Dan Amitai

Now that we are running our own night (Beyond, Wednesdays above Cafe Luna), and along with the outdoor party, and playing with French Stewart, it is becoming more and more necessary for me to keep a backup mixer on hand. I am worried that with all these out shows, something will happen, and I need to have a secondary mixer for emergencies.

I ended up going with the Vestax VMC-002XL. It is a battle mixer, which is really all I need, and has XLR outs (good for the clubs). Because this is strictly a backup mixer and not one I will be relying on most of the time (hopefully), I needed only the bare essentials, which are (as far as I’m concerned)

• 3-band EQs with kills.
• two phono, two line.
• ability to have master come out of headphones (some of the lower ends only let you cue from headphones)
• crossfader contour adjustments. this one only has “mix” and “cut” settings. Far more primitive compared to the Rane, where you can adjust the slope per side, but this is good enough.

Got it from Turntable Lab for $170, shipped. Not bad for the price! I’ll write more about it when it arrives and I discover all the little things it’s missing (like no aux in for laptop/ipod, for example).

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