[Dynagroove] Re: if it ain't broke... (RE: Opinions & Reviews of the Vestax PMC-46MKII please)

[Will Yardley]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:13:54PM -0800, t-bird wrote:

> what's wrong w/the pioneer?  if it ain't broke, don't fix it--spend
> your money on good monitors. (yeah, ben!)

I personally hate both the sound and the feel of the Pioneers. The
faders feel really "plastic" to me. The effects don't sound that great,
and are just begging to be over-used. The sound quality is not very
good... I'm sure this will start a big flame war, because I know some
people really love them.
 
> frankly, i HATE rotary knob mixers.  it forces you to mix a certain
> way, and the last thing i want from a mixer is limitations.  if you
> want to mix rotary style on the the pioneer, just use the gains--i
> like options (e.g., faders.)  

It's a totally different feel, though. Mixing with the knobs gives you a
lot more control over what you're doing and how you do it. Obviously it
doesn't work well for some styles of mixing (I only know one or two
jungle DJs who like playing on a rotary-only mixer).

> speaking of limitations, any mixer that doesn't have mids is archaic
> to me--especially if you're mixing house.  the lows need to be the
> lows, not the low & low mids--some of those singers voices are in the
> low midrange...  

The UREI may be archaic, but I've never found it to be limiting. I've
pretty much never been mixing on a UREI and said "gee - I wish I had a
crossfader" or "gee - I wish I had separate EQ on each channel" or
anything like that - it's always just a joy to be playing on such a
great sounding mixer.

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