synthet1c

Mixing anything is easy when you have done it for a bit, but would I do a performance of tracks I didn’t like? never, 99.8% of a dj’s job is to select good music and you can’t do that if you dont first like the music… eg can I mix hardstyle? hells yes, but can I mix it well? hells no, why… cause I think it sounds like garbage these days.

I’m a club dj only, so this probably won’t work for mobile guys, but I seperate genre then sub genre, then write the feel of the track in the comment field eg. bangin, massive, deep, anthem, loopy, tribal etc… and what part of a set the track would fit eg. open, start, peak, end, close, and whether the intensity builts drops or stays in the middle. I do it the first time I listen to a track after buying it

If I were you though, I would seperate them into crowd types, probably the most relevant would be age brackets like

tweens – rnb, pop
teenagers – rnb, hip hop, commerial dance, pop, emo! (LOL)
young adult – electro, drum n bass, dubstep, house, hard dance, rap etc…
over 28 – 90’s rock, classic dance, classic hip hop, classic rap
over 40 – 70’s rock, rock n roll, frank sinatra & other crap
family – dunno the wiggles I guess…

they all have very different taste in music, and that way you don’t need to set anything up for a function unless requested

still waiting to get one, for what i do it will dominate anything else on the market from the looks of things, but using the jogs off the vci 100 mk2, probably not as ideal for scratching, so the ns6 or the 4 trak would be better in your case. but from all the reviews the vci 400 screams quality… and you can stick an innofader or five in there if needed.

4 trak doesn’t have moving platters, they have a led ring around the outside of the platter to let you know the track position, in terms of a controller for scratching the ns6 is the best due to the flawless intigration with itch, if numark do the same with traktor i would definately say that is the one to go for, as the s4 is poorly built in comparisson and has a shelf life as long as the warranty, the numark will last well beyond that.

P.S. the jogs on the pioneer are pressure sensitive not touch sensitive, so you have to physically push the top of it to enable scratching, it’s okay if you are a mix dj who occasionally does baby scratches and transforms, but if you want to get more involved in scratching electronic touch sensitive ones will enable you to put less pressure on the jog so there is less friction therefore you can scratch much faster.

cool routine, but im being picky, the jay z acapella was a little behind the beat, you need to move it forward a fracton so it’s in phase… great tracks though

@the rest of the thread, no tribe called quest…. no hip hop

before you start reading, this doesn’t have a soundcard, I find all small controllers soundcards lacking in quality, your best bet is to get a controller without a soundcard and a Native Instruments Audio 2… If you wan’t the smallest controller you could get the icon idj, I have just mapped the absolute crap out of it in vdj. It’s a toy but it’s a fun toy, and if you replace the knobs for the eq, and the volume and crossfader knobs, its a useable toy just a little bigger than a nanopad, so you could set it up on your lap to have a play anytime you feel like it, couple that with a netbook and you are set…

you can do it in vdj, just go into config –> options –> scrolling –> then choose “inverted”

I wouldn’t get the scs4dj if using software, if you ever want to hook it up you lose the screen and the soundcard, which are the only selling points of it, so it would be less capable than a basic mixtrack