![]() The most common being the analog mixers, Xone:92 and smaller Xone:62, with the mat silver seemingly the preferred colorway. Combined with the filter on each channel, high-pass or low depending on which way you turn a single knob, the assignable efx processor can become a very creative tool, or be very annoying, depending on the taste and skill of the DJ wielding it’s power.Īt one time Allen and Heath bumped into Pioneer awkwardly in the elevator on the way to the top, but now, I bump into one A&H board for every ten or twenty stamped Pioneer. The efx can be used drastically, like the infamous “echo” to create build ups and tension, or as subtly as dubbed out reverb on an accapella. Important to buyers and sound techs, but to guest DJs using the gear at an event, the standard approach to using this mixer is the same. The truly important differences between the newer DJM 900 variations, and the DJM 800, are mostly in the sound quality, the DJM 900 NXS2 boasting 64-bit/96 kHz. The DJM 800 finally came along and sealed the deal as being the definitive techno mixer, and I gotta admit, it’s been my preferred board since it came out, I’d own one if I could afford it probably. By the time the DJM 700 was out, even the Allen and Heath boards that had Richie Hawtin’s endorsement at one time, were rare. Since the DJM 500 and 600, which were not as nice sounding or as functional, the Pioneer DJ mixers started to steadily take over from the Vestax boards I saw so often at underground events, and high quality brands I would bump into, like the Spanish Ecler and Belgian Rodec, were nowhere to be seen. I also have to mention the DJM 800, since it ruled for so long and was so popular, I still play on it very commonly. Who is the current reigning champion you wonder? There is no argument, it’s the DJM 900 nexus (and slightly newer NXS2). The DJM nexus 2000 probably being too excessive to be common, and the DDM400 just being made by Behringer. However much I like these two DJ mixers, I gotta say I have yet to encounter either this past few years of extensive playing and travel to gigs. It’s like the Ferrari of DJ mixers to me, if you spend the time to explore it enough to actually use it deeply, it’s pretty crazy, a contender for most features on a DJ mixer surely. The club I am a resident at, called Gorg-O-Mish after-hours in Vancouver, has the much more costly Pioneer DJM-2000 nexus installed in the booth, and this mixer and me have become quite familiar with each other over the past couple years. I personally love it and bought it at an unbelievably low price for what it does, all my recent studio mixes are recorded on it. I ignore the on-board loop sampler because it’s 20. Before you judge on the Behringer name, this mixer isn’t as well known as it’s lamer DJX counterparts, and is more akin to the digital studio line of Behringer mixers, with crisp 24bit digital sound and two very powerful efx processors, assignable to any channels including doubling them up, and save-able user settings to jump to my best efx, filter settings for mixes. In my studio currently I am using the Behringer DDM400, upgraded with the Infinitum X1 optical cross-fader (of course). However, as a long-time working DJ on the club and underground party circuit, I have noticed that you encounter a much smaller range of mixers at gigs, and that’s where the performance you might have worked out in your own music space really counts. ![]() The DJ mixer market has many options in any price range, any size, across a multitude of popular (and unpopular) brands. Far outnumbering audio players like CDJs or turntables, and possibly controllers as well, (but they are catching up). ![]() As any DJ out there probably already knows, the internet offers no shortage of articles and reviews about DJ mixers. ![]()
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