Hi Terry,
Yes! I’m glad you mentioned that and I’ll do my best to clarify. So, I’ve been DJing for over 25 years; I come from the world of mixing with two turntables and a microphone 🙂 A lot has changed over the years and when it comes to DJing, I had a very difficult time making the transition from turntables and vinyl, to what we use today. I make money as a mobile wedding DJ but my passion and love is all about mixing House music at a bar or club.
Fast forward to 2017, and I’m basically new to controllers. I’ve only been using them for about 4 years. I recently moved from a Traktor S2 to a new Pioneer DDJ-RX so I’ve got a lot to learn to get as good on my new Pioneer as I am on turntables.
Ideally, now that the tech is available to do a lot of things we simply couldn’t do on turntables, I want to learn how to do em. Making a song shorter on turntables was always a manual process, of course, but it wasn’t always perfect either. So, some of my manual cuts would be on time and sometimes, too early or too late. Now that we have the tech available to us, I’d like for all of my cuts to be on time, all the time.
I hope that makes sense and I totally get what you’re saying. Yes, I can definitely go manual, but then, there will be times when my cut to a breakdown in a record (breaking the song down from 7 minutes to like, 2), will be on time, but there will be times when its off. I just think that these days, with all the tech available to us, dance crowds are less forgiving than they used to be because tech has allowed DJ’s to sound almost perfect. Back in the day, on vinyl, dance crowds were a lot more forgiving because the general sound of a good DJ; it was all manual, so it was expected that not everything would come out perfect in that person’s set.
What do you think? Am I wrong or thinking about this waaaay too much?
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