Denon DN-HS5500, Getting It Going

0:00 It's from a company called Denon and it's known as the DNHS5500

Alright folks, in this video we're going to have a look at this guy here. It's from a company called Denon and it's known as the DNHS5500. Now, intentionally I've not looked at the actual instruction manual to see how far I can use this before I've got to start looking at the manual. I'm going to because there's a lot more to this than meets the actual eye. It's basically all singing and dancing. The only thing it won't do for you is make you a cup of coffee or get you out of bed in the morning. Right, what I'm going to do, flash drive's in the back, I'm going to press on at the back, give it a little bit of a time to boot up and then we'll see what we can do. So if I just put the camera there. Okay, so what I can see here on the screen, I can see artist, album, title, genre etc. And there's this thing flashing here, so...

Logic tells me that I've got to do something with this to maybe scroll up and down. So if we, right okay, if we go clockwise we're now going through folder file, BPM year etc. Now also by this dial we've got parameters in ENT which is short for enter and there's an arrow facing downwards so if I go to title and press down like so Right, now I've got the titles of the actual tracks on that flash drive. And again, if I move this dial one way or the other, we can basically go through each individual tracks we've got on here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to play this one here, Deep Inside by Hard Drive. So, I presume enter again. Press enter. Right. Right, now straight away what's happened, we've got the cue button there shining.

1:48 This video isn't showing you how fantastic I can mix or anything like

Now the beauty about this piece of kit, it will play two separate music entities at the same time. So what I've done, I've gone from out of the back of here, from the one side into this side of the actual mixer and then I've gone out of the back here again into the other side of the mixer. Now this video isn't showing you how fantastic I can mix or anything like that. Hopefully this video will just show you what you have to do to play two tracks. So right, we've got that there and I'm going to press play. Right, straight away we can see the platters moving. Have a look. Okay. Alright, we've got some music going on. Right, what I'm going to do now is... I mean, alright, you know, I looked at this earlier on and I did notice here deck 1 and deck 2.

3:19 We do love and happiness

Oh, sorry, the camera was down there. So I noticed here, deck one and deck two. So let's have a close look at this area here. Right, so if I press that, right, the screen is back to its original setting when I got the other track ready. So presumably now, I've got to do exactly the same thing. So what we'll do is I'm going to go to title again, press down, and let's have a look. We do love and happiness. So I'll press that. Okay, so theoretically now what we've got, we've got one track playing on deck one. And then if we look here now, we can see deck two. So let's zoom out. So that's deck one. So theoretically now if I press play here, we should have something coming through deck two. There you go. Okay, pretty cool.

Let's just pause that up. So we've still got that one playing, and got that one there. So hold on, I'm just going to try this. So that's the speed adjustment, and then presumably go to deck 1. Fair enough. Okay so basically what I did there, if I pause that as well. If I wanted to... Increase or decrease the pitch control on deck 2. I was already on deck 2 then anyway, so I could move the pitch, that was it. If I wanted to increase or decrease the pitch speed on deck 1, just press that. So theoretically, you know, this button up here, and I'm not sure totally yet because I haven't looked at the instruction manual, but by pressing that you can go from deck 1 to deck 2. So, in a sense, the funny thing is you could turn that to a function with just that and a mixer.

And you could be doing a live set and people would be looking at you thinking, where's your other deck man? Anyway, a very, very basic video showing you, I suppose in a sense, my interpretation of what you can do without looking at the manual. And it is relatively self-explanatory initially, but there's a lot more to this, a fantastically large amount. Watch this space, practice and enjoy.

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