country and you can play music on it because it's battery powered as well, which is pretty cool. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to do a mix using this. Now this guy is hardwired now. When I say hardwired, it's just got the RCA cables out of that into the mixer. So we're going to play a track here on the CD player and I'm going to mix this guy here and let's see how difficult or maybe how easy it is. Here we go. Right, bear in mind I'm not using any headphones.

1:02 You haven't really got a start or a stop

And with regards to this thing, as soon as you put the needle on the record it starts. So you haven't really got a start or a stop. So there's the beginning. Any info on the tracks look to the side of the video. Now one nice thing, it doesn't jump. I mean it will if you start knocking it about, but you'd expect as soon as you move it back to jump because the actual platter is a lot smaller than the piece of plastic on the top. Here's a challenge for you. If you've got a company and you manufacture products and you think you've got something that's really difficult to mix with, then send it to me and I'll give it a go. Also if you think about it logically, let's say for example you are a CDJ turntablist, sorry not turntablist, you're a CDJ DJ and you very very rarely use vinyl. Well I suppose the nice thing about one of these guys, if you don't want to carton a huge heavy turntable,

You could take one of these in, plug it into your mixer and you can still play vinyl. To me, this, the sound... You know, if you've got a crowd full of people dancing and you can mix using one of these, they're not going to know whether it's a Technics 1200 turntable or something like this. There you go. Quick video showing you, yes, you can mix on absolutely anything. And you can plug this into the mixer as well. As usual, practice and enjoy. Thank you. Thanks for watching!

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