The Ultimate Guide to Portable Scratching Studio Scratches. Portable vinyl scratching has been exploding in popularity lately. Its so much fun In this article we will take a look at what you need to get started, where you can purchase the gear, DVS options plus some demo videos of me scratching on my portable setup to give you some ideas. As I was writing this article, Mojaxx from DJcity. TV released a great video detailing everything, which will give you a thorough idea of what is needed. After, Ill list out the products  links and take you through the options in more detail to help you get setup and get going. While fighting climate change and providing health care are both just too economically burdensome for America, members of the House believe theres still enough. PC Magazine provides uptodate coverage and product reviews of projectors. Get the guaranteed lowest prices, largest selection and free shipping on most Portable Arranger Keyboards at Musicians Friend. 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Lets take a detailed look at all the products mentioned in this video plus some extras that you might not have considered. Fader options. The fader most people are using because of the AUX in capabilities which allow you to plug in a beat source such as an i. Phone. An Innofader version is in production. Looking forward to that now available The first portable fader. Does not feature an AUX in for a beat source. Shop for portable blender at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. Mp3 free download MP3 Juice Free MP3 Downloader, Free MP3 Cutter, MP3 Free Downloader, and many more programs. Stop playing games on your mobile or cell phone. Switch to a handheld game console with better specifications that offer amazing games. Mp3 Rocket Portable OutdoorMp3 Rocket Portable SpeakerOptional Extra. A Raiden Fader housing to make it feel like cutting on a regular setup mixer. Works great Turntable Options. Right now you are looking at the following main players Vestax Handy Trax. Now discontinued so its harder to find at a reasonable price point. Selective Desaturation Program there. Sub 1. 00 table that is still in production and freely available. Vestax Handy Trax Numarl PT0. Pros and cons by Paul Skratchvia So. Wrye Bash What Is A Bashed Patch here. S member Chauncey Lemons. Thanks for sharing fellasNumark PT0. Pros. Square shape closer to a reg. Rubber feet helps from sliding. Dust cover lid quick to lock and unlock. Price is great and is still in production. Raiden Fader fits in with kid cover is on. Larger space for portable fader to be mounted. Numark PT0. 1 Cons. Tone arm seems lighter and needle feels like it doesnt lock onto the groove as the Handytrax. Volume out isnt as loud as the Handytrax. Tone arm lock clip is fragile and can be broken easily. Factory slipmat is glued on out of the box. Youll have to peel it off and use a Goo Gone type solution to get glue residue off. Handle for carrying is a bit awkward for bigger hands. Vestax Handytrax Pros. Needle locks to groove well and helps from skipping. Sounds a bit crisper than the PT0. Body is slim and fits in most backpacks. Torque feels stronger than the PT0. You dont have to peel off factory slip mat since it doesnt come with one. Vestax Handytrax Cons. Shape is a bit longer. No rubber feet for anti sliding. Currently not in production. Expensive. 7 Vinyl. These tend to be produced in limited numbers and sell out more quickly. Popular titles include Speaker. You need to hook up your setup to a speaker you cannot use the inbuilt speakers in the turntables without some modding and rewiring. I have used Minirig very kindly hooked me up with one of these. Thank you Made just up the road from my hometown in Bristol. Ideal. Loud, powerful, rugged and solid. A shameless Bose rip off at a fraction of the cost, surprisingly good. Setup Connecting Your Fader. For everyone that has asked me how to setup the Raiden Fader to their portable turntable The Line out of your turntable usually LR RCA to 3. INPUT on the fader. OUTPUT goes to your speaker usually a 3. AUXILIARY IN the input for your beat source i. Phone, i. Pad, i. Pod, mp. 3 player, computer  loopers, table beats app etc. Thats it Demos. Here are some of my roughly recorded raw audio portable setup videos so you can see more of whats possible. It really is a lot of fun scratching on a portable setup. More fun better sounding cuts. Im using In the next 3 videos I am using the Texas Scratch League O. G. 1. 0  Thanks Andres for the hook up There are loads more of these kinds of videos on the School of Scratch Instagram Channel if you want to browse and look through the archives. DVS Options. One of the most exciting recent developments in the portable scratch game is the experiments around using DVS such as Serato. At the moment, this involves some hacking and it most definitely is possible. Raiden Fader takes us through the setup process. Seems like alot of users are trying out this dvs setup with the recommended DJ Player app. We will post a detailed tutorial with screenshots of settings on our site soon. For anyone having issues here is the a hook up procedure and some tips for nowUSB goes from the handytrax into your i. Phone. Audio is routed out of the i. Phone into our fader. You can set volume on the handy trax to zero so you dont hear a test tone coming out the stock internal speaker. To enable the dvs type your using, you will need to go into the settings of the app and enable input, and assign the turntable under dvs settings on the bottom of the screen. Settings such as frequency may need to be changed depending on the vinyl your using. Traktor vinyl may need to select the reverse phase option. We tested serato vinyl and it works with no major setting changes neededTo enable sound, you go under output settings and select the 2 deck option if you using a splitter cable, or 2 deck with internal mixer if your not using a splitter and just using one Chanel in the app. If using a splitter with 2 channels routed into the fader input and aux, and you hear levels not equal You can use the balance in main i. Phone settings to adjust. Under settingsgeneralaccessibility. Here are some more shots and overviews to get you inspired from the Raiden Fader Instagram channel If your looking to try setting up a portable dvs setup. These are the main adapters and cables needed if you have a portable turntable with USB capability, along with a USB cable and usual 3. No audio interface box, or laptop needed making for a truly portable unit. The apple USB adaptor allows you to plug in a USB cable from your portable into the i. Phonei. Pad for the app to register The splitter cable is a special cable that splits channel A in the app to left Channel, and channel B to right channel, allowing both channels in the app to be used. A lot of companies make this cable, we just chose to use a traktor branded one You dont need this cable if you plan on just using only one channel in the app. You can use another source such as a laptop or other audio device to play a looper or background beat if you choose. The app used to read the dvs is DJ PLAYER, available in the App Store. The app is under 5 dollars and is designed to be configurable for any dvs media. It can read any control vinyl on the market. Serato, traktor, virtual Dj, etc We only tested it on serato branded control vinyl. A photo posted by Raiden raidenfader on Jan 1. PSTPlus an additional setup guide video just added from DJ Ragz. DVS Serato Traktor Vinyl. At this point you might be wondering where to get a 7 timecode vinyl from. There are currently 2 options. 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