Scrape mod on Allen & Heath crossfader

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Scrape mod on Allen & Heath crossfader

There’s an Allen & Heath mixer in the venue I DJ at. Dunno why every raves about Allen & Heath mixers but personally I think they suck for a number of reasons. Anyway, putting that aside they are not at all built for scratching, the curve is ridiculous. I’m thinking of doing a scrape mod on it like I have done in the past with one of my Vestax mixers. Just wondering if anyone has attempted this and if there is anything I should know before I potentially fuck up someone else’s property.

Cheers

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Personally i would wait for the new Innofader comming soon that will work with analogue mixers.

I was told it would come out “in a couple months” in may - obviously its a couple months later now so it shouldnt be too long a wait

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Not parting with my own money dude. But cheers

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may have to if you bugger up someone elses mixer, question is; which will be cheaper and less risky

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Ok, I’m gonna go for the mod now… the time has come! Can anyone tell me what strips I need to scrape? I’ve done this mod before on a vestax PMC or PCV (what ever, cant remember which one… which ever one you find in an 05 pro) which was pretty straight forward. But this is a Penny & Giles crossfader in a Xone 64 (I think thats the model, not by it right now).

Anyway, I want to do a scrape mod on a penny & giles crossfader, any help appreciated.

Cheers

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Sorry, Xone 62, not 64. Piece of fucking shit!

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LOL

What you use the X Fader for?
Transitions?

Or?

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Or?..

… scratching

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You don’t like the P&G fader?

mmm…odd.

They pretty damn good.

But yeah…let us know how it turned out!

I need to do the Credit Card mod to my VCI fader.

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did you notice there’s a little knob to the left of the xfader to adjust the curve. You can get a scratching on-off curve with that.

But yeah, not too many scratchers using xones cause there’s 4 band eq and the travel of the line fader is too long. Great for super long blends.

Personally I love my xone92, don’t scratch though. To each his own I guess.

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The thing is the lag in the xfader i guess.

Its all like that unless you have a scratch fader.

Hence all the mods available.

  1. Credit Card Mod
  2. Paper Clip mod
  3. Scrape Mod

etc…

These are all for cutting out the lag.

You can adjust the slope etc with the knob…as you can with the VCI…but its just not scratch worthy.