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The "I refuse to give up vinyl !!!" thread
the hints...
-A local record shop (www.releaserecords.com) is closing and providing only digital music.
-DJs all over the place are selling thier vinyl records! (just check out the TA Sale/Wanted forum)
-Beatport and iTunes are in the billions of downloads!
-iTunes is starting to carry EDM!
-Beatport is throwing parties!!
-I have seen more DJs use only CDs for sets at the nightclub I work for, than ever before!
My refusal...
-I simply will not give up the originality, the feel, the value, the texture, the work, the style, the sound or the cost of vinyl records.
-I love my turntables and will never sell them.
-I love having 3+ sources to mix with, rather than just 2 CD players.
-I love the sound of vinyl, although barely noticeable, I still love it.. the little crackles and pops will be missed on all the digital releases.
My acceptance...
I have bought a CD-Player (the DN-S1000) and love using it. I'm an avid and active member of beatport, audiojelly, and various mp3/CD DJ shops. I'll be buying another CD-player to be even (have 4 sources) very soon. I can see the vinyl era coming to a halt... or perhaps (I hope) a descendance into the underground music scene... only to resurge or ressurect itself in the far future.
dn-s1000 is not a really good player to start with. why don't you try soething more advanced i.e. dn-s3500, cdj-1000.
dunno, i played very little with vinyl and i know it feels nice...the touch...the platter. but when you take into count all the good things the digital evolution brought, its like "cdj all the way" 
i really wish all the records in the world would be digitalized to Beatport, cause i cant find 50% of my fav 
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| Originally posted by blacknoizybox i really wish all the records in the world would be digitalized to Beatport, cause i cant find 50% of my fav |
Im having a hard time going digital too. i think in a year i will reluctantly buy serato scratch or sumfin
I'd like to welcome trance to the 21st century. Its taken a while but I think the old nag is finally starting to catch up with the rest of world.
Re: The "I refuse to give up vinyl !!!" thread
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| Originally posted by SgtFoo -I love having 3+ sources to mix with, rather than just 2 CD players. |
i feel ya. i just got two cdj-200 to complement my decks and mixing between the two with 0.02% pitch increment is so easy its almost no fun.
i will say digital media has allowed me to expand though. Its a lot more econimic to download genre's i wouldnt consider on vinyl, like electro, breakbeat and such.
vinyl will never die my friends
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| Originally posted by ivanbee vinyl will never die my friends |
I'm mostly CD these days, but I still won't fully abandon vinyl. Until there are more digital shops that offer wav or FLAC for download, I'll still keep my decks.
Actually, on that note--anyone know of any shops that offer wav or FLAC for download? Besides Beatport, of course.
I wont give up on vinyl. Im not opposed to the whole CD think but Im not crossing over. Ive invested too much time and money. Ive sourced most of the tracks Ive wanted on vinyl anyway.
You're not a DJ unless you can rock vinyl, cds, remix and throw down original productions in the studio, and scratch like a madman. Problem solved.
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| Originally posted by Zild You're not a DJ unless you can rock vinyl, cds, remix and throw down original productions in the studio, and scratch like a madman. Problem solved. |
That's the point I'm trying to make. People are getting way too serious about media formats.
Sorry....guess I missed that.
media formats are not important. less than 1% of people in a club will care and the ones that do are usually trainspotters and wannabes
It seems hardcore DJ's dont use as much CD's as house DJ's. All I ever see them use is vinyl. In Holland that is. I find it fits the style better.
i love my vinyl...but sometimes its easier to get tracks on mp3 when dealing with limited vinyl pressings. i have 2 denon dn-s1000s, and granted the pitch jumps...i love them. the whole cd revolution is, i think, a prime example of how electronica dj culture moves with the times. i mean for crying out loud, numark has their ipod mixer...sucks right now, but who knows in about 5-10 years, instead of cds...everybody will use their ipods. *shrugs* imo, vinyl is for the purist (sp?). cds and such, almost no effort is put into spinning. i like not knowing my bpm for a track, and sometimes taking a few times to get down a beatmatch...feels like i accomplished something. eh...thats all my opinion anyways. this of course is open to flammage
Re: The "I refuse to give up vinyl !!!" thread
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| Originally posted by SgtFoo -I love having 3+ sources to mix with, rather than just 2 CD players. |
cdj's are for playing the beats you make when your buzzed and bored in front of your computer. 
turntables are for playing other people's music.
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| Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2 turntables are for playing other people's music. |
I switched to all digital just over a year ago now, and haven't looked back. My decision was essentiall based on personal economics (i.e. Vinyl is expensive ), but I do also feel that using CDJ's has opened up a lot of new opportunities as an artist (i.e. technical issues having to do with loops, reversing records, and sampling) that I wouldn't necessarily have had with vinyl.
But I will admit that without a doubt I still get sentimental when I look at all the vinyl I own, and that CD's definitely don't have the "personality" that vinyl does for me.
Bottom line: I miss spinning vinyl.
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| Originally posted by L.E.N. Unless you can get your work pressed... Im working on that now. |
hope it all works out!
dude... i feel ya. but you can't look at it that way. i learned my stuff on 2 busted out Stanton STR8-80s. and i loved messing around with vinyl.
but there are just no vinyl shops here. one opened last year, and went broke, because there aren't that many real DJs here either.
so, yeah, i loved messing with vinyl. but i can't get any. and even when the shop was open, maybe 2% of what it carried would i consider buying, at best.
it has just gotten VERY much easier with CDs. so people are just going with it.
the sanctuary of vinyl lies in techno as a genre, and Europe as a locality, imo. take most big german DJs, be it minimal techno, electro or schranz, they'd rather go on 3 decks and bring a laptop with ableton + midi controller, and still not spin CDs. i guess it has to do a lot with the availability of music.
here (Dominican Republic) i have to take what i can get, and to do the best i can, this means going all CDs basically. :/
don't get me wrong, i love spinning CDs just as much as vinyl, but i feel sorta nostalgic of those days when i pulled wax under my fingers.
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| Originally posted by spit_heron i feel ya. i just got two cdj-200 to complement my decks and mixing between the two with 0.02% pitch increment is so easy its almost no fun. i will say digital media has allowed me to expand though. Its a lot more econimic to download genre's i wouldnt consider on vinyl, like electro, breakbeat and such. |
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