iPod mixing
4th June 2003 by Simon
I went to an iPod mixing session last night. A simple setup of two iPods and a cross fader. You selected the track on the non-live iPod and monitor it’s output through the head phones while you find the start point - when you’re ready, you mix it. Unlike recording mixing, you don’t have control over the speed of either track and even though I knew this in advance, I still found it pretty hard to get the hang of.
Now I know this isn’t a new or unique idea, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of it in London. They were running it as a kind of record-playing karaoke, people selected tracks and then mix their own. This works when people did reasonable fades/mixes, but when they don’t and it clashes, it’s pretty hard to stay listening to. An interesting idea but needs honing.
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- iPod battery direct action
- shuffle hacks
- New iPods on the way
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[…] It’s miles ahead of the clumsy iPod mixing which has been around since 2003 and, by the look of it, it will also fit into your pocket, being it’s 164mm/70mm/23mm (think PSP-sized) and 200g. It’s held the opposite way to the PSP (vertically), placing a small display at the top of the device, two cross faders in the middle, and a round touch pad at the bottom. The pad is used for finding track cue points as well as controlling the effects. Four other buttons are used for looping ‘n’ that. […]