- Hi, I'm Jordan from Kettner Creative.
In this video, I wanna show you how to set up
and use the Yorkville EXM battery powered speaker.
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The Yorkville EXM-12 mobile speaker is perfect for
those events in areas that don't have power.
There's plenty of venues around Vancouver,
especially at the top of Gondolas, out in the woods
or anything like that, where you don't have power,
but you're holding an event.
And what do you do?
Historically we've always rented generators
with sound systems but that's totally overkill.
Generally, you just need a microphone and a speaker.
And that's where the EXM-12 is perfect.
Am gonna show you the back here before we show you
how to set it up.
So on the back, there's a power switch,
there is a spot for a power cable.
So you definitely do wanna charge the speaker
before you go out.
It says, if you charge it for between four and five hours,
that you'll get a full charge and that battery will last for
another four or five hours.
So turn the speaker on and right away,
you'll notice on the back of the speaker,
that there is a battery meter.
So that's super helpful for knowing
how your battery is doing,
how much longer you have left and whether
or not you need to panic on whether or not you need
to run a power cable to your speaker.
So a couple of things about this speaker,
it has two microphone inputs with their own level.
You can tilt the tone towards music or speech.
So if you are plugging an iPhone into one of these inputs
or something like that, you can tilt it to be music.
Or if you're hooking up DJ turntables, again,
tilt it towards music, you'll get that more full sound.
But if you're doing speech,
then turn this knob all the way to speech
and you'll get more of a low cut with the mid boost
to make that speech more clear.
There is an effects knob as well.
So if you want a room reverb, haul, delay,
or anything like that, you select your effect down here.
And then per each channel, you can dial that up or down.
One really cool thing is since we're going totally wireless,
you know, there's no wires here.
You can pair this speaker to your phone using Bluetooth.
So you just hold this down for four seconds.
You'll see that the light blinks there,
you can pull out your phone,
you go into your Bluetooth settings and it pops up here
as EXM-Mobile-12, so you select that.
And then you'll notice that when it pairs,
the blue light will stop blinking.
There, you can see that it's paired.
Then from there you could just go into iTunes or Apple music
or whatever music player you have and you can hit play.
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And the sound will come out.
So it's as easy as that.
I'd play it for longer, but I don't want to get
into any copyright issues on YouTube,
but that's how that works.
You can also use this as a third input for microphone,
or if you have a headphone Jack,
you can plug a headphone Jack into that as well.
So this Bluetooth will pair with laptops, any phone,
iPad, something like that.
But again, just do remember that Bluetooth doesn't have
the greatest range.
So when you pair your device,
I would still leave your device within 10 or 20 feet
of the speaker, just so you don't have any issues.
Now, if you're hooking a bunch of
these speakers up together,
then you pair Bluetooth or plug in your microphones to here,
and then you can link out to another speaker
and then adjust the volume on that speaker.
So you can run multiple speakers,
which is really cool for those bigger events.
But again, I'm not gonna worry too much
about hooking up a mixer or anything to this.
If you have a big event,
then just bring a generator and then
that'll power your mixer and all that.
If you're using this speaker,
you're really counting on the builtin mixer
on the back of the speaker because you don't want
to worry about powering up an external mixer.
If you want to hook up a microphone,
I'll show you how to do that.
So here we have the Shure SM58,
which is a pretty standard microphone.
You plug your XLR cable into the bottom of the microphone,
and then you plug your microphone into
the back of the speaker.
We're going to be using this for speech.
So I'll turn that knob all the way to the right,
so it says speech.
And then I'll bring the volume up as I speak,
check, check, check one, two, one, two.
One thing I do you want to point out about this speaker
is that is not the best speaker on the market
for music playback.
It will work if you're doing an event
in the middle of nowhere,
if you're camping and you just want music
or something like that, the speaker is great.
But if you're wanting like a full, like proper DJ sound,
this isn't the speaker for you.
I don't think, I would go a different route
and get a generator.
Obviously, if you're making a speaker that's battery driven,
you're thinking about power efficiency
and the most power hungry part of the speaker
is that low woofer.
So if you want this battery to truly last five hours,
you're going to sacrifice some of that low end power
and some of that low end frequency.
So just do be aware of that with this speaker,
but other than that,
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