Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer View Post
well i think all live music is about a level of skill
and the people watching can relate to how good you are when they have something to go on visually as well as musically.
ie: watching someone scratch records well is a lot of fun because you can appreciate how hard it is to do.

with a laptop, the screen is facing the user and creating a barrier between him and the dancefloor at the same time.
also the screen covers any clever stuff he may be doing with his hands
( wanking for example )
so as a live thing for me it doesn't work, it doesn't give you anything to go on in the audience , and the perfect beatmatching can a get a little boring too
i like the odd mistake here and there.
and i like to feel the tension of a dj keeping a mix together.

it's like the difference between playing football and playing playstation.

my ten cents

werd... Traktor is not like having 2 or 4 decks so the margin for error is far less however...traktor is not completely forgiving in performance...if you have a good midi interface...xone 3d or Vestax vci100 (which I love)...you wont find yourself consumed with the laptop screen...but its their beat counter (which is far from accurate) which often mis matches tempos slightly so you have to pay attention to what your doing...or else trainwrecks are VERY Possible...(which in a way helps the performance....as ironic as that sounds)...**** ups even minor ones are frequent, and the amount of manipulation you can do with it is LETHAL.... period...


Now I'm a wax man through and through, went from wax to Final Scratch then eventually dropped the decks altogether....and actually have NEVER touched a CDJ in my life....I like my tools...my interface where I know my eq's my effects...and my old powerbook that I've been using for few years now...."turn the lights down, crack open the door to the dj booth, spark the Blunt, and let "god" in.." as Jay-Z would say.....


To me, its all about how I as a dj can deliver the music in a way that lets me create and perform on the fly instead of being some jukebox DJ. Its made Djing fun for me again, as I was actually tired of the shitty decks and ****ed up mixers at events.... god helps those who help themselves...as Grandma DeCarlo would say (rest her soul).....so I don't mind the extra set up and take down anymore either... :)