It’s boxy and black, lacking the silver sides of the DN-MC6000. This is a smart move as jogs don’t have to be big to be functional, and these are still high quality jogs, with all the standard jog functionality (ie metal on the top for scratching, plastic sides for nudging). Indeed, all of the controls feel high quality the knobs are grey and black and rubberised (apart from the central selector knob and the pitch sliders), and the buttons are rubberised and backlit in a mixture of yellow, green and red.
Denon uses smaller jogwheels than most, allowing it to produce more compact units. So time to get it out of the box and take a look First impressions The controller is small and heavy. It’s also more logically laid out, to boot. The MC3000 (Denon’s DJ products are now branded “Denon DJ”, and they’ve dropped the “DN”) takes a “please most of the people, most of the time” route, and in making a few compromises, is smaller, leaner and less cramped than its older and bigger stablemate, the DN-MC6000.
