The plan:

[hirez]

Edit:

In case it's not obvious (and I guess it's not) the finger-in-air plan is to gut a F-P Activity Centre and install the faders & knobs of a standard cheap-and-nasty DJ rig behind the brightly coloured whizzers and slidey-things. Mind you, since the DJ-culture wave has crested and it's a visual joke that only six people would get, it may or may not be worth the effort.

Comments

[razornet.livejournal.com]

*fear*

[hirez.livejournal.com]

D'you think my house will become beseiged by a mob of torch-wielding DJs ?

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Looks similar to the setup they used to have in Gossips.

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

Marvellous. I'm not sure I understand it, but I want one.

[s0b.livejournal.com]

maglites possibly.

There's a "terrible urge to try" that pretty much all the DJs I know suffer from.

"Three decks and a dyson you say? Well if Carl Cox can do it then I must at least try"

[hirez.livejournal.com]

See edit. Does that make more sense?

[sx23.livejournal.com]

They have real decks in Gossips??

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Strange boy.

But I knew that.

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

you have to use a kiddies speak and spell and add a whole world of wrong to that as well. Who needs rappers.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Can't you get an Etch-A-Sketch in there as well? DO IT.

[spride.livejournal.com]

On Sandi Toksvig's LBC show last week (yes, yes, but it was on while I was skiving and painting a bathroom wall while a laptop was VPN'd into work mail in the next room, the volume turned up so I could hear it go bing - that's working from home, isn't it?) (where was I? Ah yes) and she played a version of 'I Got You Babe' with 'male' and 'female' Speak-and-Spell machines duetting.

[dcarson.livejournal.com]

I say put an etch-a-sketch at the front for requests - if people can't write legibly with an etch-a-sketch, the request doesn't get played!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Ha - I have pleasant mental images now of completely trollied clubbers going "Shit - no, turn the knob the other way. Crap, now it looks like it says 'Abcess and Ampallang' by Asausage 23..."

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

If fewer people get it, doesn't that make it *more* worth the effort ?

I shall, of course, be happy to assist in any way I can.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes, now that I think about it.

I should probably explain less - it would mean fewer baffled stares for a start.

Assist? Hurrah! Unfortunately I have no plan more cunning than:

1) Blag cheapest and nasiest DJ mixer possible. (Hell, it'll go well with the gramophones which were free and may or may not work, but it's not like there's much to go wrong in there)
2) Some soldering.
3) Profit!

[reddragdiva]

When everyone knows that's the B-side of "Sack Of Hammers".

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

Makes mucho sense.
An alternative might be one of these (http://www.behringer.com/02_products/b-control_index.cfm?lang=ENG) if you were trying to do it in a laptoppy way and add USB. Knobs should port into a toy of your choice.

Also reminiscent of this fella's (http://highlyliquid.com/) handiwork.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

This one's strictly analogue and coming in at under £20 total for bits. (Free decks, 10p for the F-P and a tenner for the mixer. Bargain.)

And they do 'scopes on Ebay. Bastards.

Soldering iron, Dremel, Araldite... Sorted.