How important is a mixer when hooked up to an MPC??

I was thinking about getting a new one but was wondering how much or if it would effect the quality of the samples? If so, what's a good mixer to get? (I have a gemini 676 right now)

Mackie DFX12 low noise , excellent sound quality
list $479.00 recently seen price drop to $239

just don't buy a fking behringer..... cheap cheap
i had mad problems with the behringer producing
low volume type noise in recordings

how do you hook up the table to a mixer then to the MPC so it can sample vinyl?

just run your table into the mixer and from the mixers outputs into the mpc

I also use the DFX 12. That mixer has AWESOME sound. not only do you have your basic EQ function for each track, but there is also a master EQ to top off all the sound. This is the third mixer I have used in my studio, and by far the best.

I think it is really important to use a mixer to fine tune those sounds.

I use it alot to beef up those beats. I will run my beat through the mixer, tweak the knobs and the effects while recording to a cd, and then I rip it back off the disc and resample into the mpc. Then I drop the sample bit rate, run it back to the mixer and once again, adjust those levels.