Posts Tagged ‘DJ Gear’

Numark DJ I/O Multi Channel USB 2.0 DJ Audio Interface

DJ Audio Interface For Laptop DJ’s

• 24-bit DACs
• Output Level: +2.0dBV +/-0.5dB
• SNR: > 100dB (A-weighted)
• THD+N: 0.008%
• Configue as 2 sets of stereo ouputs or 1 stereo out and 1 heaphone out

FOR THE ON–THE–GO SOFTWARE DJ AND PRODUCERS. The DJ|iO is compact and rugged enough to live in your gig bag, but powerful enough to provide solutions for a wide range of computer audio needs. The DJ|iO gives software–based DJs, performers and producers a range of options for outputting their final audio. Whether in the form of a live mix or a just–completed new track. With the DJ|iO, DJs and Producers can pass audio from their software–based application… More >>

Numark DJ I/O Multi Channel USB 2.0 DJ Audio Interface

Pioneer CDJ-2000

Pioneer CDJ-2000 Is The Ultimate Multi-Format Player For DJ ’s

No need for laptops, it can analyze the tracks in BPM and waveforms.

It enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD, DVD-ROM, SD card and USB memory devices.

You can connect up to four CDJ-2000’s and share a single music source from just one player.

So this is real cool for those DJ ’s who are against  laptops in their shows.

Some Features:

• SD and USB Ports Removable Storage Device Player Audio and MP3 CDs Supported Large 6.1″ LCD Display MIDI Assignable Controllers
• Multi Format Playback – The CDJ-2000 enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD,DVD-ROM, SD card and USB memory devices.
• Pro DJ Link – New Pioneer Pro DJ Link that enables up to four CDJ-2000/900s to be connected and share a single music source.
• 6.1” Full Color LCD panel and Graphic User Interface – For displaying song titles, jacket art as well as detailed track information and wave form display of each song so DJs can find information needed to select a song at a glance.
• Needle Search – Helps DJ’s instantaneously get to a specific part of a song with a simple touch of the Needle Search pad.

This is a totally top product. Almost nothing can be better then this player.

The price is  high  but that’s what you pay for.

Pioneer CDJ-2000 Professional Multi Player

Check out the Pioneer CDJ-2000 Owner’s Manual PDF for more info

Ultimate Ears, In-Ear Headphones

These Ultimate Ears in-ear headphones are easily breakable and the cables wear out quickly but they are a great listening experience and can fit  into your ears perfectly. They are very good at keeping  the outside noise out too.

It can also be used as DJ headphones. Some top DJ’s are already using them. They can help protect your ears in a very loud environment.

More info in this link here:

Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 Noise Isolating Earphones

Most probably it’s a Shure  here in Amazon:

The Very Best High-End In-Ear Headphones

And here you find more info for in-ear dj headphones for DJs

Toontrack EZdrummer

An Incredible Drum Sampler For DJ Productions And Computer Musicians.

Toontrack EZdrummer

It’s a virtual instrument, VST plugin into your host applicaton. The “default” drum beats are great, just for starters.

There is no end to what you can do with this software. And if you are tired of using drum machines that sound, well machine like, then this is it !

This is a sampler of real drummers (almost). Ezdrummer has good quality drums and very realistic sounds.  But it eats up quite a bit of memory if you use more than one track, so be prepared for lots of ram, maybe about 250 megs for a track.

There are a lot of expansion kits for a whole lot of different styles even Jazz!

Toontrack EZdrummer Multi Layer Drum Sampler At Amazon

www.toontrack.com

Laptop DJ’ing

Laptop DJ

The key to running a successful software based DJ system, is to buy a dedicated  laptop for the task, and to only run the operating system and DJ Software on there, and never allow it to run other applications or even connect to the internet.

This way the installation runs and remains clean and largely error free, will rarely have a corrupt file, and won’t get infiltrated or bogged down with several other applications.

This advice is given by DJ’s  including me who have been using software and PC’s for many years, and have found this method of DJ’ing to be just as reliable as conventional DJ’ing from CD’s.

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With large laptop internal hard drives, you can store thousands of 320-bit MP3s  though a lot of DJs use  CD-quality WAV or AIFF files instead.

Video files take up much more space ,  so an external hard drive is necessary.

Sending video signals also uses more bandwidth than audio, so while a USB 2.0 drive is good for audio, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 are better connections for video.

For video drives,  pay attention to drive speed (7200 RPM is essential) and the chip set.

The 500 GB external drives have fallen to low prices now, and terabyte drives are coming down in price.

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Italian DJ Giuseppe Ottaviani playing live with two Apple Powerbooks running Ableton Live & Tracktor, two  keyboards, two different mixers and an effects machine during Crasher Hyper Royale night at Gatecrasher One, Sheffield 2007, Picture by ©BrianOMahony.net .

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