controllers for adults

The most basic, most solid, smallest 2 channel controller that doesn’t have a million controls and lights is probably the vestax vci 100, it’s definately not the best though as it is fairly old technology and you have to use sync to mix as the pitch faders are small and only 7bit (not very accurate when the pitch range is higher than 6%)

It works with traktor and vdj, but not serato

get a black skin form styleflip or paint it black if silver isn’t for you. they look like older quality mixers, and you can probably disable the jog wheel light if you need to.

that black one comes from jesus himself though…

Ther is one controller that I could think of that meets you demands

1.reliability- Yes. Steel chassie and the best hardware taht any controller has IMO
2. portability- Yess small (a little heavy because of the steel chassie)
3. audio quality in the sound card. Yes absolutely very good soundcard in this one!
4. decent professional heavy duty outputs and a range of them- Yes but no booth out you have 2x main out so you can connect the other to a booth.
5. simplicity- a cross fader, two channel faders, eqs, gains. level indication, simple and useful effects
Yes, but the efx is in the software……

The answer is Denon MC3000
And if you want all the out and ins you can ever think of + booth out you will have to live with a 4 channel mixer
then the answer is Denon MC6000

lord maccrington, post: 14691, member: 1451 wrote: hey- thanks for this. for mobile and club needs for me. not considered the denon option seriously before but, reading up review on here, it’s starting to make sense. don’t really care for jog wheels though. wiki wiki scratching sounds plain stupid in a club environment. people start mucking around break dancing on the floor in outbreaks of good natured piss taking. i wish some no-nonsense company like soundlab would come into this market. i used one of their mixers for a solid five years for 8 hours every saturday night. rock solid and sounded amazing. i know this is a far more complex set of requirements interacting with computers but still…..

If you are doing both club and mobile then something like the 3000 or 6000 may be a good fit for you. Rugged build so they will survive on the road, but a little more space on the control surface than rack mount units. I have the Denon 6000 and can’t say enough good things about it. As for the jogs, I use them all the time, but never to scratch – they serve more of a purpose than just that.