Jem

Tell you what, I went with the Pioneer and am absolutely delighted with it. Coming from a vinyl background I think this unit wins in recreating that feel of spinning vinyl. It’s not plasticky at all, feels very solid in use, in fact I found most other controllers far more ‘Fisher Price’ . I can see why people who want to mess about with the music would prefer the S4, but I just want a replacement to my Technics set up and I honestly don’t see why I would want to mess around / mess up a piece of music that someone has spent a long time creating – but that’s another discussion entirely!;)

I was playing an early morning slot in London, following on from the main guest Terry Francis, and decided to slow things down a bit… I played ‘Why’ by Carley Simon and completely misjudged the crowd, or at least one dude in the crowd – he took great offence to this record (which I still think is a quality track btw), marched on to the stage and tipped a pint over the deck playing the record.. I just stood there thinking wtf??!!