Reply to New Traktor User

Long time wedding/mobile DJ wanting to consolidate my setup down while still keeping my options open regarding Turntables etc

Long time reader on the DJ community s, and amazed at the amount of community interest in Traktor.
So when my VCI-300 MKII died I jumped from Serato, controller, mixer and turntable and brought myself an S4.

Took 2 days off work, sat down got my songs analysed and sorted, basic software and hardware sorted and used it Saturday evening . The buttons and faders felt good, the response was good and the layout conventional. MIC sounded nice I thought, and the general sound good, although the HIGHS seemed to be exaggerated a bit, so a bit of EQ tidied that up.

I initially didnt like the Traktor layout, found the Playlists/Browser setup horrible and the mixer layout reminded me of something from the 80s, or glum future.

Well, Traktor now has my full support and Im loving it. Being a mobile DJ Im playing mainly cheesy anthems from RocknRoll to Classic Rock, and Traktor gives me fantastic options to transition the songs.

Obviously I only used a splattering of the effects, but it was enough to spice up the songs and creating interesting buildups and transitions. Jog wheels were good enough to baby scratch a few songs during transitioning stages.

Thumbs up and now Im going to pull my head around my samples, one-shots and effect combos!!