Digital DJ’s of urban…

[moody]

Would you honestly notice though?

I have a pretty decent hifi here so I think i would

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I have a pretty decent hifi hear so I think i would

Even when you start twiddling channel EQ knobs, applying effects, and then blending multiple things together?

 

[moody]

rather have something that has decent sound quality when playing vinyl

 

[RevolutionSound]

tbh, I've bot heard one latley but it's widely reported that most of the newish mixers or controllers have poor phono pre amps.

something to do with pioneer wanting people to buy more digital stuff which i find kinda strange as they also do a range of turntables

Some of the older controllers have poor pre amp (I have an SR2, Serato controller with pre amps, designed purely for DVS, records sound terrible), but the newer ones sound good. There's a lot of nonsense spouted online.

 

[Ted Striker]

plus I don't like the mixer section, I much prefer allen & heath

I used to have a Xone64 with CDJ's, sure they do give an inner sense of elitism (my ears aren't good enough to notice the audio benefits) which was worth it's weight in gold against all my basic mates that all had the DJM600...But the headphone cue system was utter utter pony, especially for mixing at home. Not being able to pre mix in headphones gradually is not only really restricting, it just screams design arrogance that they don't think DJ's need it so won't allow it. How anyone fucked up the simple 2 knobs and channel cue buttons that pioneer does is beyond me

 

[moody]

I do like all the fx on their mixer tho, if they had better phono amps i would deffo look into getting one

 

[RevolutionSound]

I do like all the fx on their mixer tho, if they had better phono amps i would deffo look into getting one

Here's a vinyl mix recorded on my XZ. Sounds perfectly good to me.

 

[moody]

Here's a vinyl mix recorded on my XZ. Sounds perfectly good to me.

but streamed from soundcloud. it's hardly a lossless stream, how would I be able to tell?

 

[RevolutionSound]

but streamed from soundcloud. it's hardly a lossless stream, how would I be able to tell?

It's an uncompressed wav upload. If you have a Soundcloud Go+ account, it will stream lossless.

 

[moody]

It's an uncompressed wav upload. If you have a Soundcloud Go+ account, it will stream lossless.

I do. I'll give it a listen tomorrow when my housemates are out.

 

[ska invita]

i think the most important thing is having kit that suits what you do and want to do and above all gives you the most pleasure
i.e
if you want to start playing out at venues that only have CDJs then getting compatible with that is important
how important is having a big screen
how much do you love a particular mixers action + effects etc etc

tiny differences in sound quality are low on the list for me

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

At the level of kit we’re talking about here, “sound quality” really isn’t a thing. It’s all as good as DJ kit gets. Any slight differences vanish the moment you connect it all up, start mixing and apply effects.

 

[moody]

Syncing beat fx is the main one I can think of, I think the newer Pioneer mixers also have a cue preview where you can preview a track without loading to a deck.

I use external effects unit via the fx send and return on my mixer. currently i have a boss re202 space echo and will be adding a delay soon as well