Thursday, October 30, 2008

New Ipod Mixer

There is a new ipod mixer for DJs which has a great new feature.  This new mixer allows you to take multiple songs off of one ipod and get them ready to mix together. For people who do not know much about mixers it does basically what the name is. The mixer mixers two different sources of music players together. It could be  a record player, CD player, ipod or any other type and you can transition one song to the next without any break in it. This is a great tool to have especially being a DJ at a party. You never have to have dead air. Now the new mixer is different than the old way because in the past you needed two different playing devices that are playing difficult storage units like music on a CD. The new one only requires that you have one unit that plays the music and holds it. The real benefit is that this mixer can take several songs off of this single device and temporarily store it on the mixer. Now you can mix the different songs that are already on the ipod. The ipod has this feature when connected to the computer by setting up playlist but this new mixer allows you to do it easier and on the fly. It has made it easier for DJs that know how to use this equipment to have a larger amount of music on a single device and can access it faster and easier. I do not have one yet but I will soon. I love the use of CDs and it is more free and less restrictive than ipods in my resistance to learn a new way of playing music but with this new mixer I will be willing to spend money and learn a new skill. In the end it will be easier for me to find songs that I may not play as often and reduce the chance of not being able to do my job to my best ability in playing the songs that the audience has requested. This is just like the leap from records to CDs and this may become the new way of how people hear their digital music at parties.

1 comment:

Knight of da plume said...

Very interesting! With such devices I can play DJ too..