Hi. Welcome to my super amazing biography.

I am a scratch DJ and beat maker for FourBarrelShotgun and FourBarrelBeats. I make instrumentals, scratch music, stuff like that.

I started out as a hip-hop mix DJ over 26 years ago. I went with the name DJ Sckizo for a few reasons:

1. DJ Bass was already taken as a Yahoo! email address (I’m not even kidding)
2. I misspelled schizo

As you can see, my name was carefully selected.

I started out cutting music on a set of BST-PR96 turntables. They’re belt drive turntables, so not exactly great for scratching. I didn’t know that at the time. I think they were the cheapest turntables Music Factory sold at the time. I added an American DJ XDM-241 Shredder mixer, and I was off to the races.

I still have all of that stuff, by the way.

I eventually upgraded to Gemini 500XL direct drive turntables and went through lots of random Gemini and Numark mixers. Why? Because I was always wearing out the crossfaders and it turned out, replacing the mixer with another cheap mixer was cheaper than replacing the crossfader.

Anyway, I don’t have any of that anymore. Just the BST’s and the American DJ mixer. It was pretty cool to use them all together, though.

Fast forward to today. I have a set of Gemini SV-2200 turntables I bought on eBay that I’ve never used, mostly because the mixer is falling apart.

About a decade ago, I started using a Traktor S2 until it failed a few years ago. I moved to a DDJ-400 until the fader failed and I fixed it to death. The amount of stuff I broke trying to fix that thing was spectacular.

Of the two, I liked the S2 more. The DDJ-400 pissed me off a lot because it was always failing to connect to the Rekordbox software they make. Anyway, it’s in a landfill somewhere now.

I decided a few months ago to get a new controller and wanted something that moves or has a visual indicator. That way I can treat it more like a normal turntable.

Why not just go back to normal turntables? I have them, after all.

I thought about it, but because everything I do now is digital, I’d have to get Phase and a new mixer that supports it.

Instead, I went with a Hercules Inpulse T7 Gold Edition.

Why that specific controller?

Because of this video.

I’m working on getting back into scratch music. I sometimes drop videos on Rumble and eventually post them to YouTube, too. I might do more at some point.

PS. In case you’re wondering, yes, I had a thing for Jennifer Love Hewitt.