DDJ-200 Pioneer Rave with No Mains Power!

0:00 Do I think it's going to change the way we look at DJing?

Hi guys, it's a beautiful sunny day and welcome to my humble abode, the garden, where men are men, sheep are nervous, and like me, if you have children, it's always awash with stuff. Anyway, I have in front of me the Pioneer DDJ-200. Now, there are a million and one already videos on the 200, but I'm going to give you my pound of flesh. What do I think of it? Do I think it's going to change the way we look at DJing? No, not at all. Because it's not meant for every DJ out there. First of all, it does not have an internal sound card so you can't plug in headphones but it does come with a cable that will let you use headphones. Now, this is the deal with this. This is what I like about it. I'll explain what I dislike about it in a bit.

What I like about it is up until a while ago, you know, you had to have a laptop and you had to have power, which of course you do anyway, to get some music playing through your controller. So what's happening is over time we're slowly moving away from having to have a laptop or something like that to get the Where's the laptop? There's no laptop. Where is the plug into the mains? There's no plug into the mains. All will be revealed very shortly, but you use or you can use one way to get music and start mixing with the DDJ-200 is something called WeDJ and I've plugged that in my phone. I have an iPhone 7 So I've had to have a separate connector to this cable that comes with the DDJ-200 and that is a very basic mini jack. And then you've got two female inputs at the other side. Now one you can plug into an external PA system, the other one into your headphones.

2:25 What I've got here is, I've got a complete party setup with nothing el

A battery pack. So what I've got here is, I've got a complete party setup with nothing else. It's insane. This is it. If I put that there, my phone there and that speaker there and press play, there you go. That's it. I've got everything. I have got everything I need to play some music. It's absolutely insane. Now what do we have on the DDJ-200? Okay, so again I'm going to do more videos on this but we've got some what are known as performance pads. Now we don't have any loop function buttons on the 200 but we can go into the settings of WeDJ and we can utilize the performance pads to get our loops. We can also get hot cues, we can increase decrease speed, we have a channel effects so we have a filter high low pass filter also we can

Sorry, on the crossfades. If you want to, you can do some wacky things by using the crossfade and the filter at the same time. Low, mid and high, there's no trim on it. Shift again to get rid of any hot cues you've done. We have beat sync so if you're not familiar with beat matching just press beat sync and away you go and it'll match the beats for you. Now what we've got here is something that will definitely Definitely not take the place of the high-end bits of kit because it's not really a toy even though I would happily buy something like this for in fact once I've finished doing my reviews I would happily give this to my son who is seven and he would just mess around with this bang the hell out of it and I know it's not going to be destroyed because the cost is very minimal.

4:32 I have got a big power supply there

On the other hand, he can still start to, let's say, to dip his toes into the DJ industry without me thinking he's going to destroy a CDJ-2000 Nexus that probably costs more than me at the moment. Right, so I have got a big power supply there. That power supply now is powering up the 200. It's also powering up The mini rig. So theoretically, theoretically, if I had all of this powered up and I had a couple of mini rigs, maybe a bass speaker as well, there's no reason why I couldn't go camping and utilise the power from that power supply for an entire weekend of music mayhem. Alright, it's not going to be very loud because the mini rigs aren't exactly like full on, but at the same time... I can get some good sound. Now, I'm not going to be playing much of this simply because of YouTube copyright issues, but there it is. This is the DDJ-200. So, the only output on here is the USB. That's it. I mean, look at it. It's amazing. And this, I believe in the United Kingdom at the moment...

6:44 Long as, of course, you've got your power supply as well

Is one about don't quote me 139 pounds all right so don't think first of all buy this plug it into your laptop and away you go definitely buy this plug it into your phone and away you go but it is also record box compatible okay So, if let's say for example you are, I don't know, you're a well-known DJ and you're on an aeroplane somewhere and you just want to have a little mix, you know, you're snuck inside some person over there and someone's snoring that side and you want a little bit of a dabble. Well, you could sit there with that, you could have your phone and you could have your headphones plugged in and you could form some kind of a mix and the only person that could hear it is you. So long as, of course, you've got your power supply as well. So there you go. It's not going to change the way we DJ. What it will do is open the door to DJing for other people. Right, if you want any information on this, there will be a link in the description. But yeah, this is the first video on the DDJ-200 from myself, Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor.

There it is. Where will it end? Again, Pioneer have got now the DDJ-200, they've got the 800 which is a great all in one unit and then they have the 1000 which is the next level. So you've got different levels. Will they bring a 400, DDJ-400? Will they bring a DDJ-600? Time will tell. Practice. And enjoy. I mean, check it out. Look at that. It's just insane. That's it. This is it. This is it. See, now, I can... If I just... Hold on. Where are we now? No, track's finished. But I could walk around with that now, playing music. You know, I could literally walk around now. That isn't very heavy. So I could have some kind of, I don't know, something to strap around my neck. A couple of those either side and I could do a bit of a mix along the beach and get people dancing and partying. I could. You just put that battery there. See, I'm giving you an idea here now. Think about it. And attach something underneath there, your two little speakers, you've got your headphones on, and away you go doing a mix on the beach. It's a small rave. That's what it is. The DDJ-200

Rave. Party hard, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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