shr3dder

I have a collection of labels I tend to like large % of their releases. Then I use charts of DJs I like, and set lists from recorded mixes (Essential Mix, Podcasts, Boiler Room etc etc

Then the rest I hear about from friends, forums, twitter etc….

Hee Won Jung, post: 18821, member: 948 wrote: Okay todd you win…happy? jeeeebus….

yawn this is boring me now…can we get back on topic?

at the end of the Day…having Standalone Mixer Capability is a luxury and not a necessity…If the controller has EVERYthing you want except that…dont like the standalone function be a deciding factor…Integration and actually usability is more of a factor than something that can be a safety net. If a CDJ goes down during your set u are just as screwed

I don’t think Todd was talking about CDJs… more the ability to hook up an MP3 player or something and if your computer goes down you can bring it straight in through the controller (which is also a stand alone mixer)

It’s a feature I wish my controller had, not saying I’d want to use it, but it’d be good to have it, one of my residencies has no house gear (South American themed restaurant/bar/club, had previously just used a computer playlist) and if my laptop ever did crash there’d be silence for a bit while I swapped the leads around

Hee Won Jung, post: 18723, member: 948 wrote: I dont understand peoples need to have a standalone mixer function, I can see how this would be benifical, for when shit goes south, but If you have a 4 channel controller…like the S4 that doesnt have standalone mixer you can still use it as a mixer with 2 techs or 2 cdjs and just have it as live input on decks C and D and use the controller to still do your mixing…with the added benifit that you get all of Traktors effects…and lets be

Does the S4 still work without a computer though? For example your laptop crashes/wont boot. I know the T1 won’t. Some people like that feature as a fall-back.

BrassRingDJ, post: 18561, member: 1932 wrote:

As more and more info. on you gets “out there,” someone can put together a potentially detrimental (in effect, not character) profile. In today’s identity theft and privacy-eroding environment, I DON’T WANT TO GIVE ANY MORE INFORMATION ON MYSELF THAN ABSOLUTELY (F’in) NECESSARY!!

Rant ended…as you were.

So DJs shouldn’t want other people knowing what songs they like/listen too?

Interesting take.

I use Shazam and forums….. Back in the day I used to download a helluva lot of live dj mixes and then spend days hunting down and completing tracklists… It’s a lot easier now.

I think hitting the eject button on the wrong CDJ three times in one night was pretty bad.

Actually probably the worse was playing a gig at a massive festival after party… It was my first time using an S4 (the previous DJ was using it and I told him just to leave it and I’ll play off that as opposed to the CDJs) I spent the first 20-30 mins of my set one level off on the EQs… So I was using the highs as gains, mids as highs, lows as mids and the filter as the bass (I think that all makes sense)… Now this place has a terrible sound system and I was a little bit bent so it was kind of understandable…. However having it pointed out to me by Diplo & the guys from Magnetic Man took a while to live down.

Internal is massively faster, I can’t imagine/fathom any reason any one would want to be using a way way slower external drive *shrug*

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