Crispy said:
even if they had been re-released, i'm not going to replace on CD a collection of valuable 7" vinyl i've spent years building up for the express purpose of playing out BECAUSE IT SOUNDS BETTER
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even if they had been re-released, i'm not going to replace on CD a collection of valuable 7" vinyl i've spent years building up for the express purpose of playing out BECAUSE IT SOUNDS BETTER
Dj TAB
Mr Whippy
Crispy said:Lossless format sounds just fine
I know there's romance in vinyl, and there's lots of stuff that's not been released on CD. But for playing lots of tunes one after another without much fancy beatmatching/scratching etc. lossless digital music on a laptop is just so much more convenient.
Dj'ing for dullards eh....?
If thats what you're gonna do just put a f*cking cd on FFS....
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Didn't tell you to - it's just a gentle windup!
But in all seriousness, if I was going to start a career from scratch right this moment, playing pop songs in order, I'd do it off a laptop for convenience.
Tab: I'm talking about the sort of DJing where, due to the style of tracks being played, all transitions are a fade from one track to the other. There's no point in making that any harder than it should be. And if you're the sort who gets a set figured out beforehand and rigidly sticks to it, then why not just post a mix CD to the venue and have a quiet night in? I mean, what's the actual advantage of being there? Reading the crowd and playing what they want is obviously the reason.
Of course, for seamless mixing and mixer fiddlage in dance music, vinyl has great interface advantage - the direct physical connection between hand, record and stylus is much more immediate than any computer could ever be.
But in all seriousness, if I was going to start a career from scratch right this moment, playing pop songs in order, I'd do it off a laptop for convenience.
Tab: I'm talking about the sort of DJing where, due to the style of tracks being played, all transitions are a fade from one track to the other. There's no point in making that any harder than it should be. And if you're the sort who gets a set figured out beforehand and rigidly sticks to it, then why not just post a mix CD to the venue and have a quiet night in? I mean, what's the actual advantage of being there? Reading the crowd and playing what they want is obviously the reason.
Of course, for seamless mixing and mixer fiddlage in dance music, vinyl has great interface advantage - the direct physical connection between hand, record and stylus is much more immediate than any computer could ever be.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Snob - nowt wrong with digital DJing!Dj TAB said:
and Jacqueline Du Pre should have stuck with the harmonica - much easier to carry into concert halls.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Crispy said:
Orang Utan said:
depends on the music, obviously.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
That's what I'm considering. And not for pop.Crispy said:
Crispy said:
Apart from the sound quality, obviously
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Yeah, I agree it ain't really the same with DJing 7" reggae records, though you could digitise them to preserve themDubversion said:
Orang Utan said:
I've got mp3s of a lot of them. not all..
pembrokestephen
New Member
Erm, how about you play them out conventionally, but take a line-in from your sound system amp to your laptop, and record them in a lossless digital format on Crispy's iPod?Dubversion said:even if they had been re-released, i'm not going to replace on CD a collection of valuable 7" vinyl i've spent years building up for the express purpose of playing out BECAUSE IT SOUNDS BETTER
*runs and hides*
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I was responding to your point about the sound quality of a particular format, not to the specific 7" carrying problem.Dubversion said:but if you already have the fucking singles, and they're not available on CD.
jesus wept, it's not a difficult concept to grasp
Not a difficult concept to grasp
Crispy said:
I don't need 'proof', i have my personal experience which will suffice, thanks very much.
Crispy
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Ok, so imagine the following - you plug a nice record player into a nice soundcard and record songs from vinyl into 24-bit, 96kHz lossless digital music. Wouldn't playing that back sound exactly like the original? Once again, I don't suggest that you do this - for a start, it'd take ages to record all your records. But if I was going to get into it, that's what I'd do.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
These are cool, it was Magneze's Christmas present last year:
http://www.djanddiscostuff.com/prodpage.asp?prodid=2107
(the one mentioned by sam and kanda)
http://www.djanddiscostuff.com/prodpage.asp?prodid=2107
(the one mentioned by sam and kanda)
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It would, and you'd have the advantage of being able to use software to get rid of a lot of the hiss/crackle. It's what I'd do to my vinyl collection if I had the time.Crispy said:
Iemanja said:
but no use at all for 7"s
beesonthewhatnow said:
you have NO idea
DeadManWalking
Active Member
Vinyl is the only format you can play reggae on. end of.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I do, coz I know I'm never in a million years going to have the time to do mine, and I reckon you've probably got about 5 times the amount I haveDubversion said:you have NO idea
Crispy
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with the advent of this new-fangled multi-touch interface design on computers these days, I suspect that the best way to play dance music will be through a computer within the next 5 years. You'll download a high quality digital copy of the latest track and it'll sound like it did in the studio - no matter how many times you play it - and it will be utterly impossible to fuckup the beatmatching, as the time signature will be impregnated in the file. Anyone who sticks to records in an age of such technology would be a foolish romanticist.
NOT FOR REGGAE OF COURSE, BEFORE I GET HUNG.
NOT FOR REGGAE OF COURSE, BEFORE I GET HUNG.
Crispy said:
and in so doing, surely the notion of DJ as anything other than someone who just sticks tunes on (like what I do) pretty much becomes redundant?
obanite said:
exactly
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Yep, then finally DJs might stop thinking of themselves as bloody musicians and go back to being people that simply play recordsDubversion said:
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
So on one hand you are arguing for "sound quality", then on the other you want hiss and crackle?Dubversion said:exactly
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