Getting on it soon. may be cheating to sync. but my ears are fucked from years of beatmatching in loud headphones

can’t see it mate , on a ps3 so some stuff don’t show up

mate gothos are bad boi! bounty riddem is rude

yezz sir!

I bought one of these the other week:

Hercules 4MX DJ Console USB Controller with Soundcard only £399.00 | DJ Equipment from DJ Store

Really good 4-deck console that interfaces perfectly with Traktor and is nicely laid out. I shalln’t mention what shop I got it off in case anyone’s lurking on here, but they only charged me £170 for it over the counter (list price on their website is £400! I didn’t realise until I got home and checked!). I was gonna reluctantly buy one of those plasticky behringer ones cos I didn’t have much money.

Yeah, Traktor’s wicked. Tbh I don’t understand people whining about the auto-beatmatching function taking the skill out of DJing. Beatmatching on decks is a completely mechanical, uncreative process – true, it takes a while to learn – but ultimately it doesn’t add anything to the audience’s enjoyment, which at the end of the day is what DJing is about. Without that pain in the arse to worry about, you can do really creative stuff with cue points and looping, and you have 4 decks ffs, the possibilities are endless!

I can see why a DJ that’s been honing their beatmatching skills for years might be a bit pissed off tho when some spotty kid rocks up with a laptop and can mix better than them, but it’s just sour grapes. Having mixed on vinyl for nearly 10 years I can sympathise.

If Traktor had been around before vinyl and then the next day someone invented this really cumbersome way of mixing that involved wrangling a couple of big plastic discs into sync with each other by painstakingly altering their speed, no-one would bat an eyelid.

@cheeseweasel 422219 wrote:

Sorry if that sounded like I was having a pop at you – I wasn’t. Just a general rant.

it’s a fair rant cos a lot of those vinyl whores do get on my nerves!!

i accept vinyl, cds, software w/e. though you have vinyl people who just do not accept the others and say stuff like ‘IT’S CHEATING’

@Moonie 422339 wrote:

No worries mate I didn’t take it that way, like p0ly what really gets on my tits is people telling me I’m not a “proper DJ” because I don’t use vinyl. Mainly people who don’t use anything at all!

The kind of people who say things like that are usually the biggest amateurs of all. They’re also likely to sit around listening to badly-produced breakcore and “IDM” on busted-up needles whilst redlining the mixer and remarking about how much warmer and more natural their vinyl sounds than “all that digital shite”. Ok, maybe a sweeping generalisation but I’ve met plenty of these sorts (and how the fuck do they think dance music is made anyway? A record doesn’t pop out of Cubase like a big toaster – it’s digital (WAV) in the first place!).