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Just checked them out and they are out of my price range. I thought this might be high end capability only.
Thanks anyway 🙂
Silvercue MasterParticipantThanks for the tips!
Silvercue MasterParticipantjoey beltram energy flash /end of message
Silvercue MasterParticipantEDM. What’s that? We (well, some of us) used to call it techno back in the day. Now it has more sub genres than you can point a stick at and the modern side of it seems to have so many cheesy pop sections that I am having to move the sites I am buying tunes from as they are even re-classifying the music like some sort of forced evolution.
If I browse Progressive House (what I consider my main genre) nearly all of it is actually Pop dance on places like Beatport. I can see the change even in the last 12 months.
Silvercue MasterParticipantShaun – thanks for those sites.
I really liked Traxsource, could not get the audio to work on Trackitdown, and was not too keen on the websites for JunoDownloads & Bigtunesmp3
Traxsource looks like it could become my first go-to site for tracks though and I will definitely spend some time there.
Silvercue MasterParticipantMaybe we should give shaun his thread back 🙂
Apologies for the diversion. Terry_42, you’re a top guy, let’s leave it there 🙂
Silvercue MasterParticipantSorry Terry, I don’t entirely agree. It is against their Terms and conditions and they put that on a page about legal questions. However, the actual legality is a grey area if you play small clips of tracks, especially in some countries, if no profit is being made. This was clearly communicated to me in my challenge with them and is in fact stated on this very website on more than one article.
Silvercue MasterParticipantMy comments about grey areas where more about using services such as Soundcloud terry. I had a protracted debate with them myself.
Silvercue MasterParticipantok – thanks
Silvercue MasterParticipantHave signature blocks gone too?
Silvercue MasterParticipantIs Gravatar the only way now? Must be new as I had a profile pic after you moved to new forum before?
If so, I will just stay as a blank face as I don’t want to sign up to Gravatar.
Silvercue MasterParticipantYes I will check them out thanks Shaun. Do you have a view as to which are better/worse and in particular easy to browse and buy if you don;t have anything specific in mind (this is key feature for me when buying tunes).
Silvercue MasterParticipantI don’t think it makes any difference where you buy the track from in terms of copyright. Copyright is a little grey area sometimes too….just talk to Soundcloud about it!
I started my digital experience using DJTunes, but then moved to Beatport as I preferred the way they categorised their music. I have tried Amazon and actually find they are generally cheaper, but their website is far less DJ friendly IMHO and unless I already have tracks in mind I don’t use it. Whereas Beatport is easy to “browse and listen” before buying.
Having said all that I would like to find somewhere new to get tunes. I mainly play Progressive House, House, Electro House, but also love breakbeat and deep house.
The reason is I think Beatport seems to be focussing more and more on (what I would call) commercicalised, more “poppy” music maybe popular “EDM” in the States and badging it as Progressive House etc. Well, in my experience browsing their top 100 or some genres I like brings up far, far less decent tunes than it did 1 year ago and far more pop influenced tracks with loads of soppy vocals IMHO! They also seem to have less good quality stuff there at the moment and a few labels seem to be dominating. Just MHO of course
So…suggestions welcomed by me too.
July 9, 2014 at 10:39 am in reply to: Anyone else DJ like they are using Vinyl (old style!) #2042239Silvercue MasterParticipantNot alone then 🙂
I do use some effects, but very few as many sound a bit naff I think. I love the braker (I am using Mixtrack Pro 2 btw and have extra effects packs…just don’t like many of them)…but I never like to over do it. I also find the LPF and HPF are really poor on this system…..I even found the quality of these effects on my Kaoss Pad is much better.
I have experimented slightly with loops, but really just to sample a vocal from the incoming track at matched BPM and then loop the vocal over the live track, so really only more as a sample live.
I want to use the samples more actually – that is where I think I can get the best results, so made a couple in Audacity, but I don’t think there is a way to beat match them very well unless I record them at a known BPM.
Silvercue MasterParticipantSeem to have lost my profile pic and sig and can’t find where to add them back now…..not been here for a while.
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