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| quote: | Originally posted by mfitterer1
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I can't be bothered to go through that post argue, I stand by what i worte and backed it up with concise observations from years of clubbing (since the mid 90's in london) as well as being a professional engineer at a major studio, and being a service engineer in about 3 dozen brands including pioneer, technics, vestax, sony, allen and heath, numark, etc. so trust me when i say i'm someone that embraces new technology.
I Feel, by what you posted, like you come off like a traktor fanboy that's had his baby insulted. I'm not trying to bait or insult you - I just think you completely missed the point by defending the medium, which i truly couldn't give a shit about. My whole point is that I ONLY care about the music which in the case of DJing, relaies so heavily on the performance and interaction.
My technical background is also why I have some perspective and well placed scepticism about new technology "improving" things. I've seen so many things touted as the new sliced bread only for it to be outdated and the flaws realized once the hype dies down. I'm "prepared for new mediums" as long the benefits, all things considered make a positive difference, and I have to say, in my experience, I don't see laptops making DJ performances better, just more convenient for DJ's and in the vast majority of cases, another tool to make life easier for a lazy DJ.
As for the not owning 1000's or 2000's, you're just showing lack of foresight and possibly some ignorance. I didn't buy them because I get to play on them at clubs and the 800's are so close in feel couldn't justify the extra $500 per deck. Working at a studio that has literally unlimited funds in terms of buying kit (and I'm talking equipment s most people will never ever get to even see in real life), also made me a bit of a miser when it come to buying kit for home use.
You'll find many people on here (Dj Woody as an example) who probably plays every week out on 1000's but owns 800s.
Anyway, all this aside, you're completely entitled to beleive that laptop sets are great.
I don't, and until you can come up with some proof that they are, to oppose my heavily researched observations that are not, I'll keep my opinion that staring at a screen detracts from the performance aspect of Djing and distracts the DJ from the crowd, meaning not as good music.
I couldn;t care if richie hawtin can play four choons at once while layer five FX over it or that Zabeila can use two EFX1000;s at once.
It still sounds like my mobile phone overdosing of digital meth.
As for cox, playing driving techno? Nver heard him do that. Every time I've heard him playing here in LA, he plays bouncy prog and house, last time I saw him pay ibiza, he played the warm up as prog then tech house for the later set.
in Toronto he played house both times I saw him and in London he mainly played Tech house or prog.
Finally, until laptop DJ's stop having to take CDs as a backup (as everyone in this thread has concurred with), you're not going to have an easy time convincing anyone, especially me, that laptop sets are more stable the CDJ sets.
Don't get me wrong, I think it has it's place, but it's a long way off (many years) replacing CDJ's as the reliabale and common standard.
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