New Behringer NOX Mixers

[Otacon]

I know Behringer doesn't have the best quality products, but with the new CMD line I decided to give their products a look and found something interesting. Has anyone had their hands on any of the NOX Mixers? The NOX 606 looks like a pretty damn good mixer for the $399 price point. 6 channel, contact free crossfader, voltage controller filters, built in LFO's, and XENYX pre amps. What do you guys think?

[Patch]

Looks like a great mixer - it's the one I'd buy if I didn't have a DDM4K.

Psst... £219?!?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BEHRINGER-...item23222348c1

This + TT's, + a couple of those new Behringer CMD's, + your flavour of software and you got yourself a nice set-up.

I REALLY like the look of those pre/post-fader AUX's on each channel.

[boarderbas]

Looks like a Xone 92 clone. But well done...

[oliosky]

I bought a NOX303. I am pleasantly surprised at the feel and quality. The effects, apart from the filters are mediocre but the USB input and decent x-fader is pretty impressive for the price.

[Otacon]

They have the 606 on amazon for $314!!!!! Gonna snatch one out as soon as humanly possible.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new

oliosky, they say they have new x faders, how does it feel?

[oliosky]

The xfader feels pretty good. Fairly light with a decent cut in time. Its no rane fader or innofader but it definetly does the job.

Its the same fader as this



I've been meaning to put together a bit of a review on the NOX303 actually. Might try over the weekend.

I know Konix, that serato dude reviewed the 606 and had some issues with the filters or something. But that was a while ago and it may have been rectified.

[Shishdisma]

I had a 606, and it was hilarious. If you need features and knobs, have a blast, if you want an actually quality product, theres much better you can get for the money. Plastic stems, plastic pots, plastic faders, a decent crossfader, completely useless mic channels, mains hum on the 4th channel, tinny effects unit, and channel gains so harsh I could play the noise using filters.

The cueing bus also blew me away, I had it up all the way to where audible noise came through the output, and it was "club volume," the cue bus uses that infuriating A&H system, that blasts the master when you're not cuing a channel, special guest "ignores the cue volume control" appears here too.

Filters were interesting, Id put them around Serato Itch quality, and I gave up trying to use the LFO's after the tap switches stuck for the 4th time. All the fun A&H modes, but they really sound a bit phoned in. Like I said, features over quality.

But what really amazed me is how every single knob had a different amount of wobble in them, but the entire unit maintained a uniform feeling of "This is going to snap if I knock it." The entire EQ field was literally a full gamut of "Wobbles ridiculously" to "definitely overtorqued," and of course, it's all one PCB, so snap one and you're screwed.

Sound quality is about what you'd expect from Behringer, line channels are noisy and just sound a bit washed, and the mic channels are straight up underwater running an aux return through them. The 4 band EQ is a nice trick, but if you're used to a 92, you'll be actively thrown off by their colour and spacing.

[oliosky]

I had a 606, and it was hilarious. If you need features and knobs, have a blast, if you want an actually quality product, theres much better you can get for the money. Plastic stems, plastic pots, plastic faders, a decent crossfader, completely useless mic channels, mains hum on the 4th channel, tinny effects unit, and channel gains so harsh I could play the noise using filters.

The cueing bus also blew me away, I had it up all the way to where audible noise came through the output, and it was "club volume," the cue bus uses that infuriating A&H system, that blasts the master when you're not cuing a channel, special guest "ignores the cue volume control" appears here too.

Filters were interesting, Id put them around Serato Itch quality, and I gave up trying to use the LFO's after the tap switches stuck for the 4th time. All the fun A&H modes, but they really sound a bit phoned in. Like I said, features over quality.

But what really amazed me is how every single knob had a different amount of wobble in them, but the entire unit maintained a uniform feeling of "This is going to snap if I knock it." The entire EQ field was literally a full gamut of "Wobbles ridiculously" to "definitely overtorqued," and of course, it's all one PCB, so snap one and you're screwed.

Sound quality is about what you'd expect from Behringer, line channels are noisy and just sound a bit washed, and the mic channels are straight up underwater running an aux return through them. The 4 band EQ is a nice trick, but if you're used to a 92, you'll be actively thrown off by their colour and spacing.

yeah I kind of had that impression of the 606. Waaaaaay too much for way too little money.

People seem to have had good experiences with the NOX404 scratch mixer though which kinda makes sense given the simplicity of it etc.

[Shishdisma]

yeah I kind of had that impression of the 606. Waaaaaay too much for way too little money.

People seem to have had good experiences with the NOX404 scratch mixer though which kinda makes sense given the simplicity of it etc.

Its a 56 knockoff, they're not really shoehorning much into it. It's pretty much a toss up between that and that Numark mixer everyone forgot about that's like $300. The X5 I think? Pretty solid for plastic pots, with those really solid faders all around. With the Numark you're at least getting a heavyweight body and a pretty decent I/O bus.

And of course, in a "budget 2 channel" shootout, there's always the straight-block mixer wipeout that is the DJM-250..

[oliosky]

You wouldn't even attempt to scratch on a DJM250 though. And its in a different price bracket entirely.