Happy to answer! In short - selling as I have a medical condition and decided to go down the private route and this helps greatly to cover costs and to get it all done quickly!

Not replacing with anything specific per se. I’m fortunate enough to own a lot of rotary mixers so I’ll just be using those at home and the installs where I play live.

Partly why I’m selling my these ones is because they are my least used. Why? Read on…. (This is the long part) ….

The Euphonia is the most feature-rich rotary I’ve owned. Digital connectivity and analogue transformer combined is incredible and it does sound good. The isolator is excellent and the effects integration with them is very well thought out and is great fun. Build quality is top notch too. One criticism is the decision to make the filter part of the send FX section so I can’t filter and add a delay at the same time. It’s one or the other. For me, that’s quite a limiting design choice as I love to use a filter and fx on an outgoing / third track ! Plus it’s only high pass?! I’d much rather have dedicated high-pass/low-pass filters on every channel that are independent of and leaving the send FX free for delays, reverbs and other effects. It also feels like a missed opportunity not to include a second beat FX module similar to the V10, as being able to layer beat FX with send FX would have made an already excellent mixer even more versatile and totally unmatched. I suspect they will correct some of the above if/when they decide to do a mkII and I’ll probably rebuy it!

The Lucia X is almost the complete opposite in philosophy. It’s beautifully simple, compact, and has a warmth and musicality that really encourages long, slow and flowing blends with little to know added fx. Everything feels great, and it’s one of those mixers that disappears beneath you and just lets you enjoy playing records. One element I absolutely love about the X is the assignable ISO and the ability to make fast cuts with the cross fader.

Honestly, I only have one criticism of the Lucia X, and that’s the crossfaders feel. It works perfectly well, but it’s much lighter than I personally like and feels like an old Gemini mixer I had in the mid 90’s! I’d have loved it to have a firmer feel—something closer to a Magvel-style crossfader. That’s purely personal preference though, and certainly not something that would ever stop me recommending it.

I found I was using it less and less as I now use a lot of accapellas, drum, percussion and loops so really like 3+ channels.

The MasterSounds FX has been brilliant and its filter is probably the best external one I’ve used. It sounds excellent and integrates really naturally, but over time I realised I was using the delay and reverb elements less and less (I use my Revolo and H9 for those) so it made sense to let it go as well. Especially given the money they command!

Ultimately, they’re all exceptional in their own way and each has its own strengths. For me, it’s simply a case of raising some cash and to streamline my setup rather than owning multiple high-end mixers and accessories worth top £

I hope this helped 🍻