Turntables; Battle or Standard Position?

[Poulet Blanc]

I'd go for battle style, you can easily pitch bend, dropping your needle is more accurate (in my opinion) and you can scratch and beatjuggle better

[digi16v]

because of space i have them turned BM
but i learned with them in standard mode.
it takes some getting used to when mixing and having to reach over everything to use the pitch faders.

[R2D2]

Had them in standard mode for 14 years

Now in battle mode purely for space with a vestax 06

at first it was a pain BUT now I actually prefer

[Frank112916]

Battle Style, if only because I don't have space.

And what's all this nonsense with not using the pitchfader? Do you guys play a constant BPM for a whole set or what? I need to use the pitchfader to beatmatch between transitions that purposefully change tempo so I can switch from dance to rap and vice-versa. Technically I could just tap tempo and auto-sync but that's not as much fun as potentially trainwrecking my sets.

[MrPopinjay]

Real DJs don't use the pitch fader, they manually push the track to the correct tempo.

[Ando]

Real DJs don't use the pitch fader, they manually push the track to the correct tempo.

+10

[fullenglishpint]

Real DJs don't use the pitch fader, they manually push the track to the correct tempo.

You can plug turntables in??? I've always done it manually, old school ftw.

[Frank112916]

You can plug turntables in??? I've always done it manually, old school ftw.

Na, this guy DJ's old school -

[Sherlock Ohms]

Thr whole point of having TTs is to be able to scratch properly as, face it, there's no controller that matches the feeling

Corrected

:P

[fullenglishpint]

nah mate, this guy's old school...