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DJ Hessler, post: 9309 wrote: Personly I think beatmatching is a skill that you shall be able to do by hand otherwise you are not a DJ in my eyes.

Here in sweden in general a lot of new so called DJs bought a cheap laptops and a cheap china made controller and plays for nothing or very little money and free beer. That keeps us “real” DJs out of jobbs as we do not work for free.
There are many that can not read the dancefloor and has absolutely no skills, they push autosync button and playes
their downloaded MP3s that sounds like crap on their downloaded copy of Traktor on their PC full of viruses that crashes at least two times per night! And then in best case the owner do not understand why people stops comming to the club.
So I do not play clubs in Guthenburg any more as the pay in general is less than it was in 1980!

Now that is the main thing that I do not like about Digital DJing.

If this is the evolution that everyone speaks so well about I rest my case!

//DJ Hessler

I don’t necessarily believe this. No club owner/promoter worth their salt would put a DJ on in a peak slot without listening to a mix or two, and then putting them in a warmup/cooldown slot to test their skills and what they play. If it really is the case, then those club owners deserve to loose their money.

I guess the easiest genres would be dubstep or house, dubstep is nice and easy, hovering around 140bpm all the way. It’s not a huge difference though, and certain songs are harder to mix anyway.

That said, you should learn to mix all genres, it’s good practice.

jezalenko, post: 9150 wrote: For the price, Twitch is pretty damn good. Despite the fact it cant control sample decks, I have a feeling that may be changed soon with Numark looking like they’re going to release a controler specifically for Itch’s sample decks. (thanks to Gizmo at BPM ;))

Twitch is great value for money, and you cant go wrong with it!

Despite my earlier post, I agree with this, fantastic controller if you’re willing to take the time to learn all it’s functions. If only I could do custom mappings in serato. Slicer would be easily replaced for sample deck cues.

SmiTTTen, post: 8998 wrote:

My favourite so far. I actually laughed out loud. 🙂

MBPRPG, post: 9024 wrote: Most djs I’ve spoken to in the area have recommended going down the cd route as quite a lot of the clubs where I hope to get work use cdjs

You can unplug a CDJ and plug your controller output directly into the mixer input and then go from there. Just remember to put it back the way it was for the next DJ.

The other option is using timecoded CD’s. In my experience it’s less responsive than a DVS sytem though.

simon light, post: 8982 wrote: done it got an s2. really wanted the denon mc6000 but couldnt aford it at £600 so got the s2 at £469

How are you liking it? I’m have a similar trouble, choosing the S2 or the Twitch. The S2’s lack of an input is really turning me off though. That and the small size of the Twitch is really appealing, and my RMX is getting old and heavy now.

Kranic, post: 8950 wrote:

Some of the biggest, most widely known DJs have used their real names and the Dutch DnB/Dubstep act Noisia came up with their name after seeing a video tape upside down with VISION written on it.

My girlfriend walked in just as I had my head upside down reading that. Thanks for making me look like a retard. :p