iPod Mijam
The iPod has proven to be so popular as a music player that naturally the accessories market of the iPod has flourished, with every wacky iPod accessory conceivable being created and marketed for all its worth. Whilst some of the iPod accessories are actually great and fantastic for DJing and more importantly work. There are a who load of rubbish iPod accessories out there most of which serve no function at all and really arn’t worth the plastic they are built on.
The Mijam is one of these time waster iPod products designed to appeal to the iPod DJing market, its really nothing more than an interesting looking effects unit.
the mijam works by being plugged into the audio output of the iPod, which is your first clue that the two ‘deck’ dont actually do anything to alter the music track at all. It claims to allow scratching ‘digi-sound’ (what ever that is) and voice over. the Mijam claims to produce six unique background rhythms and fill-in sounds, three drum fills, and three voice effects, whilst built in volume and tempo controls supposedly allow sound levels to be adjusted to sync with the music playing from the iPod…how this is anything other than adding ‘effect’ (cause really they aren’t) to music on your iPod I don’t know, but its definitely not DJing. Still if you have 4 AAA batteries spare and around £20 to spare, and you’re looking for a present for an 8 year old DJ then you might consider the mijam something of a stockingfiller.