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[quote quote="180sx":1ty0k3sj]Hmm interesting, I take back my original statement.. sorry bout that.

I reckon it would be easier for clubs to just keep the CDJ’s but also chuck serato in. Because of course some DJ’s won’t have laptops with serato on them.. and even if the club had its own laptop, how are the DJ’s going to put their own songs on the computer?[/quote:1ty0k3sj]

You’re definitely right, bigger clubs would just keep everything. I’m really noticing these changes in venues that have less space. We have A LOT of clubs here called "Ultra Lounges" …. small upscale spots that try to pack as much private table / bottle service into them as possible, thus usually leaving a very tight space for a DJ booth.

I was hasty and misleading in my first post … it’s not like every club, or that I think every club, is abandoning CDJ’s and has that intention, it’s just that I’m noticing that club owners are very aware of Serato, most DJ’s are using it, and club owners are catering to and are showing more preference to those DJ’s as of late.

professional DJ’s do have to have their own laptop. I’ve seen or heard about guys trying to use a USB hard drive and playing off of someone else’s laptop, but that’s a bad look and very unprofessional. A laptop is now someone’s personal crate of records (except it’s really like 10 crates, or 1,000 crates), and professional DJ’s didn’t really share their records with each other back in the day.