Gemini CDT-05 MK 2 Pro Hybrid Turntable

0:00 This piece of kit

Alright folks, I want to show you this piece of kit here. It's from a company called Gemini and it's known as the CDT-05 Mark II. It's a pro hybrid turntable. Now, as you can see we've got a piece of vinyl on that and it's playing quite happily. At the moment, it's coming through, if I show you the mixer, this channel here. And as you can see, on the mixer, apart from the master volume, which is there, There's nothing else going into the mixer. Oops, sorry. Okay, but watch this. If we go back over here, for anyone out there who hasn't seen this particular piece of kit, this is where it gets quite fun. Let's put the music back up. Watch. But watch this. There's probably quite a few of you know exactly what's happening, but there's some of you out there scratching your heads. I will explain. This is a hybrid turntable. What we've got is we've got a slot here to put your CD.

1:31 Manipulate, mode, vinyl player

We've got an area there to put proper, true vinyl. At the moment I'm using the vinyl that comes with this player. Now the reason it's stopped there is because inside there, inside the hole in the centre of the vinyl, there's not a round hole, it's triangular. Now the reason for that is the spindle itself is triangular. What happens is the record that comes with this vinyl will lock. ...into the triangular spindle and then that will enable you to manipulate the CD inside here. So watch again. Right, let's pause that. Now anyone out there who knows about a program called Serato Scratch Live, you'll know that you use the music off your PC and you can use vinyl turntables to manipulate the music off your PC. Well near enough this is in a sense exactly the same because you've got a CD in here

You've got vinyl here and you can manipulate the CD by using vinyl. But also what you can do with this, you can use real vinyl as well. So you don't just have to use CD. In the front here we've got CD mode, we've got mix mode and we've got turntable mode. It's got all the features of a normal vinyl turntable, a normal CD player. Right, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to take that one off and I'm going to put this guy on here. This is Le Rhythm Digital, it's a track. Entitled from Disco to Disco. And the other track you were listening to as well was James Doman, Everything's Gonna Be Alright. It's the Soul Avengers remix edit and it's out August 08. Okay, so what we'll do now is we'll press play again. So at the moment all I've got on there is I've got the CD playing but I've got the vinyl here. Now because I've taken away the proper vinyl for this player...

3:31 The phono output from this guy

All that's happening, I'm slowing it down slightly because the centre isn't locking into this record. Now watch what happens if I touch the centre. That's why you do need the vinyl that comes with this player to enable you to manipulate the CD. But here we go, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to go to mix. Now if I go over to the mixer, bring that down. This now, I've got into... The phono output from this guy. This guy has got line output for the CD player and phono output for the turntable, so let's put that one on. Let's put that about, hold on, if I move this back a tiny bit, can I move it back a tiny bit more? Right. Okay, here we go. Put that up there. Alright, so basically what's happening there, I'm playing the CD but I'm now playing the vinyl as well. Alright, it takes a little bit of getting used to but basically the way I'm looking at this guy here is that let's say for example you want to be a turntablist, you want to use vinyl but it's expensive to get or basically you can't buy any. Well in a sense

You've got a CD slot here so you can bung all your CDs in there and you can still use the vinyl on the top. Alright, a little bit of a video on this guy here. I will be doing more in the future. It's from a company called Gemini and it's known as the CDT-05 Mark II. It's a pro hybrid turntable and of course the hybrid turntable in essence means CD and vinyl. Practice and enjoy.

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