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Simon Zimbler

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  • July 29, 2015 at 10:24 am in reply to: Powered speakers…which ones? #2230821
    Simon Zimbler
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    A friend of mine in the UK did some research for me and FORCED me to buy a pair of ELECTRO VOICE ZLX – 12P that were on special offer. A bit out of my price range, but aparently I won’t regret it.

    Thank you both for your help and advice. I’ll let you know what the EV’s are like…

    June 23, 2015 at 8:51 am in reply to: Skytec/Vexus powered speakers…anyone actually tried them? #2215361
    Simon Zimbler
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    All useful advice, but nice to hear from someone who admits to buying and using them. I would love to spend a grand on speakers, but I’d literally be using them 2 or 3 times a year and maybe for practice monitors. So it’s very tempting to get a pair and try them out instead of hiring. At this price it costs to hire locally a cheap pair like this will pay for themselves in 4 outings. Of course, if they sound terrible then I won’t want to use them again after the first, so I’m back to square 1!

    April 22, 2015 at 12:20 pm in reply to: The tail wagging the dog? #2181741
    Simon Zimbler
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    Will do. I’ll give them both a go. Just out of interest, do any of the main players have a way of ‘recording’ sets either as a series of editable midi actions or in some kind of time-line mode (as Mixmeister used to do)?

    April 21, 2015 at 8:45 pm in reply to: The tail wagging the dog? #2181351
    Simon Zimbler
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    I think you’re right. I kind of assumed both would have similar workflows:
    * buy music
    * beatgrid music
    * load music to deck
    * play music

    …with hopefully the remaining bells and whistles allowing for/encouraging non-traditional creativity. No?

    Well, I guess I could download and install the two trial versions and have a play, but without hardware, it’s going to be difficult to compare.

    I understand what you’re saying about the hardware being secondary, but software changes too. And an interesting piece of kit can change the way you work by virtue of how it uses the software, surely?

    I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure I’ll still be using whatever I buy in 5-10 years from now. Software can change a lot in that time.

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