Originally Posted by
dj matt blaze
This is the exact condecscending, snobby, attitude that a lot of so called OG DJs have that I can't stand. Its 2012, long gone are the days of "2 turntables and a microphone", technology changes, get over it. If all you can do, in this day and age, is look down your nose because a DJ is hitting sync then you are being left in the dust with what is capable when you are DJing today in 2012.
Well I started on vinyl in 1989. Now I have a controller and I hit sync all day or I just twist a knob or move the fader to match the BPM of the track thats playing. Back in the day I used an electronic metronome to time out the BPM of every record and my records were all in BPM order. I would have killed to be able to have the BPM of every record on a screen in front of me. I would have killed to have keylock and been able to mix outside of + or - 3 BPM. As I have said before, too many DJs worry about the tools being used and how and not about the final outcome. You really think that an owner who sees a DJ rocking a crowd is going to say, well he used sync, can't have that here...yea right, more like the owner would say, I don't care what the guy uses and how as long as he packs the house. You said you don't care about the crowd? Are you kidding me? Its not about you and your ego that you manually beatmatch because "I am a REAL DJ", seriously no one cares, the crowd doesn't care, the owner doesn't care. Its about keeping the crowd at the venue, spending their money, its not about you. The DJ is there to play for the crowd.
Are you serious? You are comparing flying a plane to a DJ hitting sync? Laughable. You sound like an old bitter DJ that can't take the fact that technology has advanced to a point that makes what you spent hours perfecting a lot easier to do. Thats life, change with the times and get over it or get left behind. You fail to realize how much more you can do with effects and loops, the ability to change tracks in seconds and have it synced without wasting times having to cue it up because its already beatmatched. DJing is a performance now, not just playing a song, beatmatching, mixing it in, and repeat. BORING. Again change with the times or get left behind moaning and groaning.
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