Pioneer XDJ-RX2 Is Not Very Good DJ

0:00 The Mark II, it's not very good, alright?

Alright guys, so this is a short review of the Pioneer XDJ-RX Mark II. Now as you know, or maybe you do or don't, I had the Mark I, I thought it was brilliant. The Mark II, it's not very good, alright? It's not very good at all. Now, first of all, the track I'm playing is from Karmic Power Records. It's entitled I Wanna Fly and it's the original mix. So if you're into your house music, your soulful house, go and check it out. There will be a link to Comet Power Records right down in the description. Now I want to show you something first of all. To the right of the RX Mark II is the Pioneer CDJ 2000 Nexus Mark II. Now at the moment, and I always try and say that to make sure we understand... So people don't go on Google and go, well you're completely wrong because at the moment that deck is around about two grand UK. It's a lot of money. Now I have a thumb drive plugged in the USB port and I've got a track ready. I'm going to press play. Nothing. No sound. So £2,000 pretty much. And what have you got? You've got a box that doesn't play anything.

2:21 I said the RX Mark II isn't very good

Now, I'm not saying that the Nexus Mark II is not good. That's not what this video is about. What this video is about is this. Here we have XDJ-RX Mark II. It costs less than the Nexus Mark II. In fact, quite considerably less. A roundabout give or take. 450, 500 pounds. Now, let's imagine that you go and buy a Nexus Mark II. You've got 2,000 pounds in your pocket, right? That's all you've got. No more, you've got 2,000 pounds. You go and buy that and pretty much all you can do is you can plug it into your hi-fi from the line out. You can play some wiki tunes, you can have some wiki-wiki and scratch and slow and speed it up, but that's all you can do. You can do some hot cues and loops and press slip mode, but that's all you can do. That's it. Zip! On the other hand, if you had £2000, you could buy the XDJ-RX Mark II, you could buy a set of powered speakers,

You could buy a set of headphones and you could buy a couple of dodgy flashy lights and you can do a house party for your mates. Now, I said the RX Mark II isn't very good. It's not very good. It's fucking brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. Pioneer have yet again nailed it. Alright? Now, I thought they nailed it with the Mark I but they haven't. Well, no, they did. They did. What they've done with the Mark II is they've taken something That was pure genius. And they put a cherry on the top. They put sprinkles on it. They've covered it in chocolate sauce and they've made it like, you know, eye candy. Not only eye candy, ear candy. Not only ear candy, usability candy, functionality, everything. So for example, we can needle search. We have a touch screen. And again, like the Mark I,

Let's imagine, okay, for people who've never seen the RX Mark II. In fact, maybe you've never seen the RX Mark I. In fact, where the hell have you been? You've probably never even been on YouTube, you fool. Right, so let's imagine that you are a DJ and you only play from your laptop. Fine, you can use the RX Mark II. On the other hand, you've got a couple of thumb drives with some MP3s and all you've done is put them on MP3. Fine, you can use that. Maybe you like using rekordbox. Fine, you can do that. Maybe you've got a set of vinyl decks. Fine, because you can plug them into this and use the integrated mixer. You can do it. Maybe you've got, I don't know, a couple of CD players. Fine, you can plug them into this and use those as well. But this is where it gets really, really interesting. Because let's imagine you've got...

5:15 MIDI, press MIDI, click Load

A vinyl turntable that side, a CD player that side, your laptop plugged in and a USB. You can use all the bloody things at the same time if you want to. You can go from USB on the right hand deck to vinyl on the left. From vinyl, you can flip over and use your laptop on the right hand side. And then once you've used your laptop on the right hand side, you can go back to vinyl if you want to. If you've got a CD player next to your vinyl turntable, all you gotta do is unplug the RCA's at the back and... Flick a switch and you can then use the external CD player. And then if you want to, you can go back to the right-hand side, just flick over to deck number two, which you're on, and bingo, off you go. And you can start playing deck number two via the USB or, if you want to, the laptop. Go to MIDI, press MIDI, click Load, and that's it. So what we have here is we have something that is considerably less.

Then that player over there and it does everything. If this was, if this was a thing, something, all right, this would be a robot in about 200 years time that would quite happily wipe your bottom after going to the toilet. Once it's washed its hands, it would then prepare you a delicious five course meal Once you've eaten that, it would gently puff up your pillow and in the morning wake you up, open the door to your car and drive you to work. It would do everything for you. But you still have to program it. You're still the one who's got to program the robot to do it for you. And that is the analogy here. It will do everything for you. It will do everything for you. But it's down... Thank you very much, see you next time.

And proof's in the pudding because every single mobile gig I've done for a long time, I've always taken the original RX and last weekend just gone, I took out the RX Mark II and it did not fail me. It is bombproof. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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