At home, I use to play vynil because I haven't cd players.. I don't work and that would be too expensive for me at this moment. That's become a habbit to play with 12' and I couldn't immediatly change my way for CD's. To take a vynil gives a different psychologic feeling and then, it's easier. It's important to work with his fingers more .. to feel and control your mix (change the speed, turn the vynil, scratching,..). It's possible with CD's too but you can't put your hand on the record. Without seeing my record or touching it, I can't...
When I had my first and only experience in a club, I used at least a CD for the first track and the last track in my DJ set, just to say that you spin with CD's too..

Man, There is nothng that beats the feel of vinyl. You are always in control. When you mix with CD's, you dont have the same feeling. Some may disagree with me. My advise is to stick with vinyl. If your problem is related to the fact that you simply cannot find the tunes you want, there is a program out there called Final Scratch, which takes MP3's and puts them to vinyl using this new technology. Stick with vinyl man, you cant go wrong

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Man, There is nothng that beats the feel of vinyl. You are always in control. When you mix with CD's, you dont have the same feeling. Some may disagree with me. My advise is to stick with vinyl. If your problem is related to the fact that you simply cannot find the tunes you want, there is a program out there called Final Scratch, which takes MP3's and puts them to vinyl using this new technology. Stick with vinyl man, you cant go wrong

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VINYL RULES!!

But in my country i prefer to use CD (Rip from Mp3)... because it is hard to get Trance vinyls...

Both Are GREAT actually!

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never really got to DJ with CDs, lack of $$ but if i had the choice between vinyl and CDs i would take vinyl, mostly becuase vinyl is what the DJ started out with and when someone hears "DJ", vinyl is what pops up in their mind at first... at least in my mind....

Everybody spins vinyl when they start out..well most people anyways..like me, I started liking CD's when I bought my first pioneer cdj-100's.Now I burn the vinyl to cd mainly its more convienent for me to carry them to gigs and I dont have to worry much about them wearing out after alot of play. I'm prepared..flame suit on.

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mostly becuase vinyl is what the DJ started out with and when someone hears "DJ", vinyl is what pops up in their mind at first... at least in my mind....

That has to be the lamest excuse for mixing on vinyl I've ever heard. Shit man, you give vinyl lovers a bad name. You can't seriously say you mix on vinyl just because people expect you to because your a DJ.

Sorry, I'm not trying to flame you or nothing and I guess I understand what your trying to say. I'm assuming its more of an 'authentic' DJ experience for you to be mixing on vinyl than CDs which is fair enough. It's all about personal choice after all.

I'm just a bit over the whole 'vinyl will make you look cooler and get you more respect' mentality that a lot of DJs with xx grand invested in records seem to expect everyone else to buy into. I'm happy to agree on it sounds (marginally!!) better and it feels nicer, but ffs give the whole 'image' thing a rest. Not all of us are that insecure.

PLUR etc... =)

Dear God,
Please let this thread and all like it die. Thanks. Oh, btw...don't make it rain in southern California this weekend, I need to get a tan. Thanks again bud!

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Oh holy carp hadn't looked in this thread in like 2 years and I didn't really read through.

To this day this is a debate still going strong no doubt but the truth is Cds are truly something of option.

One reason people say NO to cds is that that implies burning of mp3s, aka low quality.

We are at a stage today with legal digital downloads where a legal 192 kbps is almost always better then 320 kbps rls group mp3.

Now with the option of getting the tracks legally, directly from a reliable source makes mp3s totally the way to go.

Compare a purchased mp3 with a rip of the track and in EVERY case the purchased one sounds much better regardless of the differences in bitrates.


My point:
if you got the money continue the vinyl; if not, go cd/mp3(LEGAL!).

We are also at a stage with the internet that tracks are out there so fast ( legally or not ... but that's a separate debate ) that by the time you actually get the vinyl the track is already old.....

what to do what to do.....

I can never find the songs i want on any of those internet mp3 sites. Not for a while will you be able to buy that rare vinyl you want as an mp3 off the net.

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Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy I can never find the songs i want on any of those internet mp3 sites. Not for a while will you be able to buy that rare vinyl you want as an mp3 off the net.

with time we may start seeing back catalogues being posted in mp3 format .... a few have caught on so far but not enough.

It's all in a state of constant change.


At this stage legal mp3s may really become a true alternative to keeping yourself up to date asap; but labels are still voluntarely delaying mp3 releases from the vinyls as to guarantee the sale of their vinyl.


Tricky stuff

i like both formats, however each time i play music with cds, i seem to be able to program a set a lot better. with vinyl, im all over the place. it might be because my collection is highly disorganized but i find with cds, i can think like tracks ahead and i cant with vinyl. right now im actually thinking of switching from vinyl to cds, however i will have the turntables to record all the tracks i want to cds.

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