I AM A FORMER DJ COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT AND THIS MIXER IS GREAT. I WAS A LITTLE RUSTY GETTING STARTED BUT ONCE I GOT THE HANG OF WHAT I WAS DOING, EVERYTHING WENT LIKE CLOCK WORK. I AM VERY SATISFIED. A FRIEND OF MINE, WHO’S A DJ, RECOMMENDED THAT I USE AMAZON TO GET WHAT I NEEDED AND I DID JUST THAT.
This mixer is perfect, except headphone jack location. It is in the front instead of on the top of the mixer. So, I have to push mixer back in my coffin to make room for the headphone plug.
I have only been mixing now for a few months. This mixer is a great value. It has the essential features for any DJ to practice scratching on: variable crossfader slope, hampster switch, 3-channel EQ.
There are only two problems I have had with it. The first is that I needed to spray some of that magical electrical contact cleaner into the crossfader within the first couple of weeks. Without that the crossfader made quite a bit of noise while traveling. The other problem is that the crossfader slope is not continuously variable. You only have two settings: sharp and….not sharp. The not-so-sharp setting fades out by the center of travel. The sharp setting fades out by the first tick mark on the mixer’s face. The fact that there are only two settings keeps you from making a more fine-tune customization.
Even mentioning these problems emphasizes them too much. This thing works beautifully and I am having a ton of fun with it.
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