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Worked well at uni for a production setup interfaced with pro tools and logic. Good for mastering (the uni since got a better one in the studio) Had this in the radio studio and worked pretty well. Can take a little bit of getting used to like any piece of gear but it's fucking dope

Make another thread in the mixers section and we can discuss it a bit (in case one day someone is looking for that info)

There's an article about prices here yo

Pretty sure that mixing console is the exact same one we have at uni It's pretty fucking dope

The world rejoiced when Panasonic unveiled the new Technics SL-1200 turntable at the CES convention in Las Vegas earlier this week. Spirits might not be so high at the price revelation of the Grand Class version however. What Hi-FI? is reporting that the Grand Class SL-1200G will cost $4000 a pop, meaning that if the pricing is consistent in UK currency then buying a pair will set you back over £5000. It looks like Technics are making an entry into the luxury sector of the turntable market. There's no denying Technics are premium pieces of gear and the very top of the range, but this required outlay is more than double the retail price of the previous Technics turntable. We're expecting a significant jump in performance to justify that expenditure. Panasonic claim it will be worth it, with new features including a coreless motor that eliminates vibrations that troubled the older version and high-precision rotary positioning sensors that reduce interference. We'll find out when they are released this coming summer. Bargain hunters will also be gutted as it looks like the old models now won't decrease in price either.

Looks like this

So, I had a problem. I wanted to build a desk suitable for producing music. The problem was, I had some requirements this desk should meet so I soon knew that I will be hard to find a pre-built desk that fits my needs. When I started digging a bit deeper, I realized that it must be alot easyer to combine some IKEA furniture rather than building and painting the desk all from zero. And probably it would finally look better than something I painted on my own. First I started to plan the desk using Google Sketchup. This was very easy, because all the important measures were available on the IKEA online shop. Many models are also available for download at the Google 3D Warehouse. You can find the 3D model here to download, but be aware that this is only a sketch, it's possible that some measures don't meet the real ones. This is to show the used IKEA furniture. Everything that is colored, is from IKEA. Name Art. Nr. Color Price per Unit 1x VIKA AMON 501.214.53 blue $ 45.00 1x LINNMON ** 802.513.58 blue $ 45.00 2x BILLY 200.857.05 green $ 49.99 2x EBKY JÄRPEN 200.943.47 purple $ 14.99 1x VIKA ANNEFORS 401.624.96 orange $ 40.00 3x VIKA CURRY 101.052.90 yellow $ 3.50 3x VIKA ADILS * 702.179.73 yellow $ 3.50 Total $ 224.46 * It looks like the CURRY is not available anymore. Instead you could go with the ADILS (702.179.73) which is a bit slimmer than the CURRY but price, length and mounting plate seem to be the same. Thanks to Ben for the hint! ** The VIKA ANNEFORS also seems to bi discontinued. The LINNMON table top seems to have the same measures and color. Interestingly IKEA sells some of it's parts with very strange measures. Can anybody tell me why the EBKY JÄRPEN is 119cm long? This causes that the BILLY - EBKY JÄRPEN - BILLY part is only 199cm wide whereas the AMON table top is 200cm. But if you don't know, you will probably not recognise. Another problem is, that some of these products are only available in black-brown and others in black. If you watch closely you can see a little difference, but once again, only if you watch close enough. First of all I started with building up the BILLYs and the ANNEFORS. Then I layed all out on my floor to see if it all works as I had planned. It did, so I mounted the CURRY legs to the AMON to have a working space. On top of that I layed the BILLYs and mounted the JÄRPEN. Here You should be very exact so that the JÄRPEN will be exactly on the same height as the AMON to have a continuous working space. Another shot where you can see the angles that i used to attach the lower JÄRPEN to the BILLYs. I also added some space to get the cables through, even if the desk is put next to a wall. An this is what it looks like with cables. Don't ask me where I got these cable clips from, I don't know how you cal dem and I've got them from a local dealer. So, short check if all turn out as expected. Yep! For cable management and the power plugs on top, I thrilled three holes into the JÄRPEN. Meanwhile I replaced the white switch with a black one. A lot of you guys asked me how i mounted the upper JÄRPEN. It's that simple: Screwed a wooden profile to the BILLYs and put some wood dowel pins in the profile so the JÄRPEN sits firm onto it. I also have a Samson monitor controller to be able to have multiple inputs and set the volume of the studio monitors. This should also be integrated nicely. So I took a piece of plain aluminium and marked it, ... ... bendt it... ... and added some holes for mounting The mixer itself is screwed onto it with 3 screws that are originally supposed to be used for a frame that allows you to mount two of these in a 19-inch-rack. The whole construct is then mounted below the upper JÄRPEN. And this is what it looks like mounted. You know this for sure. As soon as you have some devices including a computer to wire, you have a huge mess and if this is at the floor, you automatically also have the dust. So I was looking for a good solution to order them. First of all I mounted a wood board below the JÄRPEN where the cable canal and the plug boards. In the JÄRPEN I mounted some grommets to get the cables down there. And then I used some fancy cable canals to keep the cables where they should be. I also wanted to have a small 19-inch rack in it. The fact that I needed to raise the Screens about 10cm from the desk made it quite easy to decide, because this is is pretty much 2 rack units plus the thickness of the wood. So I bought a rack rail, some screws and cage nuts and built the rack. It currently gives space for my audio interface and a rack blade. http://ikea.michaelburri.ch/

Dude I have that exact same desk for my dj gear

It's so fucking cheap

Since Twitter was founded in 2006, it has had a 140-character limit. It was based on a restrictive character limit from SMS messaging back in the early 2000’s, before unlimited messaging was even a thing. In the past 10 years, Twitter has grown exponentially into a company that has more than 500 million users, and as of 2012, handled more than 1.6 billion search queries a day. Yesterday, Twitter announced that it was planning to extend the character limit from a restricting, and quite meager, 140 characters to an astounding 10,000. “We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it,” CEO Jack Dorsey wrote in a 1,317 character tweet. “Instead, what if that text…was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted. That’s more utility and power.” Users were quick to lament the decision, praising the brevity and quickness of the platform and worrying that it would become more open to long-form essays like those found on Facebook. However, Twitter is working to ensure that the sleek design of the platform remains the same. For tweets that are longer than 140 characters, users will have to click and expand to see the rest of the text. As users write beyond the 140-character limit, Twitter will signal to them that they have crossed the threshold as a way to encourage brevity. As a platform, Twitter has many advantages over its counterpoint in Facebook. For one, there is no Edgerank algorithm on Twitter; no person’s tweets have a heavier “weight” than any other’s, and therefore all tweets are seen equally. This has allowed artists, celebrities, and DJs to interact more directly and consistently with their audience than on Facebook, where page reach can be limited due to (sometimes arbitrary or confusing) algorithms. Many artists, such as deadmau5, use Twitter far more than any other platform. Deadmau5 in particular is known for his long-winded Twitter diatribes, and the increased character limit could allow people like him to create strong narratives on their favourite platform.

Since file-sharing struck down on the music industry with Napster in 1999, record labels and other music companies have condemned piracy and claimed it to be the industries’ largest threat. On the flip side, people behind file-sharing sites like Peter Sunde believe piracy does not translate into lost sales like labels claim. To prove his point in a concrete manner, Sunde — a co-founder of popular Bit Torrent site Pirate Bay — has constructed a ‘music industry doomsday device’ he calls Kopimashin. Kopimashin is designed to make 100 copies of a track every second. The theoretical cost of these copies is displayed on an LCD screen. “The one running at my home is up to 120 million copies as we speak. That equals $150 million in losses to the recording industry – following their logic,” Sunde says. Sunde’s point behind creating Kopamshin is to demonstrate that copies of music do not translate to the millions of dollars in lost sales that labels have said they incur. “But following their rhetoric and mindset it will bankrupt them. I want to show with a physical example – that also is really beautiful in it’s own way – that putting a price to a copy is futile.” Peter Sunde currently still owes millions after losing the lawsuit against him for founding the Pirate Bay. He apparently has developed 13 Kopimashin devices and plans to have them placed in art exhibitions in addition to selling some. DA

Following the introduction of new turntables from both Technics and Sony, Audio-Technica is getting into the fray with a low-cost record player that’ll beam tunes to your Bluetooth speakers. Audio-Technica has been making affordable quality record players—try the LP-120—for ages, and unlike other brands didn’t abandon making them even though the market collapsed. Now that vinyl’s making a comeback, AT is staying in the game and doing one better—looking to the future. The $180 AT-LP60-BT is a decidedly entry level piece with no flashy features, except that it’ll play the music spinning on the platter over your favorite Bluetooth speaker. What else is there to say? It’s not the first of its kind, but it comes from a trusted brand so you know it won’t ruin your (fledgling) record collection. Source

The week following New Year's Eve has been sadly, but predictably filled with reports of drug-related hospitalizations and deaths. Much of the coverage of these incidents has been full of inaccuracies and misinformation - and dishonest or inaccurate reporting on this topic perpetuates misconceptions that can have deadly consequences. It's important to start this discussion with some definitions. According to the US National Institute of Health's website MedlinePlus: "An overdose is when you take more than the normal or recommended amount of something, usually a drug. An overdose may result in serious, harmful symptoms or death." "Ecstasy" is the most widely used street name for MDMA. MDMA is the abbreviation of 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine. Being a slang term for an illegal drug, there is no official medical definition for "ecstasy," and there are plenty of cases of substances other than MDMA being sold as "ecstasy." However, given the prevalent understanding that "ecstasy" refers to MDMA, it's appropriate to define it as such. So an "ecstasy overdose" death would be a death that resulted directly from the consumption of an excessive quantity of MDMA, regardless of other factors. A brief survey of the medical literature on the matter indicates that these sorts of deaths are incredibly rare - despite what frequent media headlines might suggest. The common use of "overdose" to describe drug-related deaths comes from the history of deaths resulting from actual overdoses of heroin and other opiate drugs. A majority of heroin-related deaths are true overdoses - an excessive quantity of the drug is introduced into the users body and directly causes fatal suppression of the respiratory system, severe drop in blood pressure leading to cardiac arrest, or other physiological conditions resulting in death. By contrast, the vast majority of MDMA-related deaths are the result of heatstroke, which under normal circumstances is not an effect of even large doses of MDMA. Taking MDMA does cause a slight increase in body temperature, and a reduction in the body's normal ability to regulate temperature. When combined with long periods of intense physical activity (like dancing) in a very hot environment (like a 100°F+ dance floor at a music festival) and dehydration, these factors can become deadly. It's crucial to note that normal recreational doses of MDMA will cause this danger under these conditions. When media outlets describe deaths involving heatstroke and MDMA as "ecstasy overdoses," they are creating the false sense that users who take normal doses are not in danger. When users see headlines about "overdose" deaths, they may assume that as long as they don't take too much, they are avoiding these risks - which is absolutely not true. The primary dangers associated with MDMA use at concerts or festivals - excessive heat and insufficient water - are easily avoided if users are educated, and event organizers implement simple harm-reduction measures like abundant free water and cooler temperatures in dance spaces. It's also important to realize that heatstroke commonly causes harm among attendees at music events who haven't taken any drugs, or who've only consumed alcohol. So these measures would protect every attendee, regardless of drug use. Calling MDMA-related deaths "overdoses" also distracts from some of the other risk factors that come with normal (or even small) doses of MDMA for certain people - specifically for people who have preexisting heart problems, and those who are taking certain prescription medications which have dangerous interactions with MDMA. The slight increase in blood pressure and heart rate that MDMA causes are typically not dangerous for healthy people, but in individuals with high blood-pressure, enlarged hearts, arrhythmia, or a number of other heart conditions, these normal side effects can be very dangerous. MDMA affects the body's regulation of the neurotransmitter serotonin in such a way that is not typically dangerous for most people. However, for individuals that are on prescription MAOI (Monoamine Oxidase Inhibiting) drugs, the interaction of the MDMA and the MAOI can cause a dangerous, potentially deadly excessive buildup of serotonin in the body, referred to as serotonin syndrome. In both of these cases, a normal dose of MDMA that would pose little danger to most people, could be fatal. Of course there is another factor that contributes to "ecstasy" deaths - the myriad other drugs that are sold as "ecstasy," many of which are much more dangerous than MDMA. When media outlets report deaths and injuries resulting from drugs other than MDMA, and refer to them as "ecstasy overdoses," they are parroting the dangerous lies of manufacturers and dealers, and perpetuating more dangerous misinformation. Because again, users hear the term "overdose" and assume that as long as they take a reasonable amount, they are avoiding danger. But many of the other drugs sold as "ecstasy" can be deadly at doses that MDMA would be relatively harmless at. The proliferation of these dangerous compounds is the direct result of prohibition, as production is pushed into unregulated black markets, and drug manufacturers constantly invent new compounds to circumvent laws prohibiting known drugs such as MDMA. The simplest solution to this danger would be to encourage users to test their drugs before ingesting, to ensure they are not taking something far more dangerous than they expected. But sadly, disastrous legislation such as The RAVE Act has instead made drug testing less accessible by threatening event organizers with harsh penalties for any harm reduction measures that could be construed as encouraging or facilitating use. While there are countless social, political, and economic factors needed to end the incredible harm caused by the War on Drugs, the media plays an essential role. Taking a drug like MDMA can never be totally safe, but accurate knowledge of the real dangers, and of measures to minimize these dangers, can prevent a huge percentage of tragic outcomes. It is long past time media outlets take greater responsibility for reporting accurately and honestly on drug related harm - instead of exploiting tragedies for the sake of sensational headlines. Some of the information in, and inspiration for this editorial came from this article written by Emanuel Sferios and Missi Wooldridge of DanceSafe. If you want to help fight to make life saving education and harm reduction more accessible at music events, sign the petition to amend The RAVE ACT: https://www.amendtheraveact.org/ Source

It's pretty fucked that's for sure. People are never lost in the moment any more because they're too busy trying to fucking capture it

Vinyl is back. Even Sony is getting in on the game with the PS-HX500, a hi-res turntable that allows music lovers to digitize their record collections. The PS-HX500 stores the sounds stemming from your vinyl via USB, up to DSD quality. It features an anti-vibration and anti-skipping design, and it's due to launch in the spring for an undetermined price. Check out the PS-HX500 in the video below: Source

This sort of crazy light shit is going on

I'll see if I can find any pics of the tour he's doing now

Some clips of his old gigs \\

yeah word. I'll be focussing on getting a production/radio studio setup And I still have my stantons to last me until they release

Some screenshots here: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/four_tet_2016.aspx One of the most inventive electronic producers of his generation, Four Tet continues his prodigious streak and acclaimed performances by undertaking his first Concert Hall appearance with a specially-crafted show. One of the most inventive electronic producers of his generation, Keiran Hebden (aka Four Tet) makes his first Concert Hall appearance in his 20-year career - ringing in the new year with a specially-crafted Opera House debut. Including live 3D lighting and design, this exclusive performance will span the meditative and effortlessly pretty Morning/Evening and a life's work of euphoric, club-inspired cuts. Initially breaking through with an Aphex Twin remix celebrating Warp Records' 10 th anniversary, Kieren Hebden has proved another boundary-pushing graduate of London's Elliot School alongside The xx, Burial and Hot Chip. Pursuing pastoral melodic figures across a vinyl-addict's enthusiasm for genre-hopping, the Four Tet sonic stamp began to gain dance-fuelled momentum with 2010's There Is Love In You . A regular DJ fixture at the late legendary club Plastic People with friends and collaborators Thom Yorke, Jamie xx, Caribou and Floating Points, Hebden's heartfelt touch has led him to shed traditional artist-audience barriers with streams of free music and a regular flow of albums. Guided by the desire 'to look back when I'm an old man and have these records tell a story', Four Tet's latest stroke sees him return to sun-dappled psychedelia through two raga-inspired odysseys. Gaining a reputation for surprising Sydney by premiering his Jamie xx collaboration 'Seesaw' on FBi and unveiling an hour-long mix of unreleased material with triple j, Four Tet will now raise the stakes of live electronics on a new stage that sees him take on the Opera House in a new chapter of his startlingly innovative career.

Don't think I'd care too much about the limited edition ones, they're just for rich cunts and I'd want to buy them first-hand or nothing. I've always wanted 1200s so I might get a pair when they come out.

Yeah I think I read that it's his first massive music hall gig, but the 3D show he's putting on looks fucking insane

How hard would it be to get a pair of these do you reckon?

Gutted. They're all dope. He's playing at the fucking Opera House tonight in Sydney. Wish I knew about it earlier it looks fucking amazing

Tracklist: ADJF Intro Tchami feat. AC Slater & Kaleem Taylor - Missing You East & Young - Elevate Mark Knight - Second Story Bart B More & Modek - Velour Hardrive - Deep Inside (Shadow Child Remix) Rescue - Here and Now The Cube Guys & Groovebox - Uptight My Digital Enemy - Getting Ready Styline - Rose DJ Tonio - Bigger Than Yours (Olivier Giacomotto Remix) Fat Sushi - Warehouse Ante Perry feat. Nod One's Head - Changes (Instrumental)