Hi all . After some advice please.
I’m a vinyl bedroom mixer . I have been back into mixing house / dance / disco tunes for about 3 years now. Get a great deal of pleasure from this . I’m really tempted to get some digital decks and have been doing a lot of research into the subject. The denon sc6000 seem to be coming out streets ahead for my type of DJing. Im not a slave to pioneer CDJ environment and club set ups
I have never touched digital decks before, only vinyl. So would I be best to get the 6000M decks ? Is it an easier transition for a vinyl DJ who is into mixing ? Bare in mind I don’t scratch .
Second question : To cut down on price could I get the X1800 ? its a few hundred cheaper now , but would i lose any real benefits ?
Last question - and I think I know the question so try not to laugh to hard , how essential is a laptop when using the sc6000 decks ? can i just mix away on the fly without preparing the tracks on a laptop first . ?
Thanks for any newbie help . Guess Im really keen to find out if the M model is better if coming from a vinyl background.
Hi @Badwolf. Glad to see you’re looking at jumping onto team Denon, best decision I ever made switching from those who must not be named.
So i’ll be honest with the skills you currently have as a vinyl DJ the difference won’t be that much between the 6K & 6KM the work flow is identical. The difference is purely down to personal preference, you do have spinning vinyl which you would likely find easy to adapt to but the standard version is just a play and nudge similarly without the spinning platter. I would say though to go for the M with you background just for the bit of farmiliarity and also because if you’re not feeling the spinning deck you can switch it off and the platter effectively acts as it would on the 6K therefore, giving you the best of both in my eyes.
Now! the X1850 for me is worth the money purely for the faders. The X1800 the fader are so soft and I found when using with a speaker nearby that they could actually fall down with bass vibrations. I own the X1850 (having uses DJM’s) my entire life previously and its brilliant. Also the inclusion of the 3/4 timing on the effect stip is a must for me being into my tech house makes echos and delays so much easier. If those two things aren’t issues to you then go for the X1800 but I would in my personal opinion say its worth the upgrade. The Mixer is a lot more about a feel improvement than function (despite a few being added).
Finally, Laptop. So the beauty of these decks is you can use them with no laptop at all due to the built in WI-FI streaming just log into beatport and use their track libary. However for your music, you can use a laptop just to drag songs from you files onto a usb stick for playing, all the way to full performance with DJ software and the players acting as controllers. The players are able to do on-the-fly analysis of songs so you can have an unanalysed folder of mp3’s and still get everything working nicely. If you analyse through Engine Prime, then this just removes that step and gives you near instant load times on your track.
But as with everything see you a local store has them in to try a set on or a friend so you can decided for yourself. Eitherway you cant go wrong with these. If you’ve got anymore questions just reply I’m happy to answer. I got a SC6000 and X1850 set up a few weeks back and despite having some export issues (found a bug that denon is now fixing) i’ve not looked back once.
I would echo these words. If you dont scratch get the 6000s and put the extra into the 1850 as it also has quantizied effects. I own the prime 4 and go but like you ive researched alot. I am thinking of selling the prime 4 next year and getting the 6000 and 1850. Good luck and let us know how you get on.
As other have recommended the M’s are likely to be better for you however before deciding try and visit your local DJ shop and test both, the only thing I would add is Denon has not announced whether there will be a LC6000 M which if you are planning to make full use of the duel layer function maybe something to take into consideration, however having the regular 6000s myself best choice i made so if you decide to join the denon ecosystem I am sure it will be positive for you also.
Thanks Kinsotojin
The trouble with staying in a small town is we don’t have any shops where I could try the kit. I have to travel quite a distance to the big smoke to get a specialised shop that would have that kinda kit . Think I’m leaning towards the 6000Ms now with all the advice above .
Itching to get started but it’s a big investment.
I have had Technics turntables on and of from 1987 up to about 2006. Sold them when I moved to Prince Edward Island in Canada from Leeds in England because Records were getting expensive and no stores here. Anyway I bought Denon 3700s with spinning platters and more recently the SC6000M. You will not be disappointed. I think they are fantastic. Good luck with whatever you choose.