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| Spirit5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
just buy the 400 and use the line ins.
The sound quality difference will be negligble. |
Yeah thats what I am thinking about doing, either with birthday money or Christmas money later...I just think having a Pioneer mixer with a Pioneer CDJ makes more sense, to make use of the features...like the fader start thing. But I have to play around with it first at Guitar Center to see if I like the feel, because it MAY be too small for me, esp because they recommend using it with the CDJ 200s, and I own the 1000s. |
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| Max Thomson |
| only wedding djs use fader start :p |
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| Spirit5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Max Thomson
only wedding djs use fader start :p |
Haha it just sounds cool I dunno if it's worth it. Just the idea of having a Pioneer mixer with Pioneer CDJs...sounds cool to me. |
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| Trogdor |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
I understand about that I would just think that a mixer that expensive would be digital nowadays. |
It's expensive because it's NOT digital. The high-quality analog components are why it's expensive. Once again, there it NO advantage to digital ins on a mixer like the Xone:92.
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
So would you suggest getting a DJM400 or waiting for a less expensive mixer with digital ins? I really would like a mixer with digital ins, but not spend all that extra money on a 4 channel mixer with a bunch of features I don't need. Just need a simple 2 channel mixer, since I don't plan on adding a TT or another CDJ. Two CDJs is enough for me... |
The DJM-400 doesn't have digital ins.
It's a nice mixer, though, and probably worth the upgrade for the sound quality, good eqs, curve adjust (and more importantly, the ability to turn off the crossfader), sampler and effects.
There's no real advantage to using a Pioneer mixer with Pioneer CDJs. Fader start is pretty useless, unless, like Max Thompson said, you're a wedding DJ. If you want a less expensive, high quality two-channel mixer, the Ecler Nuo2 is definitely worth a look.
| quote: | | Originally posted by Tegu true. the v6 even has special analog tubing on 2 of its lines to add color to flat line in sound. maybe there's a reason high end mixers avoid digital ins. |
Now, the V6 has valves on all six channels. :cool: |
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| Plastick |
| bottomline: it's better to pair cdjs with digital mixer? or not? |
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| Tony Morello |
| yes, digital source with a digital mixer connected with digital coax will be better |
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| Plastick |
| How do I recognise whether a mixer is digital or analog from the specs? |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
It will often say digital mixer.
Check the specs for what inputs it has. It was say digital in or not. |
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| Greedy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Plastick
How do I recognise whether a mixer is digital or analog from the specs? |
just look at the back of the mixer. |
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| Cheetah86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
It will often say digital mixer.
Check the specs for what inputs it has. It was say digital in or not. |
The DN-X1500 only has digital out, not in, but it's still digital. |
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| Ryan0751 |
Well, the 92 doesn't "color" the sound per se. The V6 does, because of the valve style inputs.
The intent of these high end analog mixers is to provide the shortest signal path through the mixer, therby providing the best possible sound quality.
In digital mixers, the length of the signal path doesn't matter because it's just bits being passed around.
There are tradeoffs by converting the signal to digital, however. The newer 24/96khz mixers do sound great (DJM-800/1000). But then again, nobody has ever complained about the sound of a Bozak/Urei 1620 (vintage analog mixers).
| quote: | Originally posted by Tegu
true. the v6 even has special analog tubing on 2 of its lines to add color to flat line in sound. maybe there's a reason high end mixers avoid digital ins. |
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| Ryan0751 |
Hehe, yeah don't worry about fader-start AT ALL. I had it connected for a while to my DN-X1500 (before I bought a Xone 92), and didn't find it useful whatsover.
And yes, the Denon mixers with fader starts work with the Pioneer CDJ's. No need to match the mixer to the CDJ's, there's not much "coupling" going on there.
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
Haha it just sounds cool I dunno if it's worth it. Just the idea of having a Pioneer mixer with Pioneer CDJs...sounds cool to me. |
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