Internal vs External mixing

[zimfella]

Ean wrote this 4 years ago now, wow!

http://www.djtechtools.com/2008/03/0...-up-in-a-club/


it all depends when your gonna play and how many channels you need i guess. But always try to get there before opening for a sound check.

any thoughts on trading my xone 22 for a pioneer djm 500? with a mate so straight swap. worth it?

[MrPopinjay]

I'd probably go for it. I'd wanna check out the DJM first and see if it suited me.

[zimfella]

Cheers mate, I have played on it before, we both work together in electronics so gonna take it into work and give it a service with contact cleaner and compressed air.

[agrelius]

Most clubs here i find have a house DJM, whether it be a ratty broken 600, usually it's an 800 or at some of the newer/glitzier places there's even a 900, rigged into the house. I usually plug into a spare channel on that then set the EQ straight, max the S4 hardware knob,set the dB in Traktor to about -7 to line up with CDJ volume and then I'm ready to go. In terms of space, usually there's room, but in case I have to cram, usually you just have to remove one CDJ and the S4 fits right in.

[keeb]

Make sure you test out the DJM for sound quality for your ears first. As I understand it, the 500 was a semi-cringeworthy mixer SQ wise, at least compared to a Xone. Plus, the lower-level DJMs are quite different than the higher level ones; the effects are not quite the same, lack of color effects, etc. The Xone is a solid entry-level mixer and the 500's effects are (I'm guessing) pretty equivalent to Traktor's effects SQ-wise, so you're probably better off keeping the Xone. That said, you said this is a trade with your mate so you could just do it temporarily and see if you like the DJM.

[zimfella]

Thanks Keeb. Will definitely keep that in mind. i'm gonna go for it. I don't intend to keep it forever. maybe 6months then buy a xone 42. pretty sure I'll get at least a couple of hundred for it when i do decide to sell. just really keen to get into 4 deck mixing with sample banks and this is gonna be the cheapest way. i don't have much money at the mo. girlfriend went to work in another country so my rent has gone up and just started paying for open university. it's alot tighter than i thought it would be. just got to do what i can at the mo. gonna miss the x22 but will get to have a jam on it every couple of weeks anyhow. really do not want another cheap 4 channel like the numark mixer either. last one i had had terrible eq's

[zimfella]

Can anybody suggest a descent 4 channel mixer around £250.00 new or second hand?

cheers

[MrPopinjay]

I always thought the numark M range were alright for entry level trash. The M6 is 4 channel.

You could almost certainly get something better by watching ebay for a few weeks and sniping something cheap.

[3heads]

Maybe scour ebay for an old Formula Sound, Rodec, Hi-Level or something of that sort.

[keeb]

You'll be better off holding off until you can afford a decent 4 channel. For now you can always just run sample decks on the same channels you have your decks on. It's not quite as nice, but I'd rather do that than trade in a Xone 22 for a crappy 4 channel mixer. You're trading from a solid 2 channel to a mediocre (at best) 4 channel. You might want to look around for a Mackie d.4 Pro though. I picked mine up before for $600 or so off the used section here and it's a 4 channel solid sounding mixer with a Firewire Traktor Scratch Certified soundcard and two analog filters. Sounds great and works well. I'd even sell you mine since I upgraded to a DJM 900 recently, but overseas that would be a pain to do (I'm located in the U.S.) and probably wouldn't be worth it.