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This article should start off with "First buy Turntables and then buy Vinyl" Step 2 - once you have mastered beat-matching on this then you can fuck around wit
by voycey 10y ago
This article should start off with "First buy Turntables and then buy Vinyl"
Step 2 - once you have mastered beat-matching on this then you can fuck around with the new fancy electronic systems.
Step 3 - learn to get good at it.
#1 its all about fun and the tactile pleasure of controlling your music, something that the digital age has robbed many of us from, CD's are a happy medium between Vinyl and Digital but are even now outdated.
You will never get anything as satisfying as rooting through record bins at a vinyl store, taking it home and mixing it in a full manual process - I am glad it is making a return :)
- jdietrich 10y ago99% of professional DJs have abandoned vinyl, for good reason. Why lug around a fragile, heavy box of vinyl when you can carry your entire collection on a couple of SD cards? Vinyl is lovely and tactile and nostalgic, but it's also a massive pain in the arse. If you want to learn an industry standard, rent a couple of CDJ-2000s and a DJM-2000.
- voycey 10y agoYou miss my point - it's not that you should learn it because its what people use, it's to learn it so you foster a love of the process! CDJ's and MP3's are fantastic (I pretty much exclusively use MP3 now) - but the feeling you get of playing on vinyl is totally different even if you will never use it IRL!
- kruhft 10y agoVinyl is so heavy that it's a burden, but there's nothing like playing on real decks to teach you the ropes.
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- voycey 10y agoAbsolutely! Until you have tried to keep a 2+ minute mix going on belt drive decks you wont understand how much joy MP3 with its zero wow and flutter brings haha