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Unfortunately, there comes a time when everything breaks, and the same is definitely true of music gear, whether it’s speakers, valve amplifiers, or your electric guitar or bass. In the worst case, you’ll need to get it fixed by a professional, but there are some smaller, more simple repairs that you can actually carry out yourself. With a voltmeter, a soldering iron and a little solder on your side, you can get more done than you might think.

Already put in the hours honing your skills on your DJ controller, turntable, or full DJ-set-up and built yourself a massive collection of floor-fillers and bangers? Then it’s about time you booked your first gig and took your set into the booth. Courtesy of our in-house DJ-specialist, Matt (AKA DJ Konna), we kit you out with some tips and tricks for booking your first gigs.

We wouldn’t be surprised if it’s one of the most frequently googled questions: “What are the differences between the various Sennheiser HD 25 headphones?” Sennheiser cleaned up the series a while ago, so it’s about time we put together a clear overview of the differences and similarities between the older and newer versions of this iconic range of headphones.

Music production is a long and tedious process. Writing a song can take anywhere between two weeks to two months. But while artists aren’t releasing music, keeping fans’ interest engaged can sometimes be difficult. However, as a music producer, your music isn’t the only content you can offer your fans. With the ability to create mashups, mixes and various other forms of media, it’s important that you use all your resources to give fans incentive to persistently keep up with all things, you.

The stylus (or needle) is a crucial component of a turntable. It picks up the texture of a groove, which causes it to vibrate, and this it’s this that translates into sound. When it comes to the part that’s barely visible to the naked eye, only one distinction really matters: the shape. In this blog, we’ll tell you what the perfect needle is for you; spherical or elliptical.

If you’re a freelance musician, producer, or DJ, then you probably live a pretty unpredictable live where you’re suddenly travelling for months on end, or you just as suddenly have very little work and a lot of time at home. So, what can you do to make the very best of that in-between-time? In this blog, we offer 10 tips to help you stay productive at home.

A fresh-faced top-shelf multiplayer like the Pioneer CDJ-3000 never enters the world alone. As such, it’s not just the hardware that you’re buying, it’s all the firmware updates and future additional functions that might be released that really get your mouth watering.

Decisions, decisions, decisions… the Pioneer CDJ-3000 or the Denon SC6000? To be honest, it’s only you who can answer that question, but to help you out a little, we throw these two heavyweight mediaplayers into the ring and let them battle it out. Trained and developed by the most important DJ-brands of the moment, it’s anyone’s guess who’ll come out on top. As such, we kind of stepped back here and left it up to you to decide who wins out.

Bax Music have been given the chance to take a little peak at the super-fresh Pioneer CDJ 3000. This shiny new, top-of-the-range Pioneer multiplayer is definitely going to be the next big thing, whether on a festival stage, in the club, or in the living rooms of Djs the world over. In this blog, we take a long look at the features that define this next-generation tabletop mediaplayer.

While there are few things better than coming home with a fat stack of old records after a day spent scouring garage sales and antique shops, sometimes your ‘black gold’ sounds more like a piece of plastic. Don’t throw out your vinyl just yet though, the tips in this blog can help you make them sound fresh again!

Making a mixtape that’s good enough to enter into a contest can be a daunting task, but what you get in return is usually more than worth the hassle: valuable experience, exposure, new contacts, and so on … But how do you make a mixtape that distinguishes you, and only you, from the immense sea of other Djs out there? Guestblogger, Amar Amlani (Dice DJ) reveals everything he’s learnt about the subtle art of making contest-worthy mixtapes.

For DJs, an organised music collection is vital to playing a flawless set. Adding structure by labelling files, folders and subfolders, finding the right tracks can be made much easier, and it can even help you add better transitions to your mixes. That means it’s time to bring order to the chaos! In this blog, I offer beginner DJs a handful of digital music managements tips.