Speaking as someone who starts frothing if he leaves the house without his iPod, between the crap pre-amp and the nightmare that is cueing one of the things, I'd never dream of DJing with iPods at anything other than a laid-back houseparty with a tiny amp. Niall and I tried plugging ours into the mixer at the Morrissey at the end of the night for fun: sounded crapola, even at regular pub volume.
Also, lack of pitch control means it's totally useless for any kind of serious DJing. You'd do just as well to just plug two 'pods into a regular mixer.
The way this mixer works is by just accessing the iPods as dumb hard drives. All the audio processing (including cueing, pitch control, etc...) is handled by the mixer in high quality (assuming your files are high-quality in the first place)!
So this should be about the same experience as using Traktor but with a hardware interface.
Yeah...one of my friends brings his laptop with traktor and midi controller with him to play parties. Comes with all the knobs and crossfading etc that he'd need. :)
Played with this P.O.S. last week at a demo. About as useful as a kick in the ass.
DJing live, I've used Traktor FS, and Traktor. Traktor FS is awesome, Traktor is great for studio work (but a bitch live), because of all of it's options, filters, and so on. This iPod mixer is best used as a door stop.
Without a tactile interface, no ability to scratch, no pitch correction, small throws on the faders, low quality potentiometers for, limited eq range and so on, this iPod nightmare is evidently intended to seperate junior high school students with pretentions to DJing from their allowance.
If you want to DJ mp3's I'd suggest one of these or this.
Yeah I researched it a bit more and it appears to be a cheap product that does *NOT* use the iPods as dumb hard drives like I presumed... I guess I was expecting more from Numark!
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Date: 2005-07-24 10:42 pm (UTC)Still, the potential is there.....
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Date: 2005-07-25 03:33 am (UTC)So this should be about the same experience as using Traktor but with a hardware interface.
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Date: 2005-07-25 12:13 pm (UTC)Ummmm....
Date: 2005-07-26 02:27 am (UTC)Played with this P.O.S. last week at a demo. About as useful as a kick in the ass.
DJing live, I've used Traktor FS, and Traktor. Traktor FS is awesome, Traktor is great for studio work (but a bitch live), because of all of it's options, filters, and so on. This iPod mixer is best used as a door stop.
Without a tactile interface, no ability to scratch, no pitch correction, small throws on the faders, low quality potentiometers for, limited eq range and so on, this iPod nightmare is evidently intended to seperate junior high school students with pretentions to DJing from their allowance.
If you want to DJ mp3's I'd suggest one of these or this.
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Date: 2005-07-25 12:13 pm (UTC)Someday when I have money and buy CD decks and a mixer, I'm going to make sure they're not Numark...bah.
It's horrible, horrible I tell you.
Date: 2005-07-26 02:32 am (UTC)This is NOT pro audio equipment, it is nothing more than a package carefully designed to liberate stupid people from their money.
In so far as it does that, it is a wonderful, wonderful thing, because stupid people with money are a growing social problem.
In so far as it purports to be a DJ tool... Well... We'll just say that it's worth reflecting that Casio purports to make professional keyboards.
I see about a thousand of these in the pawn shops within a year.
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Date: 2005-07-26 10:16 pm (UTC)Damn! The asthetics are beautiful & it's a great idea.
Numark: great ideas, lousy execution (ie: Axis 9)
Try Again
Perhaps iDJ v.2.