A look at the KAM GM25 special edition & the KCD1100

0:00 This video is about buying DJ kits

Alright folks, this video is about buying DJ kits. Now first of all imagine we've got Mr or Mrs Stinking Rich and they walk let's say into a car showroom and here we go. Hello, I'd like to buy Porsche please. Oh certainly sir, certainly madam. Which one would you like? I'd like to buy seven. Now imagine that same person going into a DJ shop. Hello, I'd like to buy some DJ equipment. Could I have the ones on the top shelf that are rather expensive? I'd like seven of each please. So, first of all, they don't really need seven mixers. They take them home, they plug everything in, they watch a few of my tutorials and still scratching their head, and realise they haven't got the foggiest because the equipment is too intricate. Now, if you are Mr or Mrs Stinking Rich and you want to be a DJ, you've never DJed before in your lives, I highly recommend you buy the low-end products from Ellaskins.

First, get used to the concept of DJing and then work your way up. Now I am not contradicting myself because I have always said buy good quality stuff to begin with. But here's the deal. That's on the basis that you know how to DJ and most people watching my videos will know how to DJ. Therefore, save up and buy the high end stuff. But let's say you have not got much money and you cannot afford... To buy the high-end stuff, then there is gear out there for you. Now I want to show you this. Right, here we go. Excuse the jumping about a bit. That, believe it or not, is a mixer and that is a twin CD player. Now it's by a company called Cam. This mixer here is the GM25 Special Edition. This twin CD player is the Cam.

1:36 And give you a demonstration

KCD 1100. Now this guy here, in a future video I will be showing you all the ins and outs, what it can, what it can't do, etc. In this video I'm just basically going to show you and give you a demonstration that you can mix on these guys. It's not a case of because they're inexpensive you can't mix on them. You can. Right, this guy, volume controls, crossfade, you've got a buttony bit there so you can hear your headphones, look, look. You can listen through your headphones this channel or this channel. It's got a mic gain, so in other words you can turn the MC up or preferably down. You've got a master level here so you can turn it up and annoy the neighbours about five streets away. Cue assign so you can listen to just what's coming through your headphones or you can slowly move it across so you can listen to what's coming through your headphones and what's coming through the main PA. And then you've got a clue cue level there for your headphone volume. Now this guy here

Alright, twin CD player. Now these bits of kit are inexpensive. They will not cost you a fortune. They won't cost a fortune, I beg your pardon. Right, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to give you a quick demonstration on how you can mix on them and then in a future video, maybe later on, maybe tomorrow, maybe in about 10 years, only joking, not 10 years time, I will give you a demonstration and show you all the buttony bits. So what we'll do, we'll put that up there. Now bear in mind, I don't have any headphones. Okay, here we go.

3:04 First of all, one important fact, very important fact

If you think I've sort of set it all, what was... Right, now first of all, one important fact, very important fact. Yes, agreed, this particular mixer does not have bass, mid or treble. But we need to get the record straight here. We have producers, we have remixers, we have people in big studios and they will make these particular tracks. When they make the tracks, it comes out of the studio in a flat response. Now what I want about is, you imagine all the bass, mid and treble on your mixer. When the track comes out of the studio, they have set all of the sounds, all of the bass, the mid and the treble, the frequencies to 12 o'clock. In other words, that's the precise optimum level for all the EQ. So, in essence, theoretically, the CD that's played in the CD player is at a good, appropriate level that has been formatted in the studio. That level goes into the mixer...

So there's no fiddling about, so it's still the same level. When it goes out into the speakers, it will be precisely the same frequency that they made it in the studio. Now, if anything, it will probably sound better because you're less likely, well you can't mess around with the bass, mid and treble, so theoretically you will get, like I said, the optimum sound. Alright, a quick insight into these two things. It's the Cam GM25 Special Edition and then we've got the Cam KCD 1100 CD player, practice and enjoy.

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