Behringer - Mixers

On 2005-08-10 10:56, sundrop wrote:
behringer ... not good for psy!!
i think its maybe better for rap/club music

get a numark dxm06 (the best 2 channel)
or pioneer 600
or something with good sound quality.

On 2005-08-10 23:23, zafer wrote:
also own a vmx 300: after 6 months have scratchy noises in the earphones while turning the pfl-main knob(=pfl mix), this apart i don't have other problems like 1 channel higer than other: (@wanka tanka) anyway you will always have cd's which have different levels of volume so it's not really a problem since you always have to check that levels are equal: and the led level volume indicators are meant for that!!
i find good on the vmx 300:
-led indicators dedicated for each channel for quick and easy check of levels
-kill buttons for instant exclusion of frequencies
-good price (will tell you in some years if it's solid too, he he,.....)
-you can set fader curve for each channel on three kinds(hard, mid, smooth) and for crossfader freely with a knob
-you also have a led system for beatmatch cecking but it's totally useless: mixing is done with the ears

@ericcson: if eq knob doesn't cut enough you just push the kill tap....not good for your purposes?

must say it has a distribution of the sound on the three frequency ranges very different from most mixers :
-low freq limit is very high: that allows you in most cases to run a song with the basses of another(also quick jumps from a bass to the other with kill buttons), this is valid for all three freq. ranges
with other mixers if you run channel 1 with high and mid on and with bass off and try to use (only)bass of channel 2 it sounds lame because some of the frequencies that boost the bass are in the mid range: clear?

this different distribution of freq. allows tricks impossible with many other mixers, on the other side is very difficult to pass from a bass to the other fading.

for this reasons behringer mixing is a little bit different than mixing with most other labels

i can't complain about sound quality, maybe too much mid and high, but the job of the dj is sound checking(easily done by adjusting eq knobs) also or not?

@kitnam: i let old rules to my grandmother;-)

hope my post is comprehensible, with this post i'm far from pretzending beeing a hardware expert , heard lot of bad about behringer but won't talk bad just because of mainstream talks bad: just say mi experience, maybe i'm the only lucky one with a almost proper working behringer, he he
,(maybe a little more solid knobs wouldn't be bad)

, hope this helps you with choice, anyway i wouldn't buy a mixer without a 100% frequency kill function, pfl mix and dedicated level led for each channel, many things may seem useless but when you're in the mix it's easier and you can concentrate on the essential the music.

bye