Pushing the bleeding edge of music production and performance

May 22, 2005 As DJs become the rock stars of the 21st century and digital technology takes music far beyond the realms of individual and assembled instruments, it kinda makes sense that there should be some new musical instruments for the new technology music artists who wish to take live performance beyond sitting behind a mixing desk. Such a prototype emerged at the mega Musikmesse Show in Frankfurt, Germany last month from Vestax, a high-end designer/manufacturer of musical instruments and DJ mixers, turntables, CD players and installed club sound errr … things. The STC-V1 stands for “stage controller” and combines a Vestax CDX-05 turntable and a Tascam TT-M1 controller in a guitar form factor so the front man can strut around with “style, grace and attitude” according to the Vestax. The guitar-look stage controller wasn’t the only mind-bender on display at the Vestex stand at Musikmesse – the company also had an audio recorder which takes an sound source and burns it onto vinyl. That’s right folks, the VRX-2000 enables you to create your own classic wax and the sound quality and durability of the final product is apparently superb and similar to commercially pressed vinyl.

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