learning CDJ from s4 for a small gig

fucking oldschoolers trying to make beatmatching seem hard. Beatmatching on CDJs is mindless. You don't have to do fader math unlessthe CDJ is old. Just move the tempo fader until the two tempo readouts match. If you're mixing deep house, the BPM readers will be fine. Then you just press play on the 1, and nudge until it fits.

You should still practice to get the hang out if though. Just use your S4 with the stock mapping without sync. It's easy. You'll quickly go "What the fuck are these old dudes talking about? A monkey could do this".

^ seriously... this...
Old schoolers are trying to claim bpm readers don't work because of rounding? FFS, we're talking about less than 1/2 a bpm here... If you listen, you'll be able to fix it the last 1/2 BPM by ear, even if the deck is live without anyone even noticing. If the CDJs you're using don't do decimal places, then Match them down to the closest whole number, press play on beat, nudge to fix (should take about 1-2 seconds) and if it's still getting off time (at the maximum rate of .5 bpm per minute, so slowly as hell), notice which direction you having to nudge, and move the pitch fader in that direction...

Come on oldschoolers, stop looking for cred and talking about "doing it by feel". You just sound like jackasses to we newschoolers who know how to beatmatch. If you wanna "do it by feel", spin vinyl, CDJs do this shit for you.

Sounds like you agree with my point. Are you saying I use math to mix? I learned on vinyl man.

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This ^^^^^^ There are no dinosaurs here professing that beatmatching is the most difficult thing, what we are saying is that it is a skill that requires a certain level of practice and conformability. The fact that you are "doing the math" to beatmatch tells me, you haven’t really mastered it, because if you’ve mastered it its more a feeling, I dont really have to calculate anything, just feel it,

The CDJ's will read 130 BPM for 129.6 or 130.4. big difference. You threw that word "NUDGE" in there too lightly. If you try to mix my example 129.6 with 130.4 you will be nudging a lot. If you don't practice beatmatching with your ears your excessive nudging will end up train wrecking. I always use the +/- 6 % setting because if you notice it gives you a finer (.10) pitch resolution.

You sure you guys mix without sync?

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thanks for responses guys! to be honest its not even a full blown gig - i will be playing very early in the evening so i doubt there will be many people but i still dont want to embarrass myself and get called in again. If anyone knows any good resources where there is a detailed walkthrough to CDJ - i would welcome it, as i couldnt find anything good from my research.

so any comments on - can i hook up traktor software with laptop to CDJs (to read bmps and waveforms from laptop)? how would i go about doing so?

thanks!

you need timecoded cds, and a Audio 4/6/8/10 to be able to do that. I'm assuming you don't have that. So unless its a midi capable cdj, you probably won't be able to do that. Even then I wouldn't want to mess around trying to make it work before a gig. Best off just learning how to use a cdj.

As for tutorial. Its very similar to your S4 it really is. Its just with no information. The layout itself will be similar. All you need is to search a track, select it, cue, play. adjust.

But if you are burning CDs here is what I recommend:

Burn SLOW 1x slow. This will ensure there are no screw ups.
Label CD with all tracks well. Or print out info with track stuff on it.
Burn as Audio track. Don't burn as Mp3. Some CDjs can't read these. So that way you can save these cds for later use.