LT42 …this.
I totally get the excitement (‘tension’ as I’ve heard more pretentious-types describe it 😉) of mixes drifting/being corrected, but to be honest, the tech has moved on to the extent that if punters from yesteryear heard mixes from today (even on CDJ’s, I’m not talking about Traktor/computer synced), they would sound pretty fucking flawless relative to whatever was possible on vinyl.
When planning a mix or just pissing about, there’s no substitute for mixing live, I’m a kit obsessive and have done LOADS of it this year, but equally I love the cleanness of flawlessly layering 2 (or more) tracks in Live and treating it like a production. If anything, it takes the emphasis off the mixing because you can’t hear when its happening much of the time., and like I said before, some of the best ideas for edits/mashups have come from it.
