Gaston Luga Stockholm Sweden Back Pack Bag Great for a True Mobile DJ

0:01 Always like to be transparent

Alright ladies and gentlemen, always like to be transparent. Now this video is definitely DJ related and I am also showing off a bag that I was sent by a company called Gaston Luca. Now again if you don't really want to watch this then fine I understand but on the other hand there is a little bit of an insight here into how you can become a real true mobile DJ. So what I'm about to tell you may inspire you to take it to the next level and make you start to ponder on the idea of elaborating on what I'm about to explain. But first of all, I have here the DDJ-200 from Pioneer. Now you can use this with the software which is downloadable called WeDJ. It's free software. So there's the WeDJ. I've also got a case, so that's in there now. So I'm going to close that up and there you go. So I'm just going to put that there. Now the DDJ-200 is bus powered, so what that means it needs an external power source to get it to work. A lot of the cheaper controllers do, unlike the likes of the RX.

And the XZ where you plug the power in, the DDJ 400, 200 and a few others. They do need an external source. And more often than not, that is from your laptop. But what I'm about to explain and show you now is how you can become a true mobile DJ. Now in the 80s if you wanted to be a mobile DJ you had to have two techniques, a mixer or a console of some description, big and bulky. External amplifiers because there were very few, if any, powered speakers then. Passive speakers, lighting, rigging and the whole lot. And you would have to have either a very big car or some kind of truck. Now, the reason for promoting this bag and agreeing is because I had a concept for a great video which is this. Now, that bag... Just dropped the box that the bag was in.

2:48 First of all, you've seen the 200

It's from Gaston Luger, or Luger, sorry, I beg your pardon, from Sweden and Stockholm. And it's a very good looking bag. I mean, that's the sort of item that if you're a teenager or someone in the 50s like me, you'd be happy to use it because it looks cool, unlike me. But I can get an entire mobile DJ setup in that bag. It's insane! I can actually, I can DJ. I could just using that bag. So how do I do it? Right, so first of all, you've seen the 200. That is in there. So if I pick the bag up and show it to you, there's two compartments in there. So I'm going to put my DDJ-200 in its case inside the first compartment. Now I've got here a tablet and that... I can use for the WeDJ software, that's going in the back compartment. Now along with the DDJ-200 you will get this cable along with the USB cable. Now that side will go into the tablet and then one of these, I forget exactly which one, I think it's the white one but it's either one or the other, is for your headphones and the other one I will show you in a bit. So

If you are using the likes, let's say of an iPhone, anything above seven or eight, of course you know that you can't plug that in. But you can get these, the adapters which is for mini jack into the iPhone. Now the reason for that is that the iPhone or your other device, your tablet will be Bluetoothed to the controller so any moves you do on the controller is then simulated on the software itself but then of course you need the output from the software to be able to use your headphones to monitor and of course for people to listen that's why you have this cable now as i said earlier the 200 is bus powered so you're probably thinking now well how do you power it up simple just get yourself an external usb battery pack

And you have your USB cable. So, of course, the square bit will be plugged into the 200 and the flat bit will be plugged into your battery pack. So there's my USB cable. So I'm going to put the USB cable into the front pocket there. I'm also going to put that cable into the front pocket. The other one, hold on, let's have a look. I should have somewhere, oh there it is already, I've already put it in there. I'll just leave those out for a second, so put those back in there. Now I've also got a cable here which is mini jack to mini jack. So just for this demonstration, I'm not going to play any music, that's my powered speaker. So of course I will go into the powered speaker. You just need to make sure as well that the powered speaker you use

6:31 Put the speaker in there, flip that over and that's it

Does have provision to have an input into it. If it's just Bluetooth, then you may have problems because you've got to remember that the 200 will already be using Bluetooth from the 200 to your iPad or your iPhone or your tablet. So there I've got the cable, mini jack to mini jack and that will go into the female. Put the speaker in there, flip that over and that's it. That is, and also just to add to this alright, in the UK, I'm sure around the world you've got similar places, we've got somewhere called Poundland where most things are a pound. So you could walk into Poundland or similar shops, you could get some LED lights, two or three packs of those, buy a cheap pack of batteries,

Plug the batteries into the LED lights. If they flash, all the better. And guess what? Now you have a light show. So you've got a light show that's cost next to nothing and you've got a complete mobile DJ setup in a bag. Alright, now, that's insane. That's absolutely insane. I have now got a mobile DJ setup in this bag and the bag itself, I have to admit, He's really well made. My little boy has got one of these as well, he uses it for school and I'm in my 50s and I would be quite happy, which I have because I use his sometimes, just to walk around with me stuff in there and in fact probably over the next however long I might get another controller, shove it in, it may be bigger than the 200 here.

Just get another 200 because this has actually been given away as a prize. Yes, someone won that one. But anyway, I'd be quite happy to put a lot of kit in the bag, take it off to the park somewhere and away we go. And to be quite honest with what's going on at the moment, December 2020, I don't think there is anyone that could stop you from playing music in the park somewhere, even if it's quiet. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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