Jon

Aye - when it comes to Xbox vs PlayStation, for me it's all about the system exclusives for each console and which one has the most exclusive games I'm more likely to play. For this current generation PS4 has a load of exclusive games ive been really into and there's not been any on XboxOne I've been fussed about playing, but that all comes down to personal preference of course. Def interested to seeing what PlayStation does between now and then - they have a lot more PS4 titles announced for the next 12 months, so who knows if they'll be ready to launch for Q4 next year. The graphics in this trailer look awesome. We're def in for some sick games in the next generation

Trying to become one of your DJs

Music is 100% my life and my full time job for the last 8 years. I've def shifted my focus/interests with some aspects and that's def kept it fresh for me (e.g. I spend way much more time producing rather than scratching now but rewind to when I was a teenager and I'd have been scratching during every moment of my free time).

that's basically it - for me it's a safety net for shows because there's never guarantee on tour that equipment is in good condition or needles are going to go to shit because of humidity/bass etc.

sick Mike!!

Ha I'm 6"4 - we joked that we were his body guards when the three of us went round Miami

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:

At the moment I've not timed it - and I only use one of the units for the project I'm working on ATM so haven't done a side by side comparison but I've had no issues so far

Update after using phase at a few gigs/ rehearsals. It's the shit. There's some bugs however: 1. (Serato will randomly switch to internal mode after 15 mins of it being used but then you just switch it back to relative mode and t won't do t again unless you close Serato). My solution is leave it running 15 mins before my set until the bug happens then I'm good to go. 2. The pitch calibration is off - 0 on the turntable isn't 0 in Serato with phase at the moment, I have to adjust using the onscreen pitch reading in Serato as a guide then I'm good. 3. There is some drifting. One show I had this bad, the others on louder / beefier systems have actually been pretty good which is weird. All of this they know about and I hope will be fixed in firmware updates. Overall it's solved all my issues with dvs- I feel much more confident using it to do routines for an hour while two of us blast drum pads and monitor speakers right next to it than I did using regular dvs where I'd have constant issues. Hoping new firmware will be out soon

Thanks man!

thanks Dirk!

Yo! Thought I'd share this in case anyone here is in the areas we're going to:

Mine arrived today. If you purposely go in to try to make it drift you can make it drift but it's not noticeable with regular cutting. Response/lag is not noticeable (I'm on a ten year old MacBook). In terms of rumble/response it def genuinely feels like an upgrade over DVS for me.

thanks broski

Thanks guys! Mike let me know if you need me to reserve any tickets

Apparently we should get them within the next week

Taken from our forthcoming live show

I have a sega cd - had streets of rage , golden axe, shinobi and columns on one disc if I recall correctly This megadrive classic seems weird, as you guys have said, they have been releasing megadrive collections for years on the last couple of generations of consoles

ahh same weekend as CSG right? aye!

We're launching our new live show at Graffwerk in Leicester on Friday 19th April. An hour of our own music played on samplers, synths, decks, ableton, fx etc: https://www.facebook.com/DJJon1st/videos/2294341044171675/ Event info and tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/618076461967594/

I gave up on Read Dead after the first 2 chapters and switched to Persona 5. Best RPG I've played in a long time. It's currently on offer on the PSN store: You play as a group of high school students who gain the power to change the minds of corrupt people in the real world by infiltrating their subconscious in a parrallel universe. It's a mixture between dungeon crawling and level up farming with a really good story. It's LONG too - I'm just starting the second main dungeon and I'm already 15 hours in.

https://www.facebook.com/boomcitytv/videos/432781130827184/ big up everyone!

Just saw your comment on push 2. I own one and use it every time I make beats. It's great! Very inituiative layout and speeds up my workflow a lot. It's not essential by any means - as I mentioned just now, all the features are available in the software without using it, it's just a really handy layout for controlling the software. If you made music on hardware like a mpc before it'll feel great- you can control all the stock plugins with the knobs so you can control eq, automate channel settings in real time etc and the scale mode for the pads is really useful for melodies. I'd highly recommend it but I'd recommend learning the basics of the daw first so you understand it and then push will make you love it Also if you're going with ableton I think go with push over mashine. Mashine has its own software etc and while it can be used as a plugin of sorts within ableton it feels a bit long winded that way in my opinion and is better as it's own stand alone daw.

Choosing a daw comes down to personal preference as most of them do the same things but with differentl layouts, but I'd highly recommend ableton live and a small midi controller with pads so you an drum in samples. It's a daw and also very useful for audio editing too. There's also a lot of free info on YouTube for learning too. As someone mentioned before it can be as simple as you want from having an instrumental on one track and recording scratch overdubs or samples from your decks on another track, to making full on professional music all in the software. Like most daws it comes with all the stock plugins you'd need to make beats too. In terms of pad controllers there's a lot of smaller ones for not much money that would work fine all the way up to ones that have all the bells and whistles like Push. All the features on controllers are in the software and can be used without owning a controller , and the various controllers on the market just offer different layouts to access/use some of those features, so it's all down to personal preference.

Fun Horizon Zero Dawn fact - Lewis James from CSG fam mixed a lot of the cutscenes for it