ADHDJ

I’m currently on the fence about this myself.

Right now I use Traktor on an old macbook with a S4 controller. My laptop has been acting funny lately and making me really nervous that it’s going to crap the bed during a gig (I’m going to have a lot of gigs in the next few months at lounges/bars in NYC).

So before I go and drop $2K on a new macbook pro that I’ll use for nothing but djing, I thought I would consider CDJs. I already have an ok mixer that I use for my 1200s (don’t want to go the vinyl timecode route because they are too heavy to be dragging to gigs).

My other issue with my current setup is the tiny jog wheels and pitch fader on the S4. I think I’d be much better off with the large jog wheels and long throw pitch fader on CDJs. I would think that if you are serious about djing then this would be a huge plus right?

Another question I have is, how do those of you using CDJs feel about losing the key lock feature that Traktor has?

I’d have to say 90% of my crate digging happens at Beatport.

1) – I try to listen to every “electro house” song released on Beatport as they are released.
2) – I’ll check the top 100 for my secondary genres (this is my least favorite way to find a track).
3) – I’ll grind though a bunch of the Beatport DJ charts.
4) – I’ll watch a youtube video of a track, then watch another video that shows up on the sidebar, rinse repeat.

Any track I get “that feeling” from goes into my shoping cart, then once in a while I’ll use the beatport pro app to go over each song in my cart, listen to each a few times and decide if it’s a yes, no, or maybe.

Nothing is more satisfying than finding a real banger track that isn’t on the top 100 charts that blows people away.

I would say I only purchase maybe 1 out of 100-200 tracks I listen to, and really believe that good djing starts with good track selection.

I have a macbook for dj’ing and a mac mini for production. I wanted to an easy solution I could setup and not have to think about ever, so I went with an Apple Time Capsule.

It automatically does incremental backups on each of my macs hourly over my wifi network, honestly can’t think of a better simpler solution if you have more than one puter to backup.

I don’t know because I haven’t recorded with VDJ, but I can tell you that I’m unhappy with Traktor’s recording quality.

The big feature here is publishing DJ charts for Beatport.

I’m extremely proud of my music collection, and it’s only about 500 tracks. I plan on keeping it that size and rotating songs out of it.

I wasn’t 100% clear on what happened but I think someone else changed out the next song he was gonna play with it’s raining men? If so that is absolutely hilarious!!!