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Anyone else DJ like they are using Vinyl (old style!)

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  • July 8, 2014 at 3:28 pm #2041756
    Silvercue Master
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    Seem to have lost my profile pic and sig and can’t find where to add them back now…..not been here for a while.

    July 9, 2014 at 12:05 am #2042059
    Stazbumpa
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    Not alone, not living in the dark ages. I was using my Technics to control Traktor until I got my incredibly-vinyl-like Denons to replace them in my gigging setup. I still cue and mix the music like I did with vinyl and I pay little attention to the laptop as a rule, although I must admit I like using loop buttons as I find I can almost do bootlegs on the fly when I get it right.

    Don’t immediately ignore new techniques, I discovered loops when I got the right kit to do it with for example, but if it works for you then keep doing it, old school style still rocks. In fact my last gig was a completely vinyl set just because I could 🙂

    July 9, 2014 at 9:41 am #2042217
    Terry_42
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    I began like this on controllers, but I have moved on.
    I am still not using sync (simply because I forget about it) and many times I re-shuffle my CUE points on the fly. But I now use hotcues, however I still do so while playing jump to hotcue stop the platter by touch and the re-shuffle like on a turntable.
    I have now added subtle F/X to my mixes, mostly echos and delays to pimp some songs a bit.
    I have come to like the slicer and loop modes that I use more extensively.

    July 9, 2014 at 10:39 am #2042239
    Silvercue Master
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    Not alone then 🙂

    I do use some effects, but very few as many sound a bit naff I think. I love the braker (I am using Mixtrack Pro 2 btw and have extra effects packs…just don’t like many of them)…but I never like to over do it. I also find the LPF and HPF are really poor on this system…..I even found the quality of these effects on my Kaoss Pad is much better.

    I have experimented slightly with loops, but really just to sample a vocal from the incoming track at matched BPM and then loop the vocal over the live track, so really only more as a sample live.

    I want to use the samples more actually – that is where I think I can get the best results, so made a couple in Audacity, but I don’t think there is a way to beat match them very well unless I record them at a known BPM.

    July 10, 2014 at 10:15 am #2042508
    Lamid45G
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    Hitting just play, instead of “rocking” the jogwheel is suits me more way better lol

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