Tensor Speakers from HH Club CD Pool January 2020 Preview Video

0:00 Welcome to some new releases from CDPool and also a new room

Right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to some new releases from CDPool and also a new room. I'm now in the, let's say, the Batcave. This is my new bedroom and this is dedicated to me. I have a bit of kit in here, got bed over there, I've got pussy on the bed as well. I'm a hot man. Seriously, I'll show you. Look, check this out. There's Bobby. Say hi, Bobby. Hello! See? Look at that. What a pussycat. That is a beautiful, he's a beautiful... Are you daddy's beautiful pussycat, mate? Yeah, look at that. That's one happy pussy. There you go. Look at that. Right, okay, so ladies and gentlemen, welcome to... Yeah, man! Right, new releases. Club series. Twenty... 20 from CDPool. Again, there is a link in the description. Take you to CDPool and also if you're in and around Europe and you're thinking of participating in some kind of pool of music, go and check CDPool out because if you're a first time user, you can get 50% off your first set of downloads. Terms and conditions apply. It's not everything but go and check it out. Now I'm also using this here.

2:05 Here's a tip for speaker manufacturers out there

This is the Tensor 12 and Horn from H&H. Now, before I go on, OK, I'd like to talk a little bit, and a lot of companies do this, they have a little light on to show that the speaker is on. So quite often with powered speakers you've got a couple of options. You've got to have the light on, off or a little bit in the background. Now, I've never liked it because it looks absolutely bloody tacky and horrible. Not here. Why? Well, here's a tip for speaker manufacturers out there. If you're going to put a light on the front of your speaker, don't put something that is sort of like you've just got to see and try and look for it. You know, a small tiny dot. Try and be either big and bold or nothing at all.

Now that works for me because it looks good, alright? It actually looks good and from a distance you can see it's on instead of like trying to look and think is my speaker on or off. Right so I do have the option of turning that on or off. Now at the moment as well I have got that speaker upside down. Now you're probably wondering why on earth would anyone want to put a speaker upside down? Well... Right, I'm in my room and I want to get some good quality sound and I want to have all the frequencies bouncing against my eardrums. Now if I had that 12 and horn facing or up the right way, the high end would be up here and because high frequencies are directional... That means that whichever way they're pointing, that's the way they're going to go. Whereas bass and lower sounds are omnidirectional, they just go anywhere and everywhere. So by me having that 12 and horn upside down means that that high frequency horn, it's a compression driver, is slamming my ear in the right place, not up there and facing over my head.

I've done that because I don't want this to be full-on and really loud. I just want it... I just want to have a nice, easy sound. So there, I've got a really good sound. It's a very good, deep, soulful sound. It's not booming, it's not in your face. That, to me, is a nice ticking over sound. And again, because that speaker's quite close to me, I don't have to have it loud like headphones, you know? You don't have your headphones loud because the diaphragm... All of this is right next to your ear. If your headphones were full on and away from you, you wouldn't be able to hear them as well as if they were right next to your ear. So it's the same philosophy in principle with a PA. That's why we have what are known as near field monitors because near field and they are for monitoring purposes. Anyone who buys near field monitors and then thinks that they can take them to a house party is an absolute fool.

You can't do that. This one here is track 1 from disc number 1. I'm going to play track 2 from disc number 2. So track 1 from disc number 1 is Camel Fat. Do you know what? What a name, Camel Fat. It is, I know. If you are a new DJ and you're thinking of a DJ name, think of something just wacky and eccentric. And that's the name that will stick and people will remember instead of like... DJ Phil, DJ Paul. No! Think of something unique. Right, okay. Camel Fat, Rabbit Hole and I'm going to play track number two from disc number two which is Frankie Wah, Next Life. Here we go. You've already heard that one anyway. Okay, I'm using the Denon DNS 1200s. I've had these for quite a while, just brought them out again and...

6:00 They are media players

They're nice. They are media players. You can use your laptop, USB. I'm using them with CD. They're a relatively old sort of player now but don't let that put you off. They still work, alright? And I'll be perfectly honest with you here. Out of all of the Denon kits, even the modern day stuff, I still like these because they're robust. They're solid. They do the job. And also, because they're old technology now, you could probably pick these up for like, I don't know, a set of them and a mixer for a few hundred quid now on eBay. It's not a bad call actually. Okay, track two from disc number two. Let's find something from disc number one. I'm not going to phrase mix or anything, I just want to blend them in. Speed this one up a little bit. Let's go forward a little bit. Because again, the idea of these videos is to give you, well, I suppose, a demo of what to expect on the CDs.

7:31 This isn't masterful mixing, you know, a complete like, wow set

This isn't masterful mixing, you know, a complete like, wow set. It's just like playing a few tunes really. It's the sort of thing you do in your room and just think, oh I like that, I like that, don't like that, I like that, like that, that's crap, like that, like that, you see what I mean? Phrase at all. The mixer here is the DJM450 and again, this mixer here is a two channel mixer and I believe when Pioneer decided to make this they asked a lot of DJs in the industry, you know, What should we put on a two-channel mixer that DJs like? What effects? And without fear of contraception, the best effect I personally believe on a mixer has got to be the filter. It's got to be, you know, because there's so much you can do with it. For example, with using the filter and going to the high, as I'll demonstrate now, I'm going to turn this to the high, listen.

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9:35 Let's find something else

But it doesn't even sound as good. And then if I turn it to the low, it's the opposite. I'm now going to take away the high and the mid and end up with a bass. Right, let's find something else. Track two from disc number one, back and forth. This is the extended mix, Harris and Herb. Herb! Not him, Herb. Calm down. Okay, let's do a random track number seven. Let's see what happens here. Ooh. Okay, so what have we got? We've got here track number seven. Is the Chemical Brothers out of control? Now, what can I say? The Chemical Brothers have been around since, I suppose, around about the dinosaur era. Now that's not to say it's a bad thing. These guys know their shit. They are wicked producers and anything that they bring out is good. They're not just going to make a track and think, you know what, we'll just sort of like...

12:38 Specific page which is Club 2020

Put some more fodder out there for people to listen to so they can recognise our name. No, these guys, what they do is they make sure that they bring out quality tracks, alright? And then, once they're made and produced and they know damn sure it's fantastic, then they'll let you listen to it, alright? Otherwise, they're not going to bother. This one here is track number 7 from disc number 2. Okay, fine slip from disc number one. This one here is track number eight from disc number one. Say it now, the original extended mix. Okay, we'll do one more from disc number two. We're going to finish up with track number 14 from disc number two. We'll check the name of this now. Okay, this is a track entitled Who We Are, The Original Mix. Now, all of these tracks you can find on the website cdpool.com and if you go to the specific page which is Club 2020, you'll be able to hear

All of the tracks, there's like a soundbite of each one. Okay, rooms, I'm still going to be using the old room and also there's quite a bit going on through January for me. I'm going to be going to an event in Kent very soon and I will be working alongside H&H. I'll give you more info on that in the future but check these out. Good speakers, great for a mobile DJ and that's enough from me. Don't forget to check out the link in the description. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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