@BigC +1. Exactly, if you WANT to learn to beat match, go for it. Don’t do it just cos some promoter said so.
well part of the business of being a dj is catering to the needs of your employer…so one should keep that in mind if their goal is having a successful relations with your employer over not really caring about what they say
I want to learn. Just depends on if I’m comfortable doing it.
I really relly really support anyone’s desire to learn beatmatching by ear, but I’d tell that club owner to GTFO.
Or, rather, GTFO myself. Vinyl and CD stubbornness has been the first sign of an arduous working relationship in my experience.
Hey it could be worse:
“CDJs?, turntables?. Pfft, none of that shit here. You want this gig, you use what we got.”
“What do you have?”
“A dual cassette player hooked into a Radio Shack mixer. When can you start.”
Haha. “We’ve got a Gateway computer from 1998 with ReBirth, WinAmp, and a clipart collection of silly looking stick figures working in various professions. Don’t disappoint me.”
IMO you should know how to beatmatch in any case just for yourself (great skill to have), but at the same time stick to your guns and push your MIDI setup.
My answer is vinyl. you can get a better quality TT for cheaper that a better quality CDJ.
I myself was using just a VCI-100. I then got 2 Stanton Str8-80 TT and I love them. Had to pickup Traktor Scratch Pro but worth it.
Re: CDJs vs. Vinyl?
Man if anyone wants to learn on vinyl or cdj’s…hook up with other djs! I have friends that play only on vinyl, other on CDs, other serato only. When you start to hook up with other djs they vouch for you!
Promoters always talk to Dj and try to hire them for gigs. If I can’t do a gig, I recommend one of my Dj friends. If the promoters trips cuz he’s using midi controller, I say hey fucker you hired me and I can rock the crowd…this guy can too!
But also by having other Dj friends it opens the door to use there gear. So I would say to get other there and meet other djs!
Just wondering, apart from scratching and more accurate beatmatching, what can you do with the TT’s that you couldn’t do with the vci-100?
Sorry for the newbie question..
Cheers,
JD
you can’t describe it xD it’s the feeling and the quality. it’s just great.
Before I had TT’s I had a VCI-100 and I thought you could do everything with it but the feeling you get with vinyl is great. That’s why I switched from digital to analog. (Well I do something of a hybrid. I use timecodes and real vinyls)
For a duel TT & vci 100 setup, id need an audio 4 yes?
Might invest in a cheapish pair down the road, when i get another job :S haha.. A mixer would then be necessary aswell?
Thanks heaps 
fusion
If you want to use timecodes or your vci-100 you need at least an audio 4.
But it doesn’t matter if you use a mixer oder the vci-100.
To the original post, I am a bit baffled at this promoters problem? I have been out a lot recently and I don’t live in a big city but I have probably only seen one place (out of many) that didn’t have a dj with a laptop. Hell, even the small bar down the road from me had a guy Serato with a VCI 300.
If its the only place that you can play for any reason then if the guy liked you then I can’t see his problem. He obviously like the music and execution on your mix so he needs to wind his neck in?
If you want to beat match and deepen your trade then go for it but i wouldn’t use this as a reason as this sounds like it will not add anything to your sets and anyway it’s not like you will be doing the same set on CDJ’s or vinyl as this is not what you did to get the guy to like it in the first place?
At the reply earlier saying “technically” your not a DJ if you don’t use a disk when playing… I don’t know why you would post this, what did you hope to achieve by that statement. There are plenty of terms in language that use old terms in a modern way, this is just semantics!! So are you saying that aren’t allowed to call a cherry-picker a cherry-picker if you aren’t picking cherries?. Plus in this case is a radio DJ a DJ as they haven’t used disks for years? We’ll all be SJ’s from now on (Song Jockey).
Not having a go but come on?
Yes because digital DJ’ing is cheaper so in small cities you’ll find more digital DJ’s.
(I also started as a digital DJ)