The Vestax Corporation of Japan began in 1977 as a designer and manufacturer of electronic guitars. In the 80's Vestax introduced a series of cassette based multitracks to challenge established products from Fostex, Yamaha and Tascam's portastudios. Today, as music making continues to evolve in this high-tech age, Vestax are more commonly known for innovative sound developments such as signal processors, DJ Mixers, professional turntables and Compact Disc players.

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  • The Vestax Corporation of Japan began in 1977 as a designer and manufacturer of electronic guitars. In the 80's Vestax introduced a series of cassette based multitracks to challenge established products from Fostex, Yamaha and Tascam's portastudios. Today, as music making continues to evolve in this high-tech age, Vestax are more commonly known for innovative sound developments such as signal processors, DJ Mixers, professional turntables and Compact Disc players. By concentrating their efforts into the needs of nightclubs and Disc jockeys, their mixers have become firm favourites of international superstar DJs such as Carl Cox, DJ QBert and Cut Chemist. Mixers such as the various iterations of the PMC-05pro have become staples of the Hip Hop DJ community, and they also have manufactured signature models for DJ's such as Carl Cox and DJ Qbert. During the late 1990's Vestax launched a new flagship range of professional DJ turntables. The PDX models had higher specifications than the two market leading products from Technics and were priced in direct competition with the Technics SL1210/SL1200. However the industry standard Technics SL1210/SL1200 models remained the favourite of DJs worldwide, mostly due to the almost 20 year head start they have had to become established. Also Vestax units generally have a higher failiure rate than their Technics counterparts. There have also been some build quality issues reported throughout 2008 and 2009. This pattern of events has been replicated by other DJ equipment manufacturers such as Numark, Gemini and Stanton. It is worth noting though that while many of these turntables have either a higher specification or lower cost, in sheer numbers sold they are still dwarfed by the various versions of the SL-1200. Today Vestax has reduced its range of turntables, the PDX-2000mk2/2300mk2 for mainstream DJ use, and the PDX-2000mk2pro/PDX-2300pro with a new tonearm suspension system for increased skip resistance. In conjunction with DJ Qbert they have also released the QFO and QFO LE models, which are turntables with built in mixers, and a portable turntable/mixer that is capable of battery power. It is also worth noting that Vestax is the first manufacturer to release a vinyl cutting machine. One of Vestax's main innovations with their turntable was the introduction of the straight tone arm, which supposedly gave greater tracking force; useful for complex DJing maneuvers such as scratching or beat juggling. This has been adopted by virtually all other turntable manufacturers, with the exception of Technics. Some maintain however that the straight arm increases wear upon the record. This is based on the premise that the original 's' shaped tonearm is so designed as to naturally gravitate toward the center of the record. The straight arm will not do this, and so will theoretically drag more as the record rotates, wearing down the grooves. Vestax however have consistently denied this. Turntables have been made for many years with straight "tone arms" and other varying designs. The crucial aspect of the record player is cartridge and stylus alignment which relates to how records are made (cut) Baerwald ca. 1941 showed that the tracking error of a pivoted stylus could be minimized if the stylus is aligned such that it is parallel to the groove at two points along its curved path. As long as the stylus is set correctly there will be minimal undesired wear on a standard record for any style or shape of tonearm.
  • Vestax est une société japonaise créée en 1977 qui construisit en premier lieu des guitares électroniques. Dans les années 80, Vestax a introduit sur le marché une série d'enregistreurs multipiste pour concurrencer les produits déjà bien installés de Fostex, Yamaha et Tascam. A la fin des années 90, Vestax s'est lancé sur la marché des platines Vinyl professionnelles avec les modèles PDX destinés (de par leurs caractèristiques et leur prix) à entrer en concurrence directe avec la reine des platines, la Technics 1200/1210 MK2. Mais malgré les efforts de la marque, aucun modèle n'arrivera à la détrôner. Par la suite, alors que la création musicale a pris le tournant numérique, Vestax s'est lancé dans l'aventure et est aujourd'hui une marque reconnue pour ses produits innovants comme ses traitements de son, tables de mixage DJ et autres Platine CD et Vinyls professionnels. En concentrant ses efforts pour répondre à la demande des discothèques et des DJ, Vestax est devenue la marque attitrée de tables de mixage pour de nombreux DJ de renommée internationale comme Carl Cox, QBert, et Cut Chemist entre autres... Vestax a été la première marque à proposer un graveur de disques Vinyls grand public mais le prix prohibitif (près de 10.000 euros) et l'avènement du MP3 (et dans son sillage les Final scratch et autres Serrato) fera de ce graveur un echec commercial. Aujourd'hui Vestax introduit toute une gamme de controleurs USB (VCM 100, VCI 300) associé à des logiciels de mixage.
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  • The Vestax Corporation of Japan began in 1977 as a designer and manufacturer of electronic guitars. In the 80's Vestax introduced a series of cassette based multitracks to challenge established products from Fostex, Yamaha and Tascam's portastudios. Today, as music making continues to evolve in this high-tech age, Vestax are more commonly known for innovative sound developments such as signal processors, DJ Mixers, professional turntables and Compact Disc players.
  • Vestax est une société japonaise créée en 1977 qui construisit en premier lieu des guitares électroniques. Dans les années 80, Vestax a introduit sur le marché une série d'enregistreurs multipiste pour concurrencer les produits déjà bien installés de Fostex, Yamaha et Tascam.
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