The Detroit Techno House

Let me start by saying that I absolutely love Ecler.  I bought a Nuo 3 a year or so ago and have been more than happy with it.  The sound is excellent, the knobs are fat, effects send/return can be used in pre or post fader mode, the layout is solid, and price is the most reasonable of any mixer.  You feel you get more than what you pay for.  One problem with the Nuo series though was that the crossfader did not have the cut like it’s Hak sibling even if replaced with an eternal or innofader.  Everyone thought this would be fixed with the Nuo X.0′s.  It wasn’t, until Ecler took some advice from www.skratchworx.com.  Anybody who has any Ecler Nuo X.0 can take there mixer to a service shop and have a tweak installed so your Nuo is one of the best scratching machines out there.  Also all the new Nuo’s will have this problem fixed.  One catch.  It will only be a scratch beast if you are using the Eternal Fader by Ecler.  No innofader or anything else.  Who cares though because the Eternal is one of the best and arguably the best.  Fuck Yeah.  I just need to sell my 3 and get a 3.0 which I have been wanting to do anyways.  If you  want a new one with the tweak pre installed you need to look for these serial numbers….   

Okay so this machine has got to take me to another dimension or something.  It doesn’t, but what it does do seems only a little less cooler.  Basically it is a USB midi controller that you can use for Traktor or any other DJ program.  The platter has two touch sensitive areas that can manipulate the audio similar to a CD turntable like a CDJ.  The top area allows you to perform back cueing while the sides control pitch bending.  The pitch control on the bottom right of this thing is touch sensitive and claimed to be very accurate.  I wonder about this though.  There is a touch pad similar to a laptop mouse pad on this unit that can be used like a Korg Kaos pad or as a cursor.  It has a ton of knobs and push buttons for all your triggering and tweaking desires.  It also has 4 rotaries, one in each corner, that each have a selection switch in the middle.  I would assume you could use these for browser searching and deck dropping, or effects.  The sweetest thing about the OTUS is that it is two decks in one.  There are two sets of outputs to connect to two different channels on your mixer.  With a push of a button you can switch between decks on your program using the OTUS like two units.  Oh yeah! It also fits perfectly on top of a Technics 1200 turntable and locks in place to avoid slipping.  What I would do is set the OTUS on the right of my mixer and use it for mixing between tracks and then have a turntable on my left that I would use for vinyl and scratching.  The OTUS should be coming out very soon.  It is hard to find a definite release date.  It should be under $900.