Yesterday I went to Earls court London to go to the Plasa 2004 exhibition. I was there specifically to look at DJ gear. Not that I need any new kit or anything, the stuff I have is pretty much top of the range and perfectly fine for home use.
I suppose getting to see the uk premier of the Technics SL-DZ1200 digital CDJ turntable and recorded an excusive video of them being demonstrated AND getting to have a go on one of the six working prototypes at the time… yeah getting to do and see that last year gave me good incentive to go again.
I didn’t stay for long, but I saw and had a go on some damn cool stuff.
It seems that the future of DJ’ing is in the AV DVD mixing world, Numark have an AV mixer and DVD erm, players 🙂
The most impressive equipment that I had a go on was the DVJ-X1 from pioneer…. quite simply WOW. A piece of equipment that lets you scratch a DVD and jump around with hot cue points… its basically exactly the same as the CDJ-1000 but for DVD’s.
I was playing around with a DVD that they had which was some dance music with a kung-fu movie for a music video. Very very cool, and fun 🙂
I can also reveal exclusively (maybe) that pioneer are intending to release a whole suite of AV mixing equipment including an AV mixer and probably an AV effects unit too.
I would love to get a go on that kind of stuff but there are several problems:
1. A single DVD deck costs £2500, and
2. Most of the music I like to mix doesn’t have music videos.
Although it has to be said that with the right software and a bit of imagination (and probably some retro kung-fu films;)) you can make your own music videos, which would be great fun 🙂
*drools*
I really wish i had understood any of that…sigh…but instead i shall just sit and stare happily….oohhh and today is even worse Rob…its more like two redwood tree’s now…..
Please, no talk of trees in the aura of 1337 equipment!
your dvd player has been delivered here instead of to you at Guildford, which i thought we’d asked for.