Hi Adam
i have an American DJ set up which has some cool features like seamless
looping and quickstart on the fade control. I am quite happy with it and the
cd players seem accurate as well! Before this set-up I had a Gemini mixer
and decks but found them a little brittle for moving around from gig to gig.
I am going to invest in one of the newish American DJ travelling systems
which are relatively small and light weight and therefore easy to carry to
gigs and then I do not have to move the expensive ones around.
I am pretty happy just using the headphones as monitors because the Sony's
are good and clear. On the American DJ mixer I have you can cut the bass in
the headphone mix so that your ears do not get too tired too quickly. To be
fair, Adam, I am not a beat matcher, instead I use other ways of mixing and
setting up my segues, it's a different way of mixing to vinyl beat matching
but it works for me!
cheers
leslie/The Power of Sound
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Cohen <a d a m EMAIL souljazz@souljazz.com>
To: Acid Jazz Mailing List <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:36 PM
Subject: CD Mixers (was: Re: new records, trendy headphones)
> on 10/8/00 4:32 PM, Leslie N. Shill at icehouse@redshift.com wrote:
>
> > I personally have the Sony VR-600 phones and have been using them for
years
> > and I juts love them to bits. I mix cd's so I have no real need for that
one
> > ear off action that the beat-matchers seem to require, these Sony's are
> > great and I recommend them highly!
>
>
> so you find you can mix just as well with the built in headphone monitor
as
> opposed to using an external monitor? I usually mix with one ear
listening
> to an external monitor, but before bringing in the mix I check it on the
> internal headphone monitor to make sure it's dead on. I'd like to buy a
CD
> mixer sometime soon though.. What kind do you have? I was looking at the
> Pioneer CMX-5000
(http://www.pioneerprodj.com/products/cmx5000/cmx5000.htm)
> but at $1199, it's a bit out of my price range ;)
>
> Adam
>
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