Found a review after quiet some digging on a German website, amazona.de, about audio and dj-ing.
https://www.amazona.de/report-playdi...el-1-dj-mixer/
The author of the article was invited to the Berlin tour stop in Boiler Room/Arena Club, hosted by RH and his partner Rigby-Jones. He says there was all kind of people from behind the scenes who could first listen and try out the Model 1 with head phones. From the picture seems as the mixer was connected with three Pioneer CDJ2000 Nexus, two laptops of which one had Traktor. The other software I can't tell because it's hardly visible. Later there was the official Boiler Room dj set (not further commented in the article).
His main conclusion was that the Model 1 is not a mixer for beginners, that it takes time to master. He says the (physical) quality of the mixer is solid and the knobs feel very good 'with some resistance', as do the faders which were specialy developped for the Model 1. Each led for each knob can be adjusted in brightness. The author is very impressed by the sound quality, and he gives more details about the filters, etc. This is very technical and not easy to translate for me. Author also refers to the manual which is 'madness' and says his short review is only the tip of the iceberg. One of his conclusions is that the Master EQ is not full kill.
After his conclusions he says 250 mixers will be traded by Hawtin and his partner from end of June/ begin July, and after that by Allen & Heath and DiGiCo. The Model 1 makes a world tour with next stop in Amsterdam, followed by the USA (Miami, LA), Florence, Paris and Toronto.
The article is commented by readers, where the main talk is about the lack of crossfader.
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