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DJ'ing without CD's

Hey TA..

What does the community generally think of DJ's that don't use CD's or vinyl, but strictly a well-built controller such as CDJ-2000's with Traktor and an external mixer? I've heard everything from "it takes the effort out" to "it's the way of the future".

What do you think?

cdj2000 and usb pens is the future.

imo using usb instead of cd is legit, and you can't do with a laptop what you can do with cdjs/tts, and i hope never see the case.

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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers usb pens

I definitely read that as 'usb penis'

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Originally posted by Rebel Brown I definitely read that as 'usb penis'

lol same....

2000's with USB sticks or external hard drives seems to work well. Tried it for the first time last week.

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Originally posted by djkatmaus 2000's with USB sticks or external hard drives seems to work well. Tried it for the first time last week.

How'd that go for you in the end?
Pretty simple switching over i'd have imagined?

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Originally posted by djkatmaus 2000's with USB sticks or external hard drives seems to work well. Tried it for the first time last week.

I wonder how long it will be before USB sticks will be obsolete, as all songs will be transmitted to CDJ-like devices via wifi.

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Originally posted by n3lly How'd that go for you in the end? Pretty simple switching over i'd have imagined?

It was pretty easy, my friend let me borrow them for the night so I could figure them out. Big plus. I brought a hard drive along, connected it to the USB port, data linked the two 2000's, set it up in the options and all was good. I did use cd's as well. I have to go back and re label some tunes. Especially the ones from Beatport cause they come up on the display with the cat number's in front.


What I think would be cool and maybe the 2000's have the option already, dunno, would be to link the 2000's via wifi or a high speed internet connection so you can access your music from a server anywhere in the world.

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Originally posted by Rebel Brown I definitely read that as 'usb penis'

+1

Re: DJ'ing without CD's

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Originally posted by mdm8 Hey TA.. What does the community generally think of DJ's that don't use CD's or vinyl, but strictly a well-built controller such as CDJ-2000's with Traktor and an external mixer? I've heard everything from "it takes the effort out" to "it's the way of the future". What do you think?

The main argument is usually against people who don't beatmatch manually (PLEASE DO NOT BRING THIS ARGUMENT UP AGAIN HERE!!).

In my opinion the only downside to not using hard copies of your music is it loses some of the aesthetic qualities of "I've bought this release", but most of that disappeared when people moved from vinyl to CDs burnt from downloads anyway.

Although actually I've found that Traktor's allowed me to re-introduce the artwork, which I find helps me to know my music, so in some ways soft-copies of music are better in that respect as well.


The problem will always be reliability: playing off a cared-for CD is still more reliable than off a laptop, even you lot with your poncy macbooks - I've probably heard at least 3 separate stories of macbooks dying during a gig in the last month alone.

But USB + CDJ2000 should be even more reliable, so Kenny's right: it's the future.

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Originally posted by Apeattack I wonder how long it will be before USB sticks will be obsolete, as all songs will be transmitted to CDJ-like devices via wifi.

Probably quite a long time: you're then either talking about connecting the CDJ to the internet, which introduces all sorts of security implications clubs will want to avoid (the last thing we want is CDJs getting viruses!), or you'd have to take a wifi device with you and have it sitting in your bag... a USB stick will be a lot smaller and more reliable!

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