Review of a Djstandz Metal DJ Kit Stand for Mobile or Home Use

0:01 I have something here from a company called DJ Stans

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I have something here from a company called DJ Stans. Please excuse the mess in the room. Yes, there's always kit about the place. Pioneer at its best. CDJ-1000M3s, they're like the equivalent of the Technics SL-1200M2s. Eventually, they're going to be worth a lot of money. And I've got two of them. Love them. Anyway, DJ Stans, what have we got here? Okay, so... First and foremost, this video is a promotional video for DJStands.com and my disclaimer, the company did send me this product for free but they haven't given me any money for any sort of promotion so they haven't said you've got to do this that or the other and here's some money and we want it as we want it. It's a case of Jonathan

Here's a stand, do your thing. Okay, so what I've done so far is I've just sort of fixed these bars to the base. Now there's quite a few ways of using this and one of the reasons that I gave a shout out to DJ stands is because you'll see very soon, you know, I've got very little room up there and I needed... Some extra space to put the Opus Quad on and a set of techniques. So this, first of all, I think this could be optional, but then again, you know, once this is secure, it's going to give this a little bit more rigidity. I'll take that off quite simply. Can he with one hand? Yep, there you go. So you can see now something I have to say is what I think they've done here, as you can see there.

I mean, they're basically over-engineered. So you've got a slight lip here and there are three screws holding this bar in place. Now earlier on, I put one screw in and because of how it's formed around the back, to be quite honest, that was probably enough to hold it in place. But of course, three means it's not going anywhere. Now if I just move this around here, what we can do, okay, and you will see it with the stand on the top soon we've got this sort of plinth and it's angled very slightly and you can see some slots in here and you can see that little notch there so that notch fits inside these slots so what we can do is we can place that on there and then you've got a little plinth for your mixer so for example you could have mixer, a couple of players

3:15 Course, opus laptop, flat packed

And your sort of maybe CDJs on top, you could have perhaps your laptop there, mixer on the top, CDJs or vinyl turntables. There's lots of configurations with this. Now, after chatting with the guys at DJ Stands, one thing that was very apparent and great idea. is previously with quite a few of their stands when they sent them they were already made up so if you can imagine he had a stand with bits sticking out and all sorts and the guy in charge mentioned to me that sometimes it used to take 20 minutes just to package uh the stand and of course a bit of a logistical nightmare there but of course what they do now everything is flat packed so you can see it's flat packed really well we've got that there and also this

Bit has not been opened up yeah crikey that's heavy okay there you go right so let's uh continue i'm just gonna stop this now and let's put a few more pieces together right got a couple of these quite funny actually earlier on i was thinking okay so how does that fit in there i mean i saw a hole and it was that and i was trying to fit that in there and i was going like What on earth is going on? Are they the wrong size screws until I realised? Yeah, they're for there of course aren't they? What an absolute muppet you are Jonathan. Anyway let's put the other one on. Okay so that does look a bit precarious and I have to admit when I put the Opus Quad on there I was like oh my god but underneath here there's a lip and of course there's a lip on this platform

5:39 EV, classic speakers, but still good

So very quickly as well, underneath the platform there's a metal bar that goes all the way across so it just gives it that sort of extra bit of rigidity and of course you can see I haven't set the techniques up but if you've watched my live streams when I've used vinyl in the past I've got Formula One FF 2.2L in the middle, techniques either side and then I had to go from the output The DJ Tutor uses the sound card from the Opus into the laptop, which is running OBS, which is a bit of a nightmare. But now, of course, I can plug Technics directly in to channel 3 and 4, use the Opus on 1 and 2, and have the laptop over there. EV, classic speakers, but still good. By the way, I have been using these things, small monitors from Pioneer DJ. And I'll tell you what, the two of them, they're pretty solid. And guess who got a lucky dip? Yeah, me. Right, so this really is just one configuration. Now also underneath here, if I can just do that, you can see...

Structurally, really sound very rigid because this is going to take or could take quite a bit of weight and you can see underneath there how it's constructed. Even though that wobbles, well, it doesn't wobble but you can hear it, I have secured that. Probably could tighten up a little bit more if I wanted to but I mean I'm quite happy with that. I have played around with the Opus, tried to pull it while holding it. It's not moving. You know that there's really not much more I can say. You've got a lip here again just to add to the rigidity. Now all this I believe is solid metal, it's iron and it's powder coated as well. So durability wise, you know, it's like anything. If you're going to start chucking it around and putting other metal objects on there, it's going to scratch. But then again, if you're going to look after it, then happy days, isn't it? Now, would you take this kind of thing to a gig? Well, yes, you've got the room. Why not? Let me just grab that and put that on there. There you go. All right. So potentially now what you've got.

If, in fact, I'm just going to pause the camera and do a different setup. There you go. Set of, sorry, CDJ-1000, went blank for a second, 1000 Mark III's, two channel mixer and the Technics. Now, of course, you're not going to be able to, well, you can run this off the four units, but you'd have to switch. But this is just giving you an example. 4-channel mixer there. Again, you've got a slight angle so it's facing towards you. CDJs, god they're dusty, they need a good clean, I have to admit. And you've got a, well, it's quite a bit of a gap in the middle, but you can get a smaller piece to fit on the top if you want to. Alternatively, I mean, you know, I suppose I could put my laptop there as well.

8:24 What I like about this setup is there's different ways of putting your

What I like about this setup is there's different ways of putting your kit. So again, I did say earlier about let's say you're a mobile DJ. Let me just wang out a little bit. That way. That's better. Let's say you're a mobile DJ. Start again. I'm doing a bit of editing so I don't normally do editing. Just start and stop if I make mistakes in the middle. Tough. Anyway, let's say you're a mobile DJ and as I said earlier, you know, you could take something like this with you. It's going to look good, look professional, put this on your DJ console. Alternatively, if you are the sort of DJ that turns up and demands a trestle table, then I think this will just make you look a little bit more professional, but I highly recommend

I don't know, percentage-wise, I'm thinking definitely more than 50% is for the bedroom stroke professional, semi-professional DJ who wants to have a good setup at home. Like me, minimum space where you can do different configurations of putting CDJs down there, some controller up there, mixer down here. Laptop up there, laptop down there, mixer up there, CDJs. It's entirely up to you. But it's a nice piece of kit. What I will do, I'll put information in the description to DJ Stans. Go and check them out. Speak to them. Phone them up. Please join their Facebook page as well. I'll put a link there. Like and share. And maybe you've got an idea. For some kind of stand and if you chat with them, chat with the company, it's very likely they may just be able to make something for you. Maybe you've got an idea, maybe you think that should be tweaked, they should be squares not circles, maybe that should be a different angle. Let them know, I mean again this is how companies move forward.

Thank you for watching. Please leave a comment, practice and enjoy.

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