If you’re running sound for an event, you probably want to be invited back again (especially if it’s a paid gig). You can always use outboard effects, and in many cases achieve better results with these units than onboard effects.īut onboard effects are convenient and can sometimes help you avoid embarrassingly bad sound in a room that has terrible acoustics, bad grounding, or otherwise less-than-ideal circumstances. Again, you can always use converters in a pinch, but it’s better to have the right connections than to sacrifice. Look carefully at each board to know exactly what kind of inputs it comes with and confirm that it’s what you need for your purposes. That being the case, a DJ mixer probably isn’t ideal for a singer/songwriter or small band (unless you want to pick up a bunch of converters), and an audio mixer with only XLR and 1/4” inputs probably won’t work that well for a DJ. If you know you’re going to be connecting microphones and instruments, you’re going to want XLR and 1/4” connections.ĭJ mixers tend to come with analog and digital ins because of how they are used. I’ll talk more about the difference between audio and DJ mixers a little later.įirst, here are a few things I would look at when buying a four-channel mixer. Most DJ mixers tend to be four channels, however, and if that’s what you’re looking for, there’s everything from affordable and dependable all the way up to expensive and feature-rich. They’ve probably figured out, by now, that most people need more than four channels – especially bands. This is because it’s become easier for manufacturers to cram more features into a smaller space. When it comes right down to it, four channel mixers are getting a little harder to find.
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