2 diff club nights and no turntables...

[qUE]

Actually, I had a quick go on some of the new Panasonic CD mixing devices in Turnkey, TCR. Quite responsive although not vinyl response and they seemed to be pretty robust. Only trouble I know with CD is that any violent vibration normally makes it skip, saying that it had the option for SD iirc.

On the pressing quality issue, I hear you, I was gritting my teeth on the first press as we'd never pressed vinyl before and had nowhere to go for advice on pitfalls of pressing or anything, all internet advice was pretty rubbish, varied and mostly studios pretending it's a requirement for them to do the mixdown and finalisation (which is bollocks). Although the final thing was reasonable, certainly not subvoice quality, but pretty near to the original bar slight groove noise. If I'd do anything in future I'd probably make the cut louder and go with a smaller run.

Saying all this I've got vinyl from the 90s that has stamp pressing anomalies, you just work with it when you're DJing imho. Worst case is when the grooves are really shallow and you get a build up of fluff on the needle, you'd have to be quick to get out of that scrape :)

[Quark]

I used to use decks, then went to CDJ's now I'm solely laptop - blow blasting ur ears out beat mixing etc - I get better results and smoother mixes from using a laptop, tracktor and keying it all up with mixed in key....

I've been like that for years... I can take my whole crate with me on high quality mp3.

I mean seriously who cares?

Vinyl breaks my back and I always hated CDJ's - just hated them... plus mine were notoriously unreliable and mixing off CD's is balls.

New punters don't give a stuff and I think if the computer programs do mostly of the donkey work for you - more power too them its the way of the future.

Almost all my music is acquired or nicked offline now to pre-test then I go and buy a full quality mp3 off a large distro site - such as beat port or similar or direct from the label.

Plus having everything digital allows me to do mash-ups etc... if I feel like it.

Vinyls dead - CDJ's are going the way of the dino..........

Unfortunate - I have a soft spot for Vinyl... of course I do...

but it isn't going to ever be what it was....