Mobile DJ Do We Buy Expensive Lighting or Go Cheap with No Fixing Bills?

0:00 I've always explained and said that it's not a good idea

Alright, now I've always explained and said that it's not a good idea. It's imperative to make sure you spend good money on a good quality kit that will last, will give a good show, and make sure that you feel confident that the night is going to run smoothly. And nothing's going to go wrong, nothing's going to stop working. But with today's tech and you know let's think about in a throwaway society is it worth spending a great deal of money on for example lighting or is it easier and better? Is it financially more feasible to spend Less. Now this video really is targeted, and I want your comments on this, this is targeted for the mobile DJ because a nightclub DJ, it's nothing to do with a nightclub DJ because you don't buy lights because you turn up, they're there. It's not really targeted for the bedroom DJ because you're not going to have a huge light show in your bedroom. It's targeted for the mobile DJ.

Now I've always said it's imperative to have a very good sound system and spend a good buck, a good pound, euro, dollar on a good system because the last thing you want to happen is for your sound system to stop working because you've spent $100 on a huge sound system and the manufacturer has said there are 1000 watts a cab. And you plug your amp in and all of a sudden it pops at 200 watts because they haven't really told you the truth. But on the other hand, think about this. You turn up, you've got your lights flashing, and this is the key here, this is the important part. This is what this video is about. You have your lights on, they're all flashing, and of course you should really have more than one or two lights. And one of them stops working. Doesn't matter.

2:36 It so everyone can understand

For more information visit www.ellaskins.com The DJ Tutor is available for purchase at Ellaskins.com. Maybe a few million or billion years but it's going to happen. Think, this is the important part about this video and I'm waffling on but I'm trying to explain it so everyone can understand. So, is it better to spend a great deal of money on a light that's eventually going to break and fall apart so you're going to have to spend more money to get it fixed? Alternatively, is it better to spend... Less money on a light that's going to do pretty much the same job. Maybe not as good, but pretty much the same job. That's possibly going to have the same kind of lifespan, eventually go wrong and then think well is it actually worth fixing it? Just get rid of it and instead of spending the money on fixing it, use that money to buy another one.

5:07 You're good to go aren't you?

Now I know we're going into the realms here of a throwaway society, which is a shame, but you could for example have let's say five of a light, a certain light, and those five lights will work for however long. Now theoretically, and I'm not sure how it is in different countries, but if that light breaks within a year... You have a legal right to take it back to the store in the UK where you bought it from because you should have 12 months warranty and the shop, the store, should either be able to fix it for you if they can't by rights, they should exchange it for a new one. So you're good to go aren't you? On the other hand after that 12 months if it goes wrong you by all means take it back to the shop and see if they can fix it if they can.

And the cost is quite considerable, then is it actually worth fixing it? No. Also if you bought five of them, then maybe if one goes wrong, then two and three, maybe you can take the bits out of those three to fix the other two. Who knows? But really in a nutshell what this video is about is very simply, is it worth spending a great deal of money on a light that eventually will go wrong for you only to find out you're going to have to spend a lot of money Fixing it, alternatively is it better to get a cheaper light that will pretty much do the same thing maybe not as good but with today's technology there are good quality cheaper lights out there that will do sort of the same and also bear this in mind and is it worth getting those and when they go wrong just getting rid of them and also this is this is the

This is, I suppose, a good ending for this video. In, let's say, an event with 100 people, a random selection of 100 people, for example a wedding, in a wedding you've got all age groups, you've got age groups, I mean we've got people, you know, with babies there, up to old age pensioners. Out of those 100 people, if you took a random 100 people, all age groups... How many of those people would truly, truly be able to tell you that, yeah, that light is a thousand pounds and that one over there only cost you a hundred pounds, didn't it? Do you know what? Probably less than 1% would be able to tell you the cost of the light by going up to it and looking at it. Practically every single person out of that 100%

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