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Something for the purists. The older ARS-models lacked any sort of meters, but this looks to include pretty much everything a purist would need in a rotary. Will cost an arm and a leg though.

    I don’t really understand how channel faders came into existence - why have rotary EQs and then channel faders? Rotary is much easier and much smoother to use for starters.

      You can’t beat the feeling of turning up for a gig and doing a double take at the mixer, and realising it’s a rotary….ffs

        Along_the_Wire can only imagine it was done for the DMC boyz so they could chop samples in and out much quicker and easier than with rotary faders.

          Dan I shall never have that feeling, Dan my old son, I’ll always have to drag my gear to a mate’s house when I’m playing out.

          • Dan replied to this.

              Along_the_Wire Had the luxury of travelling all the way to Hanover for it….Germans love a rotary.

                  Dan my first big gig in liverpool in the late 90’s and turned up to find a rotary mixer. absolutly shat myself as i had never even seen one before

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                      Homegrove …still not channel levels though, only Master L&R, dunno why they do this, real shame they aren’t switchable. I guess ‘the purists’ will argue you should use your ears- tell that to the Pioneer red-lining brigade!

                      Still, nicest layout on an ARS I’ve seen.

                          Christian Not too bad with cdj’s, but with vinyl….first few mixes used to be well ropey.

                              Unbroken1 funny you should mention that, I’ve always found Pioneer-mixers to have the most easy to use leds. I always go by my ears mostly on A&H-mixers. Their level meters are not the most reliable.

                                  Dan this was way before cdj’s. sound technician was having to show me what to do whilst also offering me a line.

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                                      Homegrove …easy to use in that you simply run everything in the red all the time? 😆

                                      Problem is, Pioneer mixers can actually play in the (low) reds without clipping, but this sets a dangerous precedent, one DJ after another pushing the levels up-and-up, the main reason they sound shit on big systems much of the time.

                                      Didn’t mind the meters on the DB4, but I was mainly playing on Traktor then and not mixing sources much… the Rane 2015 had the most accurate LED-style metering I’ve used. The VU’s on my new one are OK, still getting used to them, still maintain VU-style is better suited to master output than channels.

                                          Never redlined on Pioneer. Or any mixer actually.

                                          Unbroken1 Yeah I’ve seen that done a lot. I’ve seen young guns and some professional DJs have no issue sitting in the 1, occasionally touching 2 reds on DJM 800, 900 nexus 1 and 2. Not sure if this happens on all of them but I’ve eventually seen someone push it so much it flashes a new level of red saying CLIP CLIP CLIP when they’ve obviously gone way too far.

                                            Get the Amps sorted prior to the gig…

                                            …yeah, keep it in the amber zone and get the long-haired bloke to turn it up at his end, it’s not that hard

                                              Funny you say about Red lining….I used to play tennis with a soundsystem supplier for the Chelmsford V festival. He stayed on site looking after the systems. Sasha didn’t come out of it too well….said he was properly throttling the system telling him it wasn’t loud enough…turns out the fucking council were monitoring the levels…wankers.

                                              For the record he did play Trisco that afternoon!