Comments on: Why New DJs Should Start on Vinyl

By: DJing for Beginners: Are Turntables Dead? | Devoted to Vinyl

DJing for Beginners: Are Turntables Dead? | Devoted to Vinyl — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:34:25 +0000

[…] maintain and use a turntable first. With that said, many people within the DJ community feel that new DJs should begin with turntables and real vinyl […]

By: Jayson Thomas Stefanek

Jayson Thomas Stefanek — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:56:00 +0000

Been DJing for over 22+ years, and producing for a while now, in my opinion, this argument is stupid.. most “old school” dj’s still in the game have long since realized that records are just not readily available anymore and unless you at least combine the technology with vinyl, you will be left in the dust. Final Scratch and other digitally encoded vinyl programs and hardware have made it possible to keep this art alive for vinyl lovers, but at some point when you have mixed millions of songs and sets, you begin to realize what many do, that no one is paying attention to what or how you play your set.. and eventually you also realize that to truly express the music inside of you, that DJing is merely playing other peoples music.. so unless you are TURNTABLIST and literally are showing that you have the skill to manipulate vinyl in that scratch’em up sort of style.. get your butt into the studio and make music.. the world has enough DJs and far too few good producers.

By: Jayson Thomas Stefanek

Jayson Thomas Stefanek — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:46:00 +0000

In reply to Lu Ynoji. Bingo

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By: Chad Krueger

Chad Krueger — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:14:00 +0000

The only beef I have with new technology vs. old in mixing a set is…new technology makes it easier. That’s all. Any asshole with a laptop can be a DJ. I’m sorry for being so blunt/rude and dismissing a lot of skillful DJs who love what they do, but there’s no denying that digital DJs haven’t a clue of how hard and how many years it takes to mix vinyl like it’s an MP3 program. No counters, no effects, just your pitch control and your ears, sense of timing and rhythm.
Digital artwork is the same. It looks good and all, but it is a lot easier to pick up a stylus and fuck-up-then-do-over with digital than oil paint on canvas.
With vinyl on turntables, the skill of the DJ cannot be corrected with technology. It is there for all to see and hear, so you have to get it right. And when you do there’s nothing more intense. Even if you don’t use sync, it is a lot easier to fix a trainwreck with a computer then on turntables.
So justify all you want, but no laptop can compare with turntable mixing when done well. It’s like comparing Michaelangelo to TRON…Both are art but on two ends. One has tradition, the other is advanced. One is made with old, heavy and time-consuming material. The other is as transparent and fickle as the wind…Which has aged better? Which will last the longest? Maybe this will be the true test of Vinyl Vs. Digital.

By: John Parker

John Parker — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 21:01:00 +0000

Really tired of this argument, boils my piss tbh. Elitist young wannabes thinking they’re cool because they learned to count to eight. Vinyl weren’t all all that, really heavy easily damaged and pretty much a pain in the arse all round. I personally wouldn’t regress back to it, time to ditch the luddites i think. Pretentious
fucktards imo

By: drno

drno — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 03:13:00 +0000

???? start out with what you can afford, however you want. there are no rules for DJ’ing. such bad advice.

By: Mauricio Vega

Mauricio Vega — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 04:40:00 +0000

Good but some label records today is not available sales in America most of all is in Europe and the shipping to America plus the vinil price made more expensive and take more time to get in your hands