The Mixtrack is an excellent starter controller. I do not think it is the best “starter” controller. That honor undoubtedly goes to the DJ Tech I-mix Reload. I’m not sure about their production status, but I just checked bhphoto and it says in stock $203. I’ll put it like this, if someone was going to give me my choice of a vci-100 or a Reload, I would take the I-Mix reload. I could go into detail about opening up all of these controllers and exactly what you see when you look at the jogs, and other parts, but I won’t. I’ll just say I love these controllers at whatever price.
And while we’re on the subject of budget controllers, if it were me buying. I would build my own rig around two DJ Tech CDJ-101s, a DJM 101, and some sort of pad controller.
And, NO, I’m not affiliated with DJTech, in fact, I’m sponsored by two of their competitors, and I’m still saying this. 🙂
