Terry_42
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KeymasterHey and welcome!
Yep name currently unimportant… go with practice practice practice and then some.
KeymasterSerato, Mixvibes Cross, Engine and djay can do that too.
KeymasterTrust the Vintage, the Vintage is good 🙂
KeymasterYou are a little vague, I do not get what you try to achieve with what piece of gear. Can you do a diagram of your planned setup and what does what? We surely can help with wiring and ins and outs, but that was too little info.
KeymasterYou are most welcome.
KeymasterHonestly I would also get rid of it. I you have to happen a BCD that works, glad for you, but most units I have seen are very very poor in build quality and they do not hold up past the warranty.
KeymasterHey and welcome to the forums!
KeymasterYes depends on the gear. Most sensitive are speakers usually, they will have the lowest range of temps storing them.
KeymasterI would plain tell them, that 90% of the world has accepted that CDJs are a thing of the past and you want to bring your controller as you can simply do more. The best clubs in the world (Ministry of Sound, Octagon, Palm Peach, Mocco beach club,…) all allow you to use your own gear to free your creativity. Tell them you need only 30min on your controller to show them and they understand.
If they are not going for that, be professional and tell them you do it, but if they want to hire you, it will cost more as your creative freedom is lessened by playing with their old gear.
As for playing on CDJs. Ask them if their CDJs are Serato ready (the 2000 CDJs are always, but the mixer has to be certified) and up to it. If they say yes, bring a USB hub and cables unless they tell you their tech will connect you. Make sure you have a full Serato license that is valid for use with CDJs (check on serato.com, log-in and your purchases).
If all that is valid, your Serato will work with the CDJs and mixer, then you can simply connect and play like on the SB. Even the knobs look similar, the downside will be, that there are no dedicated effects knobs, so you prolly will need to use the mixers effects (which suck on most DJMs compared to iZotope in Serato) and the channel filters. On 2000s looping is very limited and most likely you only have 3 hotcues available (if they work, it sometimes is hit and miss) everything else is the same as on the SB and also looks nearly identical. You can ignore the built in screens.
Get a high-res picture and the manual of the CDJs and DJM on pioneerdj.com and you can easily check the layout, so you find everything when there.If the CDJs are not Serato ready then no problem. Download Rekordbox (for free, not the license version Rekordbox DJ). Open it up and transfer the prepared playlist(s) for your set onto a USB drive. It is very intuitive. Make a second USB drive as backup. Go there and put the USB drive in any of the CDJs and push the USB button near the USB slot. Push the LNK (or Link) button on the second CDJ. The displays will help you find a tune and show you the waveforms. Nexus players even have sync buttons and display the waveforms in color on the display along with the BPM etc. so you are fine to go. Of course you can do less than with Serato (hence why good clubs are ditching CDJs as they are overpriced relics) but the layout and style is very similar the SB. So generally speaking you should be fine if you stick to the basics (aka beatmatching, filter effects on the mixer and short loops).
I know the first part of this post sounds like “you can easily say that, you played 20 years and have a name to demand stuff I am new”. Honestly I have some guys I mentor and they were in similar situations. I gave them the same advise and it worked 2 out of 3 times. One of the clubs ditching the old CDJs actually and now demanding DJs to bring their own gear.
Be confident in yourself and your abilities and you will do fine. Be professional about it, do not sound desperate but have answers for them.
I myself I tell clubs simply if they want me to play on outdated gear my fee goes up 50% per hour to compensate for lost creative freedom.KeymasterOf course this is a nice scenario, I am pretty much doing the same with the MCX8000 on Serato with the added bonus that I can switch Serato -> Engine -> DVS -> direct Vinyl which is pretty awesome.
KeymasterNot from the top of my head, but there are several remix decks and stem features that I was unable to map. However this was over a year ago (when the S8 came out) and I have not used Traktor since.
KeymasterIn theory yes. However timecode in CDJs is nowhere near as “tight” and latency free as jogwheels. Hence scratching like that is a challenge. Funny enough this works much better with timecode vinyl and I have no idea why actually it is just my personal experience with the systems.
If you are playing CDs you cannot use any features of the controller or software, just what the CDJs have built in, which is not much. Hence we use controllers as CDs are outdated.
If you use timecode CDs to control your decks you can use loops and effects as long as the controller commands are still accepted by traktor and mapped correctly, which in theory they should. However I have seen many funny things happen in Traktor, so I am not giving any guarantees here.KeymasterBe aware that some features will only work with the S8. Hence we always recommend NI gear if you use Traktor and want to use all features to their fullest.
KeymasterMake sure you air out enough so it is not too humid, especially also in Winter.
Having lived in Toronto I know how cold it gets so some kind of heating if it gets below zero in there would of course be advised. However do not turn on the heat and then play right away, or you risk condensed water on the electronics.
I always recommend to let stuff rest at a new temperature for an hour before doing anything.
If you have too much sound backlash from plain walls, just hang a few old carpets on the walls.KeymasterHey and welcome!
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