JASON DONNELLY: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. This is Jason Donnelly, and before us we have the Rane TTM 57SL performance mixer, a.k.a. Scratch Live. This mixer is nothing but the best from Rane, hardware speaking, and nothing but the best in software because it come bundled with Serato Scratch, and it is designed specifically to be used with Serato Scratch. But you can also use this as a standalone mixer.

So, right off the bat, real simple design, very well made. This is just the mixer. I haven’t connected it to my PC yet. Really nice feeling fader movement here. Great knobs, lots of buttons, and all of these buttons, and these little joystick here, all of these buttons, joysticks, and knobs send MIDI controller data to your Serato DJ application. So, let’s get a closer look at the TTM 57SL.

In this section of the mixer, we have our crossfader AB. We also have our volume faders. These can also be assigned to other parameters as well from within the software. It can be crossfaders. They can send controller data. In the center you will see your VU meters. This isn’t lit up because I don’t have anything sending to it right now, but we will do that in a future segment. Let’s have a look at the top half of the mixer.

Okay. Here’s the top half of the mixer, and just like any standard DJ mixer, this is where the meat of the controls lives. We have our gain knobs for each channel. So, left is your channel 1, channel 2 here. EQs, buttons for probably EQ kills. We’ll find out as soon as I connect this to the software. Flex effects. I’m going to assign -- assigning effects to one of these knobs here. Turning that on, probably adjust the parameters for each effects, so if I activate Flex Effects, I can then use these knobs to control the effects. I also have lots of buttons here, B1 through 6, so I guess we’ll find out what that is. There’s a joystick 1 and 2. That’s pretty cool. You got your mic input adjustment, high, low, mic level, aux in, output level, booth level, aux out, phones, phone cue. You got these little fader dealies here, slow and fast and then center, a reverse button, and again there’s a channel swap which allows you to swap the two channels obviously, and again what we’ll do is connect this to a PC to find out more about what it can do when it is utilizing the Serato Scratch software. Let’s have a look at the back of the mixer.

So, here we have the back of the Rane TTM 57SL. Right off the bat, we can see we have a USB port, two really kick-ass ground, phono ground screws. This is a great design. I don't know if anyone else has been frustrated with mixers over the years because they used to just give you a really tiny little screw or cap or something that’s always hard to get out or whatever. These are perfect, really great, and there’s two, one for each phonograph. We’ve got XLR main outs. Here you’re looking at the aux in/out, programs 1 and 2 have four -- Let’s see, one, two, three, four. So, I’m assuming all that’s assignable from the software. It could be ins and outs. We also have our effects, return and send, unbalanced, and then we have a booth output balanced. So, let’s move on to the software.