I am giving serious thought to taking djing back up after a 12 year hiatus. Since I've been out of the art, vinyl prices have dramatically increased, the quality of tracks has dwindle (IMO) leaving me to pay $12-14 for a record that may have only one good track. Not to mention many of the U.S. wax stores have closed, I am finding more of the stuff I play on decks.de, HTFR etc which adds even more to the cost with shipping.
So I am giving thought to a slimmed down digital kit like the DS1 and Traktor Pro 2. I am curious how well you can beatmatch without jog wheels? There isn't a dealer locally where I can try before I buy, but B&H Photo has a good return policy. I like the capabilities in mapping for the DS1, with the Master Fader, on paper it appears it can work very well. I've never used Traktor in gig situation, or really played around with it paired with any controller.
I play tech house, deep tech, big room deep house.
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