At CES 2019 Technics Introduces Elegant SL-1500C Coreless Direct Drive Turntable | Analog Planet

The return of Technics 1200

New News from the CES Show for this month. Technics is bringing back the 1200. Pictured above is the SL-500C made for consumers with a built in MM phono preamplifier. This unit does not have a pitch slider, cue light, or platter strobe marks on the platters edge so DJs will want to look at the SL-1200MK7 that has those options.

The SL-500C will retail for about $1399.00 where the SL-1200MK7 should have a retail price of $1199.00

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At CES 2019 Technics Introduces Elegant SL-1500C Coreless Direct Drive Turntable | Analog Planet

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DJ Jayski & DJ Cutlas at DJ Times DJ Expo in Atlantic City August 2018

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DJ Jayski & DJ Cutlas spinning at The Peavey Electronics booth to end the 2018 Atlantic City DJ Times DJ Expo

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Introduction to mixing music : Cuing Fading

Introduction to mixing music : Cuing Fading

Mixing music effectively is a very important skill. Dead air during a show, beginning a song late, or ending a song early, will not only look sloppy, but sound sloppy. There are two phases to mixing well.

1. Being able to que the music correctly 
2. Being able to fade out the previous song and start the new one (on time).

Cuing

Back in the day when you used records or tapes you had to queue songs manually. then CDs arrived and players automatically cued the song to the beginning. Now we have computers and software that do the same thing as CDs did, but they allow you more versatility and several spots to add cues in the song. When queuing make sure