As if internet piracy wasn’t enough, electronics, robotics and mechanical engineering superstar Mike Senese has upped the ante in the world of piracy by replicating vinyl records. With a seemingly easy eight-step process, you can begin making copies of your all time favorite records. The items you’ll be needing to perform this will be: a more »

The Tonium Pacemaker is a DJ tool that lets you make mixes using songs on its 60GB internal hard drive using a combination of buttons and a circular touchpad. Controlling tempos, effects like reverb, audio properties such as treble and bass are done via the circular touchpad through a series of gestures. While the Pacemaker does have a screen, it is not designed for video playback, but can act as a simple music player. The Tonium Pacemaker is available at Amazon for $499.99.

The iFrogz brand of headphones known as EarPollution have found a way to combine comfort, superior sound, and individuality into a price range that can fit any digital DJ or casual listener. Music can spark a range of emotions but if you don’t hear every note, enjoy every boom, and let your mind wrap around the message, it is safe to say that your headphones are to blame. Keep reading to find out how these headphones performed.

Whether you are a DJ, an aspiring DJ, or just someone who loves making music wouldn’t it be great if you could start playing virtual instruments and make music anywhere at anytime? Cell phones can do a lot of tasks these days, yet this is the first phone I’ve seen which is marketed towards people more »

Music electronics company KORG has extended their lineup with the introduction of the USB-powered nanoSERIES, which includes the nanoPAD, nanoKONTROL, and nanoKEY. Like many other products out there, the KORG doesn’t short-change you just because it’s USB-powered. Check out the demo we recorded, and you’ll see what I mean. Product details can be found below.

Besides highly customizable low-cost headphones, iFrogz EarPollution introduced a range of 5 new DJ-style headphones for $49.99. They come in some pretty crazy color scheme, moving DJing away from the black-and-silver headphone days of old. [Listening from the noisy show floor] They sounded very good for the price point, but we will offer a more in depth review once we get them to some DJ’s to take to a party with them.

So far, the quality of docks for iPod use had been varied. There are always the cheap, plastic ones with poor audio quality and lack of remote controls. There are also classier ones such as the Shanling MC-30, which retails at £500 (around $950). This month in the UK, high quality audio company Krell, will more »

Click for a larger image. Monster Cable’s press event at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show had a few surprises. Most notably, Noel Lee, Head Monster of Monster Cable / Power announced a new partnership with Dr. Dre on a set up high-end studio headphones, dubbed Beats by Dr. Dre. The company was clearly ecstatic to more »

Earlier this week I posted on how to convert your vinyl to Mp3. Here is another way to go, a bit more gadget-ty if you will. This product combines both your vinyl album and iPod dock. With this converter, you can record directly to the iPod or to your computer (and then presumably to your more »

Windows Vista Magazine apparently deals with more than telling (or trying to convince) everyone how cool Vista is, it provides a basic how to convert your vinyl records to Mp3 because toting around a turntable is so 1973, unless you are a DJ. For the kids, lets get the “why” out of the way: folks more »