Along_the_Wire exactly! Have a xone 92 and love it and now want to move to rotary never was mad about pioneer mixers
DJ setups/Mixer porn/New toys thread...
Along_the_Wire plus like the idea of still playing off cd decks
Heno cool, just curious mate
Traktor S3 price has been lowered to about 450 € if any of you want to upgrade your old S2s.
Anyone any recomendations for a VERY small monitor? I want something for a live stream setup outside, so doesn’t have to be loud just decent audio quality. I was thinking of something like an Amazon Echo, but I hear they have a nasty aux in delay. I cant be bothered taking my studio monitors outside and setup so want something ultra portable
…little video test today. Light was failing so picture grainy and was getting loads of vibration through the tripod, so will probably have another go tomorrow, but a couple of folk wanted to see the mixer in action so here it is, warts-and-all!:
RIP your back.
The setup looks class, Damien.
Fuck me, that second tune is mint.
I literally have no idea what you’re doing or how you’re doing it Damo. You don’t seem to have nailed the same levels of panic I get, so you need to work a little on that.
Homegrove …tell me about it, the desk wasn’t designed for this, and I need to be super-careful with my back since an injury 18-months ago. Raising the mixer a couple of inches would improve it drastically, although to be honest, I want to clear the desk for production/editing duties, so thinking about a separate console of some sort.
Cheers Matt 
Grant: …still feel like I’m getting used to the mixer, a glass of vino deffo helps!
Love the set-up Damo! Especially the speakers-what are they? I agree with homegrove though-you deffo need a chair. I can’t remember the last time I mixed while standing! Haha
Thom_Fuckery …Adam A77X, not had them long, they’ve been fantastic so far.
A chair!? I can’t DJ sitting-down.. I’d feel like the Wurlitzer player at an old cinema
I can’t sit down either!
Liebing streams 6 hour techno-sets sitting down. Even more wrong than his music.
Unbroken1
Lol! Yeah I’m a lazy fucker. Got my mixer stood up vertical, feet up on the coffee table, sat back in my comfy as fuck white office chair. Beats standing up hands down!!
Homegrove …yeah, I dunno, Rosenfeld did a great session seated in his studio, but it somehow feels a bit more acceptable when triggering tracks with a computer rather than cueing/beatmatching etc.
Jimpster seems to get away with mixing on his sofa, but I like to get a (admittedly low-key/middle-aged) groove-on when I’m in the zone.
…how’s the sound quality by the way?
Having real issues getting the levels right. The mixer has a dedicated ‘Tape out’ but is still way too hot for my iPhone. Only way I can get around it is connecting the Main phono out, and turning the master super-low… hence me having to turn the monitors way up to max to hear anything.
Need an in-line attenuator… something like this:
https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Koma-Elektronik-Attenuator-Cable/art-SYN0004623-000
…but seems a bit of a frankenstein solution. Any ideas?
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FAO OF DAMO - Some feedback if I may…
- The sound is fine for my ears, balance sounds a little too much at the low end if anything?
- Tripod wobble looks great, like you’re shaking the fuck out of the bass.
- Curly headphone cables are a winner.
- Maybe consider flicking some gang signs after each mix?
…nice one Cyril, cheers!
Gang signs not really my style, I was however thinking of introducing more heart-hands gestures, and chest-clutching while mouthing ‘I… LOVE… YOU’
Unbroken1 Nice setup. That mixer looks smart.
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Mad_Cyril make life easier so ditching the Traktor S2 (up for grabs if anyone interested before I chuck on ebay).
Appreciate this might be the Fisher Price end of the spectrum on here!
Email received, delivery gone back to August.
Bugger.
Redirected order to a German site promising stock by 17th June.
The Germans are more efficient right.?
Those monitors look mint
Anyone used a Xone: DB4?
Just had a quick watch of a demo and like the look of the looping and high/low pass filters for fucking about with tunes on the fly. Also like the sound of being able to use it as a midi controller and sound card for production stuff.
Damo had it.
mono-stereo …nice mixer, good sound, filters/EQ typical A&H quality, built-in soundcard v useful for Traktor etc. Looping works OK, but not sure why you’d use it if you have CDJ’s or Traktor as their on-board looping is prob better.
My only real negative observation was that build felt a little plastic-y compared to the 92, but not heard others really complain about this
I have the DB2 . Stripped down effects vs the DB4 but overall had the thing for a year and just a scratching the surface. Fuck knows what sorcery you can whip up on a DB4. I used to swear by Pioneer mixers until I found a brand new dead stock 62 . Sound on AHs , especially phono pre amps, in a different league to the DJMs in the same price point IMO.
Diggers has been using a DB4 for years. He’s probably the guru on it. Love to see him do some tutorials
He’ll charge a fortune, the greedy cunt.
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Unbroken1. Interesting, cheers. See what you mean about looping, although I like the fact effects etc are built in so you’re not reliant on traktor.
Didn’t consider build quality, i suspect some of the second hand gear is starting to get a bit long in the tooth now.
IndustryStandard Yeah i’m currently flogging my old Pioneer DJM500 which has lasted me over 20 years. Absolute tank.
Seems like you can get quite creative using these things, like the idea of routing the same tune over different channels then screwing around with it.
Think i’m gonna pull the trigger. 
…if its in decent nick go for it, it’s a nice mixer. Realise I didn’t mention the effects… they are immense, and quite complex, you can go quite deep layering them together and changing the parameters, I didn’t scratch the surface tbh (wasted on me as I don’t use ’em a lot anyway).
There are some years-old A&H videos on YouTube of some techno nutter demo-ing all the effects
They seem to be going for about 850-950 quid second hand. One going new here for £1350, tempted to just go for that.
How much did you flog yours for?
…honestly can’t remember now mate, it was a while ago.
If you are dropping that kinda cash, why not go for a 96?
Or the XDJ-XZ?!
Along_the_Wire No Sign of it yet, Grant?
Unbroken1 Yeah 96 is an option. Kind of like the look of the onboard effects in the db4 for production work though:
Matt they’re saying July. Now I’ve sorted the tempo settings, I’m well happy with the RX2. It was doing my head in previously. Still, excited about the XZ
Gonna get a deck too
Nice bit of kit but i’m after a change from Pioneer.
Essentially i just need you all to validate my impulse purchase here. 
A&H are mint. How’s that?