All in one Dj PA/ Speaker package. Djsuperstore

0:00 I had this sent me from DJ Superstore

Right folks, I had this sent me from DJ Superstore. It's a speaker. Now I actually got the speaker next to a suitcase. There's one reason and that is of course when you go on holiday and you've got to take your clothes with you etc. Well you've got to change it or something haven't you because if you just went on holiday with the clothes you're wearing and you went for two weeks you'd be rather smelly. So of course you need a suitcase to take your clothes in. Now of course the trouble is if you're anything like my missus, your suitcase is normally absolutely ram-packed and it gets rather heavy. So some ingenious wizard a few years ago, maybe yesterday I don't really know, invented this idea of actually putting wheels on a suitcase. So check this out. There's the suitcase and pick it up like that and off you go.

If anyone's used to my wacky videos, hopefully you'll actually understand where I'm coming from. So there's your suitcase and those are the wheelie things on the bottom and they're really good. Forget it. Right, so this is what I like actually because again you see that it's catch 22. If you go into a gig and you realise damn I should have brought some bigger speakers because the room's quite big. You've got a problem of maybe thinking you've got to go all the way home to get your bigger speakers. Alternatively, it's a case of, well, you know, I can't carry big speakers in because I'm not strong enough. So, check this out. I like it. That's really cool actually. I do like that. But there's just one important factor and that is when you're going on holiday, don't take the speaker with you.

1:55 These guys

Take your suitcase. Having said that though, if you're going on holiday, you can always take the speakers with you and you can have a wicked party. But, of course, like I said earlier, you don't take any clothes with you, you'd be rather smelly after two weeks. Right, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to pause the camera and I'll show you these guys. It's from DJ Superstore. What you can actually do, you can buy a complete package with an amplifier, stands and a couple of speaker-y bits like that, so hold tight. Right, first off... I don't know if you can see that, but that's the actual handle. Let me just move that so I can see what I'm doing as well. There's the actual handle and what you've got, you've got a couple of clips there so you can press that down like that. And then when you're ready to go, lift it up and use it like a trolley. A couple of wheels on the bottom which is quite cool. So what I'll do now, I'll pause the camera again and I'll plug it in with the other one and we'll give it a bit of a whazz. So hold tight.

First off as well, I'll put them on the stands and there you go. What you've got there is you've got a 15 inch driver and I'm pretty sure that's a one and three quarter compression driver and that there will make the high frequency sounds and then that there will make sort of the bass and the mid sounds. Right there you go folks all plugged in. So what I've actually done, I've gone out of the master output of the mixer and you can go out of Any mixer, okay? Basically what you need to do is go out of the master. Now the master is the one that will lead you and take you ideally to your main amplifier, which is down there, and then to your speakers, to boot back, but ideally it's for your little monitor system. So, what we've done, we've gone out here, by the way look to the side of the video for the name of the track, it's pretty wicked. In fact I'll tell you anyway. It's Dead...

Deadmus 5 or something like that, a tracking title, not exactly, I can't read so I'll... Alright, so what we've done, we've gone out of there into the actual amplifier. There it is. Now, I don't know if you can see, what I've actually done as well, I've turned this amplifier all the way up. The reason being, this is a power amplifier. The worst thing in the world to do is to turn your power amplifier, let's say, only a tiny bit of the way up and then... Start pushing your mixer into the red. You shouldn't push your mixer into the red anyway, because what you're actually doing is you're pushing too much of a signal into an amplifier and it's going blurred now. So ideally what you want to do is have your amplifier all the way up, maybe bring it back a tiny little bit, say three or four clicks either side, and then what you do, you use your volume control from your mixer.

Right, so what we've done, we've gone out of the mixer, into this amplifier, then out of the amplifier into the speakers. There you go. Like I said, just look to the side of the video for these, any info or anything like that and it'll also take you, follow the link and that will take you to DJ Superstore. Right, just show you the actual back of the amplifier here. That is where your power will go in. These are known as binding posts. These guys here are known as speak-on connectors and just show you, right, there's a speak-on connector. They do come in, well some of them do look slightly different to these but that's your basic one. Now you can see a piece of metal on the top. Now what you actually do is, and also if you look there, you've got a rather fat piece of plastic and you've got a little thin piece of plastic. Well inside here you've got a thin piece and a fat piece. That's where they actually fit in.

5:50 You'll push that in like so

You'll push that in like so. Now if you've done that and you haven't got any sound, that's because you haven't done the one last thing, and that is twist. There you go. Done. Alright, what else have we got here? We've got input ground lift, we have mode so we can do bridge, we can do parallel or we can do stereo. Now ideally I've always said, and I recommend this, stick to stereo. These amps will do bridge, they'll do parallel, that's fine. Bridging, you know, your amplifier is going to get a little bit hot so just leave it as it is. The gain here, now ideally best leave that, that's been set by the manufacturer. Here we've got input, now we've got jack input or we've got Canon or XLR and also in here you can see a hole. Now what we could do, we can do exactly the same, we can put

The jacks in there. And one important factor here guys about amplifiers and that is if you see these holes anywhere around an amplifier they're not there to look pretty, they're there to actually keep the amplifier cool so for goodness sake don't start chucking your girlfriend's coat in front of that because your amps gonna get rather hot and also if we look around the side here as well we can see these holes Now they're not, again, they're not there to look pretty. They're there for a reason. They're to actually keep air circulated around the amplifier. It is vitally important, vitally important you keep any area where there's holes around your amplifier free from anything. Keep them clear, keep them out of the way. Another tip for you as well, think about it logically, heat rises. So if you're in a big nightclub or you're setting up Thanks for watching.

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