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Lil freestyle with one of my Dat Brass band mates This was after a lonnnng day of band rehearsal on 4/20 a couple of weeks back, needless to say at this point we were seriously blazed and had a rather indulgent (and a tad sloppy) jam session over some dub and scratch loops. Sax is mic'd thru my Rane 61 which enabled me to apply some tape delay from my beloved Strymon Timeline. Jake on Sax totally got the vibe, his noodling with delays sounds so lush.

I had a half conversion done on my garage to make an office / scratching den. i looked up some helpful guides around soundproofing. I mainly scratch in headphones but my wife has superhuman hearing and the fader clicks drove her nuts. It aint 100% (thats kind of hard unless you make it airtight and that's not a good idea when you could have potential visits from the SSS crew ) There are plenty of tips on youtube and thew web. The main principal is to try and create a 'room within a room' to minimise vibration. Great guide on soundproofing and acoustic treatment here https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/acoustic-treatment-101/

Craze booked us for his club night in Miami last night and we stayed a few days with him to get some studio hours in. We decided to make a quick routine using a track we wrote together earlier this year:

In the last few months my son has been hogging my ancient iPad with basic free mpc style apps. Hes surprised me with what hes made with just some of the shit sound packs so much so Ive decided to get him a gadget of his own. Hes only turning 8 but Ive been surprised how well hes taken to basic beat making. Hes had a mess around on my mpc2000xl so has a basic understanding of the akai workflow so was thinking of trying to find an mpc500. Ive also seen the teenage engineering portables and have started looking into those too. Ideally Im looking for something with a built in sequencer where I can help him sample/chop and leave him to get busy. Also need to add Im looking for it to be standalone so he can take it to my mums and make stuff there. Battery powered would be a plus but not essential. Any other beat machines I should look into? Basically just looking for something with a easy workflow that he can take with him that he can plug his headphones into.

^^Lovely. This video makes me want to smoke loads of kush... and then instantly regret it.

dubb, i was just about to post the mojaxx switches to windows video. good find

I like what Schenker are doing with there audio edition laptops. Ray Arkaei (one of the writers from Dj Worx) was heavily involved in the design process so there laptops come preprepeared for pro music stuff - streamlining all the unwanted faff and settings disabled that can often cause some PC laptops to not perform well for pro music stuff. Mojaxx from dj city has recently done a couple of vids outlining his experience going from Mac to windows that are worth a peep I have zero experience of these Schenker machines but I do have a solid respect for Ray Arkaei and the POV of Mojaxx. https://bestware.com/en/schenker-audio-edition Last year I copped a used top spec 2015 MacBook Pro which in my mind seems to be the last generation of Apple comps worth looking at for pro audio stuff - haven't heard anything good about post 2016 macs and from a dj POV they've pretty much priced themselves out of the game. While Im very pleased with the my 2015 mac I probably would copped a brand new Schenker instead but hadn't heard of them until recent.

MacBook Pro. Stop being silly.

Similar experience as TearBear. The Dell XPS series laptop I bought a few years back has been rock solid (it's an XPS 13 but you can get larger ones). It's got the three things I like in a laptop: light, powerful, durable. All of these laptop companies have their issues, and Dell is no exception, but I've come to the conclusion that they're the best of the worst. My old Inspiron laptop from 2003 is still running believe it or not. The Sony I replaced it with died after 4 years, and was engineered to be completely unservicable. So, I went back to Del and I've been pretty happy.

i've been rocking dell's for years. currently i have a 17 inch dell lattitude.....or is it an inspiron, dosent really matter once you plug in the specs you want. intel i5 processor. 8GB on the ram and 1TB hard drive. it also has a dvd rw drive, which is hard to get on laptops these days. most of them have no optical drive at all. I dont remember which model number it is. I've had it for about 2 years now and it was on a back to school sale then. I haven't had any problems with it so far. at first i was using it to finish school, so mostly the internet, MS office and MS project. now i use it to run Traktor and pro tools first. oh yeah, i'm still on the regular hard drive. couldnt afford the solid state at the time. but i would recommend the solid state drives. hell, my old dell laptop still works great. needs a new battery though and more ram wouldnt hurt. my biggest issue with that one is that its still running vista so no new programs would work on it. but i've had that thing since '07 and she still runs like a champ.

couldnt agree more with this topic! great video bruv

No windows. No clocks. No women of any kind.

I can't buy it because of the shitty song in the ad. God awful.