mixers

Vehicles

How Live HD TV Is Made: A Look Inside Sony’s Outside Broadcast Vans

1:34PM Nick Broughall | From the outside, it looks like a regular truck: Your typical Isuzu chassis with a van on the back. If you drove past it on the road, you’d barely notice it. But when you step inside, it’s a wonderland of dials, knobs, screens and buttons – a technological nerdgasm – and it’s what makes your coverage of live sports events so entertaining. And yesterday at SMPTE09, I got to take a look inside two custom trucks built especially for Thoroughbred Racing Productions (TRP). More »
Gadgets

Stanton DaScratch SCS.3D DJ Pad Is All Touch Sensitive, Combines Mixer and Turntable In One Device

10:59AM Adrian Covert | Stanton’s new DaScratch USB-MIDI Tool is unique because it relies completely on touch technology to mix and manipulate music. With the possibility for 5 touch sensitive sliders, 19 touch sensitive buttons, and one giant, touch friendly rotary control (read: the big record-like circle in the middle), it appears you can run the show with little more than a laptop and one (maybe two) of these. More »
Gadgets

Super-Sleek Aurora Open Source DJ Mixer Can Be Built From a Kit

8:00AM John Mahoney | We love open source hardware, especially when it can throw some MIDI flange and fade into your party like the Aurora–a dual-channel, USB-powered DJ mixer. All the schematics, bills of materials and source code can be nabbed for free online, or you can have one built and shipped. And it can pull off a pretty mean LED lightshow… More »
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Alesis iMultiMix 9R Professional Mixer with iPod Dock

1:51AM jenneth | The iMultiMix 9R from Alesis has been designed with studios and live venues—and even churches—in mind. As well as an iPod dock, what else does the rack-mountable 9R rock? More »