Jagshemash!!! Soooooooo we’re back again on nothing to something from everything to anything & now the 3rd part. Well did you read the part 1 & part 2? if not get out of this article & start reading the last 2 articles that i wrote but if you did…..Then i guess you are as crazy as i am. but do you understand bits & pieces of what i wrote? Cause if Ronald Ambarita my sidekick for ELECTROFUX could understand what i was writing about then i was writing it right. And for those who still don’t understand all the articles that i wrote then i think you should start taking up English courses cause my sidekick didn’t take up English courses, he understood what i wrote & even i, failed my English composition exams & i am not saying literally i didn’t understand but i understood my main point of views of the last 2 articles. (For those who could read the manuals for electronic equipment like my sidekick does in English & understood them,they don’t have to take up English courses,…but i think i do cause i don’t understand any manual book in any language, i just let my fingers do all the work by reflex.) & if you still don’t bother to read them then it’s your mouse, your choice, your clicks.

As i recall i’ve mentioned about soundcards, softwares & sequencers…. Now i’ll be talking about mixers & the importance of a mixer & a bit of CDJs. Well do you know what is a mixer? & if you ask me “Is it a food processor?” or “Is it a blender?”,………… I’m gonna whoop your arse & make sure you reach Uranus!!!! Hehehehe just kidding mate….What exactly are you going to be using the mixer for??? Live PA, Djing, multitrack recording, work, etc? So whatever the design or price of your mixer going to be, the basic functions of all kind of mixers are to blend as many input signals (Depending on how many inputs the mixer can offer) & control the volume of a number of inputs & route the resulting mix to the appropriate destination & of course you can add external effects, such as graphic equalizer, compressor/limiter & other effects unit to make your sound even better. The more input signals you have i guess is better if you are planning to get more equipments in the future but if you are on a super tight arse budget then get a 4 stereo tracks mixer(equivalent to 8 mono tracks) or less. Most mixers have equalizers, commonly known as EQ, auxiliaries also known as AUX where you can put external effects through it. Unless if you buy a super cheapazoids mixer from a smack or crack addict gypsy in the middle of nowhere, you might get a battery operated volume control only(&batteries sold separately). Make sure the particular mixer that you are getting have the main mixer facilities for your applications.

I used to use 3 mixers but now i only use 2 because of financial purposes. My mixers are Eurorack UB-1832fx-PRO by Behringer (God,i love you & if you love me, get me a Mackie, well nothing fancy shmancy but an ONYX 1620 with firewire will do…please, thanks….) & a limited edition Numark EM-460 with a KORG Kaoss pad built in. Why the hell i need 2 mixers for? Ok, the Behringer is a 14 channel mixer & i use it to separate my drums from my MC-909 cause the Roland MC-909 has 3 stereo outputs so that i could widen or fatten the sounds of drums or bass or synths or strings or whatever sounds i want from the MC-909 & sometimes my KORG Electribe MX-1 too cause it also has an individual output. & as for the Numark,its a dj mixer & why a dj mixer??? So i can play with the crossfader or control any channel with flick of a switch when i’m playing live & the coolest thing about the Numark is the Kaoss pad cause you can play the effects live….Yummy!!! You know why they use the term kaoss pads cause it offers you 10 filters,10 modulations,10 delays,10 reverbs & 10 sfx on 1 bank & there are 6 banks of effects so the total of fx would be….hhhhmmmmmmm…. I dunno,you do the math cause i fail in mathematics in school (always get “F” that means “FUCKED”). But i’m good with anything that have a currency signs, not that i make loads of em’, i just count faster….The problem with Numark is that they don’t have auxiliaries send & return, so you can’t put external effects into maybe of the so much fx that have been given…..toooo much fx might give you side effects.

So for ELECTROFUX sets, usually we use 3 sequencers, KORG Electribe’s EM-1,MX-1 & MC-909,a total of 6 stereo out that means 12 monos. But i still have my other monster, AKAI MPC-4000 upgraded but she is in the workshop for repairs, thanks to my landlady cause when i rented the house, she said the house was in perfect condition & when i came back from a tour with Hard Rock Cafe Bali, i went home, enter my studio & i swear i could have kill the landlady if i have a Colt .45 with a silver bullet cause i saw my MPC-4000 was drenched in water for 2 days. I put the AKAI exactly under a leaking rooftop. Damned i cried……Yeah, yeah call me a pussy for crying but if you check the price for an upgraded AKAI MPC-4000 with hard disk capacity 0f 40gb,8 mono outputs,1 stereo quarter jack output,1 stereo xlr output,1 stereo quarter jack input,1 stereo xlr input,1 stereo phantom input,1 stereo rca inputs with phono switch if you want to sample from a turntable+a cd writer,usb,4 midi out & 4 midi in…..You’ll be crying like a newly born baby to this world but not that i did but you will….So why i was in grief deeply more cause in Indonesia, there is no authorized dealer for AKAI it could take months or years just to get the spare parts. To top that up the landlady doesn’t want to pay for the damaged cause she said it was the rains fault…..BIATCH!!! Hope 1 day Mother Nature will eat her up & let her digest in Mother Nature’s stomach, let my landlady slide in the intestines & return to earth in shit form….eventhough she looks like that!!!!!!

Aight enough whining, so let’s talk about CDJs.