What do you guys think about my gear?

That’s a tough question, at least for me. But I’ll give it go. Remember this just my opinion;

First of all, gear doesn’t make the DJ. You can be a awesome or terrible DJ with turntables, CD players or a controller. So keep that in my mind. passion for the music that’s the most important thing, and you can’t buy that. It also depends of what your goals and ambitions are. With the gear you bought you can make great mixes. And it also got a lot of features that are also on controllers.  You still can do looping and go nuts with FX. So in that way your are not limiting yourself. And I do think it is challenging enough to get the most out of your Denon set up.The only things is; even if you paid half the money for your set up, with that money you could buy a high end controller. And yes, with that you do got more things to work with like performance pads and remix/sample decks. So if you are really starting to think in the direction of controllerism that might be something you want to look at.

I used to DJ with vinyl. Now I have a simple controller ( reloop mixage ) and my mixing is still real “traditional”. but I really like Traktor now. I can easily organise my music. I like, no love the waveforms. I love quantise. And yes, I love the possibilities that sync gives me. So I am glad I went that way. But I just saw that the sc2900 does support Traktor, so maybe you can save yourself some money. But it is really up to you. Good luck with it!

next time I do a little more research before I comment, ha ha. I am sorry. What Vintage said. there basically  controllers those Denons. And Dave Clark helped design them. So, yeah 😀

LOL, there is fail-over if your laptop dies , but not the way you describe. You will have to start a track from CD or load from USB to continue playing. Traktor does not load the track into the SC2900.

You might want to look at Cross (DJ) as well. I personally find it way easier to setup, especially with multiple controllers than Traktor.

If you ever feel the need to go use sample decks and such, you can always add a performance pad box.

I really fail to see what more a controller can offer  than this setup, apart from the mentioned pads and compact size.

The amount of people on here that DJ on controllers that express a desire to learn CDJ style mixing too is large, and you have just bought the best of both worlds.

Greetinx.

I have been looking into the Nexus 2000 and the  Denon SC-2900s.  I have an s4 but want to learn cdjs as well.  I will say the Denon have a lot of features.  I have never met anyone with them though.  I can get 2 Denon SC-2900s for $1600.  That would be equal to one Nexus 2000.  There are some things like ReKord buddy.  Since I use traktor I can go to Recordbox easily if I go with the Nexus. Using engine I would half to do twice the work.  Though if I went Will’s route and got the mixer as well It would still be $600 cheaper.

Vintage you said something interesting. There are a lot of people on this forum who like to DJ cdj style. Including myself. There are also quite a lot of people asking questions about cdj’s. Maybe it is a good idea do a article about this. Because I really didn’t know that you could use those Denons sc 2900with Traktor. And that they can be used as a controller. I also did not know about Engine. From what I understand it just like rekordbox. I think just like myself a lot of people are just to focused on Pioneer gear alone. I catch myself on thinking that anything other then Pioneer is just a knock off. Or that is lesser quality. But but when you really looked into it you will find out that that is just not true.

So maybe that way members can be informed about the option of using media players both for cdj style mixing and as controller. And that not only Pioneer cdj’s have HID to support traktor or other DJ software. It is just an idea