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2007-10-25 Thread Jari Tolkkinen
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Dan Bean wrote: Formula Sound PM80 Badass mixer. I've been lurking this mixer from ebay for some time now. I had a chance to play once with it and even though the feel was interesting, the sound quality rocked. Now here is my question; is the newer pm-90 anywhere

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2007-10-25 Thread Fred Heutte
Nobody calls me a liberal and gets away with it, foo! As for mythical beasts, it is -true- that I worked for a music and arts newspaper in Washington DC three decades ago called the Unicorn Times. It was B.I. (before the Internets) so you youngsters can't look it up on Wikiplayer. We were

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2007-10-25 Thread Fred Heutte
I can confirm about Cielo -- saw Francois K there about a month ago for Deep Space and the sound was quite good. FK was kind of so-so, but then so was the crowd :) fh - funktion one also make some brilliant sounding speakers. cielo in new york has a system of theirs and it is

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2007-10-24 Thread Simon
with a 62. -Original Message- From: Benoît Pueyo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 6:25 AM To: list 313 Subject: Re: (313) votes I have AH XONE 32. Except the fact it has 3 channels, it already beats every pionner I got in hands (300,500,600) though i've never

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2007-10-24 Thread Alan Heneghan
Gains on the back are to stop IDIOT DJs turning them up and destroying sound systems. Alan Heneghan From: Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:36:48 +1000 To: 'list 313' 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes Doesn't the 32 have the gains on the back so you

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2007-10-24 Thread robin
Alan Heneghan wrote: Gains on the back are to stop IDIOT DJs turning them up and destroying sound systems. Shame that records are pressed at different volumes then really. It's a daft design (though I do sympathise with the thought that most djs don't understand audio engineering). I

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2007-10-24 Thread Frank Glazer
Heneghan From: Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:36:48 +1000 To: 'list 313' 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes Doesn't the 32 have the gains on the back so you literally have to blindly reach behind the mixer? Completely impractical. For fast

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2007-10-24 Thread Frank Glazer
Heneghan From: Frank Glazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:27:12 -0400 To: Alan Heneghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED], list 313 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes i'm not an audio engineer, nor do i play one on the internet, but wouldn't

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2007-10-24 Thread Alan Heneghan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED], list 313 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes i'm not an audio engineer, nor do i play one on the internet, but wouldn't proper preamp limiting/compression solve this problem just as well? On 10/24/07, Alan Heneghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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2007-10-24 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 10/24/07, Alan Heneghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gains on the back are to stop IDIOT DJs turning them up and destroying sound systems. so people who play 70's LP cuts next to 00's 12 cuts have to pay the price for morons? wrong answer. that mixer with the gains on the back is the biggest

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2007-10-24 Thread Paul Kendrick
12:58 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes On 10/24/07, Alan Heneghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gains on the back are to stop IDIOT DJs turning them up and destroying sound systems. so people who play 70's LP cuts next to 00's 12 cuts have to pay the price for morons? wrong answer

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2007-10-24 Thread Odeluga, Ken
PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 12:58 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes On 10/24/07, Alan Heneghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gains on the back are to stop IDIOT DJs turning them up and destroying sound systems. so people who play 70's LP cuts next to 00's 12 cuts have to pay

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2007-10-24 Thread Alan Heneghan
PROTECTED], 313@hyperreal.org Conversation: (313) votes Subject: RE: (313) votes I agree with Tom on this every mixer has unnecessary features and lots are badly laid out, gains on the back is just silly. I am still to find the perfect mixer.. Im currently using this, vestax PMC-CX

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2007-10-24 Thread Gil Yaker
, October 24, 2007 8:17:12 AM Subject: RE: (313) votes Not the best, EQ could be better and the filters are pointless I don't think mixers should have FX like this. It just annoys me when you hear people using them all the time to cover there bad mixing.if you want FX buy a separate unit

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2007-10-24 Thread Paul Kendrick
@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes I own a AH 62 and really like the sound of it, but find it a bit cramped sometimes, but superb at home. I'm also a big fan of the Formula Sound PM80 (a mixer that has been out of production for over 10 years, very popular with sound engineers) and Ecler SCLAT100. Both

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2007-10-24 Thread Toby Frith
So does Corsica Studios -Original Message- From: Paul Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:35 To: Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes http://www.funktion-one.com/FF6000.htm Al check the link, funktion 1 started re

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2007-10-24 Thread Paul Kendrick
Really!! Whats it like to play on?? Are the Eqs any good and are the FXs on pointless?? -Original Message- From: Toby Frith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:33 To: Paul Kendrick; Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes

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2007-10-24 Thread Toby Frith
I dunno, Tristan's the person to speak to on that. -Original Message- From: Paul Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:39 To: Toby Frith; Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes Really!! Whats it like to play

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2007-10-24 Thread rob theakston
?? -Original Message- From: Toby Frith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:33 To: Paul Kendrick; Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes So does Corsica Studios -Original Message- From: Paul Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL

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2007-10-24 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 10/24/07, Odeluga, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mixer-snobbery is anathema to me as well Tom (even though in my case, I do sort of like the AH's a lot, Vestax's a bit, maybe one or two other difficult-to-afford makes as well!) But what mixer do you actually use Tom? Curious. hahaha, i use

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2007-10-24 Thread Joel Gajewski
craptastic prog dj's jumped onto the mnml bandwagon? - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: list 313 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:57:21 AM Subject: (313) votes can I have your votes pls..? Allen Heath 62 Allen Heath 92 Pioneer DJM

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2007-10-24 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 10/24/07, Joel Gajewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS Not to side track this thread, but does anyone else find it amusing that all those craptastic prog dj's jumped onto the mnml bandwagon? i find it not surprising, all the aesthetics and style are the same: fashion, unfunkiness, drugs,

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2007-10-24 Thread Odeluga, Ken
It was at MacDonalds, by the way. -Original Message- From: rob theakston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:44 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes I have a custom made mixer forged from the steel of King Arthur's Excalibur sword and certified awesome by Bea

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2007-10-24 Thread rob theakston
HEY SHAKE WHAT KIND OF MIXER DO YOU USE?

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2007-10-24 Thread rob theakston
Hey Mr. Ambient Dub Guitar Techno Guy, Shut up. Had you asked to borrow the mixer, I gladly would have let you. Heck, I could have made you one at the time because there was a surplus of Unicorn's blood at the Eastern Market. But no, you were off spatting on about some damn thing called Ableton

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2007-10-24 Thread Bill Van Loo
rob theakston wrote: I have a custom made mixer forged from the steel of King Arthur's Excalibur sword and certified awesome by Bea Arthur. Theo played on it once at a gig we did a Burger King and it made him cry like a little girl when he tweaked the EQs. It has patent technology AI that

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2007-10-24 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
Played on an original UREI at a club once, but as mentioned, the lack of EQ was daft. the reason that Urei didn't put EQs on their mixers until recently is because they made their mixers to do one thing very very well and they sound amazing it resulted in a very clean and uncluttered board

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2007-10-24 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes So does Corsica Studios -Original Message- From: Paul Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:35 To: Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes http

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2007-10-24 Thread rob theakston
Kendrick; Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes So does Corsica Studios -Original Message- From: Paul Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:35 To: Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org

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2007-10-24 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
on pointless?? -Original Message- From: Toby Frith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:33 To: Paul Kendrick; Alan Heneghan; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) votes So does Corsica Studios

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2007-10-24 Thread jwan allen
I've also played on a UREI back in '03 and the experience was fantastic. Its one of the few times I raved about the mixer afterward. I'm use to playing on mixer that was once nice but its better days have long since past. The funny thing about that event was that Carl Craig was running late, so

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2007-10-24 Thread Frank Glazer
in Berlin has one I think -Original Message- From: Alan Heneghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 14:18 To: Paul Kendrick; Thomas D. Cox, Jr.; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) votes I own a AH 62 and really like the sound of it, but find it a bit cramped

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2007-10-24 Thread Dan Bean
Formula Sound PM80 Badass mixer.

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2007-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can I have your votes pls..? Allen Heath 62 Allen Heath 92 Pioneer DJM 800 ?

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2007-10-23 Thread kent williams
I definitely vote AH. Not so much because of any experience with their DJ mixers, but I've used their pro audio desks a lot and they're quality. Pioneers are OK, but I've used them a lot and have 2 observations: They don't have much headroom -- as soon as a DJ starts going into the red you get a

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2007-10-23 Thread Dan Bean
Option D: None of the above... On 23 Oct 2007, at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I have your votes pls..? Allen Heath 62 Allen Heath 92 Pioneer DJM 800 ?

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2007-10-23 Thread Benoît Pueyo
I have AH XONE 32. Except the fact it has 3 channels, it already beats every pionner I got in hands (300,500,600) though i've never tried the 800. Anyways I dont think Pioneer have changed thier stupid EQs cutting everything when you low too much the bass. AH are soft, precise, and still have