Tutorial: Make Space In Your DJ Mix For New Tracks
Learn a few tools for creating room in your mix for new tracks. The tips start out with the basics, but even well-seasoned DJs will appreciate the last technique.
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Arturia DrumBrute: Analog Beat Maker
Arturia is coming out with an analog beat maker that is an all-in-one beat machine made for performance and sound-design. The Brute product line is centered around hardware synthesizers - you might know the MiniBrutes, MicroBrutes, and…
DIY: How to Mod FX Pedals With Arcade Buttons
DJ Techtools' earliest products (VCI-100 Arcade, Midi Fighter) were based on the idea of taking traditional DJ control surfaces and improving their playability. With today's article, Kyle Mohr shares a DIY project that does exactly that for…
3 Techniques For Using DJM-900NXS2’s EQ-Based Effects
On Pioneer's new DJM-900NXS2, the Beat FX section has a powerful new tool: three EQ frequency selector buttons that allow the chosen effect to be isolated to the lows, mids, or highs. Today we explore three different ideas for how DJs can…
Pioneer Launches RMX-1000 iPad FX App
We've seen a lot of very interesting developments from Pioneer DJ, but here's one we weren't expecting at all: an iPad application designed around the FX workflow of their RMX-1000 hardware. The app allows producers to apply any set of…
Input Transform: Throwback Thursday DJ Technique
One of the oldest tricks in the DJ world is to use any and all of the controls on a DJ mixer to gate or transform one of the playing decks. There's plenty of ways to do it - so in today's Throwback Thursday DJ technique, Ean explains how…
Creative Tips for Pioneer FX: Spiral Effect
In a DJ set, having predictable control over your mixer or controller's effects unit is critical. So when an effect like Spiral shows up on a mixer, it's often avoided because it's initially confusing and unpredicatable. In today's…
Traktor + Serato DJs: Switching DJs on 1 Soundcard
One of the challenges for Traktor and Serato DJs playing in a multi DJ lineup is seamlessly transitioning between laptops with only one soundcard or mixer. This isn’t an issue for DJs that use CDJs or Rekordbox since the other DJ can throw…