Hi and welcome to my thread, being a newstart myself its quite hard to get all the information available in one place and make your mind up about what setup to use being TT, CDJ, MIDI or a hybrid of both?
I have extremely little club DJing experience and little enough bedroom experience as it is, so ill be looking for some input from you guys!
For now, the content will be brief and i will be coming back to add to it whenever i have spare time
All of the following will be written by myself only, I will not be copying content from any other pages although i may use external links if i find another thread explains an area better
Contents:
Pt 1: Common Jargon
-Mixing-
Pt 2: Vinyl Turntables
Pt 3: CD Turntables
Pt 4: Controllerism (MIDI)
Pt 5: Your first gig
-Producing-
Pt 6: Your studio?
Pt 7: Common gear
Pt 8: Your first real tune
-Getting your name about-
Pt 9: Websites + such
Jargon!
So youll have heard a lot of terms and dont know what they mean? Read on.
Allen & Heath/A&H: Popular company for top range mixers/controllers
CDJ: CD Turntable
DVS: Digital Vinyl System
Itch: See "serato"
Midi-fighter: A 4x4 button midi controller
OS X: Mac Operating system
Serato: Common program used for DVS setups
TCV: Timecoded Vinyl (Special vinyl for DVS setups)
Traktor: Common program for DVS setups
TT: Turntable (usually 12" Vinyl)
"Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables or digital turntables and a DJ mixer. The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu[1] to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer to manipulate sound. The new term co-occurred with a resurgence of the art of hip hop style DJing in the 1990s.
Hip-hop turntablist DJs use turntable techniques like beat mixing/matching, scratching, and beat juggling. Some turntablists seek to have themselves recognized as legitimate musicians capable of interacting and improvising with other performers. Some focus on turntable technique while others craft intricate compositions by focusing on mixing."
Although many clubs have now moved on to CDJ's and scrapped their turntables there is still many local/national scratching competitions, the most famous being the "DMC World DJ Championships" Started in 1986 and still continues today, the most recent winner of 2009 being DJ shiftee.
The most common turntable today is the Technics sl1200 (silver) or the sl1210 (black), and is still the main centrepiece in most DVS setups
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