AlphaTheta DDJ-FLX2 Review: Is This the Best Bang-For-Buck Portable DJ Controller?

Looking for a DJ controller you can actually travel with? After spending some quality time, a little travel, and a handful of late nights with the AlphaTheta DDJ-FLX2, I was surprised by just how much I enjoyed using it! Here’s my full DDJ-FLX2 review, including who I think it’s for, specs, the pros and cons, and whether or not it’s worth buying. The good, the bad, and the dance floor. Enjoy! Disclaimer: AD. The fine people at AlphaTheta did send me a shiny new DDJ-FLX2 to try out. However, I solemnly swear that this review is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Carl Cox. I am here to thrill, not to shill. DDJ-FLX2 OVERVIEW Ok, so I’ve been a musician since I was a kid, and my life with instruments began in the rhythm section: the piano and the string bass. I hauled that thing around (the bass, not the piano, you masochist) from school to lessons to concerts to home. It kinda sucked, but then again, I discovered Miles Davis and started to learn what Cool was. So What if my back hurt. In the following years I’d transition into electric bass and guitar so as to start punk and metal bands. Those pursuits came along with hauling around half stacks and flight...