Are Kills that important on a mixer??? Im looking at a used Vestax PMC-15 MK-II and it doesn't have any kills. I don't think its too big a deal, but I just started spinning and don't have much info in this area. Any help would be appreciated!!

It's not very important. It's a decent feature but you can work around it by turning your EQ knob really fast.

^^^ Agreed.

Kill switches are nice to make quick cut-offs but are not mandatory. Certainly nothing to go crazy over if they're lacking on your mixer-to-be.

Another thing to keep in mind is that sometimes it's a nuisance using the kill switches because they instantly reduce (or cut off, depending on how good they are ) their respective frequency ranges, which might sound a little off depending on how you use it. Conversely, if you do it via the eq knobs, then you can quickly (but *smoothly*) cut off or put back on a frequency range.

In any case, the kill switches issue is a hotly debated topic here - some people love it, some don't, and others don't really care.

Don't confound kill with kill switch. You can have kills on the rotary eq's also : it just means they can cut more than a regular EQ (usually we'll start using to say a mixer has kills when the EQ can cut 20 dB or more). A kill switch is just a massive, instant cut.

k...tyhe mixer im looing at has -26dB eq's........thats good enough then??

That would be considered as rotary kills yeah. Enough is relative. I used to spin on mixers that didn't have kills at all, and actually I'm so used to that that I rarely even use the kills on my Xone...

You can achieve dramatic effects with -26 dB though. If that's what you want, it's more than enough.