Update... an additional Danley TH-118 has been added to the lineup to round out the Channel Live Productions sound system.

        

Taking you back with some baby-making music with a Southern twist, I present to you "Southern-fried Slow Jams". I made this mix a couple of years ago and have had lots of folks mention it NEVER leaves their CD changers...

 

This one's geared toward the ladies. There's lots of GaFFLe on-the-fly remixes tossed in there to season it up a bit. Let it roll while you're doing some house cleaning or setting the mood.

Here's the playlist:
Bump-N-Grind (Old school mix) - R. Kelly
Stay Fly (Gaffle Blend) - Three 6 Mafia
Chunk up the Rockstar (Gaffle Blend) - R. Kelly
My Pony - Ginuwine
The Business - Yung Terd
Single - Ne-Yo
Grind with Me - Pretty Ricky
Grippin on my Bed - Sean Garret feat. Ludacris
Love in this Club (remix) - Usher feat. Beyonce
Oooh Na Na - Donell Jones
Crown Royal - Jill Scott
Still Standing - Monica
Tonight - Ready for the World
Tonight - Twista
Splash Waterfalls (Gaffle Blend) - Ludacris
Piece of My Love - Guy
Let's Chill - Guy
Moments of Love - Kraftwerk
T-shirt and Panties - Adina Howard
Seems Like You're Ready - R. Kelly
Slow Dance (Hey Mr. Dj) - R. Kelly
Nobody - Keith Sweat
Take You Down - Chris Brown
One in a Million - Aliyah
Good Thang - Pretty Willie
For You - Eric Roberson
The Block is Hot - Erykah Badu
Cupid - Babyface
Can't Believe It - T-Pain feat. Kardinal Offishal and Lil Wayne
Slow Down - Bobby Valentino

        

        

I decided to put the Danley TH-118 to work.  I didn't have a private gig on tap so I decided to put the unit to work at my residency, Shout Restaurant (14th and Peachtree, Atlanta). 

I placed the sub directly beside the Red Bull DJ booth about 1 foot away from the back wall.  The normal house setup feeds the overhead house system along with a QSC RMX 1850 feeding 4 Yamaha SV15s.  I used a DriveRack PA+ and high-passed the house system at 90Hz.  I set the sub to low-pass at 85Hz and below.   My sub amp was the QSC PL325 bridged-mono.  I connected my amp to it's own 20 amp circuit.  BOY... does this sub make a HUGE difference in sound... my booth area was vibrating like crazy!  Luckily, I'm using the NS7 because turntables would have probably picked up a ton of feedback due to the vibrations. 

Saturday night, the place was really packed.  Playing songs like DJ Class' - "I'm the ish" and LMFAO's - "I'm in Miami"... I'd take a stroll around the room and patio to listen to the bass response... it was immense!  There were at least 500-600 people in the spot and the bass DEFINITELY was not lacking.  My QSC amp clipped twice at most the entire night.  The bass was so low and solid that the bar staff mentioned their liquor bottles where rattling on the shelves.  Luckily, most of the bar counters have a rubber lining keeping the glasses from kissing the floor  

My overall experience with both passive and powered subs has been Yorkville LS800Ps, QSC HPR 181i's, Cerwin Vega EL36s, JBL SRX728s and EV QRXs...  In comparison, the TH-118 tops them all as I find it to be deeper, fuller and more musical sounding.  I can just imagine what 2 of them would sound like...  Round -2- is this weekend.  Power will come from a Crown Macrotech 9000i 

        

        

In a quest for the best possible sound, I decided to upgrade my subwoofer.  I was very satisfied with the sound from the Danley TH-115's but you can never have too much bass.

I took a visit to the Danley factory in Gainesville a couple of weeks ago to see if this new sub would be worth it.  My original thoughts were to simply add another TH-115 and couple them for more bottom end.  My gigs usually never exceed 500 people and the largest venues I spin in are gyms.

In a basic sound test, Ivan (of Danley Sound Labs) played the 4-Ohm TH-115 to its limits until the sub started to flub... the bass was very deep.  Without adjusting the volume, Ivan then panned over to the 8  Ohm TH-118 and whoa... the bass all of a sudden went lower, with NO flub AND it was a little louder.  Ivan stressed that the 4-Ohm TH-115 was seeing nearly twice the amp power than the TH-118 because of it being half the Ohm load.  After going through several more songs, I was convinced. 

Fast forward 1 1/2 weeks and...

        

DJ GaFFLe and Channel Live Productions will be playing New Years Eve at Straits Restaurant.  Straits is the restaurant owned by Ludacris and is located at 793 Juniper Street (Juniper & 5th Street) in downtown Atlanta.  DJ GaFFLe (that's me) will be playing the best in Old School, Hip Hop and House.  Best of all, the event is recession proof (FREE).  The only caveat is that you must come dressed to impress. 

See you there...

        

Amazon is offering 3 free $.99 mp3 downloads until November 30th, 2009.  If you're already a member, you can click on this link, input the code... and your credits will be there. 

I am more of an iTunes fan as their mp3s are guaranteed to be 256kbps.

Enjoy!

        

DJ GaFFLe and Channel Live Productions are now the resident DJs at Atlanta's Shout restaurant. 

 

located at the corner of 14th and Peachtree in downtown Atlanta, has stepped up their entertainment by bringing on DJ GaFFLe as their resident DJ.  You can see us every Friday and Saturday night from 10pm - 2am.  Our first night was this past Thursday where we played a private event for Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity of Emory University.  We had a great night Friday and an even better night spinning Saturday.  Updates to follow...

Visit Shout here

        

The ladies of MeowMixxx out of Birmingham, Alabama present the BlackOut Party this weekend at Millies & Billy's.  I'm gonna put it down for the ladies and will let ya'll know how it turned out...

I'm bringing the whole shibang as far as equipment and hot tunes go so expect the roof to meet the pavement!

        

I'm really late posting this.  Ladies at Play threw an even at the French-American Brasserie aka FAB.  This is the same venue you see the ladies on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" dining at.  Well, the place was PaCkED!  They had over 1100 ladies in the building.  DJ SugarCut and I held down the House and Reggae music while DJ M3 played the main room.  Channel Live Productions also provided Karaoke as entertainment in a separate room.  I can't wait 'til next year's event.

        

We had a great wedding reception for Dr(s). Tony and Tamillia Jones.  It was held at the Hilton-Atlanta Airport location.  The pictures turned out a little grainy but I'm working on better photo options.

Everyone had a ball and they had a few characters in their family which made the evening quite comical... 

        

I thought I'd put some flair to the NS7 so I changed the default Black vinyl records to Platinum.  Shouts out to DJ Esco for the original idea.  My custom record label is kind of drab but I didn't feel like spending too much time designing it.  You can pick these up at www.goldrecord.com

        

Well, I took the 1hr. drive to Danley and wasn't disappointed.  

My main goal was to hear the Danley TH-115 in comparison to my powered QSC HPR 181i.  They connected an XLR to my QSC via their sound source and a DSP and had the same source feeding their wall of Danley speakers.  Based on the song playing and at the volume level, we felt my sub was giving 'slight' cardboard honking sound so we low-passed it at around 90Hz (the HPR's default is 100hz).  The same low-pass value was give to the Danley subs.  We started off playing their source music at nominal volume levels and I didn't notice much difference except that the TH-115 sounded a little deeper and had more impact, especially at the 30 to 60Hz area.  

Mike, suggested I get my own source music so I got my Mac and played some of my music that I DJ with.  I started off with some House music and then switched to a rap song with a nice deep and typical genre bass kick "Buy you a drink" - TPain.  I wanted to hear the limits of my HPR so keeping the source volume static, I adjusted the gain of the HPR so the clip light flickered but the sound did not distort.  Mike then toggled to the TH-115 and it was ALL OVER.  I was shocked at how deep and MUCH louder that one 15" box was over my 18" sub.  The back dock demo area was vibrating and I could feel a ruffle in my pants leg which is just the kind of kick I want!  :p  My HPR sounded close to anemic compared to the 115.  Both subs were in the same proximity for the comparison but I thought they had 2 115's running.  I peered over the back and saw only 1 cable connected.  I really couldn't get enough of them going back and forth between the two.  I figure it would take at LEAST 3 of my HPR 18's to equal their 1 TH-115.  I really wasn't into replacing my powered tops but they showed me some top secret models on the way.  

Curious, we compared the TH-Mini to my HPR and surprisingly, the TH-Mini sounded almost on par with my 18.  It did not hit quite as low but the overall volume level was about even.  Some people probably couldn't tell the difference.

Mike then played all of their models... I was most impressed with the TH-221.  That sub is a BEAST!  I've never heard a sub hit so deep and so low.  It had a totally full and deep sound.  THey toggled sine waves between the models and the TH-221 sounded smooth/full/deep all the way down to the 20Hz tones. My 2nd fav was the TH-115.  

I'm definitely selling my 2 HPR 18's and getting a TH-115.  My only dilemma is whether to get a passive or powered version...

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We're at it again... This will be the prequel to the big Labor Day weekend event.