My DJ Setup for 2025 (Full Breakdown on the gear)

what's up everyone DJ rck Webb here in this video we're going to be going through my complete setup for 2025 what all I'm using in all of my DJ setups this year and how it is incredibly efficient and I can literally set up all of this with an assistant in less than 20 minutes fully set ready to go with movers tubes up lighting full DJ audio we're all set ready to go let's get into it in this video all right so that is everything for my normal wedding reception nowadays that I'm selling for my events uh I am charging quite a bit more now for my setups and my events of course as I've expanded now doing this for over 13 years this is the traditional setup though in terms of all the gear that I'm bringing I have a 10 or I have a 12x six trailer that I pull all this basically we have up Lighting in this up lighting intelligent movers and two with the full DJ reception audio package as well I'm going to go ahead and put a black backdrop right here slight change of plans put it over here we're going to be setting up the full setup and I'm going to be walking you guys through step by step so I'm going to mic basically walk you guys through the whole entire setup process by myself I will need some assistance getting birth out of the case but other than that I'm going to do the whole thing by myself to show you guys the whole process I will add the typically at an event we're of course going to lay out our setup to see where is the best place for us to set up up best case scenario is we have this setup right here where the dance floor is right in front of us and we can set up our whole DJ setup and we can do a lot of symmetry items sometimes though they tell you the DJ needs to be set up in the corner this might be the Dance Floor might be a sweethart table here so in that case your DJ setup would stay over there but your speakers and your lighting would be symmetrical to the room to the dance floor for the best case scenario so going to go ahead and get started with the setup now I will say this whole setup is really quick to put together especially if you have an assistant if you guys don't have an assistant I highly recommend it but the main thing I'm going to start with is my core items so I'm going to start with all my structural pieces to get them all symmetrical and then cabling is the absolute last thing we're going to actually worry about so for me the first thing I'm going to do is get my back rack right here which has two table Wings we're going to set that up first so this right here is my custom built audio rack that goes behind my DJ Boo and the lids on the front and the back have actually been retrofitted with little tabs and feet that make these table tops so these ends conveniently just clip onto either side like so and I can do the same thing for the other side and then I have a giant um I believe it's a little bit over 8T long back table that's at a nice height for anybody that needs to work or this is a good spot to be eating we're going to put a facade up and it's going to be all hidden back behind I have mounted these pins right here that correspond with these latches right here then the table rack go goes on here and I actually put a Sharpie to indicate which hole this goes in to line up with the right height so of course these collapse down flaps down in when it's in storage and flat you lift these up and then it makes it easier to find which pin it needs to go in by using the Sharpie so quickly though this is the audio rack it is currently in year five of service been putting in a lot of work since 2020 um so it does need some things upgraded this year that we're going to be doing later on but we have a passive antenna combiner currently allows me to put all of my mics here I got a router in the back to control my drive rack pa2 we have ports already prean for my three outputs from the drive rack I have two these are just standard inputs for whatever I might need into my Yamaha those are my inputs for my DJ Boo and power input making things nice and easy as you guys can see here there's also enough room in here that I keep my gig tote which has a variety of random supplies batteries the mics I need and my cable tote with all the cables I need for all my events coming back behind currently right now have a Yamaha just an analog D board right here this is planning to be switched out this year for an allen and Heath 12 channel board hopefully we have a firman power conditioner we have our Drive rack pa2 and currently right now I have two audio techical mics probably going to upgrade to having four in this unit later on this year is kind of the plan so then on the front there's a whole power strip down here to plug in anything and that's of course linked into the firment as well so that is our back audio rack all right so with the center rack in place now we're going to move on to setting up the gravity stand and the speakers of course now this starts our symmetry so we can set up our things accordingly so I'm probably going to set up the speakers next with our movers being after that and typically I like my speakers to be out the furthest of the things um mostly because the speakers are black and I try to want to like blend those in as best as possible so I'm going to position my gravity base plates and my speakers accordingly on both sides and my speakers of choice are still the LD Maui 44 g2s these are my workhorses that I use for 90% of my events I will say the bags are they've been torn the shreds we're going to be putting we've been putting them through their usage uh these are also about four to 5 years old now at this point the zippers on my main bags do not work at all um they just could not handle the abuse but they still work as a padded cover for the tops so I can set that aside um the bottom one's aired a little bit better the pouch is a little bit ripped but allows us to keep the uh power cable right in the back and this is our sub base bottom so I'm going to set it out here on the edge matching what I did on the other side and then the back base plate here it just clamps on uh you can take it off very easily I do really like the Caster plates for the 44 g2s we also have the LD systems Maui 28 g3s those on the other hand those base plates do not clamp on and they kind of suck to be honest I will also add the 44s we've noticed these pins here on the bottom a lot of these come loose so you just kind of have to Snug them up only on the bottom one only on the bottom stick it's kind of interesting these are my workhorses the 44 g2s been using them now for four years basically any wedding that is under about 180 I bring these two uh when I get a wedding that is over 200 people I will upgrade to the bigger system which you guys can check out on the channel the other videos of the bigger system I'm using right now which is two of the LD ioa 18s with RCF nxl 24 mk2s so way bigger of a sound system that can do 200 to 400 people um if I add more subs I can do 600ish for some of our proms the Workhorse right now is the 44 g2s and I can tell you right now I've used and abuse these I've been pushing them to limit at all my events they've been very reliable and get the job done really really well so little close-up view as you can see used and abused these are all the DSE Nicks and bangs and everything from being inside of the bags that I use really just there's some minor blemishes on the front of the grill but overall been held up very good in terms of overall durability like I said tried and true these things are amazing and of course I love the black versions because all of these blemishes and everything are not noticeable if you had the white versions you'd see all that so if you guys get the white versions highly recommend you get flight cases for them black versions the bags are solid they're very nice moving on to gravity stands though this is what you really need to buy a bags for I've had the black ones for years without any cases or bags and they are destroyed like they have more Nicks and dings than anything imaginal the base plates literally are terrible so if you guys are going to get white gravity stands or even the black ones I actually highly recommend you get the bags for them they just help keep them nice and clean uh for a long period of time but we're going to put the gravity stand over here and I always like to what we're going to be doing is mounting our Movers On Top our battery powered movers and I like to stagger them on the edges here especially if I'm tight on space we're using about 20 ft across here to get this whole setup in here so I like to push the base plate out a little bit so that way the Mover has more full rain so it doesn't actually Nick the speaker at all and sometimes I might push those speakers back even further towards the wall just for the example today that's where we got them at and guys this right here this right here these these gravity stands are absolutely absolutely the reason why I've switched from trussing and I made a whole video on gravity stands but literally maybe one more turn I'm done simple pole simple base plate I now have a full mover setup ready to go for my events I don't have to worry about pins I don't have to worry about assembling collapsable trussing these right here are a game changer in making your setup quick and efficient now with all the core items out of the way and fully set up the last things we need to do are put the movers up on top of our stands get our tubes and our base plates assembled there put Bera in place our facade and cable everything together and in terms of cabling it is very minimal in terms of what we're doing I have one cable that will come from Bera back to the audio rack we need to run power and audio to both speakers and power to the main rack and that's it because all of our lighting is battery powered in 2025 this right here guys is baa if you've never seen bua before highly recommend you go check out some of my other videos this is my custom turntable booth that I built back in the winter of 2020 and it's been my go-to ever since it's had some upgrades down the line in terms of uh it how it's evolved with the different changes I've now done with lighting and also upgrading the actual platters inside um but we're going to get bur out of here to show you a little bit about what baa is this is a custombuilt road case that I did myself custom built road cases like this cost a few thousand maybe a thousand something plus and I was able to make the whole thing for I think like 300 bucks in materials I do need to split this in half I've had the parts to do it for years now it's literally sitting in the Box over there in the warehouse so my list to get done this year so that way I can actually do this by myself but it is a twers ordeal conveniently though I always bring two people to my events pretty simple though we got a couple lges lift it up and this is no short of a two person an operation get that up over top but uh this is perpect right here I always keep a little blanket on top you know just keep the little bit of dust off I don't know why I'm moving it we just need to set her down all the cables are built in one two three up and forward and maybe so pretty quick operation it literally just sits in there the case goes on top of it it's custom fit so it fits around everything and underneath of it there actually is some storage space so I put some mats in there back in the day when I had the JBL 15-in Subs they actually fit perfectly inside the case with Bera we've since are no longer using those these Subs are much bigger so can't do that anymore but you probably could fit some smaller Subs underneath there there's a lot of space but also in there we have the laptop stand and the rugs go to take those out put the cover back on and get bur's case out of the way all right like I said here is the bua itself I will say seen some better days I think it's got like three coats of paint on it it does get a little bit nicked I built this whole thing custom I have developed a split on either side here but that's not actually structural so it's not a huge deal this is my cool little laptop stand it's literally just gas pipe there's a gas pipe connection down through there you just slide her down on screw it in and voila there's your laptop stand and one of the nicest Parts about this laptop stand is nobody's going to bump this nobody can make this laptop stand move so your laptop is not going to go flying which is nice and a lot of people have been concerned because I set up like this where I'm right up on the dance Flor people are dancing right here yes they could get up near me but if they bump this laptop stand the worst they're going to do is turn it maybe bump it a little bit forward but I've never had anybody actually knock my laptop off the closest thing been to it is like someone pushing on the side here and it turns a little bit but no one has actually knocked it off which is nice so there's a little hole right here that has a few cables that come up one is to power my DMX transmitter one is for my laptop this plugs into the built-in USB hub in the djm S7 and one is power cable for my Windows laptop yes I use a Windows laptop been using them for years they work great so everything in here is all self-contained this lid does pop off so I can switch this out if I ever want to change up what I wanted to do on the inside I also have a built-in power connection in there for my LED sign that I like to put on the front of the actual booth and there are a couple screws in there to be able to hang the LED sign but you guys can kind of see it's all wired in below power strips all that goodness down below and conveniently all of this is wired to a power strip right here underneath the cup holder that allows me to turn it on and off and put the cup holder right back in this of course is all wired on this nice little snake right here bunch of velcro ties and everything that allows me to literally just toss this right back to the rack I have plenty of slack and all I got to do is plug the power in and plug my left and right in and I'm set and ready to go when it comes to the DJ booth I also have some cut throughs built here these conveniently are wide enough to fit a full sheet of paper or a uh tablet as well which makes it nice to be able to just store that here while dejing I will say one piece of Hardware that's really let me down I have this Sennheiser IM system for whatever reason it does not work correctly um all I get is a ton of Bas in my earbuds and I just don't understand it but that was all wired into this quarter inch right here also tried some different cables and I it just doesn't work so I'm back to hardwired maybe we'll get a better IM system this is the entry level Sennheiser it's still like 00 bucks but maybe I'll get a better one this year back to pliers though Pioneer DJ ms7 is the center mixer I had an S9 now that I'm using stems I needed the separation of hot qes on both boards the S9 it's both so better mixer just swapped right in also went ahead and upgraded to the Rain 12 mk2s that way I can see the BPM right on the platter um and just a little bit more functionality when it comes to using it there's another scroll rail here in case for some reason something bre there there's some doubling I got options which is nice so that is bua so while we're on the topic of baa I want to show you guys my Bera bag so this bag right here comes with me to all my events and it has everything I need for Vera when it comes to the accessories and things that I might need it's just a simple arba bag but inside of it and it's not the best bag I mean I really should get something a little more padded but inside of it I have my sound switch control one and my DMX Pro from both both lighting both lighting USA DMX Pro and you can kind of see I already have it pre-wired so I already have the DMX cable connected between the control one and I already have my USB cable ready to go to plug into my laptop for sound switch so this literally just goes and plops up right here on the side I normally put the DMX transmitter on the front so that way it has a little more clearance this will plug right into my laptop the control one sits right here conveniently on the side and I can plug in the power for the DMX right here because it's already wired into the booth now this right here is definitely an afterthought and I don't necessarily like it because it just kind of sits on the table other than I would rather it be sunk in but if you guys go back in my channel when I first built this booth I was using sound switch for sound switch I had a dedicated lighting operator behind me in the back boo running all of my lighting now that I'm using sound switch it's built into the laptop that I'm DJing on so it all has to be up here so considerations had to be made I don't actually have the space inside of here because I not build this with the intentions to do so for it to be that way so that is why Booth 2.0 will be coming in 2026 it'll be a new DJ boof setup of some sort um and it'll probably have some cooler things with all this tidied up and built in also in my bag right here other than spare batteries and some DMX uh receivers which I don't necessarily need anymore unless I'm using cold Sparks because the battery power removers have built into them I keep my LED sign I have the Better Together LED sign that is kind of my goto sign that I've been using with this boo since I developed it and what I've done is I have some fishing line here that is pre-tied to the right dimensions to be able to attach to the inside hooks that I put inside of the booth to allow me to basically connect this all up so if I move my bag out of the way I'll go ahead and carefully attach my LED sign normally I just prop it up hold it up with my hand and I can go in attach that to that one and and attach this one just fix that up and then when I get power to the booth the sign itself will also turn on as well and this sign right here has a high medium and low it's pretty convenient uh typically I'm always leaving it on low though because anything over low is literally way too powerful this is a good point to say I will link videos and product information for everything that is in my DJ setup in the links down below um there's full videos on building that whole entire rack I believe I did a whole two-part series on it never made a video building this out because it was kind of an experiment at the time but I have made some video sents on it and of course I made reviews on pretty much all the products that we're going to talk about except for the newest battery powered movers that video is to come so with that said I think the next thing I'm going to do is go ahead and assemble all of the tubes and if it weren't for me actually filming this video we'd probably be done by now and I would need two people but I've only spent 30 minutes so far even recording this video setting up all this stuff so for me to be able to do all that I probably literally can power through and have this done in 10 minutes but let's go ahead and assemble all the tubes and you know now that I'm getting older I like to use tables not bending over to set up all the stuff but right here we have the B flatting USA tube stands there is the base plate I just need my middle plate this guy right here screws on conveniently right there what I'm going to do is go through and assemble all of my tube stands real quick so that way I am ready to go so I'm just going to go through and assemble all four of these it's a very simple process to get these put together it is just two connections need to be screwed together on each and these are adjustable stands for the awesome 360 tubes which honestly they're like the greatest thing ever to come out I will say the tube stands are not my favorite I don't necessarily love these and my boy Joe bun actually came out with a new set of stands we're trying to get a pair here to give some comparison videos he ended up making his own if you didn't know uh Joe bun he makes the bun Command Center I don't have anymore I used to made a whole video on it but he's got a Mark I coming out as well that I want to get my hands on cuz it's a lot more portable and a lot more Compact and as you guys can see as much as I I say that I don't really care for these tube Sands it's not that hard to assemble them they're just a little finicky some of you got to be very careful with the connections when you're threading these together to make sure you don't cross thread them and you'll see when I go to actually rais and lower the tubes the connection up here that allows you to tighten it is a little finicky as well all right with all the tube stands done I can lay all these down on the ground and we can get our 360 tubes and attach them to the tube stands I also like to when I set them down just give a nice little snug pull here at the top make sure all the connections are nice and tight and screwed together here is our both lighting 360 tubes I a big fan of all soft bags on the tubes the 4unit soft bags are so much easier to transport than the giant 8un flight case so all of our guys use the 4unit soft bags same thing with the 4unit soft bag for the tube stamps and I guess also self-explanatory I don't use any of the ground feet I think I have a set in here I always bring a couple of them on occasion because sometimes you know you might be on a stage you might be on a weird height ceiling you might need something shorter but for the most part I always try to use the stands to get them up nice and high so that way they have the max visibility and they're also really utiliz that because if you put them down low on the ground feet they're going to get blocked by people in the dance Flo pretty easily we go ahead and assemble these tube stands pull the tubes out of their bags and screw them on and this is typically what I get my assistants to do it's really quick and easy for them to do it's kind of repetitive so I normally worry about the audio and they go through and assemble all the tubes all of these tubes that I'm going to assemble now I always put all four of them behind my DJ setup in a situation like this of course like I talked about at the beginning if you can't set up your DJ setup on the Dance Floor I'm going to go set these up behind the sweetart table nine times out of 10 and I'm a big fan of two and two so two high in the middle and two low on the outside so the outside ones I'm going to keep at this height right here just right at the bottom the other ones I'm going to raise them up and this is where I said these stands be a little finicky if they work nicely like this one is right now it just slides up and you just tighten down this at the bottom and you're good to go let's see if we got one that's acting up a little bit right now I believe this one is right here it's like it's just tight you got to like just pull it out and then when you go to screw it down it doesn't necessarily want to screw down fully like I can just keep turning and turn this and turn this and eventually it may or may not get tight so little to say the stands are a little finicky honestly they're pretty cheap I think four of these will run you about 500 bucks maybe a little more than 500 bucks you get what you pay for is the best way to put it I will stay though even with the finickiness of them they are way better way stronger way more sturdy than any of the mic stand options that I've shown before where you use a mic stand with an adapter these are so much better the only thing that's better them right now is the newer stands that Joe bun has coming out under the bun bun DJ Gear Company so when we get hands on those we'll make a review we'll show you guys what those are about they're significantly more expensive they're about double the cost of what these are but they are a lot more robust and sturdy with that said though been using these stands for two years now I don't see a problem with them as long as you're just used to them being a little finicky and a little difficult to use sometimes so set them up right now is also a point that I turned on all my tubes because I have four individual DMX addresses for each of these tubes that correspond to my sound switch and I'm using the sound switch profile that is sold on bow flatting usa.com currently have the diamond believe it's the diamond one it's the newest one that's out right now and each tube has its own individual address I have to use and I and it works best when they're corresponding so it's like 193 270 350 353 and then 433 I believe um they're all in 80 channel mode so whatever the 80 plus all those are um so I want to orchestrate my tubes in that order whether left or right right or right to left I like to do 193 273 you get the idea that's how I'm going to lay them out and we'll take one quick step back to make sure we still have good symmetry uh looks like I need to move that tube over just a little bit to the right to make it perfect uh but we have a nice cascading effect right there with our tubes all in line beautifully and we'll fill in with our movers right here in a minute and I'll also note one thing with the tubes I always like to make sure I face these screens to the back so that way the screens are not pointing out because there is is a little green LED that blinks when they're in use so again pointing them to the back nice clean look with the white tubes all right moving on to my new favorite piece of gear that I'm using for my DJ setups and I never thought I would actually think that this made my setups any quicker but it does significantly and that is the brand new BPM beams from beams and spots from both lighting USA these are battery powered movers BPM and I've been amazed if you saw one of my latest gig logs I don't know if I posted it I've also posted on Instagram a few times these things are insane the battery life is amazing you get like six plus hours of battery it's amazing how not having to plug in a power cord is actually significantly faster mostly on the fact that you don't have to get a power cable you don't have to find an outlet you don't have to run it you don't have to Gaff tape it I didn't think it was faster but it it's significantly faster and these have built-in Wireless DMX so let me show you how they mount up to the gravity stands real quick conveniently there is a bracket that comes with the actual lights themselves these are the beam fixtures the spots are basically The Identical ones uh the spots are out at another event right now but we bought some of these bolts right here I don't remember what size these are but these are the bolts for the gravity stands um and we got them just short enough so that they fit in here perfectly and that allows us now to be able to set the Mover on top of the stand and then screw it in pretty easy just set it up on here beautiful line up the hole you can either take a wrench or you can just turn the Mover but I recommend taking a wrench and then tightening that bolt down there's a little closeup of how that works but basically you can wrench that down some people like to reverse it and take these two Allen bolts out and Bolt the bracket first then Mount the Mover I prefer to do it that way mounting Because the actual mover will sit on the bracket it's weighted perfectly and then you can just screw in that bolt itself but the key is to make sure you don't get a super long bolt that way you can actually so that way way the bolt is not resting on the actual mover you need it short enough that you can when it's not screwed in or when you unscrew it it can be unthreaded from here so let me unthread it real quick and show you guys a closeup real quick of this so the key is here let me unthread this so now it's fully unthreaded the key is that the bolt can Loosely go in and out so as you can see right there you can balance it right on top and then you just line up the hole and then you screw it in if you had a shorter bolt than that it actually probably would work a little bit better because you don't need that full you just need about A4 of an inch of thread holding it and that's it but because it's Loosely in there it's not resting on top of it if you had a longer Bolt the head of the bolt the if you had a longer Bolt the Mover would be resting on the top of the bolt and it'd be really hard to turn it and get it in but because it is Loosely there you can just Loosely thread that all the way in then of course take a wrench and tighten it down and I already did that one over there we of course been taking our sweet time with this setup but now we're down to basically the final step final two steps and that is running our audio and our power signals and that's because in my opinion other than running backside fills you'll see you've seen me make some videos on wireless audio I am a big proponent of never running your main speakers on battery power no M or battery or in general wireless audio battery in some situations but in general for most of our weddings our main speakers they're loud they suck a lot of energy so they're going to need their their own dedicated power and their own hardwired audio feed that's the only cabling that we're going to need to do is cabling our booth here to our audio rack and then our audio rack to our speakers and the patch panel I showed you earlier is going to make this thing incredibly quick so inside of here we have the gig tote um this is falling apart and inside that is where I have my two wireless microphones and some extra spare cables batteries and miscellaneous things that I may or may not need at my events and then the main piece is this cable tote right here which for the sake of it I don't really need to pull the whole thing out so I'm just going to take the lid off I need my power cable this is my power con to this to the wall I will need a couple 15t power cables to run to my speakers I will say there are combo cables you can buy out there that are both XLR and Power in one I will say from my standpoint it's rare that I have a setup like this where the speaker speakers are conveniently at the right spot that I could use a cable like that I'd rather have the flexibility to run my speakers differently in different situations whether I need to daisy chain them together because all the the dance floor is over there my DJ Boo's here and I'm going to go in from one speaker to the next speaker because it's a lot simpler um I'd rather not have the actual combo cables and just have separate ones if you're always setting up like this yeah that's great you can use combo cables but for me it doesn't always work out that way I also need two of my my 15t xlrs right there is one right there is two and this should be my other extension cord right here and that is all I need other than some Gaff tape to basically Gaff tape down the speakers so for five cables that's all we need while I'm at it I'm going to go over here we have our wire loom coming from the DJ booth itself which has a Edison power to run the booth and two of the X and this right here is basically a combo cable that I made myself so I'm going to run that power to the front run these to the back plug them in and right while I'm at it also going to go ahead and hook up my power main give that a little toss back behind here to where our power is going to be plugged in at that'll come around here plug in here very quick very simple if you guys have never built a patch panel even if you have a DJ case these patch panels make things so much faster to set up uh same thing here these are my audio runs for my speakers that is going to go to my high right because it's front of house situation and that's pretty much it for the back here then I'm going to plug these into the front so now I got my cables to come over here to my speaker both power and my audio and conveniently in this setup they are exactly roughly 15 ft away from the main setup plug in my power here and I'm going to try and make these cables look as clean as possible and we'll throw down a piece of Gaff tape here connect these wires together all right same thing over here audio power again you can see where a dual cable would come in nice and handy for this be able to do one cable to run both and I always like to tuck my cables back behind these subwoofers as much as possible cuz they block everybody's view now we definitely want to get these movers up in the air we don't want them at this height because at this height they're going to hit people right in the eyes so we want to get up a good amount and for me that's about three notches on the gravity stand so let me get my PIN here raise it up we got one two and three so I'm in the third hole on the gravity stamp so there's two empty holes and I'm in the third hole right here this gets it up at a good 6 ft in the air nice and adequate and I find that 6 feet in the air is enough that this thing will spin it will move around a little bit but as you can see right there I'm pushing with all my might and that's about all it move they're not going to move that much I find that 6 foot in the air is enough that it gets it up nice and high but it's not as much wobble that it makes anybody concerned I've gone higher before it's not a concern to me you always can throw a sand on the base plate as well but I believe this is a 50 lb base plate already it's super wide it works beautifully and we're done too the movers are fully set and ready to go all I can to do is flick the power switch Wireless DMX built into it addresses are set and we're ready to rock and roll and like I mentioned couple pieces of Gaff tape we're going to tuck this cable back as far as we can make all this cleanly looped together right there and then another piece over here pulling those cables nice and taut and then if you wanted to you could put another piece of Gaff tape across that way but I have these mats for that exact reason so that way I can toss the mat down and now I don't have to worry about using extra Gaff tape which is quite expensive so now of course we do have the ugly back rack right here that we want to hide so I'm going to go ahead and get my facade this right here is the Rockville six panel facade they make a four panel and then they make a two panel addition that you can buy to make it honestly as many as you wanted really you make it 68 whatever I have the six panel version seems to be the perfect amount the bag is pretty nice I've been using it for a year now haven't broke the bag yet but one of my favorite Parts is it's an accordion style so literally it just accordion out and it's quick and easy to throw up in front of any setup that you have so literally all I got to do is just pull this down as you can see six panels is quite a lot you don't necessarily need six panels always it's bigger than what my actual setup is so what I'll do is I'll just fold one panel back and I'm just going to use five instead of six center it up as best as possible and now all I got to do is toss down my mats one of these right here is for my feet I got more of these little these are just bath mats I find that bath mats are the best cuz they got this nice R rubber texture bottom on them get you some black ones doesn't have to be that expensive and then I have another one for my assistant or whoever is back behind here to block that one as well and there right there is it guys that's the complete setup and what I told you guys earlier is typically if I have an assistant we can set up this whole setup in less than 20 minutes sometimes 15 sometimes 10 we can do it incredibly fast honestly the only thing that holds us up is getting the gear into the venue typically and showing you guys right here on the facade this is what I talked about where I folded back one of these so I have a whole another panel I can use there again this is the Rockville white facade it comes in a 4 unit and then there are two unit add-ons so I added two more so that way I can go bigger if I need to if I got more to block Etc if I need to widen this out maybe I put the speakers back here on either corner and another part I love about it is there's no up or down so this could be the top or the bottom it's got the same feet on both sides and conveniently that's big enough to run wires underneath them as well and these don't unscrew this thing is pretty well thought out accordion design so it's quick and easy to deploy the feet never pop out never fall out and it's pretty damn cheap too so highly recommend that facade as well so now all we got to do is turn the power on and of course all of our lighting is battery powered and we did Skip some lighting right here I have my up lights that I bring to every event and these are the IR fors I have 16 of them that I bring to every single event conveniently in an 8un case they stay in these cases they charge in these cases super compact these briefcases are amazing and what we'll do is we'll take these out and we'll go plop them around the room and that'll be our uplighting package for the event so this is what I'm doing mostly up lighting and then this is my main DJ setup we got two movers battery powered and four tubes on the back wall beautifully with our speakers and everything is super clean and super professional and in general the rugs in combination with minimizing our cable runs help to make this clean and super quick there's one thing I've learned over the last 13 years of being a DJ it's cables are what will slow you down when it comes to setup so as much as you guys can do to minimize the amount of cables you need to run in my case literally we only have to run power and audio to our main speakers and hook up the main rack that's it so however you achieve that to get your cabling down as much as possible is what I would highly recommend and one of the best ways you can do it is by getting battery powered lighting battery powered uplights battery powered movers battery powered tubes even battery powered cold Sparks are all options to make minimizing cabling as best as possible so with that said let's go ahead and turn it on we're going to just turn our fmit on 118 volts beautiful power strip's already on mics are coming up audio boards on we should have power now running to the main rack here or the bur up turn the power switch on there everything boots up and we're up and running just got to hook the laptop up and We're Off to the Races for DJing today and with the power turned on and the lighting turned on that right there is the complete setup for what I'm rocking in 2025 of course we have some additional things I'm going to be changing out and adding on this year so stay tuned for those videos coming out as I add on different things we're going to switch out the audio board and we might upgrade a little bit of some of the pieces down the line this year so stay tuned more to come but this currently right now is my full setup for 2025 it is definitely not a cheap setup by any means but of course I've been doing this for quite a bit now and this is what I've come up with for the fastest quickest and best setup that I can do if you guys don't know I'm actually an engineer by trade it's what I went to school for so I'm all about efficiency in problem solving and trying to make things as quick as possible for my events and this is what I got I would say the only thing that could be quicker is if some somehow I could combine this booth with the audio rack into one unit of course there's things like video booths out there marceles has one um that we might make a video on later he's got a full custom one that we had a guy make up in Ohio for him um might make a video on that but I'm not necessarily a fan of the TV booths in general so I got some different ideas for what I want to do and how I want to make a new booth going into 2026 that will capitalize on all of that together but anyways that right there is it I will say the biggest thing the biggest thing guys right now is battery powered everything when it comes to lighting battery powered movers these right here are the next big thing we had battery up lighting any of you guys that have been doing this a while I remember it back in the day when we did not have battery up lighting when or when it was quite expensive or the batteries were actually back in the day we had to plug in all of our lights around the room if we wanted to DMX them we had to run cables with them then Wireless DMX got a little bit better it was a pain in the butt Wireless up lighting battery powered especially the these small compact IR fors now this is insane that we've came so far in battery powered Wireless technology for lighting that this is now what I can go plop around a 30x30 40x40 banquet hall and do up lighting that lights the whole entire wall up these are insane now we got these cool tubes that do 360 designs and now the next big thing battery power movers battery powered beams are out now the battery powered spots are out full video coming on those battery powered wash style Movers are also in the works as well super excited for that and yeah hope you guys enjoyed the 2025 setup leave a comment down below like the video hit the Subscribe button if you're not already subscribed and like always guys keep them records spinning and I'll see you guys next time peace n