DJ Vintage

The RMX normally sits in the master output line between mixer and speakers or mixer. I don’t really see the value add of an RMX with a controller and Serato. Serato is packed to the rim with FX and they are generally high quality. So you would use them only for the mic channels.

On a bigger mixer you would use an aux channel for that. You could then send a signal from any given channel to the aux bus with the RMX and it would come back. You would then mix the aux return with the original signal to get the desired effect.
The MG06X has no aux though. Lucky for you, you bought the X version which has FX that can be switched on or off on the mic channels.

So, unless you want something outlandish on your mic channels, I’d say retire the RMX, use the Serato FX for everything controller related and use the MG06X FX for your vocal mics. While not much by way of setting (pretty much factory default), I know the Yamaha FX to be pretty much spot on for best practice.

Hope that helps some.

Sounds like a plan. You can buy the pre-cut foam (like little squares that you just have to pluck out where you want to) anywhere online.

Show us a picture of the finished product and see you at BPM!

Yeah … tools of the pro’s. You can toss those in an airplane cargo load and it comes out unharmed.

Frankly, if I am honest, unless you are very worried about scratches and/or a small dent here or there, I’d just toss it in your rucksack. Technically the unit is sturdy enough. It has only a few knobs that are pretty sturdy as well.

Another option is to get a small ABS plastic box with cut-out foam in it. Cut away the silhouette of the 2i2 and put it in.

Something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/case-foam

Your current amp will give 2x 350W to 8Ohm and while this sound ok, there is a chance of damage. Usually it is best to have 20-30% headroom on your amp. Amps that are run at full signal start to get worse as they near their limits. At this point it is possible for the signal to become clipped to form a block signal rather than a smooth sinus signal. And especially high end drivers (tweeters for you hifi folks out there) can get damaged if they get a block signal. So in your case I’d keep my amp somewhere around 85-90% of max to prevent that from happening.

You should run sub-woofers on a separate amp. And it should indeed be able to deliver at the very least 2x 600W into 4 Ohm, preferably in the 700/750W range though.

That said, you now also need to have an active cross-over. And unfortunately there aren’t many of those that are affordable and let you just split at the subwoofer level. So you either can’t or you’ll have to do a lot of tweaking.

This (and the whole calculating ohms and all that) is the reason we are very strong advocates of using active speakers and not amp/passive speaker combinations. In the old(er) days, amp/passive was the better-sounding option. But today with all the modern amp technology, if you buy brand gear, you will get sound that is at least as good as the amp/speaker alternative and it’s much simpler and easier to hook up. Also since you now have two amps for two speakers, if one unit dies, you have a second one to keep you going, so built-in redundancy. Adding more speakers (bigger event) is as easy as running an extra set of XLR cables from your first speakers throughput/output to the next set and off you go.

I can understand if you don’t want to or can’t get rid of the amp/speakers and move to active for the full-range. What you CAN do is get decent ACTIVE sub-woofers. They will normally have high-pass filters built-in (x-over).

You would then send the signal from your controller master output (by XLR) to a sub-woofer. Then take the sub-woofer high-pass output (so not the full range one, you don’t want your full range speakers to also play the frequencies that the sub is now handling) and run another XLR cable to the input of your amp. Then you can start saving up to replace the amp/speakers in the future.

Hope that helps some.

And then, from your 3.000 bucks mixer the output is fed into a (digital DSP) PA system that undoes most of the analogue goodness. Or, more likely, it is fed into a mono, loud but awful sounding ancient PA with drivers that are well past their prime. Or, also possible, you get to play your mobile gig on set of crappy no-name speakers that the band you are co-hosting the night with is using.

In short, unless you control the entire chain from vinyl/digital (wait, digital source material from your CD player through your analogue mixer?) to final PA system, I don’t think one component is gonna make the difference to be honest.

In my – as always totally personal and very humble – opinion, anything purist or audiophile has very little place in the modern DJ world, other than for your personal pleasure. No one will hire your sooner because you have an analogue mixer, no audience will show up at your gig rather than next door’s because you have a rotary mixer.

At the end of the day, that over-produced, over-compressed and mastered for digital playback dance track has been digital until the moment a DAC transfers into sound to go into your mixer. And no amount of quality will bring back such a track to life. And if I play ripped vinyl as a wav through my controller it still sounds like vinyl compared to it’s CD brother. My point being that there is so much you can’t control and most of the audience couldn’t care less anyway (I’ll save you a lecture on what happens to the sensitivity and frequency curve of your ears with increasing alcohol intake).

Not saying you shouldn’t get quality gear, but there is a level at which more (quality) is not gonna add value to your proposition, certainly not to a level that your customer (venue, corporation, wedding couple, etc.) is willing to pay for that increase in quality.

And as for rotary, to each his/her own. If you like rotary better, then indeed go for it.

That’s a pretty small box right? What kind of transport do you mean? Soft bag, hard bag, flightcase … ?

Gator has some pretty nice and very sturdy weatherproof boxes for example.

1st: Please post in the correct forum This makes our volunteer moderator lives a lot easier and it isn’t rocket science after all. I moved this post from Forum News, FAQ and Feedback (where it clearly didn’t belong) to the DJ Booth.

On-topic: I think the question/suggestion was asked/made very recently and even answered. We wouldn’t really know as forum moderators as we are not prone to the schedule the main site operates on, including release dates and what’s in the pipeline by way of new stuff.

It does seem reasonable to assume that the Ninja courses over on the main site on Serato, Traktor and VDJ will get a RekordBox DJ sibling sometime in the near future. But that is purely an assumption on my end.