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<blockquote data-quote="Stu V" data-source="post: 814935" data-attributes="member: 15835"><p><strong>Digital V Analogue</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi all, I'm a newbie here- but have been a DJ for 20 odd years, I still have my vinyl collection from back in the day, but buy all my current stuff digitally - similarly if I'm doing a gig, its up to the promoter / venue what format I use.</p><p></p><p>I still love the crowd vibe when they see the "Black Crack" flying around the DJ booth, but to be honest I no longer feel the need to prove myself and my beat matching skills, and I am a serious fan of track looping and the plethora of awesome effects that come standard in most DJ apps these days.</p><p></p><p>Lets face it there can't be a single DJ out there who hasn't at one time or another listened to that massive bassline kick just after the breakdown, and wished it had carried on for a few more bars before the noncy female vocal kicked back in!! </p><p></p><p>Now I just grab an 8 bar loop on the bassline and either drop a different vocal or a different track, or just let the crowd bounce on for a few more joyous seconds on the eargasm of the moment. With Traktor playing 4 decks, and 4 effects units, I am quite thankful for the auto cue functionality - and I still have to manually intervene about 25% of the time, especially when I'm adding breaks or non standard 4x4. </p><p></p><p>The difference for me is that in the old days I had a fixed 6 minutes of track, and regardless of how quickly I got the next track tee'd up (I always ran three decks and tried to keep 2 tracks ahead of live) once I was ready to start pounding the life out of my trusty EFX500 and Kaos pads - I had maybe 2 mins left, and I only had one shot at the juicy parts of the track.</p><p></p><p>Now I drop a few cue points on the way, use loops, and I can go back and create my own breakdowns and ting..... for as long as I want.</p><p></p><p>The time limitation of the vinyl, or to a lesser extent CD, has been removed, so my job has become more one of being artistic with the music than being a "Disc Jockey", andI never had the skills to be a true turntablist. (And even they scratch on CDJ's these days!!)</p><p></p><p>And anyone who thinks it can't all go horribly wrong just as easily, just because its a digital rig, obviously hasn't heard me playing pissed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I won't be selling my decks or tracks any time soon, and I would imagine that any oldskool mixes I drop here will have at least some vinyl in them - I really can't be bothered to rip 4000+ 12"'s, and a lot of the old B side mixes that got peoples ears waggling back in the day are really tough to track down.</p><p></p><p>That said its all pretty much a moot point now - take a look at the Pioneer CDJ2000 and DJM2000 combination that is now the industry standard rig across Europe and the US, and its basically digital in flightcases!!! all you nee are your cans and a USB stick and off you go!</p><p></p><p>However all this stuff still has to pass through an analogue interface anyway - and until they build a robot dj, us old analogue interfaces will keep mashing things up the way we see fit <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p>Stu V</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stu V, post: 814935, member: 15835"] [b]Digital V Analogue[/b] Hi all, I'm a newbie here- but have been a DJ for 20 odd years, I still have my vinyl collection from back in the day, but buy all my current stuff digitally - similarly if I'm doing a gig, its up to the promoter / venue what format I use. I still love the crowd vibe when they see the "Black Crack" flying around the DJ booth, but to be honest I no longer feel the need to prove myself and my beat matching skills, and I am a serious fan of track looping and the plethora of awesome effects that come standard in most DJ apps these days. Lets face it there can't be a single DJ out there who hasn't at one time or another listened to that massive bassline kick just after the breakdown, and wished it had carried on for a few more bars before the noncy female vocal kicked back in!! Now I just grab an 8 bar loop on the bassline and either drop a different vocal or a different track, or just let the crowd bounce on for a few more joyous seconds on the eargasm of the moment. With Traktor playing 4 decks, and 4 effects units, I am quite thankful for the auto cue functionality - and I still have to manually intervene about 25% of the time, especially when I'm adding breaks or non standard 4x4. The difference for me is that in the old days I had a fixed 6 minutes of track, and regardless of how quickly I got the next track tee'd up (I always ran three decks and tried to keep 2 tracks ahead of live) once I was ready to start pounding the life out of my trusty EFX500 and Kaos pads - I had maybe 2 mins left, and I only had one shot at the juicy parts of the track. Now I drop a few cue points on the way, use loops, and I can go back and create my own breakdowns and ting..... for as long as I want. The time limitation of the vinyl, or to a lesser extent CD, has been removed, so my job has become more one of being artistic with the music than being a "Disc Jockey", andI never had the skills to be a true turntablist. (And even they scratch on CDJ's these days!!) And anyone who thinks it can't all go horribly wrong just as easily, just because its a digital rig, obviously hasn't heard me playing pissed :) I won't be selling my decks or tracks any time soon, and I would imagine that any oldskool mixes I drop here will have at least some vinyl in them - I really can't be bothered to rip 4000+ 12"'s, and a lot of the old B side mixes that got peoples ears waggling back in the day are really tough to track down. That said its all pretty much a moot point now - take a look at the Pioneer CDJ2000 and DJM2000 combination that is now the industry standard rig across Europe and the US, and its basically digital in flightcases!!! all you nee are your cans and a USB stick and off you go! However all this stuff still has to pass through an analogue interface anyway - and until they build a robot dj, us old analogue interfaces will keep mashing things up the way we see fit ;) Stu V [/QUOTE]
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