The Best DJ CD Decks for Around $500 - The top budget CD decks for DJs
LearningEven if DJs are turning more and more towards immaterial formats nowadays, it's still useful to keep a good old CD player lying around, one that can play back normal Red Book CDs as well as those sta…
Mixed In Key Flow Review - Prepare Your Sets Easily
Written testThe creators of key-detection software Mixed In Key and Platinum Notes continue their crusade to offer new tools for DJs. Here's their last baby: Flow. This Mac/PC-compatible application is designed …
Polishing and Exporting the Final File - Recording Your DJ Sessions - Part 4
LearningIn the three previous parts, we showed you how to set up the DJ hardware, how to configure your computer to record an optimal signal and some good practices to keep in mind for your sessions. Now tha…
Best Practices for Recording Your DJ Mixes - Recording Your DJ Sessions - Part 3
LearningIn the first two parts of this article, we discussed how to prepare your mixer and configure your computer to record a mix. Now that the hardware is ready, we can now move on to some tips for you to …
Setting Up Your Computer To Record Your DJ Mixes - Recording Your DJ Sessions - Part 2
LearningIn the first part of this article, we discussed how to prepare the decks, records and mixer to have an optimal audio signal...
Setting Up Your Mixer To Record Your DJ Mixes - Recording Your DJ Sessions - Part 1
LearningRecording yourself whenever you mix is an excellent habit that will allow you to learn and grow your DJ skills. Listening to your mixes later with a clear head allows you to put things into perspecti…
Choosing a PA System For DJs - How To Choose A PA System For DJing
LearningThe basic role of a DJ is to mix songs in order to cheer up an event and make the audience dance. However, in some cases, the DJ will also need to provide the PA system for the performance. To cope w…
How To Choose Your Ideal USB DJ Controller - Three Criteria For Choosing A USB DJ Controller
LearningDigital mixing has been democratized the last couple of years, reaching the public at large. And with it we have seen the appearance of all sorts of USB controllers on the market. There are controlle…
How to Make Sure Your First Public Performance Goes Rig… - 5 Tips to Prepare Yourself Before Mixing In Public
LearningRegardless of whether you are a beginner or experienced DJ, you might dread mixing live, which is a legitimate feeling... Here are some tips to plan ahead and avoid ugly surprises.
Mastering Progressive Transitions - Two Techniques to Achieve Great Transitions
LearningWhen we start out as DJs we often ask ourselves where to begin to learn all the basics. Beginners can easily get lost thinking about the choice of equipment to use, the songs to mix and, especially, …
Hercules DJ Control AIR+ Review - A Controller On AIR
Written testHercules, one of the pioneers in USB controllers for digital DJs, continues to introduce easily transportable and ever more innovative models, like the DJ Control AIR+ with a very particular feature.…
Harmonic Mixing For Dummies - Three Key Steps To Harmonic Mixing
LearningMany DJs spend lots of time perfecting their transition techniques to try to give them a "personal" touch by using effects, or trying to master better their mixing gear. Unfortunately, they often do …
Vestax VCI 380 Review - The Art of Controllerism
Written testThe famous Japanese manufacturer Vestax — a major brand in the DJ world since 1977 due to the very high quality of most of its products — offers now a two-channel MIDI controller, which you can also …
Gemini CDJ 700 Review - Everything Becomes a Standard...
Written testToday, every DJ gear manufacturer wants a piece of the control surface market. That's why Gemini decided to introduce now a versatile, fully featured CD deck. The CDJ 700 is a very appealing product …
Pioneer DJM-T1 Review - Pioneer Wins Traction
Written testPioneer continues the development of its product range certified for Traktor, Native Instruments' famous software, and presents now a new two-channel mixer with controller facilities specially develo…
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