American DJ Strobe Effects

Never at a loss for new lighting products, American DJ has come up with two new strobe effects, the Cyclo-Tron II and the Mega Strobe/DMX. Weighing 20 pounds, The Cyclo-Tron II is a retro-style strobe that’s designed to give your party a trippy ’60s feel. The strobe has four lenses in four different colors for a total of 32 lenses and rotates 360-degrees. The Cyclo-Tron II’s base and head rotate separately, controlled by a knob. It comes with a mounting plate and a ZB-300, 750-watt lamp with a 50 million flash life. The Mega Strobe/DMX, which, obviously, uses DMX protocol, is a 750-watt beam designed for the largest of clubs, roller rinks and arenas. This smart strobe’s DMX signal lets you change its speed from one to 15 flashes per second using American DJ’s SS-DMX/19C, Show Designer, DMX Operator or Scene Setter. The Mega Strobe has input /output jacks on its back, external 100-percent dimming control and a rear speed control knob. It even comes with a bracket for mounting and, measuring 13-x-11-x-6-inches, the seven-pound strobe is designed to be portable. A ZB-300, 750-watt lamp with a 50-million flash life comes with it.
American DJ 4295
Charter Street Los Angeles, CA 90058
(800) 322-7336
www.americandj.com

The Entertainer

Stage Accompany’s E 27 is the latest addition to its Entertainer Series line. A compact, medium-power, full-range loudspeaker, it’s designed to relieve you of the need for additional bass cabinets. Here are the specifics: It has a frequency range of 55 Hz, continuous 400W power, a 4-inch voice coil and is prewired for Dynamic Damping Control (DDC). DDC, says the company, uses a feedback signal to actively compensate for the speaker cable resistance. This is designed to give you tight mid and bass reproduction when you use it with a DDC-equipped amplifier. A bass reflex vent is on the back of the cabinet, for optimized acoustic coupling and to prevent pesky dust spots on the grill. The speaker’s cabinet is a horizontal trapezoidal shape and comes in a bunch of different colors.
Stage Accompany
Anodeweg 4
1627 LJ Hoorn
Netherlands
+31 229 282930

The MixMeister
The MixMeister 2.0, new from MixMeister Technology, is designed to help you build your magnum opus without breaking a sweat. Beginning with some MP3 or Wave files, the MixMeister automatically detects the BPM and lets you edit “snap-to-beat.” This version lets you save the mix as a wave file and can create track files, ready made for CD-R. The MixMeister 2.0 is available in two versions. The free version gives you mixing, playback and control features. The not-free version adds saving and exporting to the program. Both can be downloaded at www.mixmeister.com.
MixMeister Technology
12331 93rd Ave. NE
Kirkland, WA 98034
(425) 821-3470
www.mixmeister.com

Bixonic Distortion

Godlyke, Inc.’s EXP-2001 Bixonic Expandora II is a distortion pedal designed to twist your tone as well as your tongue. The pedal features all of the tones of the original EXP-2000 Expandora but without the internal DIP switches. These switches have been replaced with an external Drive knob so you can do precise on-the-fly tweaks without opening the back of the pedal. Also, this version of the Expandora has an increased frequency response, designed to make it sound better without sacrificing the transparency and dynamic responsiveness. Other features include true bypass switching, Front panel Drive, Gain, Tone and Level controls, LED effect status/input level indicators and a nine-volt or AC Adapter power. The Expandora II sits nicely in a retro-style round chassis.
GodLyke, Inc.
328 Mason Ave.
Haledon, NJ 07508
(973) 835-2100
www.godlyke.com

American Audio's ProDJ3

The ProDJ3 from American Audio is a single CD player designed after the DCD-PRO500 Dual CD Player, for DJs who like the dual CD player’s features but a single CD player’s function. The ProDJ3 can recall and store up to 40 pre-created samples and can recall loops and cue points. It has six flash start buttons, so you can create, store and recall samples (up to 2.6 seconds) on-the-fly. Whenever the flash button is hit, your stored sample will come on, even if you’ve switched CDs. Six samples per CD side can be stored on the buttons. This CD player is designed to offer Fader Cue Start when hooked up to any of American Audio’s Q-Series mixers. Using this feature, you can program up to six different cue points on a CD, then when the PRODJ3 is hooked up to the mixer, you can crossfade directly to a pre-programmed cue point. Other features include Seamless Loop and True Instant Start, 8x over sampling, digital output, selectable pitch control (+\- 8, 12- or 16-percent) and on- the-fly-editing. It has a Bop Effect and a four-speed interactive jog wheel designed to be used for pitch bend or frame search. Relay Playback lets you link two CD players by a cable so when a disk is finished playing in one unit, the second will start playing automatically.
American Audio
4295 Charter Street
Los Angeles, CA 90058
(800) 322-7336
www.americandj.com

SKB's DJ Station Has Wings
SKB Corporation wants to help you organize with its DJ Station and DJ Wings. The DJ Station gives you two RU’s for your power amps or dual CD players on the bottom rack. The middle rack gives you five RU’s for your mixer and the top rack can fit most CD controllers. The DJ Wings, if you attach it on top of SKB’s Gig Rig and Mini Gig Rig, is designed to give you extra space and versatility for your turntables, DJ Stations and any other type of gadget you can think of.
SKB Corporation
1607 North O’Donnell Way
Orange, CA 92867
(800) 410-2024
(714) 637-1252

ADJ's Rainbow 250

American DJ targets clubs and bars with its latest lighting product, the Rainbow 250. This unit is a two-channel, DMX compatible dimmable color changer featuring seven dichroic colors, including white. Designed for greater accuracy, its lighting and brightness are divided between two channels, so that lighting is controlled by the unit’s first channel while the second channel controls brightness. The Rainbow 250 can be used with any DMX controller, sold separately, like ADJ’s Show Designer. It also features Master/Slave XLR linkability, so that it can be hooked up with other units and can expand its light show to fit any size venue. A sound-active lighting fixture, the Rainbow 250 can also be used as a stand-alone color changer without a controller. It has built-in chase programs for those of you who don’t want to program your own lighting programs. Weighing 16 pounds, the Rainbow 250 is covered by a one-year limited warranty and comes with a 24-volt, 250-watt lamp with a 300-hour lamp life. It’s fan-cooled and comes with a hanging bracket designed for easy mounting.
American DJ
4295 Charter Street
Los Angeles, CA 90058
(800) 322-6337
www.americandj.com

BitHeadz Tubes, Tines & Transistors
From Bitheadz straight to your computer comes “Tubes, Tines and Transistors” sample library in native Unity DS-1 format. Brought together with the help of keyboard player and sound designer David Kerzner, a variety of keyboard and synthesizer samples, using the BitHeadz Unity DS-1 sample engine, brings organ, electric piano and classic analog synth sounds to your computer. The sample library includes more than 300 megabytes ranging from the classic Hammond B3 to vintage Oberheim, Moog, Sequential and ARP synthesizers. The sample programs have a range of different filter settings, modulation routings and effects. Tubes, Tines & Transistors comes with the Unity sample playback engine, which - without any additional hard or software - is designed to give you a solution for previewing and playing samples. It also gives you access to banks and programs. And worry not if you have other audio and MIDI equipment; all the necessary drivers are included so you can integrate with third party sequencing software and sound cards.
BitHeadz, Inc.
4400 Capitola Road
Suite 202
Capitola, CA 95010
(831) 465-9898
www.bitheadz.com

Red Line's Beambox
The Beambox from Red Line is a laser projector that has green and red 5-mw lasers that lets two beam apertures to be used, at full power, at the same time. The projector can produce fans, or flat sheets of laser light, as well as beams. When the projector is in stand-alone mode, you can run its chase patterns in AUTO or AUDIO with a built-in microphone. You can choose from the built-in chase programs and its speed using a hand-held IR remote or through DMX control. The Beambox also lets you program your own chases with the IR remote or through DMX control.
Red Line, Inc.
1935 Fernwood Trail Drive
St. Louis, MO 63031
(314) 831-3041
www.redline-lasers.com

Audio-Technica's Wireless Mic

Audio-Technica’s AT889cW is a noise-canceling headworn microphone designed for use with all A-T UniPak wireless transmitters. Designed to hold up to backbreaking activities (because we all know how dangerous a conga line can get) while still maintaining intelligible and consistent sound, the AT889cW is moisture resistant and features cushioned earpieces so your ears don’t get sore. Head and neck bands let you adjust the mic’s placement and a cable clip and windscreen are included.
Audio Technica U.S., Ltd.
1221 Commerce Drive
Stow, Ohio 44224
www.audio-technica.com

Lava!'s Ultimate Experience
LAVA.com releases a new version of its Lava!Player, designed specifically to let WinAmp users in on the interactive 3D visuals. The Lava! Player V2.5, designed to synchronize with the Nullsoft WinAmp audio player, runs high-res, audio driven “videos” on your PC while you listen to MP3 files. Lava! is designed to let you create, customize and distribute your own 3D music videos to move in sync with the music and user interaction. In addition, this version can be viewed on a variety of audio formats supported by WinAmp, like CD audio, MP3, WAV and MIDI. Dynamic Scene Compression and Scaling is included to wipe out the need for you to have higher-end PC and 3D graphic cards to view LAVA!’s media display. Scene compression scales your LAVA! scenes based on your system’s performance characteristics.
Creative Technology Ltd.
1523 Cimarron Plaza
Stillwater, OK 74075
(408) 546-6748
www.creative.com