Xone: DB4- the official unofficial thread

[mostapha]

A lot of good ideas will scare closed-minded or simpleton DJs off. That's why there's basically no progress in DJ technology and why Pioneer can get away with charging more for a pair of CDJ-2000s than Apple does for a Mac Pro.

I'm not saying that I have anything resembling a solution, but that's apparently the way it is.

[MrPopinjay]

Sad but true. Oh well.

[djproben]

yes, yes, but please let's get back on topic. Now precisely how amazing IS the DB4?

[D@VE!]

Absolutely F#cking Great !

[djproben]

OK I was just joking but now I actually do want to say something cool I figured out with this mixer tonight when I should have been going to bed. I was kind of perturbed to read that the Pioneer 2000 mixer has a feature I've always wanted (in traktor or in a mixer): the ability to apply effects only to certain frequencies rather than the whole channel signal. Well it turns out you can do this with the input matrix. It's a bit tricky to maneuver in the mix but you put the same signal on two channels and set the filters on one to attenuate all the low frequencies (top knob all the way turned up, bottom knob about halfway, and resonance really low, so that channel is just playing the higher frequencies), then bring the channel fader up for that channel slowly while you attenuate the highs on the main channel at the same time (top knob turned down about halfway). If you do this right there shouldn't be any noticeable change in the music; you now have the highs on one channel and lows on another, and you just run your effects on the channel you want to effect. You could do this with the EQs of course too, just have the highs and/or mids on one channel and the rest on the other channel.

It's kind of an ordeal to do it though, not necessarily worth the effort -- I'd rather hit a shift button and have the five effects buttons on each channel turn into frequency band buttons indicating which parts of the frequency the effects would be applied to (with the effected frequencies lighting up of course). Hmmm time to go look for the feature request page on the A+H website....

[DJ Bob]

@djproben - Yes, you can use the matrix to apply fx to selected frequencies but there is also another way which is much easier. Most fx allow you to choose the frequency range to apply them to. Just press & hold the 'fx adj' button and the display changes to show you a low pass or notched filter which you can use to dial in the fx frequencies however you want. The different delays have quite a variation in the range of the filter from wide to very narrow.

[djproben]

@djproben - Yes, you can use the matrix to apply fx to selected frequencies but there is also another way which is much easier. Most fx allow you to choose the frequency range to apply them to. Just press & hold the 'fx adj' button and the display changes to show you a low pass or notched filter which you can use to dial in the fx frequencies however you want. The different delays have quite a variation in the range of the filter from wide to very narrow.

Ahhhhh I get it now, will play with this parameter adjustment some more. The picture just confused me and of course I might have understood it better had I read the documentation on the effects parameters

[mostapha]

It's almost trivial to do that in Ableton. It's not quite as seamless as on the DJM-900, but you could map it to one knob (or a MIDI touch strip is you really wanted to).

[ferluno01]

Thinking of getting this beast. Anybody know of a place to get it as cheap as possible? new or used don't matter. I'm located in Chicago but figure best prices I'm gonna find are online. Thanks for any help guys.

[Xonetacular]

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