MBLV09 video 40, Jay gives a demo of some Pioneer kit

0:00 Do a roll effect

That's if you've got bad eyesight, that. All right, I'll tell you what, anyone watching this, do you prefer sliders or dials on your mixer? Let us know. Have you got a mixer with dials? What do you think about it? Let us know. Okay, Jay, what are you going to show us, dude? Here's what we're going to show you. We're going to show you how to do a roll effect. But what I'm going to show you is how to use the roll in another channel. Oh yeah, yeah, go for it. Okay, got CD play, got one. Yeah, I've got my track. What I'm going to do is pick CD1, channel 1 because that's where the music's coming from. I'm going to go up here, got my roll effect. I'm going to open up my roll and we'll go four beats. Got my level depth. I'm going to start the track. When I get to the section I want to put the roll effect in, I'm going to hit on.

1:28 I got the roll, right?

I got the roll, right? Yeah. Hold on, we gotta do it one more time. I knew I'd mess up. Okay. The button's still blinking. Yeah. No, no, no. Hold on. There's my roll. Yeah, you flick the channel, yeah. Right. So I can send it to a channel that doesn't have anything on it. Yeah. In fact, I can send it to any channel. Yeah. So even though I've got music over here. And then you go back in with the music, yeah. Right. As long as you keep the effect engaged, you're allowed to switch it around to whatever channel you want. That's it. It's a cool little track because you can get the roll effect, get a nice little sample kind of loop, send it to any channel you want. You're not going to break the world on this, you're not going to change anything. Oh no, but in a sense, a DJ has got one music source, two music sources, in a sense they can have three. Yeah, exactly. You know, three. You get an effect like that. Over and out.

The great part is none of these, the mids, high, low, none of these cues or the trim work. So all you get is that. So you don't even have to mess with anything. You just simply engage it. And as long as you keep the effect on, you can keep it going. Once you turn it off, just a little tidbit of it. You see, us guys like playing with buttons, don't we? Yes. Oh, we love knobbly bits and stuff. But again, you just do the same thing. Pick the channel that's got music, then you're going to take them all. Yeah. Get in this, guys, watch it. I have emails, people say, they ask me, Jonathan, I've heard that 400 is meant for a bedroom DJ. Now before you say anything, I'm going to give you my honest opinion. Okay.

7:18 Film me over there scratching an 800

They're great for bedroom DJs, but if you were in a nightclub and, you know, you couldn't see the DJ playing, and he had a 400 one side and a 1000 the other side, and if he didn't use the effects from 400, I kid you not, I don't reckon anyone would be able to tell the difference, would they? I don't think so. No. Honestly, even if, you know, and I'm admittedly not the big scratch guy. Yeah. But do you... Film me over there scratching an 800. I don't think you're going to hear any great difference. No. I do prefer the feel of the 800 for scratching. I think if you've come from vinyl especially, it's that sense of familiarity. New DJs coming up, the fact that you have six effects, the fact that you can run USB flash stick, run Serato, run Virtual, run Traktor, all these programs along with MIDI control. So it's MIDI capable. You've got the space jog wheel, you've got a full display. At the end of the day...

If you're doing this kind of music where you're not relying on your scratching all day long, no one's going to know what I'm using. If I had this covered, you'd never know this between the thousand. I don't think. So if you don't need the feel of something, if you are starting off DJing at all, this is way too much not to own. You know, at the end of the day. So yes, it's good for bedroom, but I think a bedroom that eventually goes to a club will be fine. And as a small side note, ATV, of course you're familiar with ATV, has the 400 on his rider now because he uses a flash stick. And the only way he can is to get a 400. So even though he's got 1000s, his rider now calls for a 400. A quick question for you, right? Out of all of the Pioneer kits, what do you think is the ultimate best setter? In other words, alright, a stereotypical club setter, 800 and the 1000s. Would be the 800-1000. But what do you...

9:24 Club, you're familiar with the layout

What do you think is a good setup? Because there's so many different varieties you can put together. You know, you could put the 700 mixer with the 400s or the 200s, or you could put the 400 mixer with the 1000s. What do you think is an ideal setup? I think for mobile, I honestly think... If you're not going to be driven by the color effects of the 800, I think the 700 and two 400s for mobile. If you're going to the clubs because of the familiarity of the clubs having CDJ-1000s 1, 2, Mark III, I think going with two of those and an 800 because you get to use the harmonic effect in a club setting maybe a little bit more than you would in a mobile setting. With everything going on and the size of it, I mean we don't all have huge cargo vans over here. Yeah, sure, yeah. Gas isn't getting any cheaper. It's a nice little footprint to be able to walk into a gig. And you've got everything you really need here. Channels, extra, you've got booth out, you've got some effects. And when you do and want to go to club, you're familiar with the layout or the 800 by saving the money by getting the 700. I'm gonna sort of disagree with you because

I, again I'm not being biased but I do like the MEP for a mobile DJ. So in a sense my ideal setup is I suppose something like the 700 but then with the MEP because you've got the USB, a mobile DJ, keep your camera straight, a mobile DJ quite often, you know a regular mobile DJ won't want loads of effects You've got effects all over the place. So you've got a small amount of effects here, but you've got the functionality of the two 400s in the MEP and the USB. Again, you said about fitting this into a car. Well, yeah, and that's even smaller. Exactly, yeah. I mean, you look at this footprint. Yeah. Granted it's with a 3000, but you could put a 700 with ears. With ears, yeah, exactly. And take away this, this is a keyboard tray, take that out and this out, drop this down. Yeah. And obviously it's even smaller. Yeah, and if you've got a course something like this, that's what, six, eight unit? No.

I think that's six. Six, yeah. So amplifier, amplifier, CD tray or amplifier, gap, CD tray, so it's all there, yeah. If you use powered speakers, then it's both of them. Yeah, sure, sure, excellent. I mean, the beauty of it is if you're a bedroom DJ on the 400s and decide to go mobile at one cent small indeed, yeah, you're right, the MEP's awesome. It keeps the same, I mean, I think you've pointed this out in some of your videos I've seen. It keeps the same footprint. This is the same set up as a CDJ-1000, a DBJ-1000. All of the CDJ series follow the same setup so that you're familiar. You walk right on, boom, play cue, track search. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sensational Super System Giveaway. We're going to stop for a while. Practice and enjoy. Easy, Jay.

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