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engineroom
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So I decided not to wait for NAMM as I happened on a good deal for these items ($489 for the DN-X800 and $889 for the DN-2600F) they were open-box items from a major catalogue reseller.
I've only been fiddling with them for a few hours, but here are a few quick impressions & comments
both
- did Denon get the Roland guys to write their manuals??? Although the information is there, the manuals are very minimal and just barely sufficient.
DN-X800
- very nice mixer, sounds great, solid construction
- why is the power switch on the back???
- headphone gain is too close to the headphone jack
- headphone cue select buttons would be better below the headphone gain and pan instead of above
- subwoofer frequency knob on the front is a waste, for any decent pa this should be set once and left alone (i.e. put it on the back) - a subwoofer gain knob would be a much better idea.
- separate fx sends for each channel would make up for no built in stuff.
- overall though one of those nicest mixers i've seen, and compact as well which is great.
DN-2600F
- another good box, although as some have pointed out, it has a pretty steep learning curve - i certainly would rather have more buttons (or substitute some of the existing ones) than having to go through menus
- looping is really easy and pretty cool
- reverb sounds more like a delay with a little reverb thrown in
- flanger is really cool, but it really needs a high-pass filter inserted with it, because something in the algorithm is boosting the bass a whole lot when the flanger is turned on.
- digi scratch is a waste of time
- haven't used the sampler yet
- still getting the hang of cueing, it is not entirely intuitive.
- slot load decks like the Pioneers would be a big advance over the trays
- it looks like if you didn't select it in advance, you can't turn on FX while a track is playing, that is a bit annoying.
- is there anyway to stutter from the cue point using the play button?
- there is a non-trivial dead spot around the centre detent of the pitch slider, i.e. if you move the slider a bit, the pitch still doesn't change. this is really annoying
- a nice addition would be that if you have tapped in the BPM, changing the pitch would also change the BPM displayed
engineroom
I've only been fiddling with them for a few hours, but here are a few quick impressions & comments
both
- did Denon get the Roland guys to write their manuals??? Although the information is there, the manuals are very minimal and just barely sufficient.
DN-X800
- very nice mixer, sounds great, solid construction
- why is the power switch on the back???
- headphone gain is too close to the headphone jack
- headphone cue select buttons would be better below the headphone gain and pan instead of above
- subwoofer frequency knob on the front is a waste, for any decent pa this should be set once and left alone (i.e. put it on the back) - a subwoofer gain knob would be a much better idea.
- separate fx sends for each channel would make up for no built in stuff.
- overall though one of those nicest mixers i've seen, and compact as well which is great.
DN-2600F
- another good box, although as some have pointed out, it has a pretty steep learning curve - i certainly would rather have more buttons (or substitute some of the existing ones) than having to go through menus
- looping is really easy and pretty cool
- reverb sounds more like a delay with a little reverb thrown in
- flanger is really cool, but it really needs a high-pass filter inserted with it, because something in the algorithm is boosting the bass a whole lot when the flanger is turned on.
- digi scratch is a waste of time
- haven't used the sampler yet
- still getting the hang of cueing, it is not entirely intuitive.
- slot load decks like the Pioneers would be a big advance over the trays
- it looks like if you didn't select it in advance, you can't turn on FX while a track is playing, that is a bit annoying.
- is there anyway to stutter from the cue point using the play button?
- there is a non-trivial dead spot around the centre detent of the pitch slider, i.e. if you move the slider a bit, the pitch still doesn't change. this is really annoying
- a nice addition would be that if you have tapped in the BPM, changing the pitch would also change the BPM displayed
engineroom
And congrats for the setup, they might be awesome together in a case *drool*. Compact, powerfull, beautiful...
