That's the point I'm trying to make. People are getting way too serious about media formats.

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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

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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

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Originally posted by SgtFoo -I love having 3+ sources to mix with, rather than just 2 CD players.

Maybe I'm mis-reading this, but you do know that you can spin with more than two CD players, right? If you think that CD DJs only spin with two decks then you're very misinformed.

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.

Unless you can get your work pressed...

Im working on that now.

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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.

werd 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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