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i mean, i love vinyl and spent a lot of time on the wheels of steel back in the day. But who isnt using a digital controller these days?

by par 4y ago

drewbeck 4y ago
Addicts. Like myself DJing with vinyl is fun as hell, gets me away from my screens, let’s me find music in a really satisfying and interesting way AND takes me to shops where i talk to people and learn things from them. The digging is maybe the best quality — walk into a place with a limited set of music, guide your search based on categories, album art, personnel listed in the sleeve etc. Digital provides almost none of that; digital “digging” tends to get boring and overwhelming, both. Old man stuff, probably, but I do think there will always be some ppl tuned to wax. As soon as you want something you can’t find digitally you have to anyway, and from there it’s a slippery slope.
- ehnto 4y ago
  Tonnes of great tracks never made it to digital that's for sure. Especially for the heavily DJ'd genres like house, DnB, hip hop, trance and all that. The industry was hundreds of different small labels churning out wax. many of which likely didn't survive long enough to port their back-catalogue to digital.
  - drewbeck 4y ago
    It boggles my mind how much music we humans committed to physical media over the last 70 years. It seems endless. One of the great joys of DJing is getting to swim in that abundance.
schrijver 4y ago
It’s expensive and impractical, but in a way that also helps to keep it aspirational–still very common in the electronic music scene, go to any of the festivals or clubs in Europe and they’ll have the technics next to the CDJ’s. Controller - laptop setups are common for house parties, and for bars and events that keep the same dj all night, but less common in clubs where the CDj’s with USB sticks make it easy to switch over. A CDj needs a DJ mixer, to which you can also hook up a record player, so mixing both is not too hard. Personally I find vinyl a bit daft for new music since it’s all made on computers anyway! For older music it makes a lot of sense though, much of it never made it to digital.
secretsatan 4y ago
I like to use Serato with my decks, I just prefer it to a pure digital controller, feels more physical/mechanical?

i mean, i love vinyl and spent a lot of time on the wheels of steel back in the day. But who isnt using a digital controller these days?

by par 4y ago

i mean, i love vinyl and spent a lot of time on the wheels of steel back in the day. But who isnt using a digital controller these days?

drewbeck 4y ago

Addicts. Like myself DJing with vinyl is fun as hell, gets me away from my screens, let’s me find music in a really satisfying and interesting way AND takes me to shops where i talk to people and learn things from them. The digging is maybe the best quality — walk into a place with a limited set of music, guide your search based on categories, album art, personnel listed in the sleeve etc. Digital provides almost none of that; digital “digging” tends to get boring and overwhelming, both. Old man stuff, probably, but I do think there will always be some ppl tuned to wax. As soon as you want something you can’t find digitally you have to anyway, and from there it’s a slippery slope.

ehnto 4y ago
Tonnes of great tracks never made it to digital that's for sure. Especially for the heavily DJ'd genres like house, DnB, hip hop, trance and all that. The industry was hundreds of different small labels churning out wax. many of which likely didn't survive long enough to port their back-catalogue to digital.
- drewbeck 4y ago
  It boggles my mind how much music we humans committed to physical media over the last 70 years. It seems endless. One of the great joys of DJing is getting to swim in that abundance.

schrijver 4y ago

It’s expensive and impractical, but in a way that also helps to keep it aspirational–still very common in the electronic music scene, go to any of the festivals or clubs in Europe and they’ll have the technics next to the CDJ’s. Controller - laptop setups are common for house parties, and for bars and events that keep the same dj all night, but less common in clubs where the CDj’s with USB sticks make it easy to switch over. A CDj needs a DJ mixer, to which you can also hook up a record player, so mixing both is not too hard. Personally I find vinyl a bit daft for new music since it’s all made on computers anyway! For older music it makes a lot of sense though, much of it never made it to digital.

secretsatan 4y ago

I like to use Serato with my decks, I just prefer it to a pure digital controller, feels more physical/mechanical?