Im starting out on cdj's and a 300 mixer. i love them but i have that feeling that one day i will be playing vinyl. Just not yet

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Originally posted by chris_norris Just thought i'd add my opinion. I have cd decks. I've never touched a pair of TT's, so I don't know anything about them, however i do have a friend who uses TT's and he told me he thought it was easier starting out on CD decks than it was on TT's. But I wouldn't know. I found it hard at first on my CD's, for the first 6 months or so, but I reckon I'm mastering it now, and my mixing is ok. I don't think ti requires any less skill or anything like that, and it's not easy IMO. About the mp3 thing. At the moment, I don't have much money, so I can't afford to buy many cd singles. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying i don't buy any music, I do. But at the moment, the only people I spin to are myself, and occasionally my friends, I've done a couple of house parties. I've never been payed for anything, and don't intend to in the near future. But if I ever was in a situation were I was recieving money for DJing, I'd pay for my music. At the moment I don't see any point, especially as i don't have the money too, so the majority of my collection is on mp3. For the whole are you a real DJ thing, eventually, I'd like to think that i will progress to vinyl decks. Cd decks were an option, because I didn't think i was ready for vinyl, and I didn't want to be stuck with a limited collection of music while i was starting out. If your looking to make money, I'd suggest viyl decks. Like someone said, if you can get over one person calling you not a real Dj, you'll be fine, but I have trouble with that, it's quite a knock back. Also about CD promo services, I don't think there very good, i'm constantly looking for new releases on cd and stuff but don't be able to find much, there are some, but the music tends to be varied. If you had ripping equipment, whereby you could rip the vinyl you had bought to cd (althought this'd b even more costly!) then you could have your new releases on cd a.s.a.p My conclusion is - my experience with CD decks has been fine. But if you're looking to make money relatively quickly go for vinyl.

GREAT POST

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i am a more visual learner than anything so it helped with a computer program like atomix to really see whats going on with the music as far as waves go...

i am new to mixing relatively, and i have alot of friends who are interested...im just the first one who sucked it up and bought a pair of 1200s... but teaching them was hard becuase some people simply dongt get how two songs behave at different speeds.

it was easier for me to pick it up becuase i have a working image of what is going on. dont rely on looking at waves to mix though though, keep in mind that you are eventually gonna have to do this from hearing.

since you have decided to wait and buy the best stuff when you can afford it, like i did, then i suggest playing with atomix...its a nice investment and i learned alot from it.

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Originally posted by DjJade i am a more visual learner than anything so it helped with a computer program like atomix to really see whats going on with the music as far as waves go... i am new to mixing relatively, and i have alot of friends who are interested...im just the first one who sucked it up and bought a pair of 1200s... but teaching them was hard becuase some people simply dongt get how two songs behave at different speeds. it was easier for me to pick it up becuase i have a working image of what is going on. dont rely on looking at waves to mix though though, keep in mind that you are eventually gonna have to do this from hearing. since you have decided to wait and buy the best stuff when you can afford it, like i did, then i suggest playing with atomix...its a nice investment and i learned alot from it.

I've heared of that but never tried tho, I will...
Do you still need 2 soundcards to mix 2 tunes together??? I mean to cue one and have the other one playing???

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no with one soundcard you can either have headphone going to left channel and just play music from the righ, or with a 4 speaker setting on the soundcard [i use this] you can have headphone channel coming out of the rear and the monitor coming out of the front channel.

ofcorse you have to buy the actual program to get the headphone function [the demo doesnt have it].... your ip or something is registered when you open the real program so if you try to crack it, and if they find out they will ban your ip or soemthing like that, im not sure...it was a worthy investment for me though, even while i only used it for a few months until i decided to get turntables : )