Deck orientation

[siman91]

Looking through the 'Show us you set up' thread and also having a re-think about my set up, how and why are your decks like they are?

Do you prefer this.....

Or this....

Seriously, why turn the deck 90 degress other that for tuntablism? The pitch is an arse to get to and its just wrong? I can see it saves space but why else for our style of music?

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[MANC]

I cant scratch. Simple as

 

[Jiglo]

The 'house' way feels alien to me now. I keep thinking i'm gonna catch the tonearm when i'm messing about with a record:|

 

[ilovepiano]

I have mine the proper way for the same reason I don't have my telly stood on its end, and the same reason I don't have my car seat turned facing the passenger window.

 

[Jiglo]

Yeah, but that's not a fair or even a well thought out analogy

If you had the skills to use the turntables as instruments (which I admit I don't) then that's the only way to have them set up and there's no real hardship involved either in having them that way, it just keeps things you can catch easily out of the way. In fact then it's probably the most logical way

 

[Presuming Ed]

If you don't scratch or maybe more specifically beat juggle, then there's no real point in turning them on their side, but if you do it's essential or you'd have the tone arm off every five mins. I used to have them turned sideways, but now have them normal way round as I only really use my decks for listening to records for grading. Ed

 

[mstoddy]

I have mine the 'proper' way but I can't scratch and I think that's why others turn their decks 'that' way.

 

[Benny-Digital]

Battle style all the way..

 

[alexbennett]

Battle style all the way..

i fukkin hate em that way.. eeek

each to their own plus i cant scratch for shit....:$

 

[Benny-Digital]

i fukkin hate em that way.. eeek

each to their own plus i cant scratch for shit....:$

Even more of a necessity when you're learning and like a cabbage!

 

[DJ danny dee]

Should of set this thread as a poll,would of been interesting to see the results

Battle style

 

[mstoddy]

Even more of a necessity when you're learning and like a cabbage!

I've been trying for years and years (since I started in 1991) to scratch, but it just aint happening, you either 'have' it or you don't and I don't, its all about using both hands and its very hard to teach one hand to do one thing with the cross-fader whilst the other scratches. I can do both independantly but try to do both together and I'm at sixes and sevens. I can mix like a bastard (I've had enough practice), I can even leave the room, go for a piss and come back and the mix will still be "in", but scratch, can't do it, if my life depended on it. Take my hat off to all you scratchers out there as it is a talent, but you can DJ without scratching, believe me I have done for 20 years.

 

[alexbennett]

I've been trying for years and years (since I started in 1991) to scratch, but it just aint happening, you either 'have' it or you don't and I don't, its all about using both hands and its very hard to teach one hand to do one thing with the cross-fader whilst the other scratches. I can do both independantly but try to do both together and I'm at sixes and sevens. I can mix like a bastard (I've had enough practice), I can even leave the room, go for a piss and come back and the mix will still be "in", but scratch, can't do it, if my life depended on it. Take my hat off to all you scratchers out there as it is a talent, but you can DJ without scratching, believe me I have done for 20 years.

Ditto :$ :|

 

[Bootleg]

The intended lay out, I don't scratch. I just listen to pure choons and try my best to mix lol,

 

[pleg]

decks not at a silly angle and the mixer between the flight cases, even when juggling still prefer it this way, dare say its just the way your used to. i find its more the height there set out that matters more to me than the way there placed. binder tabs on the record center helps keep the vinyl on the spindle when scratching better than layout. but again its what your comfy with.

 

[Benny-Digital]

you can DJ without scratching, believe me I have done for 20 years.

Yeah I've been at it for over 20 years now and for me mixing just gets a tad boring, I've always had tendencies to go one further and try something new (whether it works or not is a different matter) Playing a lot of hip hop and old funk which is near on impossible to mix as most of it was belted out in a studio in 1970 odd, You need to have that skill to cut a choon in. Should your quote have the words house music in it somewhere or do you play allsorts?

 

[nupski]

i have mine the normal way, tbh ur gonna spend more time tweaking the pitch than u are scratching, even if u can do it (which i can't) lol, so why put the control further away?

 

[Shooms]

tbh ur gonna spend more time tweaking the pitch than u are scratching so why put the control further away?

^^^

 

[Benny-Digital]

i have mine the normal way, tbh ur gonna spend more time tweaking the pitch than u are scratching, even if u can do it (which i can't) lol, so why put the control further away?

Playing house yeah.

 

[Robbie Chopper]

always had mine laid out the normal way, can do a very basic bit of scratching but only using the "upfader" and not the x-fader :$

mixing.... not bad but could be a lot better, have had a couple of years off from the radio, might go back to basics and try and get "seamless" before i return to the OSA airwaves.

not sure if i'll ever get the hang of proper scratching with the x-fader :S
presuming ed gave me some tips one day, went home tried it and got so infuriated i nearly threw the decks out of the window ! lmao