As continuation of the Studio Console design (Part 1) and the initial construction (Part 2) is here part 3 with a new update and of course pictures.

The studio console/desk no longer only exists as a design. This weekend I’ve worked on the two 19″ racks. The basic structure has been finished and needs to be prepared for initial painting. Also I still need to order the 19″ rack rails which should fit according to their specifications. Anyway, here are the pictures:

Since I’ve moved into my house I’ve been using an office desk as, office desk, producer desk and DJ booth. Not an ideal combination, not even to talk about the effort to change everything every time. Since the start I always had the plan to build a nice full featured DJ Booth. But since I’ve started to do more production work and also have been buying more gear the need for a DJ booth has been caught up by the need for a studio desk.

Followers might have already read it at Twitter, but I was one of the Ben Liebrand Ableton Live Masterclass winners. For the people who missed it, TeachMusic had 5 giveaway tickets for the Ableton Live Masterclass with Ben Liebrand. The first 5 people who would answer the world’s toughest question (What’s the name of the mixes that made Ben Liebrand famous) would win them self a space on the guest list.

Received a survey this morning from Pioneer, looks like their product devision is looking into the development of DJ earbuds. Noting spectacular and neither unknown among DJs. Laidback Luke made it even part of his image, though he doesn’t use it as headphone replacement, which seems what Pioneer was going for in there survey.

Last Sunday OverSoft and I did a DJ 2 DJ set at the Ice Hockey Stadium Eindhoven, home of the Kemphanen. Because of some limited time for preparation I went with the CDJ-2000 setup. It just allows more flexibility at the gig while Ableton requires more work before the gig. OverSoft did nicely prepare a huge new Ableton Live set. By the way, sorry for the low quality pictures, we forgot to take real cameras.

I’ve always wondered if money and space aren’t an issue, how would the ideal living room of a DJ look like? Well I think this is a pretty good example in the right direction.

Bax Shop, a Dutch DJ Gear shop, has discovered that with certain headphones plugged into the mixer, the entire DJM-900 no longer works. It looks like this is related to the headphone impedance.

Since the wide availability of blue LEDs everyone wants those cool blue colored lighting buttons in his gear. It was for me the first thing I saw on the Pioneer DVJs and also the first I saw at the VU meters of the SVM-1000 which look amazing.

I was hoping and also expecting that Pioneer would place them on the DJM-2000 but they didn’t. I think they keep the blue stuff for their video product line. Although there is now a DJM-800 Limited Edition…

From time to time I do sets with DJ friends using a multi DJ setup. If you do this with two DJs you can get the job done with two normal DJ mixers by feeding the record out of each mixer into the other. But when the number of DJs goes up the setup becomes more complex and you need a dedicated mixer for this. The best you can get is a monitor mixer that allows you to make a sub mix of all DJs for each DJ. This type of mixer is sometimes called a matrix mixer and is normally used live on stage to create a monitor mix for all the artists. These mixers are recognized by the large amount of auxilary busses they have.