YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED! Q&A with DJ Tutor Ellaskins at GetintheMix

0:00 Of the questions

All right ladies and gentlemen, Jonathan here, DJ Tutor. And was it yesterday we put a little bit on Facebook? Question and answer. So in other words, any questions, put them down on Facebook and get in the mix so it's a golden opportunity for me to answer the questions. So without further ado, let's have a look at some of the questions. Now the first one, very interesting. In fact, three or four people have asked this question. What's the new Pioneer DDJ-SB controller like? Well, haven't touched it yet. Haven't even looked at it. But I've seen a picture of it. But for around about £200, it's good. It looks good quality. It's got the Pioneer make and standards. So really the proof is going to be in the pudding when it's out there and people start chucking it around and using it.

So we won't really know for a good couple of months. All right. One here, have all the issues with the Pioneer DJ-R1 been fixed? E.g. looping problems, controller crashing, rekordbox issues. Thanks. Is this controller I want to buy to get it after all the bugs have been ironed out, etc. By the way, the first question was from James Brown. Love that name. Next one here is Alex the Bubble. Right. Well, again, with any new piece of anything. There's always going to be problems with it. Whether you buy a brand new car, a washing machine, a dishwasher, there's always going to be certain issues. So in a way, if you're one of the people who buys a new item, then maybe you're going into dodgy ground because what may happen is you may have a new item.

2:28 15 inch, of course

There's loads of problems and you could be one of the people having the problems. Alternatively, you could be one of the people finding out the problems. So I would have thought by now Pioneer DDJ-SB. Pioneer would have got their act together, I'm sure. And gone on the web as everyone does, studied the problems, gone back to basics, sorted them out. So I'm quite sure if it is software issues only, then they can be easily fixed. All right. So don't worry about it. I'm very sure software issues will be sorted. Right. Jamie MC been looking at active speakers for a while now. Heard a good few and read loads of reviews. How do you rate the QTX-QRC50? 15s. They seem popular. Right. 15 inch, of course. Yeah, should have thought it's a 15 inch bass driver.

So you're going to have more punch, more low end than 12 inch speakers. But here's the deal. They're roughly only about it was 120 or 130 pound each. So they're going to work. Of course, they're going to work. They're going to sound all right, but they're probably not going to sound as good as quality say EV, RCF where you're going to be maybe paying four, five, six hundred pounds per cab. For a 15 inch and horn that will quite happily two of them powered that are quite happily do. Let's say a function of 50 people. If you've got more people, say 100 to 200 and you still only want 15 and horn, then I would invest heavily in better quality. You get more output, you get better sound. So go on to the lines of, say, for example, RCF.

All right. Let's have a look. Another one. Right. Jack Holden. I'm looking into getting. Control vinyls for tractor. What's the cheapest way to go on a two deck set up? Well, I'd probably go for the audio eight, which is a good audio interface again with vinyl virtual vinyl. You don't have to pay thousands or hundreds really on style like auto phone do. I believe it's just the white series Concord, which are specifically designed for virtual vinyl with virtual vinyl. You're not picking up any audio. You're just picking up a signal. So you don't have to spend a lot of money on your style or your cartridges. But getting a good audio sound card is probably a must. So try the audio four, if not the audio eight, which is a lot better.

All right, Matt, too. What's your thoughts on the new DJ DJ SB release forecast in January? Again, I can't say much about it until it's out. But I'm quite sure if Pioneer have got their act together, which I'm sure they have. It's going to rock. OK, let's have a look. And there was one here. I would like a comprehensive look at daisy chaining passive speakers together. How far can you take it? Do the watts double each time? Well, the watts don't because if you think about it, if you've got an amplifier that's 1000 watts, you can't all of a sudden have two or 3000 watts out that amplifier again with ohms, speakers, etc. It's vital. It's vital that you do not overpower through the ohms or under power your amplifier.

5:04 Here's a bit of a rule of thumb for you

Even if you've got some people think I've got a thousand watt amplifier on one side and I've got, say, 10 speakers of 100 watts. That amplifier should be able to power those speakers. The amplifier will. But the amplifier probably won't last very long because the ohms would be would dip so low that you'd probably. And we just explode. So here's a bit of a rule of thumb for you. OK, if you have one atome speaker and another atome speaker, this one's 500 watts. This one's 500 watts. If you go from your amplifier to the end of the atome and then out of that one atome into the other end of the other speaker, then the two eights will then become four ohms nine times out of 10. Most amplifiers are four ohms aside.

So always check. If you only want to buy one set of speakers. I will advise you to buy four ohms speakers because most of the time amplifiers are four ohms aside. Most of the time speakers at eight ohms aside. So if you buy a thousand watt side amp and you've got speakers that are a thousand watts, you think brilliant, fantastic, I'm sorted. But you'll only actually be probably pushing out about 750 watts. Also very important. Forget PMPO. Forget peak sound. Look at the RMS. That is the true power that the speakers will push out. Or the amplifier will push out. All right. Another good way of trying to imagine ohms is let's say you've got just drop that. Let's say you've got one speaker. It's eight ohms. You've got eight people guarding that speaker, pushing it back, stopping it from overpowering too much.

If you've got, say, four ohm amplifier. If all of a sudden you get another eight ohm speaker, you attach them together. Now you've got four ohms. So what you're actually doing is you're taking four of those people guarding that speaker and you're putting them on the next one. So there's a little less protection with those speakers. But then if you then get two more, you're going down to two ohms, which means you've only got two people on each speaker. You're pushing out a thousand watts. But there is a very good chance that you could A blow the speakers and also because the amplifier hasn't got anything pushing it back, the amplifier can maybe overheat. Now again, it's about price and quality. For example, Crown.

7:37 You're paying thousands of pounds today

They used to do a series called the Macrotech VZ3600, which was 1565 watts aside at four ohms. But amplifiers like that can go down to two ohms. But then you're paying a lot of money. You're paying thousands of pounds today. You can pick up an amplifier for £100, but don't expect it to last. Okay, we've got Cindy Shep. Okay, how about this? If I could only own two pieces of lighting equipment, which two would they be and why? Now I would probably personally go for the Chauvet 4Play. Very simple in the UK. They're around about £189, but each one is four lights. A lot of LEDs in each of them. There's RGB red, green and blue. I'm pretty sure. And the beauty about them is you can point them in any direction. Also what you can do if you say got some tripods with your speakers

On the tripods, you can fit the lights on the tripods so you can have one either side. So there's no need for an extra T-bar. So go and check it out. The Chauvet 4Play. All right, let's have a look. There was one here that was very interesting. David A Hora. If new DJs are looking for gear and would like to start a business would then be able to get £2,000 off me and pay over a longer time? I like to become a party DJ and have no job. I live in Newbury. Also, if anyone else could help me, then please tell Jonathan as I watch his videos. Well, first of all, if you haven't got a job, how do you pay back? But more importantly, again with the likes of getting the mix is that you don't have to come in and put down £1,000

And buy an item that costs £1,000 and you can do this across the board with virtually any store. You can pay in instalments. But the most important thing about instalments, two things actually. One is you've got to make sure you've got the money and the other one is more than likely you will pay more because you'll have to pay interest. So check the... What's the RP? APR. So for example, if an item is £1,000 and the APR is 20%, you will actually be paying £1,200. So short term, it's probably better to save up and buy it outright. How are you going to lend them the £2,000 though? Yeah, I've just got it in my back pocket now and...

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