here is my view on editing.. as stated before.

i use it to clean up a couple of mixes i dont like or rearrange a few tracks. i dont have the time to sit in front of the decks and re-mix the whole cd to perfection. playing live isnt a problem, and the occasional beat slippage is normal (not talking trainwreck or anything near that.. just the things that are more pronounced in a cd than in a live set).

for instance, in my latest cd, there was a mix in the middle, where i started the record 32 beats too early. in a live set, you really wouldnt notice cuz the beats were on.. but in the cd, i didnt like it, so i re-did it on the fly. and at the end of my cd, i didnt like the way i fit the last 3 tracks, so i went back and re-mixed the last 4 tracks and edited those in.

for me and my friends, our mix cd's really arent shocaseing our mixing skills, they are really a way of providing our music to our friends, the music we love and our friends love, but they dont have access to.

i know everybody doesnt agree w/ the process of editing and that is fine. i also didnt really start doing this until i had a firm grasp of my mixing skills. not everybody is perfect everytime, and the little blips i encounter when making cd's are pretty much transparent when i spin out. the other thing you have to remember is you dont have that crowd, that interaction, that vibe when recording and hence it makes it a bit difficult to capture the true essence of a live set w/ your interaction with you and the wall in front of you