Well... I am a beginner. I haven't been mixing for very long but one thing is for sure:

I love it.

Now I fell in love with mixing through vinyl mixing at a friend's place... SO it's no surprise I went out and bought myself 2 Technics SL1200 MK2s. Now here is the dilema:

I love mixing hip-hop AND house/trance/minimal etc. But more and more I am noticing I can't get many tracks I want in vinyl (especially for electronic music). I love scratching but damn it I want to be able to get ALL the tracks I want.

I cannot afford to have both CDJs and Turntables at the moment... So I have decided I should make a decision. So with it I have a few questions for you guys:


1) Is traktor scratch or Serato worth it? Or is there a definite lack in quality.

2) Will it be harder and harder acquiring vinyl records? Or is it still going strong?

3) Should I consider switching over to digital completely and get some CDJs? Perhaps in the long run it will be better for my wallet... I am also afraid scratching won't be as good for my hiphop mixing.

Really I am torn between the two... What should I do!?

(I am really leaning towards DVS and my turntables. What do you guys think?)

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Last edited by staks on Jun-10-2009 at 08:00

go with a DVS, you get the best of both worlds, the feel of vinyl with the ease of collecting music, plus you can operate it with cdjs if you want

for your experience and what you'll be doing with it, i recommend serato, it's pretty easy to get setup and working

vinyl is still out there and not that hard to come by, the only thing you need to worry about is the price involved with collecting records

as for the scratching, it'll be better for you to learn with turntables, and the DVS will be able to keep up, i've seen Craze do a wicked set with serato

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I am pretty close to making the decision to go DVS. But I want more input on it!

What are the cons? Do any fellow members use it? Do any succesful DJs use it (stupid question I know, but my ego wants to know!)?

Thanks for your help

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I would go for a DVS. You get the vinyl feel, but get the ease of digital tracks. There is no noticable latency (few milliseconds). I can just play regular vinyls with my DVS, MixVibes, and I guess traktor, serato and all the others can do the same.

Honestly, I see no reason for not going with a DVS, unless you enjoy collecting music the most, and even then, I would still go for it.

And there are more then enough DJ's who use a DVS, richie hawtin for example.

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Originally posted by staks I am pretty close to making the decision to go DVS. But I want more input on it! What are the cons? Do any fellow members use it? Do any succesful DJs use it (stupid question I know, but my ego wants to know!)? Thanks for your help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmjORkKXl-E

^^he uses Serato and scratches.

Get a dvs. I'd recommend traktor simply because the scratching is *supposedly* more precise, especially when you're moving the vinyl in extremely small increments there's no digital feedback.

if you have a computer that you can use already, a dvs pays for itself by the time you've bought less than 50 new tracks compared to vinyl. and especially if you are into more than one genre, that doesn't take long at all

Also consider Torq.

www.torq-dj.com

I've used it for years now.

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traktor scratch is all you need

Thanks guys. I'm looking at the duo for the price. Pretty cheap!

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i made the switch to serato not too long ago, and honestly i can not believe that i did not do it sooner

i can still buy and use the records that i want to, and the whole process of mixing on it is a lot funner than i had originally anticipated.

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Vinyls are still going...not as strong but I think it will end up being strong again. But the new thing to do "now" is getting in DJ Pools. Hard to get in one but once you do, lot's of new, great, underground tunes on vinyl! A lot of tunes that are not even being shown on discogs, yet! But something tells me that more and more vinyl labels are trying to take it more to the underground....which is a good thing, I feel. Nothing creates the hype in a club or rave than great underground tunes that the people have never heard of.

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