Hercules DJ Control Inpulse 500

Excellent beginner decks

I bought this as my first DJ controller, and they were phenomenal! Amazing for house parties, with advanced features (for the price) e.g. RGB pads, mic settings etc. Some particular highlights were: Beatguide, which is excellent for beginners, 8 RGB pads with 8 "modes", nicely sized tempo and volume faders, decent crossfader, quantize button (very handy!) and loads more. Perhaps three gripes that I expected but worth noting are: You only have access to DJuced (I never used) or Serato DJ LITE (I highly recommend getting Serato DJ Pro as Lite is extremely limiting beyond the very basics of DJing). Secondly, I found that the Effects weren't great - it was good enough, but paddles are definitely my preferred. Thirdly, again a personal issue was that the jog wheels were quite stiff, so if you want to backspin, you can't do this naturally. All in all, it is a fantastic controller particularly for the price, however, if looking at the £200 or so price range, I would think about the DDJ FLX-4 since you can use either Rekordbox or Serato, so a bit better for learning.

Would be nice to have some dedicated controls for effect parameters, but other than that it's still one of the best controllers in that price range.

The best choice for the money .

The controller is made of plastic.

The knobs and faders are also of very good quality.

For the money range there is nothing better on the market at the moment that in addition to the abundance of controls, mic input , aux input, it contains DJ software djuced and Serato Light and is compatible with virtual dj and Traktor.

For the beginner it is an absolute choice, for the professional the most complete backup solution at this range

Great for beginners!

It’s my first DJ controller and I must say it’s great. Quality is great and the handling is also very good.

Great product

Really great quality product, perfect for beginners.

Gut für Einsteiger

Hallo, ich habe mir diesen DJ Controller als Anfänger zugelegt, um ein neues Hobby zu finden. Ich finde diese Investition hat sich sehr gelohnt und bin zufrieden mit diesem Produkt. LG

The absolute value console for its budget

Very good dj console for its price range. Works perfectly with serato dj.

Very intuitive

An all-around great DJ controller for the beginner DJ. Serato software can be quite tedious to work with if you're used to CDJ's, but it's good for practice.

The Best Controller For The Money

Pros: Good Build Quality, Beautiful Controller, Compatibility with 2 softwares, Good response at all the buttons knobs and decks, has more outputs than any other entry level controller.

Cons: There aren't any, only for me it came with a kinda wobbly left play/pause button but it doesn't bother me if i don't think about it.

As expected

Everything was as expected, great small controller, bunch of cool features for learning how to DJ which I do not use but good to have for beginners. Does not really fit in any backpack but it will easily fit in a DJ bag or backpack. Comes with serato DJ lite and djuiced software for free, again, great for beginners but I use it with serato DJ pro which in my opinion works best with this controller. But for a cheaper option djuiced would be perfect since unlocks full features of the controller for free. Also comes with a nice braided cable which is enough to power the controller. Only bad thing to say would be that although some of the buttons and pads are with a backlight and rgb, a lot of the buttons aren't. That can be an inconvenience in dark ambients but a simple small led reading light would do the trick. All in all, would recommend.