From Vinyl To Plastic

We are living in a world of technology! This is the age of cyber links and computer generated everything; from people to entire worlds. Needless to say, the "Art of D.Jaying" has undergone a few transformations of it's own as result of today's technological advancements. I can still remember hauling around those crates of albums to the various venues I worked on and those huge speakers that I had to move with a dolly! And unless I had access to a van or truck, I had to rent one just to move everything. Well, those days are over! Now I can pretty much toss everthing I need in the back of my S.U.V and I'm off to the races. Instead of albums, now all I use are C.Ds and don't even have to use that many of them anymore because most of my music is being played from my laptop!


I use the "Prodigy F/X" a lot now when I'm working small venues and I take C.Ds with me just for performance purpose. The effects on the Prodigy won't initiate from the laptop alone. You need to have your CD inserted for them to work for you. I also keep the CDs handy for using the Pioneer CDJ-400 players and the separate effects units (like the pioneer EFX-1000.) All of this is smaller and lighter than the equippment I used when I still played tracks from records. The speakers being used today are much smaller and lighter too! and in my opinion, they sound even better than those huge monsters I used to haul around! A good choice for speaker cabinets I found were the JBL-PRX512M powered speaker cabinets. They're compact and have a self contained amplifier that delivers a true quality sound! For added low frequency you may want to include a separate sub woofer cabinet and Behringer offers a great bargain with the Eurolive VP1800S. As I said, all of this is easy to move in a mid sized S.U.V and real quick to set up!

So if you're new to the D.J. business these are just a few products that you might want to take a look at and If you've been out there for awhile already but haven't started using some of the newer technology available; take a look at these. My next blog will contain a few tips on how you can use some of these products to improve your performance. Until next time, stay in the mix!