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  • December 13, 2011 at 12:58 am #11325
    iztik21
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    Hi Phil,

    When I use Mixtrack Pro, what will be the best budget effects controller?

    Thanks!

    December 13, 2011 at 1:04 am #11326
    Hee Won Jung
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    iztik21, post: 11322 wrote: Hi Phil,

    When I use Mixtrack Pro, what will be the best budget effects controller?

    Thanks!

    IF you are using TP2 the X1 is a great FX controller for it. With the X1 you can do layers and control effects, cue points or Sample Decks…the mappings are endless and can be modified to your liking.

    December 13, 2011 at 5:54 am #11333
    perfektbitz
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    Reloop Mixage

    December 13, 2011 at 6:53 pm #11367
    Alex Shaffer
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    The Mixtrack actually impresses non-dj’s with its looks, and it has MASSIVE jogs compared to most controllers. I’d really reccomend it with the highest regard. It’s fairly well built, sounds fine, looks decent, has a great amount of features, and is practically a WMD when it comes to bang for the buck

    December 13, 2011 at 6:55 pm #11368
    Alex Shaffer
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    dj flyer, post: 11318 wrote: Mixtrack pro feels plastic but it performs great. I use it as backup to my MC-6000 but never needed it yet ;).

    I found this really funny because I DJ with my friend, and he uses a Mixtrack Pro, and I have a DN-MC6000. We actually plug his rca’s into the ch1 imput on the denon and use it as four legitamate decks instead of four virtual decks

    January 8, 2012 at 11:39 am #1002544
    Tesno
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    McCoder, post: 10803, member: 955 wrote: …and i’m eagerly awaiting the reviews of the Hercules DJ Control AIR…..

    Just got Air yesterday. I haven’t used Mixtrack pro (best cheap available) so I cannot compare those two, but there are certain limitations. There is no gain knobs in Air, headphone controls are inadequate and It’s really, really small. It kinda feels like Traktor S4, but in child size. There are also some flaws in feel, slider knobs are bit loose, but the slider movement feels pretty good. Buttons, apart from cue & play do not have that satisfying click and they wobble. Those progressive buttons aren’t moving at all, but there’s a led light that shows something happens.

    Jog wheels are a bit too easy to push down accidentally, but I usually disable scratch functionality. I’m also having troubles getting them work correctly in Traktor with tsi-file that Hercules had on their homepage. Sometimes I can browse track with jog, sometimes I can’t. It is also somehow connected to other deck, is it playing or not. Weird.

    EDIT: There’s a little unboxing video & some size comparison

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    EDIT2: Traktor 2 seems to fix most problems in jog wheel, but not all.

    January 9, 2012 at 1:01 pm #12562
    dj flyer
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    The only thing to remark on Mixtrack Pro is the weak headphone-amlifier. If you’re playing live on a stage and you are near the PA speakers you have to do some serious “wave surfing” ’cause you can’t hear shit in the headphones 😉

    January 9, 2012 at 2:12 pm #12565
    dj flyer
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    Alex Shaffer, post: 11366, member: 766 wrote: I found this really funny because I DJ with my friend, and he uses a Mixtrack Pro, and I have a DN-MC6000. We actually plug his rca’s into the ch1 imput on the denon and use it as four legitamate decks instead of four virtual decks

    Great controllers but it’s only the Denon thats really “Pro” 😉
    I use an external mixer instead. Gets me more input/output options and a better mic preamp, the one in Mc6000 doesnt sound all that great.

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