Originally Posted by
lethal_pizzle
i have a gig at a boutique clothes shop. They want me to use decks, so i take dvs.
I'm very aware when i'm using the dvs that i could be doing this entirely with midi but i do it because, for them, it is the image they want to portray.
It just seems absurd to me that we can drive around in cars, have spell checkers on our word processors, use calculators instead of an abacus, and people still think it's 'cheating' not to automate the dull monotony of manual beatmatching when:
- using dvs, we've already deferred more complicated mechanisms to the computer
- the process by which you line beats up is the least important bit of djing. Manual beatmatching is a skill that anyone can pick up in a month with some turntables. Picking songs and reading crowds is pretty much all djing is about. It is the only thing to seperate you from:
A) the dj that spent a month learning to beatmatch
b) the dj that hits a sync button
it is so typical of the human condition to fixate on:
- the least important thing
- other people
the only person gonna make you a good dj is yourself. Stop focussing on other people and the least significant details.
Damn it, got sucked in again.
