For dj’s who play out, not just at home

a common misconception that most people have is that once you go to serato or final scratch you stop collecting vinyl and throw away your turntables. not true in my case. I love to dig for rare hard to find music! and I would rather have the original record than a file any day. as a vinyl dj your record collection is like a trophy case or gives you bragging rights to tell someone you have a record that they dont!!!! now I can keep that record in the same shape as the day i bought it. and not have to worry about it getting lost in baggage while traveling. I will buy and collect vinyl til I die !!! but when I play out I use serato.

Rane Scratch Live For Life, vinyls for backup

Serato (and other cumputer-based stuff) sucks – it’s always a possibility that system hang up. I saw it few times…
But a lot of people use it…and they do well…

presently i use torq with cdx’s.

[quote quote="monkafunkb":1r273m3v]to people that say you arent a real dj if you use serato …………

most djs (that I know at least) that use serato have switched to it AFTER having used vinyl for years. I have been spinning for almost 11 years, 10 of those were done with vinyl. I now use serato . so for someone to say that someone who uses it isnt a REAL dj I think is a bit ridiculous! think back….. remember when everyone said you arent a real dj if you use cds??????? which people still say, but thats beside the point. bottom line every one that I know (including myself) who has serato or even final scratch can rock vinyl any day and with ease. so……… REAL dj I think would be a relative term to the dj himself and not what they use.[/quote:1r273m3v]

Agree with you completely mate! Mixing via Serato is exactly the same as vinyl (bar the cue & loop functions which are well fun to use!).

been deejayin 15 years with all vinyl. last year i switched to serato, now i only use vinyl 10% if that….

Vinyl & Cd ….i don’t like the idea to kill the good sound of vinyls only for playin mp3 that is known to have not so good quality as a vinyl audio…

to play out, always vinyl and cd’s. i don’t trust computers

VINYL ALL THE WAY!!!

Anything else is non-sense.But then again I don’t play the "hits" you hear on the radio. I spin Classic Hip Hop,80’s,Electro,Freestyle,Acapellas & breaks all mixed into something funky. You really get to display your skills when you’re spinnin songs people already know. It educates the audience more into what REAL Djing is. Digital djing is too artifical for me.

"Radio follows DJ’s DJ’s DON’T follow radio."

jay_h wrote:

…have much better sound quality…

unless the tracks are "compessed" to around 1441kbps the sound quality isn’t better and if you looked at the waveform of a track from a vinyl record and compared it to the same track but from a CD, the amount of (audio) compression there is on the CD version is unreal.

even at 320kbps the sound quality of a "compressed" track doesn’t compare to its vinyl counterpart.

When It Comes To Sound Quality Vinyl All The Way.

Vinyl all the way. I do have a DVS system which I occasionally use for playing certain tracks during studio mixes (however I’m mainly just using it as an exernal soundcardfor my laptop lol)

When I play out though, I never use anything but vinyl.

have to keep it old school i use vinyl

My rig is a huge monster of digital and analog epicness aquired over the years…

2 twelve hunnits
1 macbook pro running torq and ableton live
1 torq xponent (a midi controller mapped exclusivly for torq)
Numark 6 channel mixer

i run the audio out from my laptop, turntables, and the xponent to my mixer, and then to the PA i use. ENDLESS remix opportunities, and i can play digital and vinyl on the same setup

I hate dj’s that use laptops. vinyl or cds. laptop mixing is toooooo easy. i once went in a club and saw a dj using a laptop and nearly walked out. and the mixing was rubbish. oww and i do dj in clubs and bars.