DJ Standz Reach Stand Great for the Bedroom DJ

0:00 You've got in front of you a bit of kit called the Reach Stand

Right guys, you've got in front of you a bit of kit called the Reach Stand. It's from DJStands.com. They're based in the UK and Paul Foster is a very good friend of mine. The guy is a bit of a wizard, bit of a genius when it comes to metalwork. So, what is it? Why has he made it? What does it do? And how possibly can it help you in your life? is part of the stand there you go in all its glory so if you look at that what have we got well the reach stand speaks for itself really because it's able to yeah reach a great distance either side of let's say your kit that's underneath it but also The angle and pitch of your decks. So that's one part. There's two ways of attaching this to your surface. One is a flat plate or the other one is that where you can attach that to the back, let's say of your table and screw it down securely. And you've got that, of course that's the pole.

So you can elevate it according to how high or low you want the reach stand to go. The plate that you can use just to sit on a surface. Now, before I go into using this, because I'm going to be using this, it is exceedingly advisable to make sure that you put something on here to weight it down because you are going to be having a deck either side and you don't want it To topple over, sort of have a deck on the right hand side and think oh shit nothing on the left and it do that. I mean again you know come on this this is just using your head isn't it really. All right and we also have the two shelves for your decks. Now they are powder coated metal not plastic and on the underside there you've got four screws there for of course attaching to

2:29 The reach stand itself

The reach stand itself. I think I said screws but of course I mean wing nuts, sorry. Right that fits there like so. So I've fitted both of the stands now and you have great articulation here if you look right left up down side to side back to front like that that that Turn it right or left. You can move it forward. You can move them possibly if you wanted to, even close together like that. You see that's quite neat. Now as you can see I'm using the base plate that comes with the reach stand. You can also use the clamp which I will show you very shortly. What I'm very surprisingly pleased about is How level it is and also how stable it is, even just with the base plate. See I'm going to grab a deck now. I promise you this is the first time I've done it. I have not done this prior to turning the camera on and put that on there. Let's have a look. OK, right. I haven't done that. Alright, you've got a bit of a wobble there but bearing in mind once you put another deck on the other side...

5:16 From a wobble, you compensate on space

Of similar weight you're still going to have the center of gravity in the center of the reach stand which is precisely what you want now again come on use your head you're not gonna be a muppet and have them like that with just maybe the base plate i would advise highly advise to have something on there let me think deck deck what would you put on there Tumble dry, no washing machine, no mixer. So I put on the Nexus Mark 1 and you know they do wobble a little bit, I'll be honest with you, they do. They're going to. Anything like this is going to have a little bit of a wobble but what you do get... From a wobble, you compensate on space. So if these two decks were on the table surface here and a mixer in the middle, that would be all the surface area used. Now I'm in a position to put a couple of turntables under there, maybe a third deck. I've got room for my mixer. I could also, if I wanted to, possibly put the laptop down there as well. It depends on, of course, the size of your laptop.

If you only have one player and a laptop, you can put the laptop there. Player, use your head. The last thing you want is cables dangling all over the place. So there's just some clips here, very simple clip-in. Very easy to use. It's pretty much press in there and that opens up. You put all your cables, your power cable. There's enough room there for... RCA power cable and your LAN cable to go from deck to deck. Here's our base plate and there is the pole. You have three holes there in the base and three holes in there. All the bits I'm showing you will come with a reach stand and you have three screws so it's just a question of putting those through there and screwing that All of the movement, of course, is governed by how tight these bolts are and you can change that simply by tightening up there. And you've got two close to the main beam. There are four then for

The different movements for side to side or up or down so you don't have to worry about your deck during the course of the night changing its angle. You have that tight enough and it's not going to budge one bit. So there you go this is the Reach Stand from DJ Stands. As I said there will be... Thank you very much. Go and check them out, practice and enjoy.

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