benson I have to be honest about the DDJ-1000 - it’s pre-amps are really weak for vinyl.

It took me a year to notice it because I wasn’t playing with bigger mixers and my friends brought their turntables round for parties, but as soon as I went to the XZ and the DJM-900nxs2 / DJM-V10 they all sounded much closer to the allen and heath sound and there were holes in the sound on the DDJ-1000’s whole range but particularly the mid-treble.

People pulled Pioneer about it on the forums and Pioneer admitted somewhere that it was basically only set up for vinyl to allow DVS (playing MP3s on time coded vinyl with your laptop). Because it was a hardware issue, they couldn’t update firmware or anything to improve it.

Everything between DJM-700 and DJM900 nxs1 were nearly as bad.

I mean it’ll play, but if you put it on decent speakers / monitors it’ll really expose itself compared with 320 mp3 or better.

    NasserAlazzawi Engine is playing catch up, but it’s very appealing it can import my Traktor library. The thought of having to re beat grid and cue point all my library is a chilling prospect indeed. The XDJ and prime are fucking massive though.

      “Beatgrids” shudders
      Some frustrating nights here fucking around with those things.

      Just a note to everyone using Mac and worried about switching software and brands.

      There’s a guy out there who has developed software to make your old playlists on one system seamlessly transfer to another.

      He works closely with most of the brands and reverse engineers things like this.

      Here is his business site but this basically means you can move from one thing to another easily - and you can always go back to your original if it doesn’t work first time.

      It’s Mac only as he doesn’t know windows development.

      But I’m hearing great things and he genuinely seems to care.

      https://atgr-production-team.sellfy.store/p/emuy/

      …hmm, I tried (and paid for!) come conversion software when I moved back to RB from Traktor, didn’t work out for me.

      Tbh Stu, unless you are prepared to shell-out, there isn’t really a (decent) cheap modular or controller option. It’s a shame Traktor haven’t progressed the hardware side of things to something more standalone, but that clearly isn’t the direction they want to go. Based on my own experience, if you already have a substantial library of analysed tracks, I would think very hard about changing ecosystems. Wasn’t aware that Engine read Traktor files, that’s quite appealing in your situation. As Nasser says though, have a go on the hardware before you commit, I didn’t get on with them at all.

      All things considered, in a party scenario, I do think I enjoy playing on standalone CDJ’s much more than I did staring at a computer.

      Stand-alones and a rotary you massive whopper.

      I’m current redefining the DJ mix concept armed with SC6000’s and a Radius 2.

      You’re welcome

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        Along_the_Wire it is i agree; but it does feel as if all the skill has been taken out of the equation - and it’s all i use now but its got to the stage where i just loop in and loop out, plan a mix on the waveform and hardly listen to stuff carefully - it makes the music v disposable. maybe i am just characterising my own deeply ingrained flaws - next time I am going for the full standalone 2 x CDJ option.

          benson I’ve got that aswell. For the price, it’s a fantastic bit of kit.

            I’ve been toying with the idea of getting back into the mix n’ blen myself. The sc6000s look like real contenders to CDJs. Mixer wise I’m waiting to see if/what Allan and Heath replace the DB4 with. I reckon they might have somthing cool in the works.

              To be honest, I can’t really be arsed mixing vinyl and for my use case of playing to me alone or a few Mates after a few beverages, it’s fine.

              I tried using sone pre amps and they were rubbish. Might play around a bit more

              All the vinyl I have needs to be pitched down to about -20% anyway.

              mono-stereo …people have been waiting years for that mate! I’m not sure they will replace it tbh, the 92/96 make up most of their sales

                  Incidentally, I emailed A&H to ask if they had a replacement in the works.

                  They basically told me to fuck off 😆

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                    Terry
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                    benson I have the S2 Kontrol and I’ve no idea about half the stuff on it 🤣