- In this review,
you'll learn everything you need to know
to whether this is a
good purchase for you,
whether you're a beginner
or more advance DJ.
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All right,
let's get sucked into it.
Now, as you can probably tell
I'm not in the studio,
I'm in a hotel room
at five in the morning in Miami.
Classic DJ jet lag like stuff.
I can't sleep
and it's a great device for
that use case if nothing else.
But as you're gonna find out,
it's useful for more than DJs
who can't sleep in hotel rooms as well.
It's a,
the reason I'm here by the way,
is I'm a in a music launch event.
Here's the flyer for it.
It's quite a cool little flyer, isn't it?
Dennon and Rains products
are being showcased
to the music press,
and I'm here to cover that.
As I say, can't sleep.
This was on the bed when I arrived.
New market part that family Browns as well
and they've given me one,
so that's why we're recording this now.
So thank you for that in music.
All right then,
so that's the backstory of this.
So what we have here is
a small DJ controller,
portable or pocket controller
with a builtin audio interface for Serato.
Comes with Serato DJ.
Live perfectly capable software
also works with Serato DJ Pro.
It's an improvement on
the original, DJ to Go.
Which was all an improvement
on the original DJ2Go.
So, the DJ2Go came first,
then the DJ2Go2,
and then this one, the Touch.
Which has got touch sensitive jog wheels,
which is a a big difference.
So, how does it work?
Well, you have to plug
it in to start with,
to some speakers.
This cable here is provided
and that heads off to your local speaker,
so that you've got sound in the room.
Then the other end has got a
socket for your headphones,
which you plug in here.
And I was using my noise
canceling headphones
from the plane there,
but you can plug any headphones
in the one eight inch adapter.
And then the third socket on the unit
goes off to your laptop.
Now the USB here is a bit old fashioned.
The other end is a bit
old fashioned as well.
So if you've got a modern laptop,
you'll need an adapter there.
But it all works.
You just need to have that right adapter.
I'm sure if you have 'em on laptop
you already have at
least a handful of those,
lock your mount and plug everything else
into your computer right?
This end comes with an
AV C8 cable like this.
So if you've got a Bluetooth speaker
with the standard kind of mini jacket
and you're gonna need
to have a separate cable
to plug that in.
But once we got that all
plugged in and going,
we got audio in the room,
we got our headphones,
and we got our computer working,
it all powers up
and we're ready to go.
So let's take a look
at what this has on it.
Obviously, it's a tiny controller
so it's not gonna have everything on it.
But it has got most of what you need.
So you browse your tracks here.
You click on the track to load it
to the deck that you want.
That's not loading into deck number one.
The controls down here control the deck,
so I can start and stop the track playing
with the play and pause controller here.
I've got a cue button,
it should take me back to
the cue point on the track
or set a cue point on the track.
I've just set a cue point there now.
So it jumps back to that
points there for me.
You have a jog wheel which
is where all the fun is
on this new version because
it's a better jog wheel
than the previous ones.
So this job wheel on the edge
nudges the track to slow it down.
But on the top,
it scratches it.
Which has never been on
this controller before
when you're playing music.
So you've now got that control,
which most controllers have on.
This never had which is awesome.
You have a speed control.
This just speeds and slows
the track up and down.
And you have these parts
which are quite nice as well.
The parts can be controlled over cues,
which I'll show you now.
(fast rhythmic music)
Slow that down a bit more.
This is our parts selector.
So now I've got a cue point there,
in the beginning of the track.
I've got another one set here.
(upbeat music)
And so you've got those
creatively jumping around
in the track.
Moving onto the next section,
we've got looping.
So this is allowing you to loop
a section of the track
along with the beat very easily.
So I've got one beat
loop playing away there.
I can release that
to be looped.
So you've got that loopy section there.
We've got a manual looping section,
which will let you
set a loop
and then
alter how long it is.
Classic effect there, right?
We've got a sample as well.
The sample is quite nice.
So you can load into the
sample slots on the software.
A few little samples
and trigger them over
the top of the music.
(yelling)
(yelling)
(screeching)
A few classic samples loaded up there,
so you can use those VI dents
and dropping stuff in over
the top of the music as well.
So, these buttons here
are for selecting what goes
on through your headphones
so you know what you're listening to.
I've shown you the library already.
You can browse through your tracks here
and load new tracks.
Deciding on which deck
they're gonna go on.
There's a track loaded on
deck number two there now.
So deck number two is
now playing away here.
(rhythmic music)
Cross fader to move between
the tracks in your mix.
And then you've got volume control here,
for each of the decks.
That's all you have of volume control.
You don't have the total controls.
Base, mid, tremble, and things like that.
Which is fair enough,
really, on a tiny little device like this
you wouldn't expect that.
And finally, you've got level control
as your main output level, is here.
(rhythmic music)
And your headphone level is here as well
which decides what's going
to be coming out here
for your cuing.
And that's it features
wise for this controller.
It might look a little limited,
but I know a lot of DJ's
who prepared mixes on planes on this.
Then get broadcast on the radio, trust me.
It's really, really useful
for the DJ on the go.
It's also a lot fun
because it just brings
what DJing feels to a unit
that you can tuck
underneath your laptop here
and have just sat there anyway,
including in a hotel room
at five in the morning.
The crucial thing here
is they've added the touch
sensitive jog wheels.
I mean, that's big thing
that this didn't have
and that other devices such
as the Hercules Starlight,
which is a controller that came out
reasonably recently in the
this form factor-do-have.
So it's now caught up
with controllers like that
and is now back to being
one of the state of the art,
tiny little DJ controllers.
Great for beginners.
Great if you wanna buy
something for your kids
to get started because
it's got music built in.
So as long as your
prepared to pay for say,
a title subscription,
you don't need to have
any local music at all,
you don't need to buy any music.
But also great for DJs
wanting a second controller,
a backup controller,
or portable controller.
Including for hotel rooms
when you are at press launch events
at five in the morning
and you can't sleep.
So there you go.
That's a DJ2Go2 Touch from Numark.
$79, a little bit, but
still a bit of a no brainer
if you're Serato user
and you don't have a portable
or backup controller.
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There's a full written review
over on digitaldjtips.com
Meanwhile, get good, get out there,
and make the moments.
