Turntables; Battle or Standard Position?
So. Pretty simple, for those of you who use, or have used turntables, do you prefer them in the battle or standard position? And why?
I’m personally tossed on this right now. I have friends who use them in both styles, and I have no idea which I should go for, since I’m planning on buying a coffin and keeping them in there.
Battle style all day, just keeps everything nice and compact!
I was never a turntablist. And I never got used to not hitting the tonearm when I was adjusting pitch…so I never really tried battle style after I bought a table big enough to hold everything regular…which was about 2 days after I bought my first set of tables.
Generally speaking battle for scratching and standard for mixing as standard allows slightly easier reach of the pitch fader. Another pro of battle though is that it takes up less space horizontally and if you’re tight on space that can help.
yeaah i only have my turntable battle style to save on space haha. I scratch too, so i guess thats another good reason. but mostly space..
Battle style else the tone arm just gets in the way
(and yes I have twatted the tone arm on a deck that was playing when someone else had set the system up in the ‘standard’ fashion …)
When I first got my TTs the table I was using didn’t have room for them in standard posish so I just got used to BM.
I learnt with Standard position.
Then changed to Battle.
Now im a Traktor DVS DJ i only use Battle cus adjusting the pitch on the TTs is not necessary anymore.
really … so you use turntables but you never touch the pitch control? Is there any actual point using turntables in this instance?
You look badass.
+10
You can scratch with DVS. JFB and Shiftee both use turntables and don’t beatmatch.
I use battle. I’d like to try and learn to scratch but my left hand is so fucking shit every time I try it’s either the worst ever fader control or the worst ever platter control on the left and I can’t do even the most simple things. If my table was big enough I’m most likely just give up and go for standard, it’d be nice to have my wrist in a lazy low position while I beatmatch.
I’m having the opposite problem - fader control on my right hand is crap, probably due to badly breaking my thumb playing rugby 5 or so years back …
I’m sure I could get through it with practice. I dare say it’s due to the fact I do nothing with my left hand other than type, wield a fork, dance over WASD and occasionally scratch my ass when my right hand is preoccupied with greater things.
look at me resisting this opportunity for innuendo!!!
i don’t think Karlos is a scratch DJ though, correct me if i’m wrong Karlos?
Battle style for space.
Battle style is where it’s at. Personally, I feel battle style looks better.
Karlos is everything to everyone.
Lol, and as I mentioned, the whole point of having TTs is to look badass 