Long story short, moved houses, ‘movers’ dropped my DDJ-SX, cant do anything about it, need something to practice on till I save up for 1 year for CDJ-2000nxs.
How is the DDJ-SB? It’s $300 which is a joke, there must be something missing if the price is that low…I might be wrong so please correct me. It has all basic functions, and it has filter fade.
Is this a good practice controller? I’m not looking for 4 deck mixer, I just need 2 to practice, but apart from that are there any flaws in it, how is it different from say, DDJ-SR which is $600 (double the cost)
The DDJ-SB has almost everything except the 8 pads at the bottom for slicing, but is that a big deal.
Mate why start a new post when this is clearly a continuation of the conversation in your other post about a new set up? Mods should be looking to merge these to keep things tidy.
Are you sure ? .. I thought the license was locked to the controller that it was installed with
Edit- my suspicions seem to be correct
From Serato:
[QUOTE]The DDJ-SX is a pro controller, and comes with a free upgrade to Serato DJ linked exclusively to that hardware.
The DDJ-SB is an intro controller, and can be used with Serato DJ Intro for free. To use a intro controller with the full version of Serato DJ, you need a standalone Serato DJ licence. You can get that here - store.serato.com
I too was wondering how this kit is so cheap… I have a ns6 but the headphone jack/sound card must be cutting. Up because get really weird shit going on even Stand alone no computer hooked up being used as a standard mixer… Oddly enough it’s only on the 1/4 & 1/8 jack but it makes it terribly hard to mix track due to the sound issue so anyhow I was looking at the sb also until I could get my hands on a xdj-rx but I’m also looking at other serato controller just the sb price point caught my eyes
If I were in your shoes I’d bring it to an electronics shop and get your NS6 repaired, probably just needs a replacement jack or internal cable re-soldered to stop the sound breaking up.
IF you just need something basic as a backup, sure, it’ll fill the gap, but if you are already used to the features of the full version Serato you will probably find it lacking.
There are plenty of other controllers in the same price range too e.g. Denon, Reloop, Numark so no need to wonder how its so cheap, its a competitor with almost the same specs and same software at the same price point - simples
It’s partly low due to the reasons mentioned above (cut down features, no full version of software etc), and it’s partly low because it falls into a product bracket where there are a ton of competing models from other manufacturers (some of which are as good as or superior to the SB) which means Pioneer aren’t able to chuck such a hefty premium on them as they are with their other products (i.e the 2000nexus).
Remember the Pioneer DJM-T1 2-channel scratch mixer with built-in Traktor soundcard. It cost £1,200ish upon release. Then NI subsequently release their own Z2 mixer for less than half the price of the T1 and obviously everyone stops buying the Pioneer. Pioneer then magically drop the price of the T1 all the way down to around £560, I suspect leaving lots of early buyers feeling rather annoyed… That difference between the £1,200 release price and the £560 revised price is indicative of the premium you will have to pay for any of Pioneer’s ‘market leading’ products (i.e where no competitors are making anything as good).
Where they offer something that nobody else can they will make you pay an eye-watering premium for that privilege. But as there are so many other great alternatives to the DDJ-SB, they are forced into charging a reasonable price- else they simply wouldn’t sell (very many).
If anything I would argue the SB is still overpriced at $300 when you look at the competitors, but on the flip side if you are only keeping it for a year you probably won’t lose much on it when you come to sell, which would probably offset the difference.
Yeah took a look at it the other day and decided against getting it because I saw no value when compared to the discontinued Vestax typhoon that can be had for half the price… I grabbed one not sure how I feel about it as my intentions were to use it for cross but have yet to get it to play nice with cross… That being said the integration with sdj for it is very tight and good… I’m not sure how I feel about the faded eqs but am thinking won’t be an issue based on my mixing style I do with the gain slider was offset more from eqs as I caught my self already grabbing it instead of the low and being disappointed…
So in my conclusion I say don’t bother especially if the pioneer name is all that’s grabbed you towards it
