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components<br />
Stanton Final Scratch 2.0/Native<br />
Instruments Traktor<br />
Scratch amp MSRP: $799; www.stantondj.com, www.native-instruments.com<br />
Growing legions of DJs are happily going to clubs armed with a laptop and an iPod, leaving their dubplates<br />
at home to roll spliffs on. While you can’t roll a spliff on an MP3, you can do just about anything<br />
you can do with a set of decks with the powerful combination of Stanton’s Final Scratch 2.0 and<br />
Native Instruments Traktor. ScratchAmp2 adds inputs and outputs to the hardware interface, meaning<br />
you can now record your voice/guitar/etc and immediately scratch it. The new version adds stability, and<br />
also plays AAC and WMA files in addition to MP3s. Jesse Terry<br />
Stanton Scratch<br />
Amp (left) works with<br />
Native INstruments<br />
traktor software.<br />
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Rain LiveBook Laptop<br />
MSRP: $2699.95; www.rainrecording.com<br />
Gaming geeks have been coughing up serious cash for customized<br />
laptops since DOOM hit in ‘93, so let me just say off the bat that<br />
the Rain LiveBook features no monogrammed alien heads or awful<br />
airbrushed stencils. Instead, the LiveBook is a laptop specifically<br />
equipped for powerful mobile recording: 533MHz SDRAM for blazing<br />
fast speed and multiple plug-in use inside your favorite DAW,<br />
FireWire for connecting all the latest external hardware, a gorgeous<br />
15” screen, and High Definition audio capable of both 5.1 and 7.1<br />
surround to start. Add the modular external StormDrive (which can<br />
cool itself without a fan) and you got yourself a pretty damn slick and<br />
efficient all-in-one recording computer. Ryan Sommer<br />
Shure E4c Sound<br />
Isolating Earphones<br />
MSRP: $299; www.shurestore.com<br />
If you’re looking to ditch those mediocre bundled iPod earbuds,<br />
and upgrade to something a little more sophisticated, Shure’s<br />
E4c Sound Isolating Earphones are a top notch investment. For<br />
all those hours you spend on Napster–or ripping CDs you actually<br />
own–and enduring public transportation after a night of heavy drinking,<br />
the separation these puppies give you from the outside world<br />
will have you feeling better faster than you can say “Sapphire and<br />
tonic.” The kit comes with multiple sizes to interchange, plus the<br />
precision drivers right up on your ear socket are the same caliber<br />
used by musicians everywhere. Ryan Sommer<br />
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