Confused......

Confused......
Posted on: 29.01.2012 by Loralee Erban
As of lately it really bugs me when someone says I have so and so controller but am upgrading to "better gear" soon.....

I believe a lot of people seem to believe its the gear that makes the dj and have really forgotten what its actually about..... I know its nice to have something shiny and new but if you dont get out of this attitude surely the second something new comes out everytime you are going to want to upgrade because yours isnt the newest product..... fuck'it im still rocking a numark omni control which im sure I few newer people dont even have a clue what it is..... Im trying to master this till it proves to be non usable anymore...............

People can rock a set on two turntables and a basic mixer.... if you have a controller that has two jog wheels and a eq section and cross fader you should be able to play an amazing set with the right music........

People need to make it about the music again and not the technology....

rant over
Latoria Kavulich
29.01.2012
Originally Posted by dj stifffy
People need to make it about the music again and not the technology....
Thank you sir.
Loralee Erban
29.01.2012
As of lately it really bugs me when someone says I have so and so controller but am upgrading to "better gear" soon.....

I believe a lot of people seem to believe its the gear that makes the dj and have really forgotten what its actually about..... I know its nice to have something shiny and new but if you dont get out of this attitude surely the second something new comes out everytime you are going to want to upgrade because yours isnt the newest product..... fuck'it im still rocking a numark omni control which im sure I few newer people dont even have a clue what it is..... Im trying to master this till it proves to be non usable anymore...............

People can rock a set on two turntables and a basic mixer.... if you have a controller that has two jog wheels and a eq section and cross fader you should be able to play an amazing set with the right music........

People need to make it about the music again and not the technology....

rant over
Loralee Erban
30.01.2012
I really find the omni control works for me if bits didnt stop working ha.... I just need a basic 2 channel controller... then my nanopad
Cristian Carmona
30.01.2012
rock what you got. i started on 1200's back in 93 and did a full circle and went back to using them again in 2011. Once you find your groove with gear its gonna be hard to replace what works for you.
Loralee Erban
30.01.2012
***like***
Charline Dye
30.01.2012
It's a good thing for some of us as we get barely used gear cheaper lol.
Loralee Erban
30.01.2012
If a company like native instruments did a modular approach we would be sorted...
Yong Aptekar
31.01.2012
You mad bro?

My buddy is the same way, he's spent the last month swithing between wanting tts, cdjs and controllers, on a daily basis. He had cdj 400s, sold them, bought them again, sold them, flipflopped all over the place, and just bought cdj 350s. The whole time asking me to do the research on what he wanted, but not listening to my opinion. He's a good guy, but it frustrated me.
Loralee Erban
30.01.2012
My controller is literally falling apart at the seems... the pitch fader on the right stopped working.... so I mapped a shift button to my jog so I can control pitch with that.... cue buttons started acting weird... realise I didn't use my cue play button so now have 2 cue buttons for each deck .... I know people might look at certain controllers and believe "toy" but this tends to be other djs... standers-by don't have a clue what you are doing nor care to be honest.
Latoria Kavulich
30.01.2012
i've seen it a hundred times in the last five years
Rick Bossett
30.01.2012
for some people its all about the image and hence the new gear i guess. although there is always the thought that if you get a brand spanking new controller you'll learn more since you have even more features available, sadly though, most will probably just continue mixing the same as they did with their old gear without pushing the limits of new gear .

i was rocking the original hercules dj controller for 6 years! half the buttons stopped working and the jog wheels were crappy as but now i have my s4... mmm sweet sweet s4.
Janyce Henningson
29.01.2012
Yep I'm guilty of getting new gear all the time but I guess I didn't find the right set-up for me till now.

The VCI400 is perfect so I won't be changing for a long time.
Loralee Erban
29.01.2012
**thumbs up**
Latoria Kavulich
29.01.2012
Originally Posted by dj stifffy
People need to make it about the music again and not the technology....
Thank you sir.
Loralee Erban
29.01.2012
Ill admit I love to have the newest and latest of everything but in terms of controllers.... people have a 4 channel controller.... and upgrade to a 4 channel controller with a new knob because its the latest thing ha... It seems like most people dont want to mess with mappings .... would rather a diff knob or button for every function compaired to "super knobs and buttons".
Scarlett Saupp
29.01.2012
It's true. Completely true, but I'd say a lot of us are pretty big geeks, and geeks love technology and new shiny toys. I'd be a bigger consumer whore myself, but it all comes down to the benjamins.

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