The Lowdown
This range of pro products is great if you’re looking to improve the ergonomics of your pro gear set-up, add CDJs or a laptop above your existing gear, or tilt your mixer towards you – as long as you already have an existing table for your gear. Just bear in mind that there’s no adjusting them as everything is at fixed heights and angles. Recommended.
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Video Review
First Impressions / Setting up
Ever since the advent of CDJs, companies have come up with solutions for fitting multiple CDJs and a mixer, or very typically, two traditional turntables plus CDJs, in a compact space that makes it easy to DJ with. I used to have an all-in-one floor stand that achieved the same thing for me.
Though if you’ve already got a table, but you just need to get the risers in place to add extra equipment, and at the same time, you quite like the idea of angling your mixer, then we found a great solution from a boutique UK company called DJ Standz that we’re reviewing here today.
The equipment is sent flat-packed, and is easy to put together with just a single Allen key. The black painted finish is very high quality, and the DJ Standz logos attached are a nice finishing touch. Overall, it is sturdy and smart.
The units are provided individually, and it’s all modular, so in our case, we bought two deck stands with risers for CDJs, and then the mixer unit with a separate angled plinth for the base, and a shallower angled riser for a laptop.
Other options include a very wide top panel to fit two CDJs and a laptop on, meaning that you could just buy the mixer central section and have your decks on your existing table with no further parts required, as well as monitor stands.
In Use
We set everything up on a foldable UDG mobile DJ equipment stand, which is sturdy, but because it’s foldable, it’s not a single flat surface, and so there is a little bit of give in it.
I was a bit worried that, because the DJ Standz solution is separate parts and not one long solid base plate, it might wobble too much. But actually, it was completely fine. Everything is level and even, and there are no problems with anything feeling wobbly despite the height of the units.
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It’s definitely worth pushing the units together so that the DJ Standz base sections are basically touching – otherwise, you might find yourself reaching too far left and right to the CDJs.
One of the downsides of this type of solution is that there is no adjustment to the angle, both left or right, and up or down, and also the pivot angle of the CDJs and laptop – they are exactly where they are. From our experience, as long as your DJ table is initially at a good height to DJ from, it’ll all feel right.
Indeed, the only thing that wasn’t quite right was that my laptop doesn’t open far enough for the screen to be pointing at my eyes, meaning the screen is pointing slightly downwards, but this isn’t a big thing.
Conclusion
We’ve been looking for a solution like this for a long time for the studio to simply add this extra functionality to our existing pro gear set-up, and the DJ Standz units are pretty much perfect. They’re exceptionally well made, they look smart, but the main point is they do the job!
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As this stuff is modular and as postage costs are going to change depending on where you are, I can’t give you definitive prices, but the setup we’ve got was about £500 plus postage.
We’ve actually had our eye on these for quite a while, but the company is in the UK, and couldn’t ship outside of the UK until recently (we’re based in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar). But now they can ship internationally, so wherever you’re watching this, if it’s something that you’re looking for, give ’em a shout – it might be right for you.
