Benoît Pueyo wrote:
First of all im a vinyl lover and Ill never give up that... Maybe thats
silly but ive become too much used to browse easily with pictures on the
records and put them fast on the decks. My basic brain also considers i
will not pay for something i can get for free, then vinyl is also a way
to make myself contribute to the underground music business necesary to
make some creators work.
But mp3 has also become unavoidable, to be able to play 'only digital'
music coming from free netlabels (including my tracks).
So I need a solution both efficient for my home and also for gigs, and
that allow me to play both vinyl and mp3 :
1) Pacemaker. To me the best solution (why ? tactile pitch bend and
small size), specially knowing it will be available at reasonable cost
in a few months. But well its not really handy specially in the kindof
gig where the club owner gives you a new drink at each record you play.
Actually my dream consists of an ipod touch / iphone app for djing. Some
already exist but with way too much latency. Any more info ?
2) Laptop. Kindof affordable nowadays but less 'tactile' feeling unless
you add a midi controller or some serato thing. What i dont like : all
the plunging things to do to make everything works. You cannot arrive
somewhere and start playing a few minutes after. I dont even talk about
browsing tracks, but its also the problem with the pacemaker.
3) CD player. Now each club has so i can buy for home purpose only and
bring only records to the gigs. Problem : i do not trust on grabbed cds,
they do not last (ive lost tons of my sets i archived only on cd 5 years
ago), which means after some years of use, you need to 'check' if your
classics still work.
Imagining i keep the cd solution (becasue you only bring records with
you and browsing can be done fastly), the ideal CD for my home sounds to
be the Technics, coz of the 'vinyl' touch i want. But ive just heard
very bad things about the master tempo (specially the dj scandal
youtube) but it seems to have been fixed. Am i correct ? And why with
that corrected, most the people still prefer the Pioneer ?
Your opinion interests me, knowing Ill still palay most of the music
through vinyl and a regular mixer, which means I dont care about all the
effects and mixing possibilties (including EQ) on the above mentionned
devices.
Cheers.
Benoit:
Pacemaker and ipod DJing will soon show their limitations to you; they're
quite toylike gadgets and not at all robust; if you're serious about
DJing, you'll want
to (at least in the future at some point) buy more serious equipment
than either
of those 2 options.
I'll put in a vote for Traktor Scratch Pro; you can use digital files of
all types,
plus keep playing your vinyl and CDs without problems. If you already have
a laptop, you're already set. If not, you can use Traktor Scratch Pro at
home
with your desktop until you buy a laptop.
Hope this helps.
Andrew
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