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American
Audio's Pro Scratch 1
American Audio’s Pro Scratch 1 is a single
CD player that scratches like a turntable. It has a platter-like
wheel on top of the CD player that has grooves and a finger
indentation so you can crab scratch to your heart’s content
and trick all your friends into thinking you’re doing it on
vinyl. The Pro Scratch 1 comes with three Flash Start Buttons
so you can store and recall three separate samples of up to
seven seconds. You can also overlay the samples on top of a
playing CD. Other features, like Seamless Loop and Reverse Spin
let you repeat tracks and backpedal. Flange, Echo, Coast, Fade,
a Trans and Bop effects are built into the CD player to save
you from spending your hard-earned dollars on an outboard effects
processor.
American DJ
4295 Charter Street
Los Angeles, CA 90058
(800) 322-6337
www.americandj.com
Gemini's
SA 2400
Brand spankin’ new from Gemini is the SA-2400 direct drive,
quartz-lock turntable. In hi-gloss black finish, this turntable
gives you Gemini’s G-Force, height adjustable straight tone
arm and an angled headshell designed specifically to work with
your conical and elliptical styli. Other features include a
locking platter reverse button, set to battle position, and
a three-speed design with 33 RPM, 45 RPM and 78 RPM speeds.
For your investment, you also get plus or minus 10-percent pitch
control, pitch bend, pop-up target light, anti-skate adjustment,
strobe illuminator and a soft touch start/stop button.
Gemini Sound Products
8 Germak Drive
Carteret, NJ 07008
(732) 969-9000
www.geminidj.com
Audio-Technica
Improved UHF Series
For those of you who need to operate multiple wireless systems
amid lots of RF congestion, there’s good news. Audio-Technica
expanded its 7000 Series Multi-Channel UHF Wireless to include
systems with 100 frequencies in the 600 MHz range. These new
systems include the ATW-7373x handheld condenser system, the
ATW-7375x Unipak transmitter system and the ATW-7376x handheld
dynamic system. The 7000 series was originally introduced with
operation in the 700 MHz frequency band and offered a choice
of 100 PLL-synthesized channels with true diversity operation
for users in areas with RF congestion. Best of all, the new
frequencies are designed to allow more systems to be used at
once.
Audio-Technica
1221 Commerce Drive
Stow, OH 44224
(330) 686-2600
www.audio-technica.com
Who's The
Boss?
Version 2.0 of Cronst Inc.’s MusicBoss
MP3 software sports a few improvements sure to send DJs running
straight to the nearest Software Etc. Using the CDDB Internet
service, this new version features a Grabber function that lets
you retrieve song information, like artist, song title, genre,
year, BPM, label, without typing in a thing. The info is then
stored with the completed MP3 file in a database that can be
used throughout the entire program. MusicBoss also has five
other modules like Air Studio, the DJ’s main control area; Music
Vault, a database interface that gives you control over your
music collection; Event, which lets you create your ideal show
in advance; Utilities, allowing you to switch formats from WAV
to MP3 and back in a batch process; and Prod Room, which lets
you edit audio files in either MP3 or WAV formats.
CRONST, Inc.
1006 SE Peterson
Ankey, IA 50021
573-449-8433
www.musicboss.com
Koss Frees
Your Hands
Listen
up multi-system owners. Koss’ CS/25 is a single-sided headphone
with an electret microphone so you can sip your coffee and talk
at the same time, spill-free. It features Koss’ Clear-Voice
Technology noise reduction circuitry, so the loudmouth right
next to you won’t blow your customer’s eardrum out too. The
CS/25 also has an extended frequency of 10-16,000Hz. Its boom
mic lets you move it around and an adjustable headband adapts
to your head, no matter how big. It’s designed to be used with
RF cordless or cell phones.
Koss Corporation
4129 Port Washington Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53212
(800) USA-KOSS
(414) 964-5000
www.koss.com
SKB's Mixer
Cases
The
new SKB 3026 and SKB 4031 mixer safes are part of its line of
four. These safes fit over 90-percent of the mixers on the market.
“Corner Cleats” on the SKB 3026 and the SKB 4031 make sure your
non-rackmountable mixers feel snuggly. A heavy duty molded HDPE
shell with molded in bumpers and non- skid feet to insure stability.
SKB Cases
8811 N.W. 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33172
(305) 592-8383
www.skbcases.com
Gemini's
CDS-1000
Gemini’s CDS-1000 CD player features
seamless loop, 20 seconds of anti-shock buffer memory and multi-function
LED display. The CD player also has playback display, search
jog wheel, search dial, three times displays, cue to music,
cue/B exit and cue/B return. And that’s not all. The CDS-1000
also gives you single auto cue/continuous function, robo start,
BNC digital output jack and variable pitch control with 4-percent,
8-percent and 16-percent varipitch along with pitch bend buttons.
Gemini Sound Products
8 Germak Drive
Carteret, NJ 07008
(732) 969-9000
Fax: (732) 969-9090
www.geminidj.com
TASCAM's X-9 Mixer
TASCAM’s
X-9 is a four-channel mixer with two built-in digital effects
processors, with a slew of effects on them. It has two samplers
so you have a lot of creative control. It’s got a flexible EQ
controls with storable effects and EQ patterns. It’s got analog
and digital inputs and outputs. You can customize the faders
and routing can be customized to what you need. All of the faders
have curve control so you can adjust them to your specific style.
So, for example, you can set up different stages of adjustability
to work with the DJ in this way.
TASCAM
7733 Telegraph Road
Montebello, CA 906740
(323) 726-0303
www.tascam.com
American
Audio Adds To Q-Series
The
Q-MX1 and Q-MX2BPM are two new additions to American Audio’s
Q-Series. Offering Fader Q Start and designed for scratching,
both of these mixers have a selectable crossfader curve and
a Feather Fader Plus for smoother and faster crossfades. This
feature has VCA voltage control that has a voltage signal that
operates the fader, rather than mechanical sliders, so no matter
how hard you scratch, you won’t wear out any sliders. Both mixers
have three channels, three phono lines, 4 lines and 3 mics and
have balanced XLR outputs so they can be hooked directly into
powered speakers. One of the Q-MX2BPM’s new features is the
Auto Trans Effect, which, when you hold down the crossfader
assign button, lets you create a “stuttering” effect. Another
feature is an automatic BPM display, push-button kill switches
for bass, mid and treble so when all three switches are on,
the output is 100-percent. Both mixers are designed to be used
with the Pro Scratch 1 single CD player.
American Audio
4295 Charter Street
Los Angeles, CA 90058
(213) 582-3322
www.americandj.com
Tsunami's
Box Top Mixer/Amp
Tsunami
Technologies’ “boxtop” mixer/amplifier features three amplifier
channels that give you 1,000 watts of TTidal wave power. So
what, you ask? The 45-pound system’s laundry list of features
also includes eight balanced lo-z mic inputs, two convertible
stereo or dual line inputs, three-band channel EQ, monitor and
effects busses, stereo pan, HP filter and adjustable gain on
each input, break mute switch, 9-band stereo master GEQ and
monitor GEQ, 256 multi-channel digital effects, two 400W master
channels and a 200W monitor channel.
Tsunami Technologies
459 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 776-9705
www.tsunamitechnologies.com
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