Ohokay people don't flame to much but i've got a question. Okay so I want to start learning how to dj etc, but right now I do not have the cash to buy the whole set-up, hopefully after summer I will have it, but before getting it I want to know. Should I pratice my skills in traktor pro without the setup? Or is it pretty useless to do that?

found this on mark sherry's wall lol

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it wasn't to tease you btw, just it explains very well what you were asking

if you wanna learn beatmatching, i suggest you getting 2 turntables and two vinyls of same track and try to make them fit perfectly. You need to develop your ear to music and even better learn to read it, this is what many djs lack of. Playing softwares is not making music imo.

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Thank you for the suggestions. I'll watch the clip once i'm home, in the library right now studying. And thanks fran for the advice i'll do that for sure .

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Originally posted by Fran666 Playing softwares is not making music imo.

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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay Maybe you had bad breath or kiss like a horse eating a pack of sugar cubes that fell on the pavement.

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Originally posted by shapes No really there was blood, coming from my asshole.

Btw that was an EPIC video though it makes me feel like a kid cause I don't know anything oh well . I'll have to learn from scratch

@ Ammar

it really depends on what you want to do with DJing....

if you really want to persue gigs, and make a 'real' hobby out of this, then save up and get the whole shabang

if you really just want to grasp the concept and screw around at a few house parties, and play around here and there get a MIDI controller, you'll save about 3,000-3,500$

i have a MIDI, all i wanted was the above so im happy, i hardly use it, but im happy i didnt invest over 3k on equipment...

most looking to get into djing are faced with this problem about acquiring gear. just do what most do, buy a inexpensive second hand setup (either used entry level turntables/cdjs, a mixer and a cheap sound system), maybe a piece here and a piece there, and just get the basics down.

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if you wanna learn beatmatching, i suggest you getting 2 turntables and two vinyls of same track and try to make them fit perfectly. You need to develop your ear to music and even better learn to read it, this is what many djs lack of. Playing softwares is not making music imo.

because playing with CDJs and Vinyl is?

Hi Ammar,

don't listen to this. It's the perfect kind of bullshit that non-DJs are spreading around.

Playing vinyl didn't develop my ear, experience did. Recording myslef, playing in front of a crowd, my taste in music, as well as my personnality.

Just like people playing vinyl didn't have to learn to mix with a fckn phonograph or tape deck to understand music and it's effects. Just like people that started with CDJs didn't have to learn vinyl.

Technology is evolving very fast and it will only be exponential. And when beatmatching and vinyls will be a thing from the past, DJs will not be better or worse.

If you are a douche, you will play like a douche. Either you get it, or you don't. Gear will not change that.

If DJs today lack understanding of DJing, it's because they became DJs before being good. Not because they didn't learned to beatmatch. And that is the path that most of us will take before being actually good. Cause experience you acquire live is priceless.

It doesn't matter the why and the hows. You start however you want by getting YOURSELF informed. Know your shit inside out. READ infos on the web about your gear. Make your OWN decision about how YOU want to do it. STOP listening to 95% of people that are not DJs. If most people say don't do that, then you be the devil's advocat and see why not.

After that, you will be convince that YOU are right.

That's how you get good.

After doing all kind of different ways to DJ, today I am 100% software and controller. But that was my personal choice, after testing and see the pros and cons of all options. By then, I didn't give a fck about what people may think about it.

You could have the best set-up in the world, DJing is 90% about you, not the gear. It's mostly a learning and emotional process about your passion for it, how you want to do it, and finally, figure out if you have the chops to bring it to a professional level, or if it's just an hobby.

So start slow and have fun with it. Then add quality gear when you feel you reach a point where you think your gear is stopping you from getting better. See why, and how.

Gear will change every year until then.

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martin comes in with an overhand right of rage....i'm going to transfer that text into a berite big ball vid

Like Charlie Sheen would say, it's not rage, it's passion.

The only thing I agree with Charlie Sheen about.