Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
REVIEW: Monkey Banana Gibbon 8 Studio Monitors The Monkey Banana Gibbon 8 Studio Monitors are one of three sets of two-way loudspeakers in their Gibbon range; the others are the Gibbon Air Bluetooth and the Gibbon5. There is also a Gibbon 10 subwoofer. Anatomy The Gibbon 8 loudspeakers, as the name suggests sport 8 […]
5 Best Buy DJ headphones on a budget DJ headphones are the one essential piece of tech we can all agree on that every DJ needs. Whether you play off turntables, CDJs, laptops, use CDs, records or USB, what we all have in common are our DJ headphones. They are also, much like studio monitors, highly subjective. […]
Monkey Banana Turbo Series Studio Monitors We’re big fans of the Monkey Banana brand of loudspeakers and whilst we’ve focused mainly on the cheaper Gibbon series, we’ve decided to have a closer look at the Monkey Banana Turbo Series which, while they will cost a bit more than the Gibbons, are still very competitively priced. […]
5 Best Buy Studio Monitors on a budget Investing in a set of nearfield studio monitors is an important part of producing music that can be played out across multiple platforms, whether it’s on a home stereo, in your car, a club or even an outdoor rig and now that the SABC has announced that […]
#PLAYSTEMS DJ Mix comp – first prize worth R 36K #PLAYSTEMS is a DJ mix competition hosted by Native Instruments and Mixcloud and forms part of their 1 year anniversary celebration of the launch of their STEMS file format and the NI STEMS DJ controllers. READ: What is STEMS? Other special activations to mark the […]
National Keys Month – Win a synthesizer It is Roland National Keys month in South Africa which means two things. Great deals on all keyboard based Roland music instruments. A chance to win some free gear This year you can win a synth or an interactive arranger in the form of ether the Juno-DS61 or […]
Ableton Live Micro Course on Music Production Red Revenge in Bellville have launched an Ableton Live Micro Course on Saturdays and Sundays and their first one is due to take place on the 21st & 22nd of May at their training studio. The Ableton Live Micro Course will be facilitated by Thomas Glendinning who is […]
5 Awesome Features on the Roland JDXi Last year Roland released the Roland JDXi and JDXa synthesizers; the former an extremely portable instrument and the latter a rather sizable and substantial flagship model. The Roland JDXi boasts a 3 octave keypad and a host of onboard features that really impressed us, in this tidy package. […]
Mumford & Sons record at Academy of Sound Engineering Studio It’s not every day a local recording studio, or in this case a local audio engineering school can lay claim to hosting a massive international band at their facilities, but this was certainly the case with the Academy of Sound Engineering studio. Here’s the story… […]
Numark 2016 Product Range revealed The Numark 2016 new products catalogue sports some great new gear from the American tech giant including the massive new NS7III and the versatile Mixdeck Express. But it’s some of their other gear such as the Dashboard and N-Wave 580L that has also piqued our interest. NS7III What is it? […]
