Hey,
Planning to upgrade my cheap Numark Mixer. Its a 3 channel from about 6 years ago. I was thinking of the Denon 1500 because i'm now running two 1200s and two CDJ-200's.. I know that the DJM are still industry standard, and that the A&H are simply unbeatable, but they don't offer too much in the way of value. I was planning on getting the Vestax 275 that everyone raves about, but noticed the 1500 on ebay for $599.. not too much more than the vestax..

Anyway.. my question is how do you guys feel about this mixer? It was apparently designed to be a battle mixer, but the filters and sampler just screams out for some cool effects while mixing trance! Any opinons?

Another mixer you might think about:

Numark 5000fx

Very similar to the dnx-1500. Loaded with effects and a sampler, 5 channel and a decent price.

I just bought one and i have 30 days to play with it. If within those 30 days I'm not convinced it will be a great mixer I'm going to go for the 1500.

I've got to say the smart loop on this mixer is wicked and the reverse is as well, although I'm not very good at using it yet.

The only thing that concerns me with this mixer could be the reliability but, the 1500 is a brand new platform as well, so who know's how it's reliability will be.

just food for thought.

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Never really considered teh 5000fx. Not too much on the net about it.. please post any videos/pics/reviews when you get it..

I wonder how it scratches a live signal? hmm interesting

i dont think that mixer is a battle mixer, although it could be used as one. I personally think that mixer is well laid out, and the quality is top notch. If you are getting it for a good price, go for it. I have a djm-600 , and would take either one of these mixers.

Jay

I have an x1500 and love it. it comes highly recomended. but you need to think about what you will be using it for, there are other similiar mixers in the same price range that are also very good, just suited for different types of mixing.

Hey,
well i'm gonna use it for trance (duh!) but also a lot of house and progressive... very little hiphop, although i do like to scratch a little when i'm bored.

That said, .. there used to be problems with the 1500 having a 'digital delay' with the faders.. but i heard this has been fixed? Is that true?

I'm guessing that the x1500 is a good choice, given my preference to trance and house, vs. hiphop/jungle, which requires more fast fader work (where an analog fader would be more responsive)??

Hey, I got a 1500 aswell, its a killer ALL ROUND MIXER, it wasn't made for one specific type of DJing, it was made to cover it all, it sounds awesome and feels great, when I got mine, I got a demo one first as they had to order me a new one, so I decided to test the shit out of the mixer, lets just say I put it threw situations a DJ wouldn't face and the mixer came out laughing, I've had no problems at all in the time I've owned it (about a year now), and would highly recommend it to anyone, as for the delay, the fix that came out slightly fixed the fader delay but its still very noticable, its fine for mixing trance, but for house and break DJs that would use the faders for fast cuts, well there just not good enough, the xfader on the other hand is now really good, I don't notice ANY delay at all now, good think about it is, since it has the matrix system, you can assign the channels to the sides of the mixer and do your cutting with that instead of the faders.

If you have any other questions let me know.

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Originally posted by DannyO Hey, I got a 1500 aswell, its a killer ALL ROUND MIXER, it wasn't made for one specific type of DJing, it was made to cover it all, it sounds awesome and feels great, when I got mine, I got a demo one first as they had to order me a new one, so I decided to test the shit out of the mixer, lets just say I put it threw situations a DJ wouldn't face and the mixer came out laughing, I've had no problems at all in the time I've owned it (about a year now), and would highly recommend it to anyone, as for the delay, the fix that came out slightly fixed the fader delay but its still very noticable, its fine for mixing trance, but for house and break DJs that would use the faders for fast cuts, well there just not good enough, the xfader on the other hand is now really good, I don't notice ANY delay at all now, good think about it is, since it has the matrix system, you can assign the channels to the sides of the mixer and do your cutting with that instead of the faders. If you have any other questions let me know.

this mixer annoyed me. but it was nice. but for the price.. and in its range of 4 channel mixers i think you could do better.

Pros:

Nice effects
Nice layout
Lots of lil lights.(con as well)
nice crossfader

Cons:
Biiig Delay on the upfaders
Short upfaders
Cant see the lil lights in the daylight (AKA bbq on DannyO's porch)

in this day and age id have to go for something with full midi control....

mmm nuo....

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^^^ yea true, the mixer does have its down points, but what mixer doesn't, the Nuo said before is a very good mixer also, you might want to look into it.

Hmmm that is unfortunate about the upfader delay. At least the crossfader is quick, so hopefully it wont be a problem if i just keep reassigning the xfader to diff channels? I'm used to mixing with the fader turned off and just using the upfaders and EQ to bring in tracks.

In any case, i already ordered it online so if the faders are annoyingly slow then i can always return it in 30 days..

thanks for the help

I have the 1500 as well...
While the upfaders do have a bit of delay, for mixing trance and house you probably won't be bothered by it at all. It could be annoying for cutting and scratching, but you can work around it by using the crossfader.

Overall a very nice mixer... enjoying mine until I can get a Xone 92

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Originally posted by djshtr Hmmm that is unfortunate about the upfader delay. At least the crossfader is quick, so hopefully it wont be a problem if i just keep reassigning the xfader to diff channels? I'm used to mixing with the fader turned off and just using the upfaders and EQ to bring in tracks. In any case, i already ordered it online so if the faders are annoyingly slow then i can always return it in 30 days.. thanks for the help

I have an X1500 and can honestly say it works just fine for mixing house/progressive and even techno. I've gotten quite used to the small delay, and don't even think about it any more. If I were buying a mixer now though, I'd probably be looking in the direction of A&H or Nuo.

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