Citronic

The citronic mpcd s6 is a great cdj from citronic. I have two of these models and I can not fault them one bit. The features and effects on the cdjs are great. There is a rather big jog wheel to scan through tracks with and the top of it is a touch sensitive platter that if you set scratch mode on it will mimic your hand movements as if you were scratching vinyl. I have a vinyl deck also and I can say it is ok with scratching but if you are really looking into turntablism then you should get a couple of vinyl decks. Other features that this cdj has include phaser, filter, flanger, transgates, echo and a lot more. They have reverse mode so it plays your cd in reverse if you actually ever needed to do that. All the effects can be triggered sort of auto as in 1/8 1/4 1/1 and so on which is pretty cool I must admit. There is also an effect called skid, this give the cdj the feel of a vinyl player when you start it up or turn it off when you can hear it speeding up and such. This is quite nice at the end of a set when you are on your last track and you turn it off and it slows down to a stop, you can also use the previous mentioned 1/8 1/4 1/1 time to dictate how fast or slow it will do this effect. The deck is very sturdy and I do not think you would be able to break it easily. If you were to drop the deck whilst playing it has a 10 second memory feature which basically means it knows what is 10 seconds ahead on the cd at all times so it gives you enough time to pick it back up and carry on mixing without flaw. I think that for the price you really do get a lot of great features and I always recommend these to people wanting to get some cdjs.

The citronic mp cd s6 is stackable and very lightweight. The outputs is either digital or rca outputs. The inputs for channels 1 and 3 are USB, digital and rca both phono and line in for rca. For channel 2 there is digital and rca with both phono and line in. There are 3 channels with a cross fader also. The eq consists of high, mid and low and there is no effects on the mixer, it is just a standard scratch mixer but I use it as a normal mixer since I do not have the money to buy a better one at the moment. There are no lcd displays at all, it really is just a basic 3 channel mixer for a decent price for beginners I assume so anyway. UTILIZATION The manual that came with the mixer told me how to set it up but it is not really that hard to work out in the first place. Everything is pretty basic on this mixer and it all works fine, I have had no problems with it since I got it a couple of years ago. You do not need to install anything with this mixer since it does not hook up to computers to work in sync with them, you can assign a computer channel to it though through USB connection. SOUNDS Whilst the mixer plays there is no hiss what so ever, it all sounds very good when coming out of the speakers, very realistic, no sound is lost from the mixer to speakers. The eq is very basic but effective if you use it well. You can filter tracks in and out with ease on this mixer very nicely in my opinion. OVERALL OPINION I like the simplicity and having 3 channels is quite nice compared to 2. The cross fader is fine but I do not use it any more since I have 3 decks all hooked up into it. Great price but no effects. I would buy a mixer with some effects on it next time but at the moment I am quite happy this this piece of kit. I would recommend it to anyone.