Hee Won Jung

To be completely Honest, SQ isnt the highest thing you should be looking towards when picking out your controller. All the Soundcards are acceptable for use in a club setting, but never in a studio setting. Club settings usually have sound systems that arnt about true sound…they are about going loud without distorting the sound. The more important factors when it comes to Sound Quality is the type of Audio File you are using…128kpbs, 320kbps, flac or wav files. As Phil stated, any controller you are buying that is in the “professional” catagory will have soundcards that are more than good enough to use to play in gigs.

Yeah i have played with the Xone EQ but i havent spent the time to totally remap my S4 to use the low EQ. I read a few articles saying that using anything other than the Classic EQ will compress the sound more…I did some tests on my Studio Monitors but i couldnt really hear any difference in the SQ, even when i recorded a mix.

With that said the only gripe i still have with the Traktor EQ settings is that it doesnt do a full kill.

IMO nothing beats a real mixer, but its such a pita to have to bring CDJs, laptop and remembering my timecode CDs, and using serato cuz lets be real here the HID for Traktor sucks balls. I just upgraded to 2.5.1 but i havent had to test the HID functions yet so that may be a game changer for me

Facts on Paper do not compare to actual use though. I have used VDJ for 2 years, Serato for about 2 years and Torq for about a year and now I use Traktor, Serato, and CDJs. Having spent a great deal amount of time on 4 different platforms i can say that in my opinion nothing can beat Traktor as a midi solution. VDJ while a good piece of Consumer software just doesnt live up to something like Traktor or Serato. It is just that…a Consumer piece of software. The majority of Digital DJs are using a DVS or Midi setup use Serato and Traktor…now there has to be a reason for that…not just marketing…and once you dig into both pieces of software it is pretty obvious as to why they are the most used software in the Digital Age.

You compare Nikon to Canon…thats like Serato to Traktor…would you use a Sony or a Pentax? I dont see any professional photographers running around with a point and click camera.

I may piss some people off here but saying that all software is equal and its all based on what you like…is like getting a ribbon for participation for doing track and field when you placed last.

Yes the creativity and skill is the most important thing required…but why hinder their ability with showing people something that is not as good as something else?

Its the same thing like seeing the Ipad DJ and Vjay app…yes they do work, and you can mix songs, but no one making money off DJing will be using either of these anytime soon. ALL this stuff is catered to the consumer market, just like 95% of the new Midi controllers that have come out in the last year.

Regarding the industry standards you compared…you are again comparing what is Consumer standard vs. Industry (Professional) standard…
Consumers will use Bluray, VHS, etc…as it is often the cheaper solution and easier to mass produce.
Professional standards are quite different in any field, and are often a lot more expensive and better overall and is meant to be used in a professional setting..IE DJing…Using 320kbps for Digital while a lot of consumers will listen to 128kbps.

I mean really you wouldnt be using a cheap ass black and decker screw gun if you were a carpenter…you would use makita, dewalt, or Hilti…and those are 3 to 4x the price.

Same thing with a Camera…you wouldnt use a point and click sony camera, you would be using a Nikon. Now a real pro can do miracles on pretty much anything because they are a professional…they have put the hard time learning their craft over years and years and now have the best equipment and can do anything on anything…the majority of people on here are not those people.

goto your original Traktor folder and find the collection.xml file. Then just copy and paste over the existing collection.xml in your laptop.
It should analyze all your songs for consistancy but all your grids and such should still be the exact same.

SSD is a bit of a double edged sword…the price per mb is really not that great…the biggest reason why most people think the SSD is so much better is because the majority of mid-low end laptops used a 5400 rpm HD oppose to the 7200 rpm HD.

You will get a huge difference in processing going from a 5400 to a 7200, but the allegations that a core i3 w/SSD will be faster than an i7 is a total sham. Unless we are talking the highest end cor i3 vs the lowest core i7.

It directly relates to what type of work you are doing…for something as simple as Digital Djing, you really wont notice a difference in playing out.

If you are going to a Buy a SSD…stick with the very reputible companies that make HDs, dont get HDs from : Kingston, Sandisk, Hitachi…stick with higher end HDs from companies like Seagate, and Western Digital is okay but not the greatest…Personally i only buy Seagate HDs as they have been the best i have ever used…bar none

I have never used the Typhoon at all so i dont know if that is possible…but you can chance pitch adjustment up to 2% within Traktor and with my Kontrol S4 i do nothing but manual beat matching…and pitch adjustments…and it works exactly like CDJS…although u will have to adjust for drift as sometimes you cannot get it exactly the same bpm…ie 128.54 and 128.56 so like every 30 seconds you will have to compensate for drift.

Nick Powers, post: 24295, member: 2466 wrote: I really only listen to rap and dancish hip hop type tracks but from what I’ve read on here most clubs want DJs who play house and other edm genres. Am I wrong about this or should I change my tastes in music?

Learn the roots of your music. Its hard to broaden what you like if you dont know where the music you like originally came from.

Here is a great article i read a while back.

http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/roots_of_hiphop.htm

I started off my musical journey playing multiple brass instruments from Trombone and Trumpet and evolved into the Guitar and Drums. I have a huge love for old blues, soul, funk, fusion, and jazz, but i rarely even at all ever listen to it now. I too still am a huge lover of REAL hip hop…Blackilicous, Jurassic 5, ATCQ, Del, the list goes on and on. And even though i am strickly a EDM DJ…the roots of what i love shine in the songs i pick for what i play.

As a DJ I spin everything from Tech House, House, Electro/Complextro, Progressive, and even dip into the Bass Music, like Glitch, Ghetto Funk, Drumstep/Dubstep.

Sorry i went on a bit of a tangent here. Some Genres that you may really like to mix in with your hiphop would be Ghetto Funk and Glitch…both of these genres of EDM have a heavy influence from Hip Hop and i think you would be able to do a lot with them.

Hire Someone that does know what they are doing.
Research who the successful promotional groups within your city are and start there. Hire one of them to do your Promoting and event planning.

Know your competition, what crowd are you trying to get…where do you want to take your bar. Not knowing is 75% of the reason why any business goes out of business.