If you own a set of decks (any decks) a mixer and a computer you really can use this product to mix any audio file you want. Fire up your Soulseek and download the weeks biggest and best - then play and mix them on vinyl. This really is an opportunity for the internet to come to the DJ booth for the first time - You get an e-mail from a mate anywhere in the world with a new track attached - and you can play (or mix or scratch) it at your gig that night - not off CD-R, or a MP3 player, but off vinyl.
I know this all sounds like a dream, but it's not. it's reality with Final Scratch - a clever little box which turns YOUR DJ set up and computer into the world's biggest record library. If you can get the tune you want (rip it from a mates CD, download it, whatever) you can play it on your decks. RIGHT NOW.
On each deck you play a special record - one with no music but a time code - so that the computer knows what to listen for. Then as you speed up, slow down, backspin, scratch, whatever, with the record, the computer does the same with the audio file you've told it to play. It really does work, in real time, and work well. And the best thing is you don't need any more equipment that the decks and mixer you've already got. Or if you do upgrade in the future, it doesn't matter, you just connect you're new ones to the final scratch.
The phono connectors from each deck (red and white) connect to the final scratch box, so that it can hear the time code from the record. Then the audio from the final scratch connects to your mixer (use the line connectors) and lastly the final scratch box connects to your computer via a USB port and that's it. Power up the computer and you're ready to go.
Imaging having a huge library of tracks you can play when you want - you don't need to buy the record just download and play it on your decks from the computer in your bedroom. You could take 2500 tracks to a gig in a record bag (well actually just your laptop, the final scratch and the pair of final scratch records)
This product really is special - it's not just an software MP3 player it's the real deal - you're still playing records, still using your hands and still have complete control - its just that the record you play controls the computer - which outputs the sound - not the deck itself.
