Guided Tour of Getinthemix Colchester UK

0:01 I'm in Colchester at Getting a Mix and this gentleman here is Jeremy

Alright ladies and gentlemen, I'm in Colchester at Getting a Mix and this gentleman here is Jeremy. Alright mate, how you doing? New venue, new place, I have not... We've been to Get In The Mix in quite a while, but it's great to see you again. Yeah, it is you too. Yeah, we've been here about two years now since the videos when you came down to the old place at Easter Park. Yes. So we've moved here because we needed more space. Yep. Showroom's a little bit bigger. Great. Much bigger warehouse. It's now sort of over about an acre. Oh wow. So we can get a lot more stuff in. Fantastic. And we are now going to have a guided tour. Yeah, I'll show you around. Of the Get In The Mix HQ. Loving it.

So here we go, welcome. This is the entrance lobby and if you want to come through to the showroom. Yep. So this is the new showroom. Wow. When we moved from Easton Park. So we've got all the most popular products in here. We've got all the Pioneer of course. Yep. Just about every product that Pioneer do is out on display and on demos. You can come in. And everyone can have a little bit of a play. Everyone can have a play. Great. Yeah, all our staff are all fully trained to know exactly what they're winning.

2:25 I'll show you a little bit through here

How it all works. Great. So, all the latest gears in here. We've got rain, denon, native instruments, everything really. All the different studio monitors. Fantastic. From all the favourite brands. And that's... I like it! People can have a go with vinyl. They can, yeah. We sell loads of vinyl turntables, the Pioneer ones, we're doing the new Technics one, the Mark 7 when it's out, Reloop, we've got the Reloop ones and the limited edition Golds. Nice. Yeah, we're selling lots of turntables actually from all the manufacturers. We've got a great team in here that are really knowledgeable, they're all DJs and music producers. Fantastic. All the knowledge you need. And then we go to some PA. Here we've got some PA. Again, we stock just about most of the brands, the popular ones. Yamaha, Rossier, Falto, DB. Do you think people are buying more powered now or passive? Everybody is powered, we find now. It's very rarely do we sell anything passive. Okay. It's just so much more convenient with passive and they sound so good. They're so reliable as well. You know, there's no reliability issues having the amps built in the speakers anymore.

3:54 I'll quickly show you what's in here

So that's the way it's going really, with a powered sub and top setup or the column speakers. And again all the components, the great thing about powered is the amp is designed for the speaker instead of someone buying a passive and you know mixing matching with a Mackie this and I don't know say a QSC amp. Exactly, you know it's all matched up perfectly by the manufacturers so you can't go wrong, it's all really easy. I'll show you a little bit through here. Staff only, alright, so you're not normally allowed to come in here. No, so this is where service departments go after sales care. Also our part exchange line is over here for people who want to ring up and do a part exchange. So that's that part. There's also other offices down there in the kitchen and so on. You don't need to go through there. Yeah, so this is the showroom. So I'll show you a bit of it as well. So yeah, follow me.

Up here is all our offices where we do some of our purchasing, where we do some of our videos. We have people up here that do all the listings on the website. Our green screen room where we do some videos in here and of course some we do downstairs in the showroom. And then these are offices where we do other things here, meetings and things like that. I'll quickly show you what's in here. This is where we build the social media and the listings on the website. All in there. So yeah, follow me down to the warehouse. Right, you'll have to help me with one of these. Yeah, I'll put Hi-Viz on for you. Thank you sir. Got a Hi-Viz on now. We're going to go down and see where it all happens. Yeah, obviously this time of year is very, very busy so you have to excuse if it's less in places but...

But again, this is, it's work isn't it? You know, you're a busy company so it should... So here we have goods in. This is where everything goes in. There's lorries after lorries all day. Yes. John's fantastic, he gets everything skewed and put away. And then we've got two-tier mezzanine floor full of equipment. Okay, now ladies and gentlemen, prepare now for Artie Candy. Here we go. Just about, I think we've got about 15,000 different DJ products. Oh my god! Is that different products? Yeah, there's actually 15,000 SKUs, meaning, so yeah, different items. Oh my god. But that covers everything from of course your controllers to your speakers. To cables and... Cables, yeah. All the little items we sell, whether it be for a mobile DJ or bedroom DJ producer. Yeah. All the microphones to cables, adapters. That's it. So for example, you know, if people think, oh, go get in the mix, they can get a Pioneer controller. They can also get...

7:19 That, that was done so smoothly

All the different things, all through to all the different native instruments, software. There's so much. It's too much, too much. It's got a uniquely tracked label and a location, so every single item can be picked fast. Right, like it. The pickers have to pick about... Over a thousand items a day from this warehouse, so it's all about speed of getting an item through to dispatch so that everybody gets their delivery sent out on time to get there for the next day. Well that's it because you pretty much guarantee if someone orders today, based on when they order, they should get the item following day shouldn't they? Yeah exactly. So there's a lot to be, there's a lot gets done in this warehouse but also a lot goes in. Wow. So what's this young lady doing now then? Georgie, she's also getting down a pallet of, to get something off of her pallet today I imagine. But these machines, we have three of these type of machines which pick all day from everything up high. Yeah. At the moment it looks like there's some gorilla flight cases coming down.

But also, we get a lot coming in. Most days, we get a 40-foot Haikyuu container every day unloaded. That is crazy. Georgina's responsible for getting all of that put away in the right locations every day so we have room for the next container coming the next day. And can I just say... She's an expert on this. Well, I was going to say most people, they'd expect to see some beer-swilling monster drive one of these. This is a gorgeous young lady. And look at that, that was done so smoothly. Amazing! Have you seen those videos where you've got people on a forklift and they knock into something and it just does... Yeah, I know. Just goes on and on and on, doesn't it? Wow. Speakers, flight cases, it's all the bigger stuff down here, all the little items in the middle. Yeah, got you. Because of course you do like pretty much full PA systems, don't you? You know, bigger than what we've seen. That's right. And then in here we have, this is dispatch. Right. So you have to dispatch again, you know, over a thousand orders a day. Wow. In Christmas we dispatch about 10 or 12,000 orders in one of the weeks leading up to Christmas. Bloody hell.

9:22 What's the actual procedure?

That is crazy. Wow. In fact, as you can see we've pretty much run out of room again. We moved from Easter Park because we ran out of room and now we've moved here two years ago and we've managed to fill it to capacity again but we're trying to manage the flow of orders coming in and out so that hopefully we don't have to move again. It was a big job. I bet that was an absolute nightmare. It was an absolute nightmare. It really was. What's down here? Anything down here? Oh yeah, sorry, down here, this is where we do, if you know I'm getting the mix, we do part exchange as well. Yep. So we get loads of stuff coming every day from all over the country. Okay. It then is tested by the guys in here and actually there's lots of stuff that's been tested and we've done the part exchange and then it gets prepped up to be sold. Yep. So in here is sort of where we do all of the, basically it's like product testing. Got you.

So say for example someone's got a Mixtrack Pro 2 and they want to, you know, it's working, they want to bring that in because they want to buy a Pioneer something. Yep. So what's the actual procedure? Okay, so they phone us up and there's the two guys that deal with that in our office area. And then what they do is they give a price over the phone, customer says what condition has it got, the box packaging, that sort of thing. And then what happens is that we get... Free of charge we get UPS, at this current time it's UPS, to collect it from their door. It can be anywhere in the UK. That's good. Arrives here the following day, then goes through to there, they test it immediately as stuff comes in so then the guys in there can ring that customer and say hey it's arrived, yes it is as you said it is, it's all working lovely.

So then the customer pays the difference and then their new product gets here the day after. So pretty much within three days they've got a brand new item. It's from pickup to the new item arriving, can be three days. That's very good. Great. Yeah. Okay. And that's pretty much it. Obviously the kitchen's in there. Yep. Yeah, and then we're sort of back through again. Back through? Wow. Okay, well there you go. A bit of an insight. Insight into getting the mix and the workings. Well Jeremy, it's been a pleasure. Thank you very much indeed. Now, if anyone's interested in contacting Getting The Mix, there will be links in the description of this video to gettingthemix.com. I'm here for the next couple of days so there will be more footage. There is a NADJ National Association of Disc Jockeys meeting tonight.

At Get In The Mix. 7.30 till 11.30 tonight, which will be really good. A lot of talks going on, information about different aspects of mobile DJing in particular maybe tonight. So that's going to be really good. So I'm going to live stream that. So this video, as soon as it's finished, I'm going to upload this. So it will be uploaded today, which is Monday, and the NADJ meeting will be today, which is Monday as well, at 7.30 London GMT time, I believe. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Thanks Jonathan and thanks everyone for watching this video of getting the mix headquarters in Colchester. Pleasure. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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