Gizmodo: mixer

X-Touch Mixer Faucet Is Precise and Informative

Jason Chen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:30:00 EST

The X-Touch Mixer faucet trades analog knobs or levers for buttons so you can regulate exactly what temperature the water is. Better, it has a digital readout to show you exactly what temp it is.

X-Touch is a product of Newform Italy, and looks to be either a sink faucet or a bath faucet. Either way, we're glad to not be burning our hands/mouths/genitals from water that's just slightly too scalding. If they can only mesh this with the type of showerhead that you can set it to a certain temperature and shut off automatically, this would be the ultimate faucet. [Trendir via Like Cool via Uber Gizmo]

Super-Sleek Aurora Open Source DJ Mixer Can Be Built From a Kit

John Mahoney — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

We love open source hardware, especially when it can throw some MIDI flange and fade into your party like the Aurora—a dual-channel, USB-powered DJ mixer. All the schematics, bills of materials and source code can be nabbed for free online, or you can have one built and shipped. And it can pull off a pretty mean LED lightshow...

Here the ump-shh ump-shh is dished out by Ableton Live, with effects being controlled by the Aurora.

[Aurora via Hack A Day]

DJ Mixes Audio and Video to Awesome Effect On New Pioneer SVM-1000

Benny Goldman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:46:35 EST

This is DJ Roonie G demonstrating Pioneer's new SVM-1000 mixer at the launch event last night, which brought out big names in electronic music like BT and Tommy Lee. The SVM-1000 adds a new layer to traditional DJing by letting the artist mix both audio and video on as many as four channels. Hit the jump for more info and a gallery.

The mixer hooks up to special DVD players that scratch DVDs the same way your grandma used to scratch records. The DJ previews the video on a small LCD screen in the center of the mixer, and uses loops, cues, and cross fades to mix video the same way audio is blended today. While it seems like there is a steep learning curve to the product (Roonie said it took three months to prepare this 15-minute set, and he's been DJing for 25 years), as seen above, the end results can be awesome.[Pioneer Pro DJ]

Vestax VCI-100 Mixer Modded with Arcade Game Buttons

AddyDugdale — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:34:44 EDT

Here's what you do if you think your Vestax mixer looks dull as day-old dog doo: mod it. One of the guys from DJ Tech Tools swapped his boring old black knobs for arcade game buttons. How-to video is after the jump.

[YouTube and djtechtools.com via Create Digital Music]

iSpin 'eTurntable' Lets you DJ With iPods

msparkes — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:22:19 EDT

The iSpin is a mixer that uses two docked iPods as inputs, and provides a range of effects like reverb, flange, hi/low pass filter and scratching sounds. While this would be fine for some DJs, it won't suit everyone because you can't beat-match with it.

It's probably more suited to a house party than a club, but at $140 it's a fun piece of kit. It's available in isilver on white or red on black, to match your iPods. [iLounge]

DJ4: Two-Source Mixer Has Two Big Knobs, Doesn't Go Up to 11

Addy Dugdale — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:36:59 EDT

For some reason, that headline sounds just wrong, but whatever. Here's the Bird Electoron DJ-4, "the passive type micro mixer of power source unnecessary." In other words: Yes, it's from Japan and yes, it's a very simple passive mixer with two mini-stereo inputs and one output. The seller for me is the two big analog knobs: VOLUME and VOLUME. For just $70 you will be able to connect your two MP3 players and touch your own two big knobs until your audience's ears bleed. Or they throw you into the river inside a sack full of rocks after you play the same Black Eyed Peas track for the 28th time. – Jesus Diaz

Bird electron, outdated future mixer of design - Adopting the electricity guitar and the isomorphic volume knob (Thanks Google Translate!) [Impress AV Watch]

Finger Beats Next Generation: Let Your Fingers Do The Annoying

www.gizmodo.com — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:38:35 EST

They're back - and unlike the last time they've got a headphone jack. That is considerate. This one is Alien Choir, which brings to mind the words "heinous" and "cacophony", but my money's on the Finger Beats Bongos. Budding Oakenfolds can annoy their chums with the Finger Beats Mixer. They're $38.95 and available from the middle of this month. More pictures and product vid after the jump.

Product Page [Red5 via Ubergizmo]

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USB Mixer For the DJ-ologically Challenged

gizcontrib — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:43:50 EDT

Listen up homies, this is DJ Richard, laying down the phat beats. This 100 (approx $180) USB mixer lets you scratch and mix your own tracks with two virtual turntables, then add your own vocals. And if you're a newbie DJ, it also has automatic beat matching so you can heat up the dancefloor by mixing smoothly from Maria Carey to Megadeth. Peace out, y'all!– Richard Baguley

USB Mixing Kit [Red Ferret]

Alesis FireWire and USB Podcasting Kits

gizmodo.com — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:26:24 EST

If you're thinking of starting a podcast or do one already and you're looking to upgrade your equipment, Alesis has put together two podcasting kits you should consider. One has their MultiMix 8 FireWire mixer (8 channel mixer, 24Bit /44.1/48kHz eight channel recording direct to your computer), the other the Multimix 8 USB mixer (8 channel mixer, 16Bit /44.1kHz two channel recording).

The sets come with a microphone, a microphone stand and cable, software (proprietary?) for creating and managing podcasts, as well as Cubase LE general purpose recording software. According to our source, MSRP for the FireWire kit is $599 and the USB kit is slightly more affordable at $399, with both hitting stores sometime in June. There is no hardware or software that can keep your podcast from boring us to tears, but at least we won't be able to make fun of the audio quality!

FireWire Podcasting Kit [Alesis]
USB Podcasting Kit [Alesis]