I know this has probably been brought up literally hundreds of times but I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place here (LIFE STORY ALERT.....),
I started DJ'ing about 10 years ago on some really crappy belt drive turntables and a two channel cheapy mixer. But at the same time, messed about with software like EJay and Atomix (the granddaddy of Virtual DJ). As time went on I progressed onto Technics and in parallel with the likes of Virtual DJ and then Traktor. Due to other commitments, I then binned off all computer based DJ'ing and concentrated on turtablism, solid beatmatching and I had a residency in a club with 1210's and a Xone: 92. Since moving hundreds of miles and therefore losing my residency, and travelling a lot with work, I got back into software DJ'ing and stumbled across DJTT, which with Mr Golden's impressive skillset, and the likes of DJ Rafik, Shiftee and numerous hours on Youtube I got back into the fun side of DJ'ing by getting creative with cue points and effects instead of just beatmatching two vinyls.
Step forward to TSP and a fair few hundred pounds of midi controllers, I still feel like I'm being held back by my perhaps antiquated views that just pressing "Sync" feels like cheating. I still have to manually beatmatch all my tunes before cutting them up with effects and hotcues. I know deep down that it doesn't matter and it's all about the music. I know that cue point juggling, mashups and some of the amazing mixes I see all over this site would be impossible if you were spending half your time getting your tracks in sync. But I still can't convince myself to get rid of my beloved 1210's and buy an S4 or something. Digital DJ'ing IS the way forward (memory stick beats a crate full of records hands down) but I can't commit and make the change.
Long and short of it is.... how did you lot learn to fully embrace the digital DJ'ing age? Have you any regrets about moving on? Does anybody miss the old ways of doing it?
Just to clarify, I'm not one of the old school who looks down on DJ's who SYNC, I used to teach DJ'ing and a lot of my students used Virtual DJ / Traktor and I fully accept it's just the next step in the DJ'ing evolutionary process. At the end of the day, it's about what noises you make out them speakers, not how you do it.
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