Are colored Traktor control vinyls equaly easy to "read" and use than black?

Well, DJ Vintage I don’t know when did you see the last time code vinyl but you are wrong…

Control Vinyl consists of the following three zones, each with different playback functions:

1. LEAD-IN ZONE – The first few millimeters of the record

Dropping the needle into the lead Lead-In Zone of the record will skip to the beginning of the track. Use this to skip back to the beginning of a track when playing in the Relative Control Reading Mode.

2. PLAYBACK ZONE – Main Body of the record

This zone is divided into 10 tracks on side A and is used for regular playback. The divisions are visual markers of time, which do not affect the continuous playback of the loaded track.

3. SCROLL ZONE – Last two tracks of the record

Dropping the needle in the Scroll Zone allows you to scroll up and down through your playlist by manually spinning the record forward or backward. To play the selected track simply place the needle back into the Playback Zone.

Best regards,

Suad

Finally I decided to go with blue. Came to the local shop, they had MK2’s black, red and blue. I took black and blue in my hands, compared, black is MAYBE little more readable. Blue looks great, it’s little bit transparent, zones are clearly visible and performance @ 96K on my brand new DJM900NXS + 2×1210 setup is simply astonishing. X1 is great helper in this setup, you actually don’t need to look at your laptop at all (except when selecting a song), you just listen and manipulate turntable like it’s regular vinyl and here and then take a look at X1 as it actually show’s the phase meter on BEAT buttons by gradually lighting up phase direction on LED’s. Brilliant!

Well, there is a peculiar behavior – when manipulating vinyl to get into perfect phase, when you slow it down or speed it up with your fingers just a little, phase meter comes up/down to desired point but than immediately returns little bit back even if perfect tempo sync is achieved. …well, that’s a different topic but puzzles me quite a bit.

Cheers!

S