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need some advice....new mixer or serato?
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| bucke |
| so my bday is coming up next week and im thinking of upgrading my setup. im thinking of getting either a pioneer djm-400 mixer (to upgrade from my current djm-300) ORRRRR serato scratch. on one hand i really want a mixer with fx but on the other hand i could use serato since burning cd's is a hassle and they just keep piling up....and also cuz you can't mix 2 tracks on the same cd. but then again serato is laptop based so if god forbid my laptop ever dies it will be useless and i cant easily afford a new laptop. so which one should i get?:conf: |
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| Lomeli |
| I'd say go with Serato. I've been playing on my laptop for two years without any problems. |
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| Junior Chavez |
i'ld probably say the same thing...
better to get the ability to place an endless amount of tracks vs just another mixer... besides the clubs provide a mixer as default whenever you play out. (or should at least lol) |
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| DjWoody |
How about both? Hahaha get the Rane TTM57 Mixer. It has both Serato built in and a mixer with effects! hahaha
Or just get Serato! |
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| bucke |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjWoody
How about both? Hahaha get the Rane TTM57 Mixer. It has both Serato built in and a mixer with effects! hahaha
Or just get Serato! |
yeah thats an awesome mixer but its ridiculously out of my price range. i'll probably get serato. how is the interface? is it easy to learn and get used to? |
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| bucke |
| ooooorrrrrr....i could get a dj style midi controller like the m-audio torq xponent and start mixing with ableton....hmmm |
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| bucke |
yeah now thats just lame. where's the fun in that? i want to be able to control my music not just around on my laptop with some ty amateur mixing program that does all the work for you. |
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| henryv |
Torq
M - Audio
Read up on it. |
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| Clovis |
| A nice mixer should be the center piece of any setup. The mixer is what is going to most determine how you sound. |
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| bucke |
| quote: | Originally posted by henryv
Torq
M - Audio
Read up on it. |
yeah i've been looking at it and the xponent midi controller that comes with it which basically looks like a pair of decks and a mixer. looks interesting but i dont know if its worth it.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_...onent-main.html
could this be the future of djing? |
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| mobius9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by bucke
yeah now thats just lame. where's the fun in that? i want to be able to control my music not just around on my laptop with some ty amateur mixing program that does all the work for you. |
Before you say that, keep in mind with virtual dj you can live sample and throw in multiple channels of clips, switch between a library of your own effects, and have your whole mp3 collection ready for mixing. That, and you can export the channels seperately to be mixed on a hardware mixer. As in, channels 1 and 2 on my DJM-3000 act as seperate decks coming out of my computer. I've also done this because I have a Behringer bcd-2000, which has a piece of crap internal audio card. I don't really see how that's any less honorable then ableton. If you don't want to auto-beatmatch you don't have to either. It also supports using time-coded vinyl in the software, but you have to have a fancy soundcard. Virtual DJ has a lot of customization options.
for the bcd-2000... strictly speaking as a midi controller, it does the job fine.
speaking as a MIXER... the audio quality is kind of poor, which is why I export the audio to the DJM3000. virtual dj also allows you to use your computer's sound card (and not the internal on the Behringer), but I haven't fooled around with the options that much.
If you stop by the next LA meetup feel free to fingerbang it, at least its something to think about.
I think henry was actually talking about the torq connectiv... the serato-like vinyl/cd timecode control from m-audio. |
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