hey trancearmada.
Most mixers, at the back where you plug in your turntable you'd plug in into the phono connection... but if you use cd players you plug into the line connection. So if you have both turntables and cd players, you can have them all plugged in at the same time. All you have to do to change from one to the other is flip the switch that controls whether the phono or the line is the one giving out sound.

This also means that you don't need a 3 or 4 channel mixer if you're not planning on having more than 2 sources playing at the same time. 3 channels gives you more freedom if you want to use a sampler or anything like that, 4 is overkill imo.

thanx for the info, will note that for the future!

I feel like a moron now!

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Yeah, almost every mixer is phono-line switchable.

in fact, the vestax PCV275 is even better, it has 3 position switches, so each of the three channels can accept a turntable, and 2 line sources.

so, you could conceivably have, 3 turntables, 3 cd players, 2 channels of your computer, and a MD or sampler hooked up all at once.

you can only have 3 of those playing at once though.
in total it has 3 phono inputs, and 6 line.

with your stantons, the phonos can also be a line input, so you could conceivably have, up to 8 line sources hooked up at once!

so, yeah.. get the vestaxPCV275 that's what i have, and i love it.