Pro Tec Metal stand for 2 X Pioneer CDJ-1000

0:00 This stand is mainly for a couple of the Pioneer CDJ-1000s

Alright folks, what you can see in front of you is a stand from a company called DJstands.com, also known as ProTech Metalwork Ltd. Now this stand is mainly for a couple of the Pioneer CDJ-1000s. Right now recently I did a video on a similar stand but that one was for the EFX-1000 and the beauty about what's going on now are companies are starting to listen to you guys. And through one of the comments, now guess what? Okay, originally, the old one, if you had a microphone, you had to put it in like that. But of course, a lot of people, when they're doing a function, there's a lead attached. So guess what? Now, like that. That is so much better. Also at the moment, there isn't anything on the inside stopping the microphone from getting scratched, but they're going to put that in.

In the near future. Right now, the base itself is very sturdy, relatively thick and you don't have to secure it down. Alright, you can see that it's wobbling about all over the damn place but the decks do not wobble. That was one of my, I suppose one of my worries because when you're on the cue button, the last thing you want to do is start to have the thing jumping all over the place and if you can see there we've got a tiny small hole there is one outside, one on the other side If you basically need to secure the unit to the surface. Now what I'll do, I'll link this video and the other video I did on the EFX 1000 together and you'll see exactly what I put on the one for the EFX. It's not for hanging grapes. That there is the headphones. Right now when I was told about this, one of my first concerns were, because the guy basically said it's for two CDJ-1000s,

The DJ Tutor is a great way to get your music together. I'll put one there, and the other one there. Any DJ who's worth their salt will understand where I'm coming from here. I want you to concentrate on that area there. It's only a small tiny matter but it does mean a lot when you're in the mix. Now imagine if this was just big enough To put those two together, and you're using the pitch control. Well of course your fingers are here, and you haven't got much control, but what they've done is they've made it wide enough so you've got a nice gap there, so now you've got good control over the pitch, and at the same time you've got good control here on all of the functionality, track search, search there, cue, play, pause, so there's no interference. I like that.

3:00 Tiny small feature, but it makes one hell of a difference

Tiny small feature, but it makes one hell of a difference. Right, another feature I do like, and if you're anything like me, you love to go tappy-tappy on the old cue. There's nothing worse than, let's say, something doing that. Now at the moment, yes, it is wobbling, but that's because I'm literally trying to pull the damn thing off. Well, yeah, okay. But, let's say you are doing your basic cue, play, pause. Now at the end of the day, you're not going to start hammering the damn thing, but...

Now, I'm going to be honest, straight to the point, there is a very, very tiny, tiny amount of movement, but nothing at all that's going to disturb you from hitting that cue. Because, right, here's the deal, when you're hitting that cue button, the last thing you want is the movement to almost be, if you're hitting it, bang, like that. You want it to stay there. You don't want it to move away and then hit the cue because you just lose the continuity of hitting that cue. But believe me, you're going to be hitting that and you're going to be quite happy having a mess around like that. That's pretty good. Right, there you go. As you can see, it's big enough for the 1000 EFX or you could definitely put a couple of 800s. Or for that matter, let's be honest, you could put any blinking CD player on there. It doesn't have to be Pioneer. Anything you want. Right, again, small feature. You've got some plastic edging around there so nothing's going to get scratched.

4:41 Again, as you can see, a very simple design but serves its purpose

Again, as you can see, a very simple design but serves its purpose. Right, what I've done here, I've put the mixer on the top and the players underneath. Right, yeah, it's family life by the way. Now at the end of the day, if you're going to do it like that, you are going to have a bit of wobbling there. And it's all about, the thing is, it's all about being different. You don't have to do the stereotypical, ooh, I'm going to put my decks on there and I'm going to put my mixer down there. You can do it however you want. One of the beauties about, I suppose, about items like this, they are space savers. In other words, if you've only got a certain amount of room and you can't put your decks all over one surface, then you have got... Basically it's like having, you know, your next level. Right, I can just about do this. You can see it's not on there correctly. I've got the laptop there but of course I've got the power cable plugged in there and the trouble is with this guy here because the battery's buggered.

I can't, if I take the power cable out it'll stop working, but power cable out, that fit quite nicely there. Alternatively you could have maybe a Denon CD player there, cam, anything, doesn't really matter. So again, the idea here is just to give you other ideas of how you can use stands like this. Right, so there you go, a video on this guy here. Basically mainly for a couple of 1000s. It's from a company called DJStands.com and what I'm going to do, I'm going to put all relevant Thanks a lot.

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