Dieter Boullart

I’ve been using a DDJ-SX for years. Recently I’ve done a few gigs in a venue with Pioneer gear (CDJ-2000 Nexus and DJM-900SRT) with Serato in HID mode. To be honest: you’ll have to get used to it. It’s not totally different from DJing with a Pioneer controller, but it’s not the same either: a.o. the feeling of the mechanical jog wheels and another way of cueing comes to mind. As it is a wedding maybe perfect mixes may not be required… But if you do want a perfect set from a technical point of view, I would show up early so you can try everything out OR I would stick to my own controller and connect it to the mixer.

What is still unclear to me: everyone is always talking about the Serato Club Kit license but I’m rather sure I read somewhere on the Serato website that you only need Club Kit if you want to use CDJ’s in DVS mode. For HID mode a normal Serato license (which I bought) should be sufficient. I haven’t been able to try it though, as the DJM-900SRT comes with a built-in Serato license.

Welcome to the forum, fellow Belgian. 😉

I have both the DDJ-SX and the DDJ-SR (bought the latter as a backup device and for gigs in cramped DJ booths).

Maybe I just had bad luck with the DDJ-SR, but I’ve had to let it repair twice by Pioneer during the last two years. It also crashed Serato frequently in the beginning although that was resolved by a firmware upgrade. My DDJ-SX on the other hand has not once let me down in the last three and a half years. But maybe this is an isolated case and my DDJ-SR may have been built on a monday morning? 🙂

As already mentioned here, the standalone functionality of the mixer in the DDJ-SX is a big plus. Other nice-to-have features (although by no means necessary) are the needle drop and the buttons to adjust the beat grids directly from the controller.

I’m looking forward to a DDJ-SR2 that matches the features of the DDJ-RR RekordBox controller (built-in mixer, needle drop, coloured pads …) or maybe even more to the Mixars Primo which seems to pack the features of a 2 channel DDJ-SX2 in the form factor of a small Vestax controller.

I have a Gorilla GDS-4 + scrim kit and am very satisfied with it.

Maybe you can consider buying the American DJ dj-mts 4 stand? I think it might be exactly the same product under a different brand name.