Posts Tagged ‘professional audio equipment’
Home Recording With Professional Audio Equipment
Home audio recording is currently exploding. No longer is home recording the realm of obscurity obsessed musicians, these days it is a valid way for anyone to get their music out there. With the increasing availability of computer programs to help make the recording process easier and less expensive more and more people are doing [...]
A Portable PA System, For An Outdoor Wedding
Some friends recently asked me to DJ their wedding or more appropriately mp3J and CDJ their wedding. I am eager to do a great job but I had to inform them that the most important thing I needed to do this right was some professional audio equipment. We were going to first need a portable [...]
Most People Are DJs
In 2004 the indie rock band The Hold Steady released a song that was at the time very well observed and as time has marched on become even more true. The song “Most People Are DJs” took the old adage that “Everyone is a critic” and added the new titular caveat at a time when the [...]
New Colors for Pioneer DJ Pro Audio
My friend is a DJ and producer. He’s been working on an album for the past six months and he’s about ready to have a release party for it. And of course he’s going to have to DJ it. But he’s been in bad need of Pioneer DJ pro audio for a while now. So [...]
Portable PA Systems for DJs
If you’re a DJ, whether a beginner or seasoned veteran, you’ve been through this situation. Pumped up for a great night of music and dancing, you head out to the gig. The venue has said “No, no. Don’t worry, we’ve got a house system.” You get there and the “house system” turns out to be [...]
DJ Headphones and Everyday Practicality
This morning, I was waiting for the number 5 train and the most horrible thing happened. The train stopped and the brakes made the most horrendous noise! My hands actually involuntarily moved to my ears to block out the sound. It was then that I decided I needed to protect my ears a little better than I [...]
Profile: Beach Fossils
Whether or not you’ve been listening, there are some trends worth noting in today’s music scene. Lo-fi, beachy music, much like the Beach Boys reinvented for 2011 is everywhere. Best Coast, Beach House, and others have shaped this sound almost into its own genre. This week we’re going to look at a band called Beach [...]
Summer Sounds For Professional Audio Equipment
This week, the lo-fi residues of new sounds are starting to sound like summer to us, even though we still have a few more weeks of slogging through slushy puddles and being careful not to fall on ice. If you’re preparing your professional DJ equipment, though, it’s time to start thinking about a summer anthem, [...]
Motown’s Influence on Today’s Professional Audio Equipment
Motown was a period of music that laid the ground for hip-hop. It began in Detroit in 1960 and over the next 10 years, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, and The Supremes all led the label to Top 10 hits. This period began at a time when audiences were segregated, and helped to [...]
3 Songs for Your Pioneer DJ Pro Audio
Part of being a DJ is exposing yourself to new sounds. This is so you can incorporate the best of what is being, and what has been produced, into your music with a professional audio mixer and Pioneer DJ pro audio. That said, here are three cool songs we think you’ll like. 1. Braids Plath [...]
