The Best Detergent to Clean Your DJ Kit Is???

0:00 Yes, this video is about cleaning your kit

Yes, this video is about cleaning your kit. Some of you even now may be thinking, my god, he's on about cleaning his kit and he must be one of the most untidy DJs out there. Well actually I'm not really because I do care about my kit. Sometimes you may see stuff on top of other stuff but I don't just chuck it on there, I make sure that it's placed quite precisely and also gently. But most importantly, the video. Cleaning your kit. Now there are many cleaning products out there. You know, you've got your polishes, you've got your detergents, all that sort of crap. But there's one great thing that will help clean your kit. I'm going to show it to you. I have here a tea towel. Don't use bog paper by the way, I've got bog paper here and that's there for other reasons.

1:36 I can't see the numbers on the fader anymore

Oh dear, don't go there. Anyway, no I mean seriously. Okay, so what I've got is I have a cloth that I probably use for, I don't know, like drying the dishes. Now, the detergent I've used on here is water. That's it. Nothing else. I want to say highly recommend. I can't really say don't do it but let's be honest, if you start using detergent or stuff, you're not familiar with, and you start scrubbing away your mixer or your decks for all you know, you may look and think, oh my God. I can't see the numbers on the fader anymore. You don't really want to start ruining the paintwork but just a cloth. Now, all I'm going to do is go over the mixer like this. Give it a good old clean. Now, if you do want to get to the nitty-gritty, then you can always take the plate.

Faceplate off the mixer take the knobs off first unscrew it and then give it a good old scrub because if you've got an old mixer or an old deck of some description again please be wary about the fact that you could void your warranty so you know this video should be taken for demonstration purposes only I'm not a legal adviser and don't listen to anything I say because I'm a complete total nut and nut case yeah but if you just want to give you a kit a bit of a clean then of course a damp cloth but even before you do that there's something you should do is water and electricity I don't think it really mixes unless of course you want to do someone in on the other hand if you don't want to do yourself in make sure you unplug everything from the mains

Before putting any form of liquid next to electronic items because believe it or not you could get a shock from just holding a damp cloth and placing it on a mixer if there's an earthing problem you could get nasty little twang from it which you don't really want so I'm going to give this a clean so I'm going to go around all of the buttons knobs and dials bearing in mind like I said this is just water also the cloth itself is I believe is relatively lint free now again the reason for the bog roll there is just to show you that if you're gonna use bog roll and you know wet it and then start

3:57 Dust, cover, time

This is going to start falling apart and you may find you may have half a dozen well not half a dozen residue from the bog roll all over your mixer which means you've got clean it again you don't want the little bits from here getting inside the mixer so bog roll is a definite no-no on the other hand a cloth like this is fine just give it a good old clean and away you go now you're probably thinking oh great Jonathan's done a really video important one which has wasted my time about cleaning his kit but I'm going to show you how to do that in just a moment. isn't that logical well sometimes things that stay you in the face they're like oh wow I didn't think of that once you've cleaned your kit then cover

It now I've got there a cloth from the bed excuse the stains only joking okay right so there you go now again the cloth I've used is very thin don't put a towel over there because the towel attracts the dust and God knows what unsundry in the atmosphere and that's it all right no again sometimes the obvious is not obvious now all being well if I'd have cleaned all of that okay when I take the cloth off it should still be clean and dust free now why am i bothering doing videos like this alright now I want to show you something here this mixer here and these decks have holes yes they've got holy bits so believe it or not when you push that up fader up and down the crossfader across the other up fader up on down you have a gap here okay where the up fader goes up

And down there's a gap and underneath that is known as a pot you don't smoke it sorry the uppy-downy thing rubs up and down on it rubbing down on your pot and anyway we won't go there either because that's a bit rude but what can happen over time what in fact does happen is dust will fall inside that hole sit on the pot you're rubbing up and down cause is a bit of friction they're a bit like sandpaper over time and it will definitely start to wear away at your sliders over a period of time if you don't want to say clean them cover them that's the idea and I'm going to show you this and yes I do on the odd occasion promote them so anyone who's going oh god you're promoting them yes I do there you go that's from deck saver now

That's a cover and that is for the X DJ X Z and if you look at it I don't know if you could see in this light but there's dust on that isn't that great because it means the dust has landed on that and not on me kit which is what I want marvelous okay I do believe they do dust covers for most bits of kit I'm not sure about the mixer but I would have thought 99% they're going to do them for the CDJ 1000 mark 3 they definitely do them for the Nexus series because I had some and so on so there you go a little bit of advice for you so if you think about all the cleaners and cleaning products and stuff like that it's very simple go downstairs into your kitchen turn that tap on that you normally fill the kettle with and wet a cloth damp it

Just a bit damp and then you can go away and start cleaning your kit and that is it that rhymes as well there you go look at that difference practice and enjoy thank you

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