mixer advice

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mixer advice

so i need a mixer to use with my two midi fighters and i dont know what get.. i want to get a xone22 but its kind of high. any suggestions on a good mixer for a good price

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The choices are rane, xone, or ecler nuo. If your a hip hopper spend the extra cash on the rane. Otherwise your choices are ecler and A&H, my personal choice is ecler because I like the layout and chunky knobs more, but it’s all preference.

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A&H products give me wood.

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What’s yopur budget, first off?

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yeah, budget first :stuck_out_tongue:

some guys here are a bit crazy about super high prices ::roll_eyes:

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check out one of the latest blogs about 2 channel mixers

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I absolutely love my Xone 4D. A dude named MixArkitekt has a really awesome midi mapping for it as well!

EPIC piece of kit!

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Here’s the thing - and this has come up a lot lately - if you need to ask the question, you probably can’t justify spending the type of money on a mixer like the ones listed in this thread.

Chances are, if you don’t have the knowledge/experience to pick a mixer, you’ve probably not got the amp and speaker/powered speakers set-up to hear a difference in sound quality anyway.

So what do you do? Simple. You buy a Behringer DDM4000.

I’ve been using mine for a while now (>4months) - the only thing I can complain about is:

  1. Fader caps are quite loose on mine. No biggie - I just did the old “piece-of-folded-paper-over-the-fader-stem” mod. (Experience is good. :wink:)

  2. Cross-fader cut-in is not great. But I knew this would be the case, and have budgeted for an innofader once the Behringer one dies. The BLOODY thing is still going strong, though! :rage:

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+1 on that… for home use and small private parties it’s perfect :smiley:

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im looking for a budget under 300 if possible:stuck_out_tongue:

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300 what?

Dollars, pounds, euros, yen, US, Canadian ..

Could wait for one of the new Behringer mixers

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300 dollars

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For that price I’d get one of these:

http://www.djdeals.com/numarkX5.htm

And read this:

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save a 200 more and get a djm-400.

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or you can wait for the new behringer series…

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I wouldn’t even start looking until the above mixers are released. I’m honestly considering getting rid of my DDM4K ahead of the release so I’ll get top dollar for it…

I’m not expecting the NOX Mixers to be super expensive (and I’m not gonna speculate just in case Behringer have got their eye on us!) :wink:

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Behringer. LOL.

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If the topic starter is not going to use more than 2 channels it would be complete nonsense to buy a behringer product for the same price as a good 2 channel A&H or Ecler mixer. Maybe the difference won’t be noticed right away but there absolutely will be times where the quality is appreciated. IE playing at bigger sound systems or just the durability of the unit after a longer time.