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Originally posted by cheesy Whats the advantage of a rotary mixer and if theyre so great why aren't all mixers rotary? Whats the difference between "cut" and "kill" on EQ switches?

rotary can help with smoother mixes. Some people just like the feel better. It limits what you can mix to an extent. You arent going to be doing any turntablism with a rotary.

I dont really understand the second question, but ill give it a try.
Kill switches are little switches, that cut off everything in one band. So theres one for high, low, and mid.

Eqs are the little knobs...these change the amount of db in each band. Many mixers have eqs that go deep enough to be considered a kill, meaning that having the knob turned all the way down will cut off all of the sound in that band.

So kill means no more sound in that band. Cut doesnt always as far as i know, for instance you could have -16 cut. That wouldnt get rid of all the sound in that band, it would just cut it down by 16dbs.

Like beats and beeps said.

I suspect you are probobly just seeing different mixers call it different things. The important thing is to look at the specs and see how deep the "cut" or "kill". When I got my mixer, I got the DM3000X because it was way cheaper than the others in the DM3000 series but lacked kill switches. At first I thought I would really miss them but you really don't need them if the EQs go deep enough. Instead of flipping a switch to kill the bass on a track, I simply rotate the bass EQ knob full counter-clockwise.

As for rotery versus linear, it is a personal choice but most mixers are linear because it makes them more versatile. You can mix anything on anything but makeing really fast cuts with rotary is going to be hard.

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Generally i would say rotary is great for trance, prog, house, and load of others, but if youre just starting our you might not want to limit yourself like that. You never know when you might start to do turtablism, or spin harder stuff in which case faders are usually preferred.

A great idea would be to get something like pcv275, which has faders, but you can buy a rotary kit if you choose, and replace the faders with rotary quite easily.

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Originally posted by beats and beeps Generally i would say rotary is great for trance, prog, house, and load of others, but if youre just starting our you might not want to limit yourself like that. You never know when you might start to do turtablism, or spin harder stuff in which case faders are usually preferred. A great idea would be to get something like pcv275, which has faders, but you can buy a rotary kit if you choose, and replace the faders with rotary quite easily.

good call.. nice mixer.

Jay

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Originally posted by beats and beeps So kill means no more sound in that band. Cut doesnt always as far as i know, for instance you could have -16 cut. That wouldnt get rid of all the sound in that band, it would just cut it down by 16dbs.

yup. in essence a kill is an infinite cut.

as far as rotary's go, i would get the experience using faders first before moving to rotary. you don't know which you might prefer, and both have their advantages and disadvantages.

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