First time I played in a real club they had a 1620 (a very OLD Urei). I do have a Xone 92 rotary at home, so I was used to the rotary feel. But the Xone obviously has Eq's and lots of cueing options, filters, etc.

I actually found mixing on the UREI was pretty easy!

I mean, there's LESS to worry about, you just very carefully control your volume. No worrying about tweaking eq's, gains, etc. You just beatmatch and fade in a bit at the right time, doing fairly quick mixes towards the end of your tracks. At the right time, you raise the incoming track a bit and lower the outgoing, and then slowly complete the rest of the fade.

After a couple mixes I was home free. The Urei really DOES make two records in a tight mix sound great.

The big question is with the cueing: Are you REALLY good at cueing off of the monitors with JUST the cue'd track playing in the phones? No cue/program fade? Because there's no "cheating" with the Urei (maybe "cheating" isn't the right word, but...)

If it helps you feel comfortable, you can try bringing your own mixer along. Try and get there early, test out the Urei, and if you can't mix on it then revert to your mixer. The mixer is pretty integeral to the system though, and they might not want you hooking yours up.

I'd say that the decks are more important. If you don't have experience with the duals, it might wreak much more havoc then being on an unfamiliar mixer.

Next month I'm playing out at a club with a Rane MP2016, without the expansion module. Should be another fun classic rotary adventure

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY Never using one before, u better bring your own mixer or one your more comfortable using. Its bad enough playing a new venue with different gear, especially one that makes u mix completely different than what your used too. Yea yea Urei's sound great, but he needs to be mixing good or the best sound qulity in the world isn't gonna help him make juggling beats and bad mixing sound good.