Jared Helfer

Jared Helfer

Jared spends too much time staring at MIDI to have time to cut his hair or shave. He is also a DJ. He currently holds the record as the "Most Fired" at DJWorx, and is willing to challenge anyone to the title. He spends his time DJing in his office and releasing mixes on his website and mixcloud, as well as playing violent video games, reading books, and beginning to get involved in production.
  • Joined: February 28, 2012
  • Articles: 35
  • Comments: 14

REVIEW: Sennheiser HD8 DJ Headphones

Sennheiser HD8 DJ Headphones review (14)

When you've got the most revered DJ headphones in your roster, why on earth would you bring something else out? Well that's exactly what Sennheiser has done with the HD8 DJ headphones. But they're not just another HD25 variant and instead go for a different market. Jared Helfer wears, listens, and writes. And fails to break them too.

Truly Modular: Modulares Interface

Modulares Interface iPad (2)

The adoption of mobile devices into DJing has been slow but steady, with solutions that exists entirely as apps, or using the iPad laptop style to drive the apps. But the Modulares Interface approach is to fully encase an iPad inside a frame and build your own configurable controllers with modular components. Jared and Dan take a look.

Traktor Kontrol S8: What We Know

Traktor Kontrol S8 (3)

Having previously established that the internet doesn't allow for the stuffing cats back into bags, NI has to do what it can with what is left. So here's a teaser video for the new Traktor Kontrol S8... to go with the high res images that ended up on Amazon last week. In a bold move, the S8 has no jog wheels and no tactile pitch control. Are we entering a brave new world shaped in NI's vision?

Komplete 10 – more Komplete than ever

Native Instruments Komplete 10 Kontrol (4)

Native Instruments announce Komplete 10 Komplete 10 and Komplete Ultimate 10, a most epic collection of pretty much everything you could need to make sound of any sort. Ultimate 10 is indeed so vast that it comes on a hard drive all of its own.