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Breakbeat Mixer - hmmmm??
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| dan_Saviola |
i used to play so much trance now im almost 100% breakbeat with trance being my choice of music to listen to at home. can anyone recommend a good mixer for breakbeat - cant find any recommendations anywhere on the web. id like to know what the big guns like freeland and the plumps use but you cant find that out for lovenormoney.
any suggestions?
danny boy |
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| Briden |
| any scratch mixer should do ya fine. i've seen breaks DJs use DJM500s too. |
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| Zild |
| Why would you need a different mixer for breakbeat than for trance? |
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| Briden |
| well, typically breakbeat DJing involves a lot of cutting and sometimes scratching, a mixer with gradual faders won't be ideal for this. |
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| Zild |
| The only club mixers you can't do cuts on are rotaries and Xone's. I mix breakbeat but I use a battle mixer. I put a much greater emphasis on turntablism than mixing but I find myslef to be an exception to the rule. |
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| onceler |
| you would just need a mixer w/ an adjustable or replaceable crossfader. |
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| Zild |
| You can do quick cuts with any mixer but crabs and orbits and stuff you need a nice crossfader. Most breakbeat DJs don't really crab or orbit though in their sets so I still don't really see the need for a different mixer then the one you're mixing trance with. |
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| tu_face |
| you dont need a scratch mixer to play breaks, so long as it has padle faders and a sharp eq curve (or adjustable, as a lot of mixers are) you are fine. |
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| Derivative |
| yep, one of my mates is a breaks and drum and bass dj. does the works on a djm500. |
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| dan_Saviola |
| all good stuff,i dont really ever scratch i beatmatch -only thing i could do with is kill switches or a broad set of eq's.i had a xone32 but found it poo - eq's are limited - filter becomes pointless when used for the 14hundredth time and transmute buttons i rarely ever used. so all i had it for was the good design. and would you believe it went wrong - haha!could only get sound out of right channel.so ive returned it and have some cash to spend and would like a mixer that i actually make use of most of its features. im considering the pioneer djm707 or the djm500 due to it being loaded with features. so does anyone know of a mixer that i might fancy? |
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| DannyO |
| How about checking the Denon X1500, Ecler Nuo5 and since your looking at the 707, why not check the 909 for the effects. |
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| dan_Saviola |
| well the denon x1500 has 4 channels which i def dont need and a usb port which id never use. the ecler looks the boll*x and has kills but like the x1500 and djm500 it has 4 channels which i surely dont need?the 909 looks to the bomb but also comes with a serious price tag - haha.looks a superb piece of equipment tho.eddie halliwell has one of those too,altho he scratches alot |
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