I’ve been spinning for over 20 years… Learnt my craft the traditional way – by having a mentor to show me the ropes and by fucking up 🙂
Now, i could teach my granny to beatmatch (and she’s been dead for 20 years)… 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4…
I used to demo the OG Pioneer decks (CDJ 500s) for Pioneer around 96, 97 for three / four years.
so i’ve seen it all. and can happily say:
I’m all about the sync button – love it.
It allows me to mke a decision in a spilt second and drop the track i want to.
It releases me from the pressure of ‘riding’ the mix (tho’ i still have to on the odd occasion – stuff does drift – you DO need to have the basic skills still – this is vital)
So i ask this question:
Why on earth would you not want to use something that makes your life easy?
Why would anybody question a tool that enhances and improves a DJs performance?
I’m about long, musical blends a la Tony Humphries / Frankie Knuckles. I learnt to match my music by key in 1992 from a guy in LA using a pitch pipe. recently we’ve had mixedinkey and rapid evolution (which i use) that read the file and work out the key for you (using the camelot system)
I now sound like I’ve always wanted to. faultless, seamless, musical blends that make the guys still using vinyl jaws drop.
I can now focus entirely on selection. And, using keys and music move around tempos and styles easily.
The bottom line is this:
Are they dancing?
MP3, WAV, AIFF, vinyl, acetate, DAT[COLOR=#000000], shellac disc, wax cylinder. sync’ed, unsynced.
it really, really doesn’t matter. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Because they don’t care. they just want to release the tension from their 9 to 5…[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]So just do your job and entertain and excite the people with drama, energy and fun.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Peace.
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