DJ Equipment Latest – Pioneer DJM900 & DJM850
Pioneer have been pretty busy recently. The Pioneer DJM900 nexus has just been released and the DJM850 is following with a release this March. The two mixers both follow a layout that is similar to the industry standard DJM800, which Onion Audio’s DJ Equipment hire section supply. The 900 looks like Pioneers effort at replacing the DJM800 as the industry standard for club DJs. I’m not really sure if they were trying to replace the djm800 with the DJM2000 last year, or in fact what they were thinking by bringing that out. The 900...
read moreHas The Summer Festival Season Arrived Yet?
Sadly not, but there are quite a few big festivals announcing some serious line ups already. Orbital have announced that they will be appearing at a number of UK festivals this summer including Bloc, a big London dance event, and Bestival. Bestival have decided to announce a band a day for at least the next month or so, which seems like quite a successful way of promoting a festival! As ever Bestival is likely to sell out along with one of my personal favorites festivals The Beathearder Festival, who also very excitedly announced Orbital to...
read moreDJs – Getting The Gain Structure Right To Make Your Event Sound Great.
When your Djing in the Club, every DJ seems to run the mixer in the red. That is, the lights on the mixing desk light up all the way to the top. Not something you would do in a professional recording studio! Ive figured out a reason for this. The DJ runs his mixer as loud as it will go and the sound engineer will usually turn it down later in the signal chain. It makes sense because otherwise you run the risk of the sound being too quiet. Or quieter than every other DJ that has played. But there is a flaw in this plan. The more ‘in...
read moreWill The CDJ2000 Take Over From The CDJ1000 Any Time Soon
Its been well over a year now since the CDJ2000 was first released. Since then its fast becoming a standard fixture on a lot of pro DJ riders. A lot of DJ equipment hire companies were originally court out by just how fast the top DJs would take to the new technology. But other than the very top, most DJs still seem content with the CDJ1000mk3. I think the reason for this is that the major benefits of the 2000 are its ability to play songs from a flash drive and its sampling abilities. Its easy to see why a top DJ making tunes on a flight...
read moreMy Style Has Soul In The Mix!
I was recently having a chat with a DJ when he said “everyone is in to this now so thats what Im playing” he then went on to say that he was enjoying the tunes I was playing on my iTunes and he would like to come round and rip them in exchange for me ripping his collection. The thought of playing something because other people are enjoying it and not because you love it fills me with disdain. I would like to think that the songs I choose to play (as a bedroom DJ) represent me and the style of music that I enjoy. The music I play...
read moreWhy My Mum Hates Dance Music.
I love dance music. I also like and appreciate live bands, just not as much. One thing that really bugs me is the ignorance some people display when talking about dance music. Two arguments I hear go something like this. “It all sounds the same” “The tracks are just repetitive & don’t develop” Lets look at these arguments in order. The “It all sounds the same to me” argument is the one I despise the most. Yodeling all sounds the same to me, but I understand why it sounds the same. The reason is because I have not spent hour...
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