Joseph Brunner

Dear Vintage. Hope you are well.

Just wanted to express my gratitude for this question and the full reply,
and also to get further reassurance.
I got myself a Mixon 4 on the strength of this comments thread.
Now for those extra fiddly pieces around the edge.

You wrote:

* Yamaha MG06X (about 100 here) adds two perfectly good mic channels with two band EQ and reverb (great for those wanting to sing a song at weddings) and the option for your controller AND a backup device to connect as well, with high end output connections.

I remember reading the above when you posted it.
Just now I read the Complete Wedding dj book:

** You can get a good mixer for 50 dollars to 99 dollars…. You will need at least four inputs: from your Controller, Mic, back-up sound device (iPod, iPad, etc) and one extra.

Q1:So am looking to get this Yamaha MG, especially as it has two mic inputs. Am I right that this Yamaha would be over-qualified for boasting the signal from my backup iPad, or the iPhone of a friend, but that it would do the job perfectly well?

Q3: Would this Yamaha “mixer” (I guess “mixer” means “interface” in this case??) work the same as a stand alone dj mixer for allowing me to fade out a track that a friend has just played on his iPad, so I can mix it with a track outputting the Mixon controlled software?

Q4: I would like to know if this Yamaha would work with a pick up for an acoustic instrument played over the top of
a track… like having a live cello playing over the top of a basic house track? Or would a pricier sound interface, Yamaha or otherwise, be better?

Q5:If so, what might you recommend?

Q6 :When would you consider buying a full pro mixer instead of an interface? I know you would hardly use any of its functions if playing from the Mixon… but if you had your eyes on those magic new Denon pro iPad quality touch screen controller things for a years time….

….might you put aside an interface and get a stand alone mixer instead??

Many thanks.

Joe

I want to echo the above.
It takes getting to a certain age to learn to
be kind to oneself, to drop self-judgement and censorship
and allow oneself to be “happy”.
I am coming up fifty, and count myself a beginner,
and feel grateful to this dj learning place,
existentially and virtually (this site)
as a place of tenderness, compassion, patience, devotion, patience, courage,
where one can allow oneself to be happy.
It has taken me years of maturing to be in this place.
How can this ever be an
age specific thing?
If it were a wild lurching towards “rock and roll” egoism and excess,
or a menopausal reprisal of youth “thing”….
I might judge myself as “being too old” after 40.
What keeps me going is not the euphoric peak in a set –
although that is great –
but the fulfilled silence long after the gig,
when you know you have been of service to music, to love,
to the world in a most mysterious and undefinable way.

There is only one song that needs no introduction, always gets people on their feet,
and that can have no context or association in anyones mind simply because it
is such a smooth groove timeless classic
it is as if has always there, and ever shall be.

September, by Earth Wind and Fire.

Down on you knees and grovel before this earthquaking
classic all ye who enter this forum.