Quote Originally Posted by Dustin Zahn
Quote Originally Posted by tioneb
i thnik teh fake 3 decks djs are the ones who use three decks to spin records in the same way as 2 dacks ie start to beatmatch a record after having finished to mix the two previous ...
I don't see how this is cheating at all? I must haved missed the meeting where there are certain rules to be an official 3rd deck DJ. I would personally rather see any DJ use this technique as a means of faster cueing than adding in another shitty club record on top of 2 other shitty club records. I get very bored of a DJ who lets a 5 minute drum track play out nearly because he either sucks or is taking his sweet time looking through his crate. So if the DJ uses the 3rd deck to cue tracks up then thats fine by me. As long as it sounds good I'm happy. :)

Obviously, I'd like to say mixing just 2 records is easy and anyone can do it, but we all know thats a lie, some people just don't have it. But using the 3rd deck is a skill that definetely is a different ball game. To be perfectly honest, some days on 3 decks I am completely terrible and some days I can hold it down. Everyone has their bad days is my point. But I think people really just abuse the 3rd deck these days.

Back in the day, people like Mills would use 3 decks with 3 minimal records to get that tribal feel...they would practically construct songs on the fly with various records. I have a theory that a lot of the european producers picked up on this mills influence and made tribal records that sounded like 2 or 3 records worth of layers all in one song. The result is these days DJs clutter their mixes with waaay too much shit going on over the course of 3 tables.

I think the best 3 deck DJs know how to fill the gaps where they need to be filled and not clutter the mix with 3 drum tracks on top of each other. I used to do 3 deck mixing a bit more but lately I've started to play tracks that I feel are more evolved and can stand on their own. Tracks that have more than just drums and a vocal chop, so its not nessecary to use 3 decks because the tracks are so full already.

I guess the 3 decks thing is quite a debate...but probably the best answer is that like most things in life: theres a little bit of good in it, and a lot of bad.
well to me whatever u do the third deck has to "sound" its used thats what i wanted to say about "fake 3 decks djs" ...

claude young does with two decks really more than most of the djs using three ive seen ... so i just think people pretending being "good" becasue thy use three decks should think first about the musical aspect and watching good 2 decks djs ...

totally agree with you about the drum tracks dustin ... playing 3 records at same time has to be done with a certain track selection thats why again i thnik people should morea bout the music rather than the number of decks ...

these 2*2 or 2*3 decks sets make me laugh so much, do you thnik it is really possible to make something hearable playing 4 records at same time ???