New Behringer NOX Mixers
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?
Looks like a great mixer - it’s the one I’d buy if I didn’t have a DDM4K.
Psst… £219?!?
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.
Looks like a Xone 92 clone. But well done…
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.
They have the 606 on amazon for $314!!! Gonna snatch one out as soon as humanly possible.
oliosky, they say they have new x faders, how does it feel?
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.
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.
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..
You wouldn’t even attempt to scratch on a DJM250 though. And its in a different price bracket entirely.
Why not? It has a nicer feeling fader than any Behringer I’ve touched. And it’s around a $100 premium for metal components.
The infinium fader on the NOX has much better scratch performance than the stock fader on the budget DJMs. Fact.
$100 premium on a $250 mixer is not a premium, its a different price point.
Have you actually used NOX404/303 or are you just running off your experience with the 606?
Fact? Its a Chinese optical fader, put it next to a smoke machine or in sunlight, and you dont have a fader anymore. The 250 has the same crossfader as all of the DJMs, which do quite nicely.
Thats debatable, seeing as the next available option is $750.
Theyre the exact same thing, only with different feature sets and layouts. Why would they be any different?
Evidence re smoke machine or sunlight? Or just talking out your ass…
You know what they say about assumption…
Evidence? Am I the only one that’s actually familiar with fader technology? Or is this somehow new? Cheap optical faders have been legendary for crapping out in shitty conditions, thats the underlying reason why Rane created their magnetic faders. Look at Pioneer’s optical from the 909, which held up reasonably well, and look at the Infinium. Theres a bit of an indicator there.
Whatre you talking about? Theyre two Chinese mixers from the exact same line and the same company, what radical design modifications would Behringer make in a $200 mixer vs a $300 one? You don’t seem to understand the idea of production efficiency.
Yes, you are the only person on this forum that is familiar with fader technology and production efficiency. Do you have an actual case where the Behringer infinium has failed, cos I don’t see anyhting in your post about that. Just generalisations.
Your posts are full of assumption written as fact, when have had no actual experience with the specific products in question.
Aaaanyway. To the other folks in this thread, my ACTUAL experience with the NOX303 indicates that Behringer has stepped up in terms of QC and build quality. Granted it was a pretty low base and only time will tell. But, the 3 year factory warranty on my NOX gives some confidence.
Apparently I am, since Im the only person who understands how optical faders work!
Except for the part where I actually had firsthand experience with the product, as stated before.
So the infimium fader on your NOX606 crapped out did it?
What became of your 606 if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m using an old Denon DN-X300 right now so I think the 606 would be a decent upgrade for me, especially at the price
All You guys talk like it’s a question of life and death and/or You’re always taking Your mixer through rough roads. What are You doing with Your equipment? Playing football? I’m pretty sure NOX is a money-worth mixer for, let’s say, a bedroom-dj. No smoke (well, THAT much anyway) there. 
