Just be glad you’re not buying vinyl. The amount of badly cut, badly pressed stuff that used to be about was crackers.

    Thanks chaps, maybe I’m fucking aboot too much!

    Could never afford a setup when I was buying vinyl, spent too much on ‘leisure’!

    I’m gutted getting set up wasn’t more accessible in the early 90’s

    Never factored in vinyl rips!

    Yeah I think I wouldn’t be DJing now if my price of entry was what the 90s DJs paid.

    I reckon the average price of vinyl when I bought it was about £6 upto £20. Agree with Amps as well on the sound quality. Some had no bass or to much bass which would drown out the mids & tops. Every record I bought on Choo Choo sounded awful.

    9 days later

    Amps Have to say some of the recent vinyl i’ve bought from Shall Not Fade sounds a bit ropey. Think some of these producers get a bit too “90s” in the mix and it can sound really muddled and mid-rangy…..or in other words like a piece of turd is stuck to your needle .

      IndustryStandard I’ve heard of some producers putting the crackle and pops of vinyl into the final mix of 90’s/Italo inspired tracks.

      IndustryStandard It appears vinyl production was a bit of an art.

      I know I bang the same fuckin drum all the time gents, but all you need to dj is a usb full of wavs, a modern pro mixer and two cdjs (pioneer stuff being my choice). Anything else is a waste or indulgence. Wavs from a professional producer, through a decent mixer will sound sweet as fuck.

      IndustryStandard

      Was talking to lexicon avenue about this. He said it was remarkable back in the day how much you had to remove sound out of tracks and give the remaining sound ‘room’ for it to sound right on vinyl when producing or it just wouldn’t sound right at all compared with today’s methods.

      Wondering if some modern producers aren’t factoring this in.

      2 years later

      Does anyone actually use the Rekordbox Cloud solution? It’s only £7 a month now and I’m tempted as long as it’s improved since I trialed it when they first launched it

        Along_the_Wire errr i might but what do you use it for - just to store music or as a place to load tracks from to your CDJ or other player ?

          Mad_Cyril looks like it, but it looks like it’s seamless. I’d just like to open a Rekordbox app and have my tunes there so I can listen and rank whilst I’m out and about

            4 days later

            Mad_Cyril on the core package it doesn’t look like you can edit tracks, so not ideal.

            Does anyone upload purchased tracks to Apple Music? I’ve tried and it seems patchy - once it’s in Apple Music do you create an album or a playlist?

            This has potential.

            https://dj.studio/pricing?currency=GBP#compare

            I currently use to quickly try out different track sequences etc . Much better way to program a mix before getting it done - beats the snakes & ladders approach of winging it.

            Things like automix are a bit pointless, but I bought as they’re putting a lot of effort into, have good integrations and have marked online/mobile/cloud backup as a future enhancement.

            Was only £140 for full, perpetual, licence so felt worth a punt

              Mad_Cyril integrate well with your Denon software? Can you add cue points etc and they transfer across?

              I’ll bet they’ll be subscription in a year or two. Most annoying addition to anything you already fucking well own.

                Along_the_Wire
                Yep
                Yep

                Agree with the last sentiment but the ability to lay out a mix and move tracks about was worth the money, had nothing else I could do that with

                  Along_the_Wire
                  Full version.

                  Uses plugins - I use the mixed in key one.

                  Their support is probably a better option as my setup / requirements will be different to yours 👍