konceptG said:
Best believe, I've carried many a crate of records in my time. I've been a rave DJ (detroit techno, electro, and ghettotech) for the last 8 years or so lugging around two overloaded travel cases, record bag and a crate or two during that time (I won't go into what I carried around back when I first started in '91).
Even still, I don't like the thought of using mp3's for a show. It's lazy. There's nothing to it, it's too easy to be a dj now because of crap like this. What ever happened to listening to vinyl at the shop for hours on end looking for that special track you could drop into a mix and have everyone wondering what it is? What happened to learning how to scratch and discovering the little nuances that make your tricks sound better? Shit, these clowns nowadays don't even have to learn how to beatmatch anymore, the fuckin mixers have bpm counters on 'em to make it easy. There's a craft, an art if you will, to being a good DJ. Shit like this makes it so any fool in a sweatsuit and j's can call themselves a DJ.
I feel what u saying
I think the problem comes in when someone has never messed with vinyl and jump straight into serato or a mp3 player and they think they are Mr. Super dj
just for the info you know u can still search for ur obscure vinyl and record it into serato and play back that way also, so ur not just limited to online download sites
the thing I like about serato is it has good response as well and allows u to cut records up very similar to regular vinyl, or u can just use regular vinyl and cut that up with a mp3 playing from the computer or the other turntable
Its all a matter of preference anyhow
I just think its way more convenient when doing a lot of shows, I still carry all my vinyl to shows but bets believe when I can afford to get the laptop and serato setup, all I will have to carry is my laptop, 1200s,mixer, and a few records as opposed to all those crates that I have been carrying for years
dont get me wrong the digging aspect never stops cuz I'm always looking for a hot sample
...many people also that argue that old school tapes have a better sound than cds but we still use them, same goes for protools and other software daws
its technology either u can grow with it or ignore it