January 2009
Carl Cox: NI Traktor demo for the masses
Favourite friend of Factory Sound - and legendary DJ to boot - Carl Cox (the original 3 deck wizard) always brings a smile to our face when he's in town. Seems he was rather busy this time around. Carl was interviewed by HeraldSun entertainment writer Nui Te Koha, with the focus on digital technology for DJing.
- Read the interview
- See Carl using Traktor at his home studio for the HeraldSun multimedia presentation.
You'll soon see why Carl has been at the top of the DJ tree since first being named number 1 DJ in the world in 1997.
You can see some of Carl's work from last year on an old Factory Sound TV episode. Sure, you'll see Dean getting a little messy...
Of course, if you want to see the gear in question ... Native Instruments Traktor Pro & Tracktor Scratch Pro
Pioneer BigWigs fly in to Factory
Well here's something that doesn't happen every day...
Factory Sound hosted Pioneer dignitaries from Japan and a new Managing Director of Pioneer Australia today, with a tour of our shop and informal discussion on the agenda.
Pioneer is definitely a company that knows where they've come from, where they're headed and how they're going to get there. We know that by keeping our nose to the grindstone, instead of in the food trough... and by keeping a foot in the door instead of in our mouth, we're going all the way with them!
If you'd like to keep up with Pioneer, keep an eye on factorysound.com - or just come on in.
We'll make sure you get looked after.
As usual, with Dean having not only his finger on the pulse, but every tentacle wrapped around where Pioneer Pro DJ is headed, he cut short a holiday to make sure he gave the word on the street.
In return he got exciting new product whispers, and a big discussion about all things Pioneer Pro DJ.
It wasn't all business and information think-tank...we had time for a group hug, huddled around the DigitalForce7000 pack.
Here's a few more pics from the night:
PreSonus StudioLive
We had an entertaining visit this week from the brand new (soon-to-be released) PreSonus StudioLive16.4.2 digital console. After a quick introduction, we took it for a tour around the shop.
With a couple of firewire ports on board, StudioLive was looking comfortable, lounging on the couch in our monitor listening room. Being rackmountable and weighing in at just 10 kg, we figured StudioLive would be well suited to life on the road also.
Yep, we were right.
Then for the bench testing...we did some side-by-side (and back panel to back panel) comparisons against other 16 channel consoles we have in stock. StudioLive16.4.2 has all the ins and outs you'd normally see: 16x XLR inputs, 16x 1/4" Line inputs, 16x channel insert points. You also get direct outputs for channels 1-16 (via 2 x DB25).
Of course, the undeniable benefit of a digital mixer is the processing power on board, and StudioLive16.4.2 has got plenty for every in and out point of your mix, which leads us to...
Fat Channel
The control section of the mixer is very easy to get hands on. There's enough faders to do what you need quickly, and it's also super-simple to select the 'fat channel' control section for any of the inputs, aux sends, sub groups or master outputs. Fat Channel is the bright blue heart of the console., giving you instant access to all the controls you'd need.
Here's what Presonus have to say about their Fat Channel:
"...engaged by pressing any 'select' button, features extensive equalisation and dynamics available to every input channel, every aux output, every subgroup output, and main output. High pass filter, and four-band semi-parametric equalization algorithms are based on PreSonus’ custom-designed digital EyeQ™ equaliser, delivering extremely musical results. Also included in the Fat Channel are compressors, limiters and gates modeled after PreSonus’ award-winning ACP88 for complete dynamics control."
Did we mention 2 x dedicated internal effects...
Our new friend StudioLive16.4.2 even managed to time the visit to coincide with customers who ask all the right questions. Take John Hall for example... he's a regular user of Midas analogue and DiGiCo digital consoles, working as house engineer at Melbourne venues. No doubt he gets plenty of experience with other boards while touring Australia and US. For him, StudioLive was appealing as it offered a quick, portable (and well-priced) way of controlling a bunch of in-ear monitors for tours - especially doing festival shows where want to just patch in and get your ears going in next to no time.
It's settled then. Looks like StudioLive16.4.2 has got it's own spot at Factory Sound.
Stay tuned for further updates. If you simply can't wait, go here to download the brochure, or here to download the manual. Nice one PreSonus.
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