Tronsmart Bang with Virtual DJ

0:00 Time for one of my very random videos

Right, ladies and gentlemen, time for one of my very random videos. I have the Tronsmart Bang. I've got two of them. You can see I've still got a bit of power left in this one, more in that one. What I've done is I have set them up for, let's say, the purpose of showing you that you can run a small little setup without the need for external power. So I'm going to unplug that. OK, so now what we've got is, as you can see, there's only the input. And if we look back there, it's not the best of inputs. Normally, you should really use the likes of MiniJack 2 RCA, but I've got an RCA attachment. Same on the back of that. That's a stereo RCA attachment. To a mini jack plug. I'm just coming out of the Pioneer DDJ-400, right and left, USB, so the 400 is bus powered from the laptop. And that's it. The tune I'm using is Lenny Fontana, a track entitled Give It To Me, KPR331. It's the club instrumental mix. So there you go.

1:42 In the last video is, right

Okay, so what I've got here is, could be classed really as a party setup out in the hills. Now again, you know, if you're going to get the Tronsmart, bang, you need to make sure that they're powered up correctly and away you go. Now on the back of the Tronsmart, what I didn't show you in the last video is, right, I'm going to turn this one off. We've got our USB out. Now, you can use this to bus power the controller as well. I'll just take that out. Hold on. If I can just grab that, it's a bit easier. There we go. Okay, so there is USB-C input for charging. There is your mini jack input. For an external sound source, which is what I've done here. And then micro USB so you can plug in your MP3s and away you go. Also, don't forget Bluetooth enabled. Now on the back here, you can see this big rubber bung. And there's good reason for that because that will secure all of the inputs, make sure they're watertight so you can...

Basically, you can submerge this in water. You can stick it in the bath. Not that I recommend you do that. I have done that. I've actually stuck it underwater in a pool and let it sort of drain out and it's worked fine. So, you know, you don't have to worry about it being in torrential rain. It's still going to work. There you go. All right. So, proof's in the pudding here. Now, what have we got? Okay. If we have a look on either end, there is sort of what look like bass speakers, but they're actually not. What they do is in the front, now I don't know the right terminology, bear with me, but I will explain the mechanics behind how they work. So in the front here we have two bass speakers and two high speakers. Now what happens is...

4:50 They'll look at you and think you're an idiot

Normally, if let's say you've got a bass reflex system, let's imagine this was just a bass cab. You'd have the bass speaker moving out and what would happen then is air from the porthole would be sucked in and then when the bass speaker moves in, air from the porthole moves out. So what actually happens here is something kind of similar. Get sucked in. You can see it actually, it moves. And then when the bass speaker moves in, this moves out. So you do get a nice subtle kind of bass response. And I have sort of put my hands either side of it to test it. And you can definitely... Here, the difference between having it open as it's designed and sticking your hands over it like putting your hands on your ears, you can hear a difference. All right. Now, something like this, okay, a small setup like this is great for like a party, you know, house party and so on. But you don't want to start going to a paid event, taking a couple of Tronsmart Bang as a professional DJ and saying, don't worry about it. I'm a good DJ. They'll look at you and think you're an idiot.

On the other hand, you go to your mate's house, a couple of beers or maybe a kid's party, take some of these and you're good to go. So again, just to clarify, with the LEDs working, I think you're looking about four and a half hours at 50%, but if you don't have the LEDs, I think it's more like 15 or so hours at 50% power. But again, these are very, very loud. At the moment, I've got it set. to um more of a high frequency type sound it's just most what it does it seems to boost the mids and the highs uh what else can i tell you um also what you can do like i said you can bluetooth them and like in the last video i did mention let's say you bluetooth this speaker here now this is like the master and then what you do is you press one of these buttons here and what that does it says right i'm ready now to transmit

7:20 To the bass reflex system here, they must be waterproof

Whatever I'm going to be playing to another one. You press the same button on the other Tronsmart Bang and then that will pick up... I've got the Pioneer DDJ-400, I'm using VirtualDJ, we had Lenny Fontana KPR331, it's the club mix of Give It To Me and the Tronsmart Bang. They're very weighty, very chunky. The construction is as though you can sort of chuck it around a little bit. Not that I recommend you start throwing it at walls, but if you do bang it against something, I honestly don't think it's going to break. Even the handle feels good. When I say no expense spared... You know, generally with a handle they think, oh it's a handle, you know, we'll make it out of some cheap plastic. But what they've done is the handle is part of the top construction. So by the looks of it, the outside, you've pretty much only got two parts, the top and the bottom. Also, yeah, you've got the grill here. Now again, I've put this in water and the only thing I can think of is that the speakers are very similar.

To the bass reflex system here, they must be waterproof. They have to be. You know, you have not got some paper diaphragm around the outside because that would just fall apart first time you spit at it and then your speakers knackered. But, you know, we're looking here at future technology, ladies and gentlemen. It's amazing. So it is the sort of thing you could take in the... You can also, if you want to, if you're that way inclined, have it by the side of the bath, throw it in the bath, give it a scrub, take it out and it'll just say thank you very much and carry on playing. Love it! The gentleman has let me use his music and I don't get any copyright issues. Now again, this could be because of the controller. There does seem to be some kind of latency there, but I'm not sure if it's because of the controller and the software or the player. But I'm pretty sure it's not the Tronsmart Bang.

9:46 Whereas if you Bluetooth, you're more likely then to get some form of

Because you see what's happening now, if you imagine I've got, for example, an external amplifier to a speaker, that's pretty much what is happening now. Because I'm convinced the internal working seer knows that once you plug in the micro jack, you're going directly to the amplifier, which is in turn going to the speaker. Whereas if you Bluetooth, you're more likely then to get some form of latency. Now I've yet to try it Bluetooth, it's highly likely you can, but the setup I basically have is out of here, RCA, one side to one of the speakers, the other side to the other speaker, again the USB into the laptop which is now... The controller is now bus powered from the laptop. Don't advise this sort of setup unless you have got a laptop with a very, very good battery that's going to last a long time. Alternatively, of course what you could do is you could take your USB and plug it in to one of the speakers because that charges as well. Alright, I hope this has been a help. Again, check out the link in the description.

To the Tronsmart Bang. I don't think they're that expensive and... Alright, I have said this, I think I said it on Facebook, out of all of the reviews I've done on Kit, I have to admit, this is in the top five. They sent me these over a month ago. And I was desperate to do some kind of video. I have been using them, not abusing them. They've been outside sort of blasting out sort of music. By the way, go and check out Deep Radio by the way. It's d3ep.com. It's a really good radio station online around the world if you're into your deep soulful house and just... Generally, intelligent, good club music. No cheesy stuff, no party music. It's just good quality, deep club music. Go and check it out. So that's D3EP.com. And don't forget, there will be a link to the Tronsmart speaker. It's known as The Bang, and you can get more information from the website. And once again, thank you very much to Lenny Fontana. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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