Archive for the 'DJ Equipment' Category

Serato’s NAMM 2010 Releases (Pt. 2)

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Introducing the Rane Sixty Eight (Notice it’s in words and not number? Weird!) This mixer is a 4 channel mixer with Serato Scratch Live built into it and has 2 USB ports. This means a 2 DJ’s can DJ off the same mixer at the same time, and if you’re a DJ changing over then [...]

Serato’s NAMM 2010 Releases (Pt. 1)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

So NAMM 2010 was this week and some of the stuff Serato dropped is about to change shit in a big way. I will drop these in 3 parts and only focussing on the Serato Releases. The 3rd one I am yet to get a better understanding of, it’s a little bit over my head. [...]

The End For Technics Turntables Is Approaching….

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

What up! DJ Penfold has just told everyone on Twitter the saddest news to hit DJ circles since Roc Raida’s Passing! Panasonic/Technics are discontinuing their turntable range from FEBRUARY 2010. If this is true, then this isn’t just going to hurt DJ’s. Businesses which sell DJ Gear are going to be affected as well. I [...]

Never Mind “Pimp My Ride”, It’s All About “Pimp My DJ Gear”

Friday, July 10th, 2009

DJ’s Face is a european company which allows you to pimp out your DJ gear to whatever design you want. They cater from Face Plates for the SL-1200/10 Turntables to Face Plates and Fader knobs on Rane, Vestax & Pioneer Mixers. You add your own designs/images to the faceplate and have different coloured fader knobs [...]

Introducing: The Technics Range Available In NZ…

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Well Well Well… Reading about the recession, it seems that the parent owner of the Technics Brand Panasonic have done some slashes to their product lines globally. I can’t speak for any other country but New Zealand (of course) and this is the current product line available from the Technics Range: Headphones: RP-DJ100E-S RP-DH1200E-S RP-DJ1200E-K [...]

Vestax’s Controller One Turntable Has Just Been Fucked Over…

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

This guy by the name of JohnBeez has just revolutionised Djing completely. It has taken me about a day to work out how all this works and giving midi a bit of a reading up on. I’m by no means an expert but I know what the Vestax Controller One does with you’re records by [...]

The Next Release Of Serato Video-SL Will Support The SL1 Interface!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

If you remember me posting here about this, then here is some more news. Serato Video-SL 1.1 (the next release due out) will be supporting the Serato SL1 interface, which means you won’t need a Rane TTM-57SL Mixer to run it. All you’ll need is a second Monitor output on your laptop and you should [...]

Own Serato SL-1? Good News For You Then….

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

A pigeon tells me… for those of you who own Serato SL-1 (The Serato which you most likely own) , then do a Dr. Dre and “Keep your ears to the street…” because SL-1 is set to Support Video Serato. How fucking cool is that? For people who are not smart enough to know what [...]

R.I.P Rane’s TTM-56 & Welcome Rane’s TTM-56S

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Thats right folks! Rane has officially discontinued the TTM-56 Mixer and have released the TTM-56S. The mixer is more aligned towards the “Gold Class” Rane TTM-57SL as far as looks are concerned. The mixer does the same shit, but has gone through a makeover and obtained a new look. I would also like to point [...]

Serato Scratch Live 1.8.3 – Maintenence Mode Release

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Serato have released version 1.8.3 of Scratch Live for download. The release is only available in a maintenence mode (a fancy name for a beta edition) and is there for people to test and find bugs etc. If you fancy a play- go for it! Check the link below for details: Serato Scratch Live 1.8.3 [...]