It’s probably my own selectively myopic view of the DJ universe, but it seems as if so-called “all-in-one” or “standalone”…
It’s said that time flies when you’re having fun, and boy, how it flies. It just doesn’t seem that long…
The music products universe seems to be dominated primarily by companies that get their reputation by doing one or two…
By the time you read this review, it will have been almost a year since DJ Times editor Jim Tremayne…
PreSonus is one of those companies that, quite frankly, seems to have its fingers in a little bit of everything…
It feels as if I’ve said this a lot in recent years, but as I survey the DJ hardware and…
At the NAMM show in Anaheim, Calif., this past January, I got a demo of a product from a rather…
Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of sampling some of the gear from Baton Rouge, La.-based PreSonus Audio Electronics.…
If you think you’re experiencing a bit of déjà vu right about now, well, perhaps you are. In the last…
I’ve had the opportunity over the years to review in-ear monitors, or IEMs, more than once — and I’m definitely…
At Winter NAMM this year (back when we all felt just fine about traveling and congregating in masses), DJ Times…
Mastering — the process of getting a piece of recorded music ready for distribution — is equal parts art and…
My very first review for DJ Times was of a Hercules DJ controller, and I’ve watched the company as it’s…
I’m a long-time fan of in-ear monitors, or IEMs. I like the way they sound, and I like the passive…
At the Winter NAMM show this past January, as DJ Times editor Jim Tremayne and I were making our way…
Over the 11-plus years that I’ve been writing for DJ Times, I’ve seen a lot of hardware and a lot…
Looking to make your studio monitors truly optimized? Isolators are the solution, and I recently tested 2 solutions from Canada’s IsoAcoustics.…
From Gibson Brands comes KRK Systems, makers of fine studio monitors, like its popular Rokit series. After gaining plenty of…
Anaheim, Calif. – After four full days walking the aisles at the spacious Anaheim Convention Center, Winter NAMM 2020 is…
To make our NAMM 2020 review complete, on Day 4 of the show, DJ Times made one last pass through…
The NAMM Show 2020 at the Anaheim Convention Center began winding down on Day 3, nonetheless, some things stood out…
On Day 2 at NAMM Show 2020 we saw something for everyone in the DJ world – club, mobile and…
Anaheim, Calif. – Today was the first day of NAMM 2020, and though DJ Times had more than a dozen…
I’m going to make a confession here right from the start: As a longtime DJ, I’ve become fanatical about hearing…
While I’ve written for this magazine for over a decade now (it’s true that time does fly when you’re having…
It’s been several years now since Cumberland, R.I.-based inMusic Brands first started corralling some of the biggest names in DJ…
It wasn’t that long ago — just last year, actually — that you would have been forgiven for thinking that…
Clear back in 2006 when I first started DJing, I made an arbitrary decision in the heat of the moment…
One of the most fundamental components of any studio set-up is the audio interface — the hardware needed to get…
The first review I ever wrote for this magazine was over a decade ago now, and while the original draft…
Back at the Winter NAMM Show in January 2018, I was introduced to a new product from a small outfit…
Anyone who uses technology a great amount these days is very likely availing themselves of a concept that has become…
Anaheim, Calif. – This past weekend (Jan. 24-27), DJ Times set out on its annual new-gear quest by hitting the…
It was way back in the Summer of 2017 when I first put my hands on the latest kit from…
I can speak from personal experience that two of the greatest challenges in building out a home music studio are…
When one thinks of professional audio and leaders in the field, one of the names that inevitably comes to the…
One of the trickiest (and at times most frustrating) parts of creating recorded music is mixing and mastering. Broadly speaking,…
It’s just not every day that we see a major new release of Ableton’s flagship product, Live. Heck, it’s not…
There’s no question that there are a lot of DJ controllers on the market these days — all-in-one control and…
The Roland DJ-202 and DJ-505 controllers followed the DJ-808 controller, Roland’s first foray into the DJ market in 2016. With…
Not long ago, I reviewed Native Instruments’ Komplete 11, the Berlin-based company’s preeminent collection of software synths and effects. But…
Anaheim, Calif. – Another January, another Winter NAMM Show moved to the done pile. As usual, I attended NAMM with…
For those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember those heady, early days of the Internet – say,…
It’s interesting to me that when it comes to DJ gear, there are essentially three market segments: The high-end—i.e., the…
At the recent DJ Expo in Atlantic City, I participated in a DJ-tech panel discussion with DJ Times editor Jim…
Atlantic City, N.J. – In nearly a decade of writing for this magazine, I’ve somehow managed to repeatedly miss the…
Last month, I took a peek at Denon DJ’s incredible new SC5000 Prime media player. (Refer to the September 2017…
It’s been roughly three years now since Rhode Island-based inMusic Brands added Denon DJ to its expanding portfolio of brands,…
When I first received the press release for the Bassboss SV8 active loudspeakers, I was immediately intrigued: Here’s a speaker…
This past January, during my annual trek to Anaheim, Calif., for the Winter NAMM Show, there were a few things…
This is the second of a two-part review where DJ Times takes a look at new additions to the Apple’s…
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part review that takes a look at new additions to the Apple’s…
Back in 2014, I took a look at what was then the new UR44 audio interface from Yamaha’s Steinberg. I…
I’ve had a home studio for several years. But it was the process of building a new semi-custom home a…
The first review I ever wrote for this magazine was one for a Hercules DJ controller and, in the years…
It has been over 13 years since Germany’s Native Instruments first threw some of its best studio software-synth and effects…
Studio Boom: KRK’s sub family.
Anaheim, Calif. – My annual trek to Southern California for the Winter NAMM show with DJ Times editor Jim Tremayne…
The Roland DJ-808: imagine a DJ controller and software set-up that provides four decks’ worth of the usual DJ capabilities,…
At the moment I’m writing this article, I find myself just weeks away from making January travel arrangements for Anaheim,…
As I’ve noted before on these pages, it truly is a great time to be a musician or producer. Not…
It was just before Christmas back in 2011 that Gibson—best known as the maker of guitars of the same name—went…
This is a good time to be a music creator; at no time in the history of recorded music has…
iZotope VocalSynth Plug-In Since the 1970s, artists and producers have been looking to create interesting vocal treatments using various technology…
As fast as technology seems to move, from time to time I’m reminded about how slowly some seemingly obvious ideas…
When I started DJing about a decade or so ago, I was a bit of an early adopter, I suppose.…
It was just over two years ago that the seemingly always-growing, Rhode Island-based inMusic Brands added Denon DJ to its…
The first review I ever wrote for DJ Times was for a DJ controller from Hercules, the brand name in…
It was back in Spring 2013 when I first had a chance to play with Ableton’s initial foray into hardware:…
As I write this review, it’s been about a year since the renowned private-equity firm KKR acquired a majority stake…
For students of modern music and musicians of a certain age (this is where I cough innocently, I think), the…
In preparing my review of the Prophet-6, I stumbled across a recently released new book that traces the fascinating history…
One undeniable trend in both music production and DJing is that software developers are working overtime to leverage the prevalence…
Anaheim, Calif. – For kids making the trek to Anaheim, Disneyland and everything it offers may well be the thing…
The seemingly ever-expanding prevalence of Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software, such as Ableton Live, BitWig, Logic Pro, Cubase, Pro Tools,…
At the heart of electronic music (and for that matter, numerous other modern music genres) is the venerable synthesizer. And…
One of the things I love most about reviewing music technology for these pages is stumbling across innovative ideas hanging…
It is indeed a pretty rare technology that has true staying power that spans decades. The telephone comes to mind.…
Earlier this year, I made the decision sell the small bungalow I’ve called home for years, and build a new…
One of the first reviews I recall writing for these pages was about a DJ controller from Hercules, the market-facing…
Building a Home Studio Requires Some Attention to Detail, But Not as Much Money as You Might Think There’s no…