So im browsing around the forums on Resident Advisor and I end up in the general discussion part. Now I dont normally go in there because I use RA strictly for music but I found a thread in there with some serious hate in it. To spare you from clicking heres what it said:
"Since the advent of the dreaded laptop sync selector there’s obviously a lot more time on the dj’s hands. After he’s selected the next tune from his hard drive, checked his emails and updated his Facebook status there’s not much else to do apart from stand and wait. Cue effects. These things are a god send for the syncers – a great time filler. Piddling around endlessly with delays, flangers, filters etc makes the whole experience much more bearable, and it even looks like you’re actually doing something.
The equipment manufacturers have obviously picked up on the growing demand for things to fill the time that was originally allotted to matching the speed of two records. So effect controllers are the order of the day - flashy knobs and a multitude of zany sound manipulations all at your fingertips.
Well guess what guys? Leave the controller alone. In fact, smash your controller over your laptop and then smash your laptop over your head until you banish any ambition to ever set foot behind a dj console. Dance music wasn’t meant to be tampered with like this. It takes a lot of time, effort and love to make – all for you to ruin it like a demented monkey with OCD. Conserve your energy (and a possible chronic RSI condition from your twiddling) and redirect it to using your laptop for something more appropriate, like looking up porn.
So please spar us – we’re not all converted to your mindless idiocy yet. Some of us can see through the façade that by barraging us with endless delays and filters will shield your complete and utter incompetence. "
If you want to see the thread here it is:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum...aspx?id=144769
Now I'm very aware that theres people against controllers but being a bedroom dj for the most part I dont really get exposed to them and this is the first time im seeing full out hate against it. Im a little taken back on how ignorant some of the things said in here are. what do you guys have to say?
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