|
why does everyone rave about rotary mixers so much? (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| Inertia |
| i think i would really like a rotary setup, ie. a rotary allen & heath xone62, the rotary kit for the djm-600, but what i don't like is these puritan audiophile rotary mixers that lack features just because. i hear some of them can't cue 2 channels on the phoes at once. technically speaking, that's a feature that wouldn't cost it any quality, yet why do they not include it? i'd say rotaries are a bit uncomfortable for spinning techno, in which quick fader movement is a lot more comfortable than trying to spin knobs. not to mention fader tricks for turntablism would practically become impossible... |
|
|
| tu_face |
i can see the attraction for the house/prog dj's and those who do long seamless mixing without too much movement, but give that mixer anything remotely hard or breaky and i think it will be useless... certainly useless for the way i play.
i too am one of these people who thinks it's strange that some rotarys don't have fgeatures just to be minimalistic.. pointless waste of time and money when you can fit so much useful into a mixer these days.. |
|
|
| montie |
| quote: | Originally posted by failsafe
couldn't you just mix with the gain kobs if you were that obsessive about "sound quality". |
well that sorta defeats the whole purpose of using a rotary mixer. with the dials you get so much more control over the levels and thus more control for better sound quality :) |
|
|
| nmcog |
| quote: | | faders have a logarithmic curve whereas rotary has a smooth curve |
Allen & Heath Xone:92 Rotary mixer:
Rotary mixer conversion kit installed on Vestax PCV-275 mixer:
 |
|
|
| tu_face |
| quote: | Originally posted by nmcog
Allen & Heath Xone:92 Rotary mixer:
|
tsk tsk
they should have left the filter freq. as a fader, its miles better. |
|
|
| Psy-T |
| quote: | Originally posted by opianstate
seriously, I don't know what the hype is all about . . . they're super expensive and they have more knobs than usual. Why would you achieve better control? Do most big-name DJs use rotaries? |
its all in your head mate :toothless
just kidding, but anyways, i believe the rest of the guys have clarified the reason for the hype by now.
about the 'do most big-name dj's use rotaries' question,,
the answer is no... the most use 'regular' fader mixers
:toocool: |
|
|
| Nemesis44 |
It is better suited to house DJs anyways.
I presonally hate them but will happily admit that the smoother mixer will benefit from using them.
If you like doing tricks etc then rotaries are total bone (That means pants... errr crap).
The majority of name DJs will ask for the Pioneer 600 in my experience rather than a rotary but then I don't have too much to do with ordinary house DJs.
Cheers
Nem |
|
|
| Thomas Nobones |
| quote: | Originally posted by nmcog
Allen & Heath Xone:92 Rotary mixer:
Rotary mixer conversion kit installed on Vestax PCV-275 mixer:
|
Hey that's crazy! That's my mixer! Like, that is a photograph of my mixer sitting in my coffin in my living room. How did you find them? |
|
|
| nmcog |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thomas Nobones
Hey that's crazy! That's my mixer! Like, that is a photograph of my mixer sitting in my coffin in my living room. How did you find them? |
ROFL, I ripped them from your thread on globalbeatz.net
http://messageboard.globalbeatz.net...pic.php?t=35893
:haha: |
|
|
| Yaseen21 |
| I was a bit confused when i saw ferry corsten turning a knob during the mix at an event last month.Now i know!! Gee wiz these forums are super:tongue3 Im pretty sure the mixer they were using had upfaders too. I think it was Pioneer,but not sure:toocool: :toocool: |
|
|
| Thomas Nobones |
thaaat's pretty funny. |
|
|
| Channel Surfer |
Funny Story:
Opened for ATB in Vegas and he refused to mix on the rane rotary, so we had to have two mixers, but i opened so i had to use the rane which i had only used once b4 and i was having trouble at first but since it was a 2 1/2 hour set i finally got comfortable with it if not ADDICTED to it,
creamy, even, smooth, high headroom, clean electronics beauty.....my one complaint is the channel select for the headphones is wack, you have to turn this knob sometimes in the opp direction of what cahnnel your trying to cue.....and it's hard to turn sometimes...it like clicks....ugh.....
but anyways the club owner was all pissed at first he's like "Judge Jules, Donald Glaude, Paul Van Dyk have all played here on this mixer why can't you (ATB), aren't you good enough to use this mixer....".....
how ever it totally limited the tricks i could do but made me mix a little more conservatively and super clean....and i could scratch on it great (xfader curve) |
|
|
|
|
