Reply to Pioneer CDJ2000 problemo or me?? To hang the headphones up or not?

Hey just making a post as I done my first gig last evening in a year. This was easily the worst evening of Dj'ing in my life if I am honest. I have been Djing for 8 years, started on vinyl and worked my way through the stages as technology advanced until I got the Traktor s4. Basically the club had cdj2000's so no need for me to bring my gear . I was very nervous as I had never used the cdj2000's before and rightly so.

I am just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Basically I got to the gig and put the cd in. Yea I was nervous as it was first gig in a long time, though I basically could not beatmatch. I kept trying but basically it kept fucking up. I knew the cdj2000's have the bpm on the screen so I started following by this and bammm I was still messing up even following the on screen bpm counters. I did not put these tracks through Rekordbox because it was acting up so I was just using normal cds but they still should of been fine. The amount of effort I had to put into beatmatching and then they would be fine, and then they would drift and be all over the show I just threw the head up and got very cross which did not help at all. I felt the jog wheel was not consistent in its response also. I got really down about this and was ready for hanging up the headphones and still considering canceling next weeks gig because I would not like to embarrass myself in front of a larger crowd. The other guy before me seemed to do it pretty fine though and I would never be a person to blame a bad set on the gear .

The other thing is I started Djing probably over 8 years back so I am not a newbie. I learnt to beatmatch on vinyl, cdj's etc so I was not raised as a 'sync' DJ and beatmatching was never a problem though I do admit I use sync most of the time on the s4 because I hate how small the pitch fader is on the things. If I was the promoter as well I would never have booked me back as it was worse than my first gig and I have never had a gig that has went this bad.

Anyone had any evening s like this DJ'ing or problems with the CDJ2000s I can not stress how much I do would not blame gear as the guy before me was fine but something was just not right for me. And the big question should I cancel next weeks gig and take time out as it will be a full house.

Cheers
M