INTIMIDATION BLUE DJ MIXER Old school mixer from the midd 90's

0:01 Looking at this mixer, it's from a company called Intimidation

Alright guys, looking at this mixer, it's from a company called Intimidation. It's known as the Intimidation Blue. It's a 19-inch rack mount analog mixer. Now, for all the people who've maybe just started DJing, a little bit of history. Prior to digital mixers, every single mixer out there was analog. So, 99% of them were made predominantly for vinyl turntables. So you did get the proper true rumble and hum. From a piece of vinyl. Of course, most mixers today are only digital. This guy here was analog. Now also, one of the main features of this guy is that it has original kill switches. The first mixer to ever have kill switches. Prior to that, you used to have to buy a little sort of appliance that you stuck on the front of it and they had the kill switches on them. So the company that made this thought, you know,

DJs have told us what we want. We're going to do it, which is near enough exactly the same that happens today. If you think that these mixers out there, the new ones, are designed and built by people who just think of what they want to put on them, that's incorrect. They may make them, but it's the people out there who want certain features. And these people who design the mixers are the ones who put those features into the mixers. So of course, mid-90s when this was made, That's what they did. They put kill switches in a mixer. So this was revolutionary, beyond comprehension. It was like, wow, we can now take away the mid, the bass and the top, or we can take away the whole damn lot. Right, the tune you're listening to, by the way, is Noise Floor. Excuse me, The Noise Floor. And then we're going to bung in this guy here on the other side, ICR Wales of August. I thought, we're in Wales.

1:54 Very simple, but there are some really nice features

And it's the middle of winter at the moment and wouldn't it be nice to be August? But there you go. Very simple, but there are some really nice features. We've got punch in and punch out. So for example, with a crossfade on the side that's playing, if I hit punch out, you actually punch the track out and then punch in. Crossfade on the other side, you punch in. Alright, there is a company now who've got a load of these guys. They're called Why Buy New. And if you're watching this video when I upload it, then go and check them out. But sadly, maybe if you're watching this video in a year or so, they might have all gone. Now, I'm sure there are loads of these out there, but they're probably knackered, been used and abused. They have got a load that are brand new in the boxes. At the back, you've got plugs for vinyl turntables and CDs, but just two. You notice it's just a two-channel mixer.

3:53 Y, monitor the left hand side

No headphone socket, so it's probably not that good for say a mobile DJ because you can't use your microphone. We've got an effects dial here. Now there are no internal effects but you can add an effects unit to it. That's your monitor volume, so that's the equivalent of like a booth monitor. That's your master. Pre-fade here are the equivalent of your trim. So a normal conventional mixer nowadays you'd have trim and then you would have treble, mid and bass. Here we've got bass, mid and tops across there, pan control, effects level at this side and then X and Y, this is for your headphones so if you want to monitor the right hand side you go to Y, monitor the left hand side you go to X and again if you go in the middle you know you can get sort of a good idea of what's playing on both sides.

Headphones, volume and the headphone input. There you go. It's called the Intimidation Blue. I'll try and bung in the description as much information on this guy as possible, but go and check out the link and see what you think. Oh, that rhymes. Okay, fair enough. And it's quite ironic, isn't it? You know, here we are using this old school and then we've got a set of Pioneer 2000 Nexus as well. So old meets new. But... Like it. Alright, nice one, practice and enjoy.

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