|
CD Djing (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| dj chex |
| quote: | Originally posted by H-Town
Of course.......you could always go digital and use a laptop as well, but good luck getting anywhere in the pro leages....lol |
Hypocrite!!! You started off talking about how cds are ok and whatever format you use is fine... Than the last sentence you posted this... There's not a thing wrong w/ using a laptop during a live gig. I use mine for recording, and also in place of a cd player at parties. Im sorry to say but i love using traktor along w/ my vinyl. :) |
|
|
| jwear2004 |
| Anjunabeats has digital downloads under Anjuna Digital in the download section. All of their songs are cataloged and up for purchase. ;) This includes awesome songs like Tranquility Bass - Razorfish. :eyespop: |
|
|
| Inertia |
i'm more liberal than most, i'll admit, but lets take the time to analyze...
are you gonna just bedroom dj/hobby dj and such (ie, not making money)
if so, even though i'd rather you buy your music, using mp3's is not that bad.
the second you get paid though, then you must buy your music. you're making money off of someone else's work, so they must be compensated. |
|
|
| DJ Cubano |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Ikronix
However. "Downloading tunes." .WAV only. MP3 sounds like ultra- at anything less than 256 kbps on a club system, and everyone knows something's wrong, even if they don't know what. |
mmmm I'm gonna have to say no on this one. I play with FS and the one thing I noticed is that if you play anything less that 192 it sounds like crap. But....a lot mp3s and rips you get sound like total and pure . So it's always best to run your tracks through the Ozone 3 plug-in for Soundforge to make sound really clean. You can't tell the differance.
I will say this though, I do have a few AIFF files that I have from friends and it makes a little bit of a differance as appose to mp3s. But you'd have to have some serious hearing methods if you can tell the differance between a wav and a well mastered mp3.
But you can never ever match the true sound of real vinyl. :tongue2 :wtf: |
|
|
| H-Town |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Cubano
mmmm I'm gonna have to say no on this one. I play with FS and the one thing I noticed is that if you play anything less that 192 it sounds like crap. But....a lot mp3s and rips you get sound like total and pure . So it's always best to run your tracks through the Ozone 3 plug-in for Soundforge to make sound really clean. You can't tell the differance.
I will say this though, I do have a few AIFF files that I have from friends and it makes a little bit of a differance as appose to mp3s. But you'd have to have some serious hearing methods if you can tell the differance between a wav and a well mastered mp3.
But you can never ever match the true sound of real vinyl. :tongue2 :wtf: |
Thats true, but now a days you can take a crappy sounding track and modify it and clear it up so well with the software and technology they have today that you can put it on a cd and have it sound just the same as if the track was on vinyl.
When I spin on cds and if I happen to buy or get a track that to me sounds like crap, Ill use Soundforge, or AcidPro or whatever software I can use to blemish the effects in the track up and raise its tempo and quality and still make it sound 10x's as great as if it was on vinyl.
Its all the time it takes to do that, which makes it frustrating. |
|
|
| Tranc3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by H-Town
Of course.......you could always go digital and use a laptop as well, but good luck getting anywhere in the pro leages....lol |
So I take it you don't consider PvD to be a pro? Markus Schulz? G&D? BT? M.I.K.E.? |
|
|
| razzi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
So I take it you don't consider PvD to be a pro? Markus Schulz? G&D? BT? M.I.K.E.? |
took the words right out of my mouth (in a typing sort of manner of course) |
|
|
| skytribe |
| quote: | Originally posted by jeronemango
...considering the price of records Vs ease of downloading tunes.. |
You're joking, right? You're going to download (steal) other peoples' work, and then make money off it? |
|
|
| nrjizer |
If you want to just take it up as a hobby, CD's and mp3's will likely suffice.
But if you want to get into it seriously, eventually playing gigs, or at least want to be making some quality, fresh mixes, then I'd say go with vinyl. Like others have said, when you start making money off playing its only fair to be playing tunes you paid for.
You can find way way more tunes released on vinyl than you can on CD singles, or even on mp3. Sure, the big tunes will always be there, but if you want to come off as sounding like anything but an anthem canner, go with vinyl.
Vinyl seems to be more satisfying as well. The feel of it, the look of it, the sound of it... while I haven't played on CD decks and can't comment on them, I know many big DJ's have testfied to the above. |
|
|
| DeleriuM2K |
Ive made this suggestion a million times before, but no sites listen.. if only the folks at those huge download sites like itunes would listen, they would make tones of money in a new market
all they gotta do is get liscensing for these tracks that electronic producers are putting out much like all the stores that sell them. they get the uncompressed, full quality .wav for the track and offer it for download for a fee. then the person can download the wav and burn it themselves for *FULL QUALITY* track that will sound perfect in a club environment, plus there is no shipping charge, no wait time, nothing. just download and burn
however I've yet to see this happen...
I will be a huge customer if sites start doing this instead of crap mp3s |
|
|
| H-Town |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
So I take it you don't consider PvD to be a pro? Markus Schulz? G&D? BT? M.I.K.E.? |
Nah, didnt mean it like that. Just saying that its a lot harder to get anywhere using a laptop, rather than using vinyl, thats all.
Never said PVD, Markus, etc etc would not be pro's. Besides that, a lot of whom you mentioned started out on not being on the laptops, in case you didnt know? :happy2: |
|
|
|
|
