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08ÌýExtras
Now you've got the basic kit it's time to spoil yourself!
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"The only other piece of equipment I use is an Akai MPC 3000 but that's just strictly for making beats and studio stuff."
DJ Dubplate Mex
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New tools and gadgets specifically aimed at deejays are becoming more and more popular with the dons of the steel and can take what you do behind the decks to a whole new level.
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Final Scratch
Vinyl junkies will spin in their graves over this one but by using a laptop, a box that you plug into your spare USB port and two dummy pieces of vinyl, Final Scratch allows you to play and manipulate MP3s direct from your laptop in the same way you would with a record.
CD Decks
The groundbreaking CDJ-1000 has become one of the biggest and most used CD players for theÌýdeejay market because of its fantastic jog wheel functions that allow you to manipulate CDs in the same way you would vinyl.
These babies make the whole process of transferring your studio recordings to a club or radio environment incredibly cheap.
There are also some great looping functions that you can store on a memory card and transport around with you to other clubs' CDJs, so you don't have to keep re-looping stuff over and over again.
Kaoss Pads 1 and 2
These allow deejays to control dynamic effects in real time.
These include delay, filters, synced BPM effects, short sampling capabilities, phasers, flangers and transformer scratch.
Both of the Kaoss Pads are really easy to operate and also have wicked lights on their display which look heavy.
More importantly, the connections will allow you to hook up the Kaoss Pad to your decks and mixer with no stress and they also have midi capabilities so they're not out of place in a studio either.
Cycloops
The ability to sample sections of tracks while you're mixing, or the ability to bring a sampler loaded with samples to drop over the top of tracks is something you really should check out.
Cycloops allows you to store up to 16 samples in BPM banks and then pitch them up to the correct tempo for your mix.
There's no need to worry about start and end points of the sample as cycloops will do it all for you!
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