DJing - Using Live 5 like 2 CD Decks (I do the beatmatching)

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:31 pm

kabuki wrote: But SCRATCHING - now that is a different story, and it has nothing to do with beatmatching.

all the best scratch dj's iv seen beatmix too

but i'v seen to to many vinyl dj's who can't even mix..

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:57 pm

kabuki wrote:I learned to beatmatch. Whooptie Friggin' Do.

Not too hard to do and beleive me, I'm no genius.

Have you learned to write Japanese? You don't know what you are missing.

My point is, what is good for you is good for you but not necessarily good for the rest of us. Ultimately, it comes down to the audience, and if they are having fun, then who really cares if you are beatmatching, if its in tune or not, if the dirty hippy in the alley shit the pants he is wearing yesterday, or if Sasha made the song...

I know what I'm missing, and I couldn't care less. Neither could the kids dancing their asses off.

But SCRATCHING - now that is a different story, and it has nothing to do with beatmatching.

Scratching????.....just grab a frickin' record, wiggle it, play with the fader and "transform away". In the end, it IS all about how the crowd reponds. But some of us on this forum are artists and producers not just "juke-boxes" for hire.

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:31 pm

ChiDJ wrote: Scratching????.....just grab a frickin' record, wiggle it, play with the fader and "transform away". In the end, it IS all about how the crowd reponds. But some of us on this forum are artists and producers not just "juke-boxes" for hire.

Scratching - because that is the one thing you need platters for that Live can't do... and I HAVE heard folks scratch well that can't beatmix well and vice versa.

But I agree. I think that if using Live is just a matter of playing one song after another, you might as well be using an iPod. Live (or any other digital mixing suite) requires the DJ to step it up a bit (No pun intended).

I am consistantly amazed at the quality of the mixes I hear on this forum
(Helium Babboon, COSM, Vinkalmann, Smutec, etc), but also, I am more impressed if they are actual mixes, not just arrangements.

By a rule: If I can do it, its not that impressive. To me.