A look at my Pioneer mixer, as requested by you.

0:00 It's the Pioneer DJM600

Alright folks, it's Jonathan here. Now, as you know, I've got a new bit of kit and quite a few people have seen the mix of the CD decks and thought, can you give some demos? I will be giving demos, but this particular video is just talking about this guy here, which is the mixer. It's the Pioneer DJM600. Now then, a bit of history and me where this mixer's concerned. I remember seeing a guy use one of these in a nightclub a while ago, well not a while ago, about seven or eight years ago I think, and I looked at it and I noticed that the crossfade here... was slightly worn away uh it was coming down to the metal and i my first question or comment was i bet you've been through a few crossfades and he said no it's the same one um now then right what can i say it's um well all right here's a good point here and that is that what i try and do i always try and compare items you know i think well that sort of particular turntable is maybe slightly better than the other turntable or that mixer maybe is slightly better or not as good as another mixer

I'm going to compare this mixer, okay? No, I am not getting paid for this, alright? As God is my witness, I'll tell you now, I'm not getting any money for this at all. I'm just telling you exactly how it is, right? If I was to compare this mixer, I would compare it with one thing, and that is a Sherman tank, alright? The only difference being is a Sherman tank has a long pipey thing at the front and kills people. This does not have a long pipey thing, it doesn't kill people, but it lasts virtually forever. All right. I mean, at the end of the day, it's like I've said, all right, if you've got some money, a tiny bit of money and you want to buy a mixer to mess around with, then that's fine. Go for it. But if you've got a tiny bit of money and you want to buy something that will last indefinitely, save up and get something. Now, I'm not telling you to go and buy one of these. I'm telling you to go and buy good quality products in life in general. You pay for what you get. All right.

1:51 I've always wanted one of these and I finally got one now

Period, alright? Now, I've always wanted one of these and I finally got one now. And it's just an absolutely damn decent piece of kit, alright? In future videos, I'm going to give you a bit of a demo, show what it does, what it doesn't do. I mean, in my eyes, the only thing this won't do for you is make you a cup of tea in the morning. But apart from that, I mean, it's just, it builds quality. It just, you know, you pick it up and you've got to be a weightlifter to pick the damn thing up. You know, I like it. I just like the feel. The feel of everything is sort of solid. It's not flimsy. It's not as though you feel you have to be gentle with it and treat it like a lady and all of a sudden it's going to break. You know, I can imagine this being in a flight case and you sort of chucking the flight case in the back of the van after a hard night and then turning it on in the morning and it's just going, hi, I'm here. You know what I mean?

So it's a nice piece of kit. During my videos and tutorials, I'm going to be using this, I'm going to be using other bits and bobs. You know, I'm not just going to be using this from now on because I've got other items, but I like it. It's a nice piece of kit. And again, where I'm concerned as a mobile DJ especially, we have one, two, three, four channels, OK? Now that's not just four channels because on each one of those you can have two lines on this one, so you can have two CD players, you can have a CD. A turntable, on the next one CD and turntable, and on the next one a CD and a turntable. So you can check like 6,000 components in there and still have fun. As opposed to a two-channel mixer whereby you've got two channels. Yes, you can have phono and line, but what you have to remember, very important. Say you're on a gig, alright?

3:32 It's very important if you're on the road doing functions

And you've got two CD players, or even let's say you've got two CD players and a turntable. So you think, yeah, I'm sorted because I've always said, make sure you take three entities. It's very important if you're on the road doing functions. But if you've only got a two channel mixer and yes, contradict to myself because occasionally you have seen gig logs where I've had a two channel mixer. But the thing is, is that if one of those channels decides not to work. You're basically knackered, at least with a three channel mixer or even a four if you can get one. You've got that extra channel just in case. Now for a mobile DJ, that is very, very, very important. Perhaps really the only reason you see me with a Vestax mixer on gig logs taking that is because it's new. So theoretically, I mean nothing should go wrong, but this is real life. Things go wrong every single second of the day.

Anyway, just a quick insight into my own thoughts on this particular mixer. I'm very pleased I've got it. It's wicked. I mean, it does exactly what it says on the tin. No more, no less. And believe me, you don't need a degree in philosophy and psychology. Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy.

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