Behringer BCD 3000

My Review:

Behringer BCD 3000 is the all in one USB DJ Controller and the cheapest USB DJ Controller from Behringer. This is the best value for entry level DJ.

What’s good from Behringer BCD 3000:
Soundcard Included
Light weight
No need other power supply (the power supply is from USB cable)
Easy to set up
2 Internal phono preamps
Internal microphone preamp with dedicated Level and EQ controls
Works very well on Traktor 3 LE software
The headphones output really usefull for monitoring your mix
The 4 FX knobs is really helping to controll or adding FX
Works on Windows and Mac OS

What’s bad from Behringer BCD 3000:
The build quality isn’t fantastic
No great in low light situations
Jog wheels is too small
No support for Windows 7 (64 bit)



 What Behringer Official Website Said:

Product Features:

• Get ultimate control over your virtual DJ machine and play, mix and scratch MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, WAV and AIFF files with vinyl feeling
• Includes Native Instruments Traktor LE DJ software with iTunes import, Beatport music store integration plus additional podcasting and recording software
• Powerful 4-channel USB audio interface with 24-bit converters and ultra-low latency operation under Windows and Mac OS X operating systems
• Your complete DJ setup in a single box: dual player, mixer, effects, 2 phono preamps plus a full-fledged monitor section
• 2 versatile jog wheels to control typical DJ functions like scratching, pitch bending and cue searching
• Total performance control through 3-band kill EQ, loop buttons, pitch and level faders per channel plus an ultra-smooth crossfader
• Use the 2 internal phono preamps to mix your vinyl records with MP3 files or run the BCD3000 as a digital DJ mixer with full effects control
• Internal microphone preamp with dedicated Level and EQ controls for MC performances or DJ’s talkover
• Dedicated control elements for play, cue, loop, pitch bend, search, effects and many more
• High-quality components and exceptionally rugged construction ensure long life
• Conceived and designed by BEHRINGER Germany

Compatible With

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It’s everything you ever wanted in a DJ production tool. It’s gorgeous, you can put your hands on it and the software is just irresistible.

* Please see the 3-Year Warranty Program for full details.

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Cheap USB DJ Soundcard and USB DJ Controller

Numark DJ io Review & Buy

My Review:

 Numark DJ io is good USB DJ Soundcard for your DJ Career. Numark DJ io have 1 microphone input, 1 headphone output, and 2 RCA output. The sound quality of Numark DJ io is quite good. With 2 RCA Output, you can add 2 channels on the DJ Mixer with only one USB soundcard. And the best thing is, the price is cheap.

What Numark Website Said:

Complete system I/O for laptop performers.

DJ|iO is a compact, portable audio interface expressly designed for DJs, mobile music producers and other musicians who work with computers. You'll find DJ|iO to be a convenient missing link in your setup because it connects easily with a standard USB cable to the computer and supplies extremely high-quality, 24-bit audio to output systems. DJ|iO has stereo outputs for a main sound system, a secondary or monitoring system and headphones, as well as a microphone input with a hardware volume control. The audio interface comes with premium ASIO drivers, which enable you to easily optimize your system’s audio performance.
DJs and other performers employ DJ|iO in a wide variety of setups, most commonly involving music-mixing software and a hardware controller such as TOTAL CONTROL, STEALTH CONTROL, or MixMeister Control. Other performers including CD DJs and non-musician computer users can also appreciate DJ|iO’s convenience and portability.

You can use DJ|iO with Mac OS X, Windows XP, Vista and 7.

Both 32 and 64-bit Windows are compatible. The USB device is bus-powered so no additional power supply is needed. Optionally, you can wall-power DJ|iO with a six-volt AC adapter, which is sold separately. DJ|iO delivers extremely low-latency audio performance for real-time playback accuracy at a choice of CD-quality 44.1kHz or premium 88.2kHz sample rates.

DJ|iO is compact and rugged enough to live in your gig bag.

It has RCA stereo outputs and a headphone output so you can cue and output your main mix simultaneously. DJ|iO also has a 1/4" mic input so you can be the life of the party.

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Cool Cats for Lacoste L!VE - Stadium Jacket Black

For the fist time in Cool Cats history, Cool Cats designed an entire line for another brand, going from Stadium jacket, polo shirts, sweaters, to cardigans, shirts, bag and even sneakers ! We are really pleased with the result - So-Me's designs came out great and match perfectly Lacoste top quality products.

If the main collection is available globally and limited to couple of Lacoste L!VE stores in the world, the BLACK LINE is ONLY available at Cool Cats. All the BLACK items are limited edition of 150 pieces and are all exclusives to Cool Cats webstore.

Source: http://www.coolcats.fr/goodies/cool-cats-for-lacoste-l-ve-stadium-jacket-black-1.html

Cool Cats for Lacoste L!VE - Barbuda "Black"

For the fist time in Cool Cats history, we designed an entire line for another brand, going from Stadium jacket, polo shirts, sweaters, to cardigans, shirts, bag and even sneakers ! Cool Cats are really pleased with the result - So-Me's designs came out great and match perfectly Lacoste top quality products.

If the main collection is available globally and limited to couple of Lacoste L!VE stores in the world, the BLACK LINE is ONLY available at Cool Cats. This shoes is a limited edition of 75 pieces and are all exclusives to Cool Cats webstore.

Source: http://www.coolcats.fr/goodies/cool-cats-for-lacoste-l-ve-barbuda-black.html

Super Cool Cats Sunglasses

Everybody knows Cool Cats all love Super sunglasses. It took a while to make a collaboration together and no matter how long the process was, Cool Cats are quite happy with the result.

The main idea behind the project was to give birth to the glasses worn by Cool Cats lovely Cat’s logo. Luckily, the shape of the Super W model was kind of perfect for a match.

If the W offers elegance, simplicity and perfect lines, Cool Cats tried to give it our so called Cool Cats twist, making its Carl Zeiss lenses as crazy as possible. And even if the Cool Cats for Super sunglasses are all black, the lenses signature make them unique !

As always with Super, the sunglasses are handmade in Italy. So you know the deal with quality !

They come in two styles, classic black acetate and matte black, in an extremely limited edition of 75 pieces per color, all numbered. Both are packaged in a special box, which features the new Cool Cats signature logos.

The choice is yours !

Source: http://www.coolcats.fr/goodies/cool-cats-for-super-w-black.html

Ed Banger Qonquers the World Again!

Bridging the gap between rock ’n’ roll, fashion, art and banging electro, they changed the face of dance music forever. Back with a raft of stars, including the unstoppable Justice, Ed Banger Records is set to rule the world once again.

This is a big deal. Mixmag is in Justice’s Paris basement studio listening to their work-in-progress new album, due to be released towards the end of the year. Your correspondent is only the fourth person outside the band and Ed Banger label manager Pedro Winter to hear this music. The air fizzes with tension and anticipation.

An enormous painting of Tutankhamun peers impassively down from the wall as I sit in a brown swivel chair amid analogue and digital kit. Justice are here too, looking nervous, avoiding my eyes. It can be terribly embarrassing when bands play you their new music. What if it’s terrible? Where do you look? What do you say? I stare intently at something called a Vocet Discrete Class A Studio Controller.

The reason it’s so important is that Justice were game-changers. They helped revitalise dance music when it was in its post-millennial doldrums, formed a vital portal to indie/rock and welcomed a new generation to the party. Their first album, ‘†’, combined distorted electro bangers with pop suss and a shed-
load of attitude. Their new one, it turns out, is more than its equal; complex yet funkier and more playful.

The 10 tracks Mixmag hears, with titles like ‘Horsepower’, ‘Ohio’, ‘New Lance’ and ‘Audio Video Disco’, don’t have so much of ‘†’s raw bangin’, yet maintain a powerful, club-centric vision that’s still very Justice. They’ve assimilated a strong flavour of 70s rock in a way that’s thoroughly entertaining. Singers such as Ali Love, Vincent Vendetta of Midnight Juggernauts and Morgan Phalen of cult hard rock act Diamond Nights, as well as Justice themselves, front songs where the spirits of Queen and Iron Maiden collide dramatically with gigantic electro-bassline funk. Mad prog rock lyrics, baroque flourishes and even an apparent flute solo seamlessly gel with polished electro-punk, monster synth riffs replacing guitars. It’s original, poppy, accessible, brave and fun. It’s also hugely exciting.

In the eerie silence that follows the last track, I burble enthusiastically, “It’s The Who for ravers!” Gaspard Augé – the heavily moustachioed half of Justice – smiles faintly. “The two albums we had in mind when we were making this,” he says, “were ‘Who’s Next’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Houses Of The Holy’.”
This is a surprising statement coming from the reigning kings of Gallic clubland cool (given that Daft Punk are making film soundtracks in LA). It’s time for dinner. There’s much to talk about.

Source: http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/ed-banger