While traditional mixing desks can bury DJs behind bulky equipment ... Martin puts the person spinning the discs - or in this case the touch display - front and center. Billed as the "world's ...

There comes a point in every engineer’s life at which they need a mixing desk, and for me that point is now. But the marketplace for a cheap small mixer just ain’t what it used to be.

There comes a point in every engineer’s life at which they need a mixing desk, and for me that point is now. But the marketplace for a cheap small mixer just ain’t what it used to be.

The mixing desk is more than a practical studio utility. At the risk of sounding romantic, I’m going to suggest it’s also a symbolic piece of kit, steeped in the history of hands-on audio engineering ...