Love smahing 3 CDJs double dropping everyhing as much as nice long mixes on my old wax bangers. Both are great and different and the skills on both are directly transferrable to each other (just wax is so much more commitment wuth money and space). I'm not a jungle guy but one of favs is Legend B Lost In Love (Jungle remix). I miss Renegade Hardware and Moving Shadows, think half my DnB collection is from them.
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When you have a track on vinyl you somehow value it more. Something to treasure and you link memories to it. It's like looking through old photos.
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I got 1210s mostly to practice scratching. While I can practice on my AZ, I really wanted that feel of a spinning platter. And my tiny vinyl collection is slowly building too.
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To me, mixing on vinyl is the same comparison as a competitive FPS controller player on console wanting to up their game and migrate to pc on mnk. So much of the digital world is sync and automated for you, where's the fun and skill factor for your OWN personal experience? I use a DJM-S7 and two tables w serato for the majority that i don't own on vinyl, but it's best of both worlds.
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2 things i miss from vinyl - touching the platter and mostly the pitch fader. 1210 metal pitch fader has some nice resistance and quality feel to it. Then you migrate to crappy cheap, loose feeling plastic on CDJs worth your monthly wage and it's just not fun anymore. Even with BPM match it would still be fun to beat matching if the pitch faders were better. Is there a mod you can do for pioneers to get the technics feel?
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I sold off my Vinyl about 15 years ago. Wasn't a lot, about 4 crates. I have 5 kids, I repurchased the collection through beatport ( mostly ) I had a lot of white label tracks I bought while living in Tampa in the 90s, my buddy convinced me to buy a controller and get back @ it now that the kids are grown .. and I'm happy to say I'm playing a festival on Labor Day ( 1st weekend in September ).. I spin on Denon stand alone, and I've been studying your videos BECAUSE all the commercial gear are Cdjs I spun on cdjs before, just need to keep in my head how to load my tracks .. Ugh and I'm going to need to purchase Rekordbox I used the trial version to load a thumb drive for a Radio Station I spun on ( again cdj 3000s) .. But.. Your knowledge had me play that radio station without any stress!! And I got this festival gig BECAUSE the promoters watched me spin on that radio/streaming show.. Again ..thanX A track i still can't find to purchase? That i had ? Take me higher Tony Allen.. I bought Sasha and Digweed's rennasaunce the same weekend in saw Sasha in Orlando at Ahz 95 I think...
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You are my favorite DJ on YouTube man. I’m gonna be honest, I don’t currently have a working record player, let alone a turntable lol.… but I still buy records of my favorite artists. I’ll definitely get a new record player again when money isn’t as tight, but until then, they are a hell of a way to decorate my booth at home 😅 And the coolest part… (this has only happened once so far but still) on the off chance that I get put on the lineup when those artists come to my city, I get to get those records SIGNED 🥹 That one time definitely justified my decision to spend money on these though l
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Chris M
I learnt to DJ on Vinyl - and it’s better. But not for the reasons you think.
I finally have a turntable back in my life after almost 25 years (The Reloop RP7000-MK2).
But learning or DJing with vinyl doesn’t give me any bragging rights, or make me any better than DJs that learn or play digitally. That argument is as old and tired as the DJs in the comment sections arguing about it.
What I think they should be mentioning is that with vinyl, you can physically hold a banger. It’s not just an abstract waveform on a screen. And that’s pretty fuckin cool.
There’s a warmth to the sound that digital can’t replicate. And of course, some tracks that you can’t even find on Spotify and co.
This turns crate digging from a robotic exercise where you are just finding something for your next set into a new sub-hobby of DJing.
So I’m happy to welcome back wax - alongside my digital DJ life.
What’s your favourite track you can only find on 12”?
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