my friend told me today to start a thread titled “the back of your mixer” so I did my best
this mixer is a pioneer DJM 800
if you look at the photo you will see three switches. digital, master ATT, and mic signal. the digital switch is found on each of the four channels. it enables each channel to use S/PDIF. I will get to that in a bit.
the master ATT switch/knob goes from 0db to -12db. it actually changes the volume of you mixers out put so you can have a quitter signal if you want.
the mic signal switch when set to cut makes it so that your voice wont be heard out the mixers monitor output. when set to add it will.
these are the digital output and inputs. for each channel there is a switch on the back of the mixer that makes the channels use these inputs. to use them you need a digital coax cable. the digital output can switch from 48khrts to 96khrts. so it sounds better than a cd player. in this picture there is also a midi out. most of this mixer is midi ready.
You can find all about the general technical capabilities about mine here if you wish. Look man, I’m not trying to dis you for contributing but why half-knob it then? Take some clearer photos, number them as illustrations and reference the numbers in your text. Punctuation and spelling are important too. Otherwise, what’s your point?
looks pretty straight forward to me. the point you were looking for is to talk about mixers. i think the title sucks. i only have a cheap cell phone for a camera. can i see a thread of yours?
ok so it looks like you have beat synced FX on each channel witch looks like fun! ok that’s interesting, i wish my mixer came with a bag. i think the xone series might have better EQ than my pioneer. it was either going to be the pioneer or a xone 22. your EQ have the isolater mode witch is something i wish my mixer had
Well the Xone does not have a proper Send/Return chain. I can see why the engineers chose not to include one but I have a nigh useless RMX1000 as a result. The looping functions on the Xone aren’t that great and in my opinion superfluous. Would have prefered they put a Send/Return but, oh well.
The FX are good and clean. Echos are subtle but can also get out of hand if you’re not careful. Reverbs are very clean. Don’t really use the other FX very much–2 CDJs plugged into digital in and Master goes out to XLR and speakers (at home). I don’t usually take the mixer out unless it’s a stage set up and no one is near to slosh their drink on my gear.
my pioneer has quarter inch FX send and return. I don’t really have anything to use them with. I know echo can almost be like feed back. you have to put the parameter knob at about a quarter. the pioneer does loops really well but its called roll and it only goes up to 8 beats but its always on. umm the pioneer does not have enough reverb. at %90 it only lasts a few seconds when you pull the fader down. I use XLR/1/4inch to a sound card then out to my amp. I use a digital coax for my left turntable but its also hooked up to traktor with RCA and I rarely use the digital coax output. my turntable have USB and my right turntable is what I use to record my vinyl with via USB.
lol umm do you want my old numark. 2 out of its 3 channels work? well actually I cant really give it to you. that is one funny piece of dj technology!!!
Pro tip - If you’re working with a new mixer or playing at a club with a mixer you don’t know very well, bring a compact mirror and little flash light. Much easier than groping around back or pulling the whole thing out so you can see.
