20/10/2012

A Sound Effect


Modern DJ mixers come loaded with lots of 'sound' effects buttons to add an extra dimension to a music track.  Add in the extra potential with digital formats and there are literally millions of different possible combinations of effects.


What's emerged is a fascinating language to describe these effects.  At BPM 2012, the national UK DJ conference, there was an education session to demo some of the latest effects.  This was using a top end mixer (technically an Allen and Heath Xone DB4FX, retailing at c.£1600), working through the main effects and their parameters.  

To complemented the audio version, we've created the visual version of those effect words, which collectively give a lovely overall sense, and are maybe event visual art to complement the audio art...