We pretty much always bring our (mine) mixer to gigs, unless we know the condition of installed equipment in clubs. It's just amazing how so many bars/clubs in Helsinki has pretty much fucked up gear. Or they just have Pioneer DJM600 which is just crappy mixer in every way.
Last night we were at WGB where we usually use Allen&Heath Xone:42 mixer, but this time we brought the "allmighty" Rane TTM56S because it's just more enjoyable to use due it's 2 channel rugged battle mixer instead of 4 channel club mixer style. Anyway instantly we realised that Rane there sounds like shit compared to A&H. Yes here we said it! It is stated as one of the best sounding DJ mixer there is, but still in a club situation it lacked bass completely while A&H sounded more warm. It was just too flat sounding, maybe perfect for studio, but not nice for dance floor. We are both Traktor Scratch Pro users so we were lucky that the program itself has an internal EQ to tweak the sound. It even has an EQ preset called "Xone", so it was pretty easy to just adjust more bass to the sound and cut some highs and hi-mids. So after all everything went well and sound was just fine.
Next time we might test how Vestax PMC-08 or Pioneer DJM707 sounds there.
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