DJ Mixers > Gemini DJ Mixers

Advantages: Good looking, many functions
Disadvantages: cheap cross fader

This is one of Gemini's collection. This company are renound for the quality of their mixers. They can offer the best value for money on the market. This one has these features; high, mid, low, gain adjustment, kill switches, beat LED bars, diffferent out puts & inputs, unassignable cross fader, mic input & adjustment, talk over functuin, 12 second sampler with adjustments in pitch, volume etc (great for echo effects), headphone cue-ing adjustment, ...
...was the first mixer I purchased. It is simple to use, easy to set up (plug & play basically). The only problem I had was the cross fader wore out within 4 or so months. However the replacement one costs around £20. The buttons are on securely, they may need to be firmly pushed down upon after opening the box though inorder to make them secure (a couple of mine slipped off, but they went back on easily & havnt come off since. I have had no problems ... Read review

Advantages: Build, Rack Mountable, EQ
Disadvantages: Not many features, faders rather stiff when first purchased new.

After purchasing this for some DJ work i was pleased with the quality of the build and the colour it came in! I was also pleased that it came with the rack mountable ears so it would fit directly into my old mixers place (if only that were true). When i powered it up for the first time it seemed like any other mixer. I then lined all the EQ knobs to 0 and then fed a signal through to setup the EQ to my needs. I istantly noticed that the music was ...
...played around with the EQ trying to set it up to a half decent sound. Failing that i had to go out and purchase an external EQ which seemed to do the job OK. All in all i think this is only really for a bedroom DJ as the lack of features (it's basic) could put off any professional DJ. This is going to go on eBay when i have finished writing the review, i did think about using it for a backup - but really it isn't even up to that!!! ... Read review

Advantages: Effects, Kill switches, XLR input, Balanced outputs.
Disadvantages: Distortion with effects, Inaccurate EQs.

Not a bad mixer however the EQs are too sharp and not very accurate, the sound quality is not great and when i use the flanger it distorts the bass heavily, i have to counteract this by lowering the bass when in use. The effects sound alright but they are not as functional as i'd like. What I mean by this is you simply turn them on/off and they run a cycle as opposed to manual effects. The kill switches are very useful however i tend not to use ...
...I don't want to come reliant on them. BPM counters are ridiculous, I hate them. Reason 1: An experienced DJ will not use them. Reason 2: Beginners shouldn't pick up bad habits. Reason 3: They are not accurate. The optical Fader is great and will never need replacing! Having an XLR input on a mixer of this price range is great! ... Read review

Advantages: matrix system
Disadvantages: alot

overall the mixer is ok but butons are tepromental specialy the asign button on the sampler it responds when it feels like it somtimes mising a press when stutering or when trying to drop a sample on the beat it fails to start.efects button wears away very quickly like in 4 weeks of genaral use.also very high gains and also eq,s dont kill the sound 100%25 or maybey even as bad as forms leakage after only 4 weeks.nice looking good effect nice matrix ...
...longer than 4 weeks lol maybe im just unlucky and got 1 from a bad batch. another bad thing envolves the echo loop when triming it down from a 4/1 or even a 8/1 down to 1/2 beat then trying to up itback to say 4/1 it just sticks at 1/2 what a mess this sounds. 4/10 ... Read review

Advantages: Sound quality, build
Disadvantages: Channel gains on the back of the unit, only 3 channels

...is readily available from the Allen & heath website. I bought this mixer about a year or so ago and it has been a faithful companion to me since It arrived on my doorstep. I bought it for £427 from djstore.com. This review is a comparison between the major sub-£500 mixers available on the market. Pro's The reputation that this mixer has gained throughout the dj world is a story in itself and it was this which drew me to it in the first place. ...
...has always baffled me why Allen & Heath decided to put the line gain buttons on the back of the unit. The Aux buttons are found in the usual gain spot on the mixer. But saying this, once you get used to the location of the gain buttons (which does not take very long), mixing is effortless. It is just odd why they decided on this location in the first place. Apart from this, you only get three channels on the Xone:32 - which is one less than the Pioneer ... Read review