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.