DJ Magazine 481 January 2010

TECH
News
SOUNDBYTES
SEX IT UP
Feeling kinky? Get your
mitts on the new and
strange sample
PAUL VAN DYK
package, ‘The Queen’s
English’, a must for
CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT...
anyone with an audio
HIS CUSTOM-MADE XONE:4D MIXER
fetish, featuring 176
spoken sample phrases
from Miss T, an English
“This is the centrepiece of my set-up and is based on the control of the volume, and the feel is more precise — I dominatrix. Well handy
way I DJ. I have two computers on stage that are synced just didn’t have that quality and ﬂ exibility in the basic for sexing up those deep
to each other: one has the synths, keyboards and model. house tracks. £19 from
controllers hooked up to it and the other one is full of the “The other great thing about the 4D is the great sound darksideofthetune.
audio material. The Xone:4D gives me control of and the fact that everything on the mixer can be fully com.
everything I am using. programmed so I can set it up to give me control to do
“I wanted rotary knobs instead of faders to give me ﬁ ner some crazy shit!”
FLYING SOLO
Inspired by professionals but made for the
budget conscious, DJ Tech’s U Solo provides
entry level DJs with a device for controlling their
mp3 collection.
While it has been badged as a media player, it
will only play LOOK LIVELY!
mp3s that can Designed for the pro DJ
be stored on a and audio market, the
USB stick or new Livebook laptop
hard drive — no from Rain is an ultra
CDs. With the cool PC specc’d up with
usual array of the likes of Native
built-in FX, like Instruments’ Traktor
ﬁ lter, ﬂ ange and Serato in mind.
and echo, the We’ll be road-testing
£214 U Solo is this little beauty in a
good value for future edition of the
money. mag. rainrecording.
djtechpro.com com
JARGON: Cans
DJ BONGO MASSIVE
BUSTED: Old skool engineer
Here’s something totally new for the decktician
speak for headphones
who has everything — a bongo inspired scratch
machine. Yep, that’s right! Just tuck it under your ‘Cans’ is the term that engineers worldwide use
arm and let your ﬁ ngers do the talking. to describe what is more commonly known in the
Custom-made by Thierry Alari in Canada, DJ trade as headphones. In a studio environment,
Qbert has signed up for one of these interesting you’d often hear shouted: “Can someone get the
units. Costing around £1000, this piece of DJ singer some cans?” It didn’t mean popping to the
hardware should raise a few eyebrows when off licence to stock up on beers!
pulled out at a gig. scratchophone.com
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