4 DECKS AND HIP-HOP

I pulled the trigger with a 4 deck mix. it worked out not too bad depending on what your mixing. I used 1 deck for instrumental, 2nd for acapella, 3rd for fx, and 4th to scratch on. I’m using VDJ 7 Pro also with the hercules 4mx and if my laptop didnt crash I would have killed it

not sure if vdj has sample decks, but if it does you could use decks c and d for loading up samples/drumming/etc

maybe even find some cool break beats, put em in decks c and d, and throw em in to spice up your set.

This is coming from a Traktor Perspective
4 Deck mixing in any scenario is really risky IMO. The more decks the bigger chance things go wrong (songs trainwrecking, over lapping of same color sounds etc.). I spin 100% EDM from Dubstep, house, electro, prog, breaks. I do create a lot of mashups using all 4 decks BUT i make my mashups pre-gig record them. then just stick with the 2 deck format. I do however use my sample decks for adding in extra percussions, little vocals riffs basslines, or even 1 shots for transitions.

When it comes to gig time…its all about K.I.S.S.

From what i know of VDJ the Samples work a lot like effects where you trigger them as oppose to full fledge sample decks. I remember reading somewhere that VDJ will be introducing actual sample decks in their latest version.

At the end of the day it doesnt matter if you make mashups on the fly or prerecord your own mashups…the crowd doesnt care what you are doing as long as it sounds good.