There’s an FX wet/dry knob too, and of course the paddles are great fun to use and rapidly becoming a scratch mixer standard thanks to the Pioneer DJ DJM-S9. It’s a sensible compromise for scratch DJs, but you will have to look at your screen and use your mouse to set the cycle length for your selected effect. Moving up, there are six FX select buttons, which are for Serato’s software FX, controlling a single effects slot – no hardware FX here. The pared down pads are the biggest limitation of this mixer. Even on a mixer of this size, I’d like to have seen eight per side – the line faders could have been shorter to give room for those pads. They’re not RGB, so if you use colour coding on your hot cues, you’re out of luck.īut the biggest limitation here is the number of pads – only four per side. The pads here control Serato’s Cue, Sample and Loop Roll functions, which you cycle through using the small Pad Mode button. The bottom third of the mixer is pleasingly bereft of controls, which is just what you want – there’s no way you’d accidentally hit the crossfader Curve Adjust (two settings, which is acceptable) or the reverse switch (“hamster mode”). All the compromises are sensible and can be lived with, and we’ll cover them shortly, but just know that everything feels great to use, from the buttery Innofader crossfader to the FX paddles to the smooth filter knobs. However, be there no mistake – it has everything you need to scratch to the highest standard. The mixer feels like a cut-down Pioneer DJ DJM-S9 as I said. You then attach a pair of turntables, add your Serato timecode vinyl, and you’re ready to go. To get it working with Serato is simply a case of plugging it into a computer with Serato DJ Pro on it – it “unlocks” any copy of Serato, acting effectively like a dongle. The Numark Scratch has inputs and outputs that you’d normally find on more expensive, “pro” mixers and controllers. Good to see an onboard power transformer, so no need for a power brick – there are more expensive mixers that have got that one wrong. The front is clean with just 1/4″ and 1/8″ headphones sockets, the back having RCAs for decks and master/booth outs, an omni mic socket, XLR balanced master outs, the USB, plus a three-prong power socket and switch. With its big fat filter knobs, clean layout and overall feeling of quality, it ticks all the right boxes from the off. It is all-metal and feels really well made. which – with its paddles and performance pads – it come across like a “little brother” of), and is in Numark’s trademark black, white and red colour scheme once the lights are powered up. It’s a neat mixer! It’s quite small (smaller than the Pioneer DJ DJM-S9. It stands out because at US$499, it is easily the cheapest such solution available, and it “unlocks” Serato DJ, so all you need in addition to this is some Serato control vinyl, a laptop, and some music – and some turntables, of course. Numark’s Scratch mixer is a DJ mixer with a built-in audio interface, designed to use with Serato DJ Pro as a DVS mixer – although it works fine as a standalone DJ mixer too.
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