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DJs - what format/setup do you use?

DJs - What do you use?


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I just bought 2 x Numark 1520's, Behringer mixer (cannot remember model), NAD C165 amp and a pair of lovely Celestion speakers for £100 off a mate who has moved to Australia.

Been nearly 5/6 years since I owned any decks and am really looking forward to getting back into it :)
 
I once got literally stuck behind a set of decks while tripping me nut off on acid for about 4 hours... someone had move the speaker so it trapped me in, and I just couldn't figure out how to get out... had a continuous routine going on of mix, stand back flat against the wall with arms out letting out a big sigh of relief, observe the carnage going on in the room for a bit, realise I didn't want to be stuck in the dj booth anymore and wanted someone else to take over... start looking round me for a way out, fail to find a way out, start looking at the record spinning, forget why I was looking at the record spinning, get the feeling I was meant to be doing something about the record spinning things, pull myself together enough to realise I needed to find another one of them records to put on the other spinny thing or something... look in my bag, pull records out randomly, find one with good colours on it, forget what I was doing, stand up, realise I was behind the decks and therefore must be djing... somehow manage to concentrate reeeeeealy hard for long enough to mix... stand back flat against the wall with arms out letting out a big sigh of relief and repeat for 4 hours.

didn't really help my sanity that everyone else had necked acid as well, and were all playing along manicly on bass guitar (2 people at once onthe same guitar), another pair on xylophone, 3 on bongos, someone on spoons, and someone periodicly mcing via some headphones through the bass guitar amp (coz I kept unplugging him from the dj mixer).

later got a text from the lass I'd originally taken the acid with asking where I'd dissapeared to coz apprently I'd just left her in a different room or something... she didn't think much of my excuse of not being able to work out how to escape from the decks:(

:D :D

And I thought trying to mix on ketamine in front of 3 mates was ker-razy :o
 
Sorry but I still think vinyl is caveman.

I was only interested in mixing when it went fully digital as in Traktor and Wav format. Even CD's seem silly.

I was always messing around with waveforms on my synthesizer as a youth, then sampling and drum machines, it's all digital.
 
Best of both worlds - got the Rane SL3 for Serato Scratch Live to go with all my vinyl. CDs have no value as physical objects to me as they're 0s and 1s anyway, so I'm ripping my CDs to wavs/flac then flogging 'em (although I don't have that many). If I like it and it's released on vinyl, I buy it on vinyl otherwise as a wav/flac.
 
Sorry but I still think vinyl is caveman.

That may be, but if I had a personal roadie to carry my gear and enough budget to purchase all my tunes on vinyl then I would still choose to play records over CDs or MP3s. It is inherently more satisfying spinning 12 inch discs and still looks way cooler than any CD or MP3 setup. Not to mention a better sound.

That said, I'm the first to defend the merits of MP3 and almost exclusively play on MP3/CD decks these days - but it's for practical reasons only. Even serato requires a degree of laptop fiddling that takes the cool out of your deejay swagger.
 
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