Quote Originally Posted by TechMouse View Post
Is carrying a laptop around that much more of an encumbrance than carrying around a record bag and a large CD wallet?
No not at all, but me reaching behind the mixer to plug it in whilst the prior DJ is in the middle of their set is.

I have seen it done, needles jump, speakers pop etc. Its not fair on the DJ before you to do that. Sure some clubs may have a nice easy ability to do it, but not many I am sure.

And beatmatching on CDJ's is easy enough as it is, but moving onto using something like live which does all the tempo for you (which can obviously bring some great posibilities) would just be too easy / not as fun.