Sound Features & Tips

5 budget studio mics to maximize your home recordings

Considering buying a mic and feel that you need to lash out on a high end mic that you don’t have the budget for right now, why not look at an entry budget mic to get you started until you can afford that 10k-20k priced mic, there are some pretty surprising mics out there that you might think because of their price are not good enough to capture that perfect vocal moment , but based on many reviews and results nothing is further from the truth, we took it upon ourselves to research the entry level studio mic market and came up with 5 top awesome mics for their buck available in the South African Market.

The Follow up - Oh the Dj license...

The Dj license debacle has been trending through media for the last 3 weeks or so, last week I authored and article for this blog with the opinion derived from us asking SAMRO some questions regarding their take on the license, which tended to create more of a confusion based on the point that Dj’s paying for a license and the playing in a licensed venue still places forward the question of the double dipping factor where it reflects double payment for a dj performing to public once through the venue license and then again through this requested DJ License that SAMRO claims to be insisting that every DJ has , otherwise perceiving it as law to enforce a dj to take on this license, and how the distribution of these license get to the owners of the music

Playing with USB's... Organize your music

Since the advent of the usb port on CDJ’s I’ve seen a majority of djs shifting over to this new medium, what surprises me is many of the local dj’s here in South Africa overlook using softwares to organize their music they tend to just copy folders over to their sticks and comfortably play off this organizing system , however considering using a software to help you organize, could have major benefits in the way you organize your music and the way you perform it, leading the pack in the music organizing software is Pioneer’s very own REKORDBOX packs a punch in the way you keep your music organized on your sticks as well as on your laptop , look at it as an iTunes for dj’s

Learning the plastic for new Dj's

With the speedy progression of technology in the Dj realm, the vinyl era though still embraced by a small ethnic dj community has all but been forgotten in the new age world of djing with midi controllers , sync buttons and array of gadgets to assist Dj and new dj coming in to the industry , one usually ask the question if there are any advantages into learning to play on vinyl, well myself coming from a vinyl era find that there is an emmiensce advantage to consider as a new Dj to take up learning the basic spinning of the Vinyl , in no way is this a way for me to talk down new age Digital Dj's , it is just even though playing vinyl is a vintage form of Djing there are a few advantages that will give you an edge to your djing even if your choice of weapons are CDJ's,Controllers or DVS's here I have listed some of most imoportant reasons:

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Sound Features & Tips

5 budget studio mics to maximize your home recordings

The Follow up - Oh the Dj license...

Playing with USB's... Organize your music

Learning the plastic for new Dj's

Get your focus on

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