Would You Buy Cheap DJ Gear? ( MY Atention, Doh!!)

0:05 Here's my analogy on the subject where cheap kit and expensive kit is

All right, folks. It's come to my knowledge that there's a couple of silly-sarky comments being left on certain videos about certain pieces of DJ kit. If you don't know what I'm on about, I'm Jonathan. I'm known as The DJ Tutor and I give sort of online lessons in the art of DJing and I do quite a few nutty videos as well. But anyway, that's part of the buy. Here's my analogy on the subject where cheap kit and expensive kit is concerned. Let's imagine I've got a mixer. This is a two-channel mixer, it's cheap and cheerful, you can put two inputs into it and you can play music from it. So there's my cheap mixer. This is a two-channel mixer but it's slightly more expensive. Alright, it's top of the range, who cares? And what we'll do, I'll put my wedding ring on the top. That's a gold ring so theoretically now that should be more expensive because it's got a gold ring on it.

1:08 They both play music or you can play music through them

Okay, so they both play music or you can play music through them. They've both got two channels, headphones, sockets etc. One's more expensive than the other one. Now then, if you had lots and lots of money, oodles of money, thousands and thousands of dollars, euros or pounds, would you buy the cheap one or would you buy the expensive one? Think about it. If you didn't have thousands and thousands of euros, pounds or dollars, Would you buy the expensive one or would you buy the cheap one? I think I'm trying to make a certain point here. Here's the deal. If you live somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, you're by yourself, you've got kids, family, mortgage and God knows what, and you can't afford to buy one of those, and you want to be a DJ and you want to play music, would you then just think, no, forget it, I'm never going to be a DJ because I don't want to buy the cheap items?

2:10 There are items out there that are damn expensive and they do the job

I don't think so. You would try and buy the cheap items because at least then you can become a DJ. On the other hand, if you have got lots of money, of course you're going to buy the more expensive ones. So here's the deal, and this is what this video is all about. There are items out there that are cheap and cheerful, but they do the job. There are items out there that are damn expensive and they do the job. If you can afford the good items, then you're You're going to buy the items you can afford to still do what you want to do. And in this case, it's become a DJ. So all I'm going to say is practice and enjoy. Oh, by the way, this track is Basic Black. It's a track entitled She's Mine. It's on Sound of New York from 1990. Take it easy.

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