The world of budget rotary mixers rejoices to the announcement of Ecler releasing a four channel version of their Warm 2 obviously to be named the Warm 4. This is welcome news to the community and signifies the success of the Spanish companies foray into rotary mixers.
I just wanna see more now! Bring us a Warm 3 a Warm 4, bring us a whole line!
Mojaxx, DJ CITY
Our friend Mojaxx was impressed on the whole with the Ecler Warm 2 and would like to see more rotaries from the Spanish brand.
My personal concerns are what many also share are the plastic slightly flexible pots for the EQ but the saving grace is the fact that the channel volume pots and isolator are all metal construction and to be fair they are the ones that will received the heaviest and more meaningful use so it shouldn’t be an issue. I also dislike these particular wooden sides as they look a little cheap but fairly easily remedied.
I personally would change the potentiometer caps (what I call touchpoints) and the side cheeks but apart from that I think it looks pretty slick and has a very well balanced feature set and layout so bring on the Warm 4 and I think you are onto a fairly low budget winner.
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