I came across this on another board. I thought it was really good read for all up and coming Dj's.

http://www.skratchworx.com/news3/comments.php?id=680


Enjoy!
- Woody

If you're cut mixing between funk tracks, then yeah, pretty much any setup will work.


You cant mix a guestmix on transitions on that. You can try. It might sound okay. It wont sound good.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Clovis If you're cut mixing between funk tracks, then yeah, pretty much any setup will work. You cant mix a guestmix on transitions on that. You can try. It might sound okay. It wont sound good.

That DJ is skillful no doubt, but he is also taking records directly off the top of a stack that he no doubt pre-selected and pre-arranged. He might be perfectly able to select records on the fly during a live set-- I have no idea, I've never heard anything else from this guy. But by using this particular video as an example, the author is contradicting himself.

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Good article - great clubs don't make a great golfer. Talent, practice, dedication, and passion do - same with music. I agree with what he's saying here... great people have done great work with sub-par equipment on pure talent alone.

Equipment though, certainly helps. Hard to cut a great track with poor software, poor sound banks, and a poor controller.

Great talent + great equipment = my goal.

well said, but im still not gona buy belt driven turntables as my first set up.

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Being that its skratchworx they are a little less worried about 20 minute epic transitions from one minimal track to another.

With that in mind, his point is valid: Get you're hands on what you can.

I think you could add to that: If you're close to being able to buy something decent wait just a bit longer.

DJing, as it has been said at least a billion times on this board as well as others, is track selection in conjunction with crowd reading. If the people are happy with you whistling dixy into the mic all night over an album from the Police, then thats what you should do.

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Originally posted by nousplacidus If you're close to being able to buy something decent wait just a bit longer.

and then when you do reach that point...you choose to wait a "little" longer to get something better ... and all of sudden technics become realistic... and while you're waiting "a little" more for the techs another mixer catches your eye: it has X times the midi and X times the effects ... you know how these things happen.


A year later; you still don't know which way a vynil turns. You're waiting.

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^True, but for an example of buying Gemini or American Audio cd decks vs waiting to save up for some cdj 200s, or even dns 1000s, it's worth it to wait.

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