a&h db4=pioneer djm 2000=overpriced shit!
i mean i have my korg km 402 and i payed 390€ for it and it gives me all the features i need…what do i need a mixer that big with integrated audio interface when i won´t be carrying it to a club…
my 2 cent´s
I thought I seen Serato mentioned but after I reread it actually says Stereo.
From website: A built-in, high quality (24-bit / 96kHz), multi-channel, fully patchable USB2 soundcard allows replay and recording from audio software for 4 stereo sends and 4 stereo returns.
I read 4 serato sends and 4 serato returns.
hahaha. Me not read very well. Im an idiot.
It’s not just your eyes; it’s a blurry picture. And yeah we all expected more because of their teaser advertising; this is just yet another giant overpriced mixer with more effects built into the mixer. Not a bad thing to add to the market but hardly the revolution they wanted us to expect.
I’m guessing this is aimed more at clubs who are buying CDJ-2000s than at DVS users since most DVS users have the effects they like built into software. I like some of the options here – the looping sounds nice in particular (4 bars sampled even if you start with a 1/16 loop), but I don’t really want or need that many conflicting effects options. I shudder to think of the trainwrecks that will occur while I’m trying to remember whether a particular effect was turned on in traktor or on the mixer. I’m also kind of disappointed with how cluttered it is and how some of the A+H options I like (e.g. 4 band EQ) are missing.
No doubt the sound card and mixer are top notch, A+H is known for quality, and they charge for it too. So, yet another expensive high quality 4 channel mixer is now on the market – yawn.
I hope they don’t ditch the 92 for this one.
Is there even an EQ section? Didn’t notice one when I was looking at it
weird. when you just enter their website at the home page there is no way to find back the article. is this even real?
One thing I find interesting is the EQ section. I have not seen EQ knobs offset like that before. Its not to big of a deal but if you have meat hooks for hands (like me) it will make doing those dramatic eq sweeps a lil easier.
Nah man… This has 3 EQs,92 has 4… Ain’t gonna happen.
i’ve always liked the clean and simple layout of A&H mixers but this one is just too cluttered..i would love to see how the loopers and effects work. It seems like a good option for non dvs users as said before.
Massive point.^^^
I used a A&H 62 for 5 years and it’s layout and unclutttedness (?) was something I loved. This DB4 not so much.
Layout is just not what I would expect from A&H. Very cluttered… shame really, because I bet it sounds wonderful.
Interesting to finally see it, I was also expecting a 4 channel serato mixer, so even after reading the link I still had it in my head that it supported Serato.
No mention of that in the specs and no serato branding makes me think this is def not a serato mixer.
And why would you have onboard looping etc when designing a DVS mixer?
TBH I dont find this that cluttered (for A&H), there is def a lot going on on this mixer, but all the important controls are really chunky.
EQ options are interesting, the staggered placement would take a bit of getting used to.
Im not really sure who they are aiming at with this product, anybody who is that into looping is using a digital setup by now, from a club owners perspective this doesnt jump out as being worth the extra cash on a 62, and it will no doubt be well out of the price range of bedroom DJ’s.
Still pwns the zero4 though…
You know things are getting wacky when allen and Heath bites off a chunk of behringers style…ddm 4000 done right?
It’s also very LOL that it has an effect button called OMG.
Hope it’s not more like LOL. I like the design but meh…not in the market for a new mixer anytime soon
Hi RES Images . . .
Here you can see High Res Images of this $$$ CDJ-DJ’ing Style Mixer $$$
http://www.allen-heath.co.uk/AHImages/XoneDB4_1200_top.jpg
http://www.allen-heath.co.uk/AHImages/XoneDB4_1200.jpg
Again,… I was hoping to see some Xone:92 Redesigned product to fit DVS Needs in a nawaday’s digital world ! but . . .
Cheers !
Yup a 62 with a 4 chan serato box inside with a few extra midi controls would have been win!
I call meh
Very nice mixer, I was hoping for something a little more however. TSP or Serato tie-in would have been brilliant. Couldn’t you just map this to Traktor?
I think It’s design for TT & CDJ Player or something that not Expect on use Computer
It’s have STD.DJ Software function but they built-in it DB4
Hmmm. It can grab 4 bar loops per Channel…Hmmm…And QuadFX core
…May be nest year You’ll see “DJ Mixer built in MacOS” LoL
You really can’t compare. I have a 402 and compared to my friend’s Xone:32, it is atrocious.
I’m disappointed that A&H thought they needed to move away from analogue. Their mixers have always sounded beautiful.