Unbelievable

[The Barbarian]

I was out yesterday & popped into a Musical instrument shop. A small Allen & Heath Mixer took my eye so thought id give it a listern, i could not believable how something as cheap as £300.00 can sound much better than any Hi-Fi pre amp ive heard..Allen & Heath are already synonymous within the industry for high build quality & Sound Quality.. I think im gonna become a home DJ :eyebrows:

Joking aside it is a DJ Mixer but boy i am tempted for my man cave.. It has a superb sounding 24/96 Soundcard & you can even use the A&H 'Xone - K1/2' MIDI Controller system..

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[Marco]

Why not, dude, if it hits the spot? Looks like an interesting bit of kit.

The only real rule in this game is finding something that you like. As you know, I've been using a 'DJ deck' for years, rather than a so-called 'proper' turntable, with no problems whatsoever...! :eyebrows:

Marco.

[The Barbarian]

Be no 1210 in this house :D Don't do scratching & My TT will get up to speed as fast as any Techy..

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A&H are the bees knees regarding mixers. The above is a bit busy for what i want, something more simple like a A&H 'XONE 23C' which will still allow me to still use software..

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[AlexM]

I use an Allen & Heath ZED 420 Mixer with my band, and it is a fab bit of kit. They have been making mixing consoles for 40 years, and have a superb preamp and filter designs. Build and components are top notch with their stuff too.

[The Barbarian]

Hi Alex
Yeh i saw one of those too. I know Allen & Heath & how good they are as i had a big 'System 8' {18/8/2} mixer of theirs in the 80's for my Keyboard home studio..Cost me a fortune but was very good. Summert im trying to get back into but the prices of Analogue Synths & top notch vintage Mixers has sky rocket.

[AlexM]

Like the analogue meters... nice :)

Vintage sybths? That's an expensive pastime. I used to have a Roland SH-101 and an Octave Cat that someone left in the attic of a place I was renting. I played with them a lot, but interfacing was interesting (CV/gate) and I couldn't afford a hardware sequencer. The Octave kept going out of tune too.

There are some interesting synth reissues - Korg MS20, Dave Smith Prophet 6 might take my fancy. Even little toys like the monotribe sound pretty good.

[The Barbarian]

Hey those Octave cats sounded ok when in full fettle...I loved my American analogue Synths ie: Moog & ARP but tried to stick to the early Japanese offerings they were more stable..

For synths that would not talk to each other there was an American company that made the Garfield unit that would interface pretty much any synth..The 'Doctor Click'

[Audio Advent]

Mixers as pre-amps: has always had me curious but I'm yet to try it, although I do have the perfect candidate an Audio Developments AD256 3-channel mixer I bought from a BBC clearout auction last year (it's waiting for me to make a power supply).

Another good manufacturer of desks is Midas.. and Behringer bought them out a while ago, so I'd expect to see some of the Midas sound trickle down to the cheaper DJ units.

Vintage synths: if only I'd known how expensive they'd get! I bought my Korg Mono/Poly in the late 90s for £150 and could have bought bundles of MS20s etc for around the same. Now the Mono/Poly and MS20s fetch about £750+. Still, you have to keep ahead of the curve I think unless you're made of money and purely in terms of making music (not lusting after the gear), plug-ins and hardware virtual synths can be indistinguishable yet much more sonically versatile at the same time.

[Beobloke]

My old DJ mixer is still kicking around in the garage somewhere and I was always thought it sounded pretty decent - the phono stages were surprisingly good.

I must confess I keep eyeing up some of the bigger old Citronic mixers like the SM-607 on eBay and probably wouldn't turn down a Vestax R-1 if it fell into my lap, either...

[AlexM]

I used to have an old Citronic mixer, and thought it sounded great at the time. I like pro gear, not least because it doesn't typically sell for hifi foo prices, is well built and generally sounds pretty good.

[Martyn Miles]

I run little business, MGM Audio, and PA system is part of it.
I have used many mixing desks and know A & H are well respected.
Digital desks are the way things are going, but a good analogue desk
is still a valued item.