About the MICROWAVE DJs article

[Zac Kyoti]

Yeah, it's great to have a short playlist you've memorized, and just turn the monitor off completely - let the controller tell you whats going on. It's like in Star Wars where Obi Wan teaches Luke the force by making him wear the helmet with the blast shield down...
That's where you find out how well you really know your tracks: if you still know exactly when it will end.

[wrong chris]

i've never owned a pair of turntables, but I learned how to dj on tech12s that my friends had. Every now and then I get the chance to spin some tracks on tech12s and although it's fun, I always feel very limited by the constrictions of an analogue setup.

I love being able to rock 4 decks, with 5 fx units, being able to find a song by typing a search in the browser, utilize looping and cue points and having a visual display of the waveform to calculate the perfect mix without having to headphone cue. Digital DJing with Traktor for me is just a superior tool that allows me to truly breathe and flex my ideas far better than a pair of Tech12s ever would.

[BestLegsinHD]

djs have huge egos and usually dont like when their 'art' can be learned by others. the golden days when it took a buttload of cash and records to dj is pretty much out. i like djing for fun, and i understand how some djs are better than others but in general, i think 'we' place ourselves on a pedestal. idk, i just think everyone should relax.

[Jester]

turn your phase meters and snap off

[Karlos Santos]

turn your phasers to stun.

[janzak]

So people are basically saying all that's needed to settle this entire debate is digital DJs stop using sync and the board is balanced?

[lethal_pizzle]

Nah. Use whatever you need to make sweet sweet music.

At some point at some time you will have to beatmatch. Your laptop may freeze, you may have to mix in over a CD, your beatgrid could disappear with :30 left on the previous track. So knowing how to beatmatch is useful then.

There are still people who think that CGI is cheating, and we should use Ray Harryhausen stop motion animation. But there are very few of them left.

[charo]

So people are basically saying all that's needed to settle this entire debate is digital DJs stop using sync and the board is balanced?

Imo it goes beyond sync into the other visual "cheats" ie the build ups and breakdowns and visual indicators that show when to mix.

When u dont back that up with the skills to mix without visual cues then ur're heading microwave.

[diezdiazgiant]

I'm new to dj'ing, I became interested in it as a means of remixing and performing live my loops and productions - so frankly I do not understand this discussion or why there is much heated debate over a tool. Whether its a sine wave, sample, a 32 bar loop from someone elses song; we are all just trying to entertain ourselves with a sound and hopefully someone else is entertained by it too.

[the viking]

I'm new to dj'ing, I became interested in it as a means of remixing and performing live my loops and productions - so frankly I do not understand this discussion or why there is much heated debate over a tool. Whether its a sine wave, sample, a 32 bar loop from someone elses song; we are all just trying to entertain ourselves with a sound and hopefully someone else is entertained by it too.

couldnt agree more