turntables or cds?

[cthetranspire]

I have spun on all the cd decks, and while I hear rave reviews from djs that I respect very much, they just don't work for me.

I can't get a "feel" out of them, they are very impersonal and there isn't a single interface that has screamed out to me yet. The only advantage I see is that you can carry around a cd case instead of wax. But even that's just about weight, not playing.

BTW, has anyone ever actually been impressed by scratching on a cd deck? Has anyone ever actually SEEN anyone beat juggle?

Even though I employ SSL, I still feel like I am truly "spinning" wax. The feel is there. I can beat juggle, I can scratch the same way.

And don't try to tell me the needle skips. Clean your records and your needles. Problem solved yo.

[neal79]

I'm not a DJ, just a sound guy but in my mind if you are doing weddings or something like that use CD's otherwise being a DJ means vinyl. Plus that way I don't have to deal with a laptop with no interface or any of that crap.

[dolivas]

I think Party DJ's should focus on the lowest common denominator. Worry about getting huge speakers, overblown bass sub, crazy lighting effects and voice transformers for their vocal mic. Seems people in general with bad taste in music gravitate towards either bad Euro-trash rave/trance music or Mexican-polka... those are where a whole amount of gigs out there are right now.

If you're dj'ing hip-hop you can always buy those premade mix-tapes and 99% of the dancers out there could care less you're not mixing songs. I would tend to believe that they don't care so much about your flashy dj tricks and care more about having loud sounds and being able to request some obscure early 90s hi-NRG track, something from a crappy DJ they heard played Ibiza, something they heard on Caliente or the Memin show, or anything by the KLF...

That's if you're djing for the money and not the for musical purposes.

[neal79]

I agree most people at parties just want to dance and have a huge bass sound. Add some lights and fog and they are happy and could care less about anything else.

[precisedjs]

I'm more of a fan using CDJ's just because you don't have to worry about skipping.