New Releases CDPOOL CLUB, Chauvet CORE 3X 1

0:00 More new releases for you from CDPool

Alright ladies and gentlemen, more new releases for you from CDPool. In this video we're looking at September 2013 club releases. Also we have a couple of cam decks. They are the KCD 550 USB, DJM 2000 and also we've got some rather nice lights from a company called Chauvet known as the Core 3x1. Now these... The DJ Tutor is available for purchase at Ellaskins.com If you don't have headphones, you tend to have to think outside the box or listen outside of your ears. Because when you're cueing up a track and you've got it on the headphones, you know, you can near enough cue it up, you can think, yeah, that will work or it won't work. When you haven't got any headphones and you don't know the tracks very well, you're in the realms of the gods, anything can happen. So this one here is track 1, disc number 1.

2:42 It's not harsh like some of the other uplights you get

What I'm going to do is set the pitch range there to plus or minus 8. Same with this one. And let's have a listen. I'm going to try, let's have a look. Let's try track 2. Let's have a look. This one here. Let's have a look at these. So, I'm just going to take the camera off the stand. There they are from Showbay. Core 3x1. Now you can actually get these in blocks of 9 as well. So there it is, and the actual effect you get is a very nice warm colour. It's not harsh like some of the other uplights you get. So I will be using these in gigs. You can see the effects over there as well. We'll have a look at the back in a bit. In the meantime though, these are the players from Cam KCD 550 USBs. That wasn't the response, that was me not hitting it at the right time. There we go.

Track search here and USB port. So this is track number two, format disc number two, and I'm going to put my camera back there. I do need a new camera. While I was at the BPM show, this camera actually dropped it on the floor and I was like, oh my god, I've done a load of video footage but luckily it still works except for one thing. I'm now looking at myself upside down on the screen because normally when you flip the screen, it flips the right way up and it's now the wrong way up. Never mind, okay. Alright, this is track number two from disc two. Let's have a look at the one here. Again, very random, track number four. It's almost going to lift the mix but I don't want to bring it in at this point. Maybe towards the latter part of this track. Now again, talking about mixing tracks, most of the time people like to mix the beginning of the track in with the end of the next, that one is playing and so on and so on. That's probably a good thing to do.

4:43 Maybe you should play the track right to the end

Because a track is a symphony in itself, so you don't really want to cut the track up halfway through because you could lose the vibe, the buzz of that track. Because the producer may have made that track, so it's got some really high points and low points finishes off. So maybe you should play the track right to the end. Alternatively, you may want to cut it all the way or cut halfway through. But again, it depends on the track that you're bringing in. If the track you're bringing in complements the track, If you're going to cut the track off halfway through, then fine. If it doesn't complement it, then it's a better idea to let the first track play continually and bring the next track in. So what I'm going to do here, we'll go into search mode and now I can do the track. Okay, should have brought that in slightly earlier but then it gives you an idea. Also no headphones, very, very random here. Track number four from disc number one, don't forget it's the club releases September 2013. And right, pick a number. Seven.

First of all, some of you out there are thinking, right, he was going to play that anyway. I'm not. I wasn't. I promise you on my word of honour, this is completely random. Completely random. But that works. So... Now, that was a bit... Did you notice? That was... I'll explain and I'll show you first. Alright, let's just pause that one there. Let's have a listen to that point of the mix again. Now did you hear it was a bit wobbly? The sound was wobbly. That's because I did not have the MT on which is master tempo. What that does, it keeps the key of the track and it means that the key will stay constant even if I do increase or decrease the speed. So master tempo on. Now let's have a listen when I wibbly wobbly the pitch. The wobbly wibbly pitch.

7:24 It's a wibbly wobbly pitch and back up

Here we go. See that? Hold on. Put that down there like that. And if I just do that, here we go. It's a wibbly wobbly pitch and back up. It's probably, like I said earlier, about sometimes you can bring the track in halfway through another track and it will complement the mix between CDs. A little bit more orientated. Sorry, no, let's start again. You have vocals in. They're slightly more deeper. They're not as deep as the underground where it's very experimental, twisted. This is what you would do. A dancey track, daytime radio and styling. Many ways of mixing tracks. There are jumps, there is a smooth transition, taking it to the next level, taking it deeper. And there's also one where if you try to mix the two tracks and try to mix them in key, it would sound terrible. But if you chopped from one to the other, it would sound okay. And of course there's the mix when you mix two tracks in, the keys just don't work.

And that's when your ears start hurting. It could be perfectly beatmatched, but if it isn't key-matched in some way, shape or form, it sounds terrible. Again, we'll do exactly the same. We'll take a random track. This is, again, it's track number 7 from disc number 1. And where are we on? We're on 11 minutes. Alright, I'm just going to do this again. I'm going to twist that. I'm not going to look. I'm going to twist it. This one here is track 4 from disc number 2. Club releases CD Ball September 2013. Without further ado, let's go and have a look at these lights again.

12:24 You have input and out for your mains, DMX in and out

There it is. What I'm going to do, I'm going to turn this over. As I said earlier, you can get these in bigger versions. But there it is. You have input and out for your mains, DMX in and out. It doesn't usually sound like Master Slave DMX, but you'll notice we've got these brackets here. Pull those together and you can clamp them to a light trussing rig. But what I've done, I've just set it up like that. So, hold on, I'm doing this. One-handed as well. See, it's very bright. Just move that like that. There you go. They're actually very reminiscent of sort of like your 70s style warm light. Like I said earlier, it's not harsh on your face. It's a very warm light but at the same time they are very, very bright indeed. Also these are the Cam CD players. Now I cast these as sort of mid-priced. They do the job.

The scratch functionality is very good. Hot cues are very good as well. If we go back, do that. Something I thought you could only ever do on the higher end kit is this. September 2013. Slightly different video here because I've tried to jam in loads of stuff. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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