The Denon MC7000 – our first choice of kit for weddings and party nights
There are many controllers on the market ranging from £ to £££, this one is more of the ££. It’s not light in weight, but what you get in functionality and effects is huge, and definitely worth the weight. Ours is flight cased with a Seinnheisser G4 radio mic and a connectivity panel. The panel has powercon in, XLR outputs for speakers, extra mic input along with an input from a band’s desk to the Line 4 channel fro the nights we’ve a band with us. The panel also has three USB charge points fro those nights when someone needs their phone charged.
Denon’s best ever controller was the MC6000 and they packed in every function you could imagine into that. We have three of them and love them to bits. The 7000 has all of the functionality of the 6000 but with more buttons, which means fewer multi-use buttons.
It works with the laptop running Serato – other software will work too but we figured the Serato label on the controller would likely mean planned mapping between the two – and it works beautifully.
The Denon Prime units work as standalone units without the need for laptops – but we have laptops and prepare the playlists from the bride and groom’s requests whilst st in the office meaning we don’t need to get a Prime unit out to get the tunes sorted…
Graeme Barrie has a test facility in Maudeth Road in Broxburn but does not keep any kit there. We’re now aiming to provide weekly reports of kit testing, from lighting systems, to charged battery LED systems and sound related kit – If there is any kit you’d like to see tested, get in touch.