Quote Originally Posted by g
vinyl is an outmoded, outdated, inefficient, inconvenient, crap sounding, heavy, expensive, pain in the ass waste of time format. has been for 15 years.

but until recently it was the format directly connected to the only tools we had to use. and it was standardized. i.e. if you went somewhere to dj you didn't have to worry about whether or not your records were going to work. it was also most cost-effective and transportable solution AT THE TIME.

but even if you don't like the idea of laptop djing and still have an attachment to manual beatmatching, the days of the vinyl medium, on the whole, are over. thank god.

i disagree and agree, if that happens then theres gonna be a whole drop out of people who will work standard jobs because they cant survive off making records, quality will drop, and getting paid to support a scene will be lost. I think this is wishfull thinking by some who look at it as the only way to get the foot in a some what closed door, however i think it has its positives also, it will go back to how it used to be people will get booked on how they perform, rather than being booked because they made "or had made" for them good records

(and no, my thousands of records are not for sale ;))
no way is vinyl crap sounding, its all down to the mastering, but ive never heard cds get that transfered weight as you do when a vynle is cut, that needle gliding through the grooves just fattens it so much, i mean lets face it the cd/dj player isnt a new thing, i remember seeing one a good 12 years ago at a friends audio store. but sound wise i take records anyday. It wont be long before "thank god" we will be able to at least drop these mp3 crap dj units and swap for full blown wav or aiff. i mean lets face it mp3 has only surfaced due to a rubbish internet speed network, but with standard homes getting now between 1.5 and 4meg connections it wont be long before there gone for good, i think probably before vinyl if were lucky....

the thing i also like about listening to djs with the minimal setup of "vinyl a pair of decks and a good old alan and heath" is because the digital age has given rise to all these little tweakable poorly "made in china" effects units that dj's think it a god given rule to F*** with every 30 seconds

i disagree and agree, if that happens then theres gonna be a whole drop out of people who will work standard jobs because they cant survive off making records, quality will drop, and getting paid to support a scene will be lost. I think this is wishfull thinking by some who look at it as the only way to get the foot in a some what closed door, however i think it has its positives also, it will go back to how it used to be people will get booked on how they perform, rather than being booked because they made "or had made" for them good records....