mixtrack Pro 3 vs denon mc2000

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Ive looked at both the denon mc2000 and mixtrack pro 3 as im not planning on doing many gigs this time round so don't want to splash megabucks,

I'd personally suggest an mc6000 over the mc2000 if nothing else the 6000 DOES have mic EQ.

I'm finding the 6000 at over £400, as opposed to the 2000 at £170. A price hike of 250% seems over budget to me. I would have suggested the VMS4.1 if I thought it was in the price range. I had a look at the Denon MC3000 manual, and there's no EQ on that mic either.

Do you run directly from the controller to your speakers or are you running it into a second mixer ?

Without a proper mic channel any mobile DJ would have to resort to using an external mixer. I don't know why controllers even bother having a mic channel if

A) there's no on/off switch on the control surface
B) there's no XLR socket
C) there's only a level control - i.e. no EQ

Justin's pretty much said it all. I suspect that these two channel controllers are aimed fairly and squarely at anyone other than mobile DJs. For the reasons he's given, I and everybody else I know feeds them into a small Behringer/Alto mixer for the mics, and a line channel for the music.