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we all know u can hook up 2 efx on to a djm 1000 but can you also hook up a akai mfc42 http://www.akaipro.com/productsMFC42.html
and still have 2 efx hooked up at the same time???PLzz serious answers only IF YOU DONT KNOW THE ANSWER DONT BOTHER

Answer 1

No..but yes if you are a bit clever about it

The DJM only has 2 send/return loops. If you already have 2 devices like an efx on these then there are no spare physical loops on the mixer to connect the third unit to. There are a couple of ways to work around this...

a) you hook up the efx units in the same way, but instead of feeding them back straight back into the mixer....you could use one of them to feed the akai filter. The filter can them complete the loop back to the mixer. This works quite well because you can assign any channel to either of the sends.

b) you could split the output from one of the sends using an external signal splitter box. To do this you will need a spare line input.
Once the devices are connected to the splitter feed one of them back to the original loop input, and the other to the line input.
There are a couple of problems to this method. One is that the split signal will be quiter and therefore need an increase in gain, which will brind additional noise into your mixer.
The second problem is controlling the balance between the dry and wet sound.To avoid problems make sure the channel it comes back isn't assigned to the crossfader...and just use the channel strip to control how much of the wet signal comes in. It sounds fussy, however the efx and akai filter are completely independent of each other using this method...in method (a) they are daisy chained together.

3) You could just use the filter on your master output. This is restricting because you cannot use your filter 'in the mix' but for general sweeps and effects use it would work ok.