DJ setups/Mixer porn/New toys thread...

sbando

Enjoy, I envy you people.

Heno

Mad_Cyril did you get to try/ buy the mastersounds stuff yet?

Mad_Cyril

Heno Not yet. It’s a big investment leap as I’d need a couple of standalone players too.

That and my final accounts estimate was just north of 10k on the ‘optimistic’ side 🤦‍♂️.

Mathematics 1, MC 0

Unbroken1

…OK, possibly exclusively only of interest to Isonoe owners, but… they’ve teased drawings of an FX unit on Insta. Prototype has been around for a while, pic is of a one-off belonging to Gilles Peterson, apparently has the guts of a Rebel Technology unit (they make Eurorack stuff). Hoping the update suggests that they’ll be going into production at some point… nice to finally see the layout in some detail.

WANT.

303abuser

Unbroken1 so eqs, shelving filters, delay, reverb? i’ve been thinking about an outboard multi fx unit, this could be interesting.

Matt

Mad_Cyril covering it with tape is what I resorted to, MC. You’d have thought there’d be an option to just have a pioneer logo or something though.

Mad_Cyril

Matt What’s on the display?

Matt

Mad_Cyril waveform, key, bpm and cue info. It’s the bpm info I don’t want to be able to see. A small piece of black tape has done the job for now

Unbroken1

…can you not change it in RB preferences?

Matt

Unbroken1 you can add/remove the cue info and artwork from the display. Not the bpm though.

Unbroken1

303abuser …yes looks really versatile and I know the build quality will be the best. My SpaceEcho pedal makes some fucking wild sounds but is totally impractical for DJ’ing.

Intrigued what the pricing will be as the Rebel tech stuff seems very reasonable by the standards of some Eurorack stuff.

303abuser

Unbroken1 i’m curious to see what the delay/reverbs will do. if they’re creative fx, that might sell me on it, although i still want that boss space echo pedal too. i’ve been running the dfam through the analog four to use the delay/reverb/chorus and that’s been useful, so i would assume this could be a lot better as the a4 isn’t exactly new tech.

Unbroken1

303abuser …SpaceEcho can absolutely turn sounds inside-out but it’s pretty difficult to control. Not sure I want to get rid of it yet though as I figure it’ll be nice to run the Peak through it at some point and capture what comes out…

There seems to be quite a move towards pedal FX for DJ’ing, the Strymon reverbs/echos etc, but un-synced FX only really sound good for transitioning between difficult-to-bridge tracks, and even then, not really dancefloor stuff.

Would like something with tempo control for v subtle DJ FX… had the Pioneer RMX1000 for a while which was a lot of fun, despite me only using it to about 50% of its capabilities. I’ve emailed Justin at Isonoe, will let you know if I have any joy.

303abuser

Unbroken1 yeah, let me know what he says, i’m curious. the hard to control bit is great for the dubby stuff i make, but i can imagine for ‘tighter’ genres or djing it could be a bit of a problem if the feedback gets out of hand. i love the strymon pedals too, they just seem prohibitively expensive when you’re not making a living playing live.

Homegrove

I had lots of fun with the Mastersounds EFX the one time I played a system that had it, and I had about 15 minutes to get familiar with it. It was hooked to a Xone 96. Which is also a wonderful mixer BTW.

Mad_Cyril

Homegrove I had lots of fun with the Mastersounds EFX the one time I played a system that had it, and I had about 15 minutes to get familiar with it

It’s not quantized is it? Is that not a massive ballache?

Unbroken1

…it looks pretty good but there’s no tempo sync on the MK1 is there? Pretty sure I heard there was a new version due with it on.

Gotta say the Pioneer auto tempo detect was pretty spot-on.

Homegrove

Mad_Cyril more of a learning curve. I got the hang of it pretty quickly.

zoogly

303abuser You’d have no problem selling em on, looking at getting an El Capistan as a lot of dub producers rave about em & the savings on eBay are minimal

303abuser

zoogly yeah i’m not worried about selling, it’s collecting gear that’s the problem. 🤣

Along_the_Wire

Matt you can change the display on the XZ - maybe there’s a setting in Rekordbox or the hardware itself? I’ve got three options

Matt

Along_the_Wire there are settings where you can change what’s displayed. Just can’t remove the specific element I want. it’s not that big of a deal, just a slight irritation.

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