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Latest Reviews

28 Jan

Reviewed: Sennheiser HD25 Light Headphones

Sennheiser Australia | en-au.sennheiser.com | Expect To Pay: $179.95

There are few items in DJ lore as iconic as Sennheiser’s legendary HD25 headphone. Originally released in 1988 as a monitoring headphone with the professional broadcast crowd in mind, the HD25 found its way into various professional applications, from news reporting to the go-to communications headset for British Airways, but this was only the beginning of what was to be the HD25’s crowning legacy.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: NUX Mighty 8 BT

Pro Music Australia | promusicaustralia.com.au | Expect To Pay: $219.95

Over the past few years NUX (pronounced New Ex) have been building themselves a reputation for making quality, versatile products that are extremely affordable. With the new Mighty8BT they have upped their game even more.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: Ashdown Tone Pocket

Pro Music Australia | promusicaustralia.com.au | Expect To Pay: $369

These guys really have a knack for making useful stuff, hey? Ashdown’s Tone Pocket is a palm-sized pre-amp/interface with a three band EQ, headphone and line outputs, and a sleek, metal chassis. Designed primarily as a bass headphone amp, the Tone Pocket can help players rehearse silently, EQ a signal before their amp, or push a signal harder into other pedals or another preamp. The Tone Pocket doubles as a recording interface, connecting to your Mac or PC via USB 2.0, though it only offers digital to analogue (D/A) conversion, so the headphone out will remain latency free.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: Ashdown Studio 8 Bass Amplifier

Pro Music Australia | promusicaustralia.com.au | Expect To Pay: $339

The Ashdown Studio 8 is a 30 watt bass amplifier designed for practice at home, but because we’re all gear aficionados, we’ll find some much more interesting uses for it. The amp is small enough that it could easily be used as an enlarged tweeter for a dirty tone in either a live setting or studio session, or maximised as a fuzzy low-end for guitar or keys. The Studio 8 is the smallest of the Studio range, besides the Studio Jnr which is mostly its own beast. Weighing just 6.1kgs, the Studio 8 can easily be travelled with without breaking your back or the bank. It features one 8” speaker, and the other Studio amps in the range (Studio 10, 12, 15 etc.) have increasing sizes of speaker.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: Pioneer DJ DDJ-200 Controller

Jands | jands.com.au | Expect To Pay: $249

Aimed at portability and geared towards beginners, the lightweight Pioneer DDJ-200 controller strips back to basics while still retaining functionality.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: Fender Player Series Lead II & III

Fender Music Australia | fender.com.au | RRP: $1,119

Take a look back into Fender’s annals and you’ll eventually find an esoteric collection of guitars entitled the Lead Series. These guitars aesthetically sat somewhere between a Fender Telecaster and a Stratocaster and were primarily created to rival the lower prices and rising build quality of guitars hailing from Japan and Korea.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: Fender American Acoustasonic Stratocaster

Fender Music Australia | fender.com.au | RRP: $3999

Let’s not beat around the bush here: Fender, while being well-steeped in their rich legacy of classic instruments, are an ambitious company, for better or for worse. Take last year’s Acoustasonic Telecaster for example. While being miles better than the maligned Telecoustic model of yesteryear, it was still derided by many in the guitar community for being a tad too niche to really kick up a worthy fuss, and its steep pricepoint made that niche all the more slim.

28 Jan

28 Jan

Reviewed: Zoom V6 Vocal Processor

Dynamic Music | dynamicmusic.com.au | Expect to pay: $779

Once upon a time the idea of a dedicated vocal processor just… wasn’t there. Occasionally you might spot a singer like Robert Plant (watch the Page & Plant Unledded DVD) or Mike Patton (especially in Mr Bungle) with a few guitar pedals repurposed for live vocal use, wresting control away from the sound engineer and placing it right onstage with the vocalist. Now floor-based vocal processors are much more commonplace and there’s a real push to make each one unique, rather than just ‘Hey bud, here’s your delay and pitch correction, have fun.’ The Zoom V6 is pretty serious about grabbing your attention among the various products competing for your love.

28 Jan

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