hey,
anyone know anything about stanton mixers. like, are they all bad or just the one i have. i got a smx.202 and its a piece of junk. ever since the day i opened the box its had a very low hum noise and i cant do anything about it. i was just playing records before so no big deal but now i got my sp 555 and i wanna sample but i have to turn the master volume down real low to sample anything clean. when i plug it up using the line instead of the phono, its all high frequencies with little lows.
im not rich but i could totally run out and get another mixer but i wanted some advice, do all mixers have this hum or just crappy ones. i even have the hum when i unplug the turntables so at least i know its not the tables. anyone know alot about mixers?
help, please.
Peece

apparently high end stanton stuff is OK,
but in all my experience stanton is rubbish... like the behringer of the DJ world.

I learnt to mix on a pair of cheapo stanton str8-30s.. . made mixing on 1200s later a piece of cake lol.

I had one of those SMX mixers (came in the pack with the decks).. rubbish wouldn't even begin to describe it..

I took it back under warranty to get it checked out when it fucked up - the electrical guy that looked at it basically said it was a load of shite and threw it in the bin.

If you want a cheap mixer, the Numark ones are solid.


Also just a thought - is the grounding wire between the turntable/mixer attached/working properly?

yeah everything atttached right. i played around with it a little after i posted. im like ocd when it comes to figuring things out. and i was using the wires that came with the mixer and it gave me a loud hum. so i ripped the gounding wire from the rca's and just used that and found some different rca, stronger ones for like a dvd player or something and used those with the grounding wire and the hum is still there but it is significantly lower. so i just used the rca's i ripped from the gounding wire and put em on the master to my 555 and i plugged in my good ass headphones ( snagged from work) and checked the line in and everything sounds a bunch better. i guess i need to get my cheap ass to a guitar center and buy some quality cables. anyone know of any good quality RCA cables.
thanks for the reply.
peece

Pardon the pun but you may need to start from scratch. When you say 'ripped' did you mean you disengaged the RCAs and soldered new cables?

I agree that cheap Stanton shit is cheepo, but their high end stuff is fine. I have an ST.150 TT, it's got SPDIF out, switchable phono/line, a standard power cable, and "naked" RCA outs (meaning I can put whatever cables I want on it) and I love it- think it's the best Direct Drive TT ever made. I've whirled Tech 12s, Numark TTX and had a cheap Stanton 1200 knockoff, but I invested in the Stanton ST.150 for keeps and it's the shit!

Let us know how it turned out.

no i didnt do al that! i just separated the ground wire from the red and white rca wires. you know, they are like stuck together but you can pull em apart. so the ground is its own cord. then i used some different rca cables from a dvd player and it sounded a little better and less of a hum. so if i buy some really good rca cables id probably be living pretty but for now its not too bad.

the cables will help a bit, but you'll never get rid of the hum completely .. and it might not make much more difference if u get very expensive cables to what you got now so.. be careful..

cost of high end RCAs is approaching the cost of a 2nd hand cheap numark mixer

it cooould also be your power.. but im guessing since u dont have trouble wit hother gear, its not that

*edit*
I am in no state.. either solid liquid or gas.. to be giving advice right now.. so .. take what I say with a few truckloads of salt.

im on a salt free diet but thanks for the info anyways. this is my first dj mixer so i was unaware that hum is supposed to exist. but its low enough now to not disrupt my samples and thats all i care about. im no dj.
thanks.
peece

this could be a ground loop caused elsewhere not necessarily the mixer...

try plugging the stanton into another socket than the rest of your gear with an extension chord

I HATE GROUND LOOPS ARRGGGG

christ how many years of electronic circuitry and engineering and they still pop up everywhere

Yeah, annoying. I have that with my turntable too, adding an extra extension cord in bteween the cords on the same socket fixed it for me.

nice!!! im a try that extension card trick. you would think that they could get rid of annoying electrical problems since we've created such extraodrinary electronic devices like PS3 and the IPHONE!
(just kidding about those toys, i think the iphone is the gayest thing ever created, people are totally gonna end up like the people in WALL-E)
but we got sattelites and spaceships and the government working on something like that thing in stargate but we cant make a turntable spin without noise.
gee golly!

Yeahm man, we've got to make sure they set the proper priorities!!

Lets revolt!

yeah, imagine if the government made their own sp series with some crazy ass government "ish". like if you record a loop and press a pad, the loop hops out of the sampler and dances for you and gives suggestions on your beats. that be insane, like a sp with artificial intelligence.

Yeah, but to prevent them from spying on us, we'd need to literally JAM (to) THE SIGNAL of our metronomes.

Man in black suits, sunglasses and ties. The S.P.I. (not my idea lol) knocking on your door to check whether you're making the 'proper beats'. That ish would be major.

hahahhah
the S.P.I.
i love it.