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hey broken, youre right on both accounts its not likely people will chuck shells at each other while driving or fire fireballs in a brawl; and djing is reasonably accessible. but so are skateboarding, or playing bball yet i loved tony hawk when it first came back donkeys ago and nba2k looks like it rocks. i personally would prefer to play on my turntables rather then play dj hero, while i cant be assed to learn to skate, yet love skateboard flicks and hence enjoy the game. theres prob a group of people who say skate and love music, but would never go the path of djing. its definitely not for all gamers, but there is no one game to suit all (except maybe zelda.. ha ha) maybe people are hating because the controls are so close to home in terms of looking like decks. if it was a simple colour tap tap game using the regular controller, but with the same blend style of music, it probably wouldnt get as much grief. oh well, if it even just gets a handful of people onto the likes of z-trip and shadow, even AM, then its done some good. ps ya reckon on the aus assasins forum their having the same debate about tomorrows release

no more than mario kart simulates driving... or street fighter simulates getting your ass kicked..but both are fun GAMES. it is a beat rhythm game with novel controls that is of the hip hop/ blends (or mash ups for the new school) genre. im sure it will be fun, but most def not meant to replicate djing. saying that i hear guitar hero drums on expert is about 70% real! i can sort of play guitar and found that guitar on guitar hero was more like a bass, very basic bass no flea style wupaas or string plucks. google "scratch the ultimate", a rival game to dj hero and they got numark and akai (who are owned by numark) to do the devices. this looks awesome.

i got stanton st150's.. they are awesome, though my experience is on a belt driven marantz, rental equips which i cant remember and 1210 mk2's at record stores (but you're not meant to mess about with em and not mixing). the stanton's start and stop is amazing, barely audible.the adjustable pitch up to 50% is good for cross genre mixing or just messing it right up. never tried the key lock thing. the box and all the descriptions say comes with stanton 680HP's but mine actually came with 680.EV3's which rock...works a treat with traktor. the st150's arent cheap but if you get on sale ends up being an alright startup (well easier than an over $1K for technics). i watched over 100 items on ebay for a couple of months, only to have 10-12 yr old technics keep going off at 400-500 ea which was more than i wanted to pay. i think technics are most def tanks, you always here of peepl having them rock for at least 10-15 years. plus i have heard that some people struggle having to play out on 1200's after being a bedroom banger on the high torque machines. any of you pro's found this? or is it an urban myth to scare off cheap azz newbs...

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hi just ressurecting this post rather then starting a new one. with all the mixes people have been submitting (in the battlegrounds forum or other posts), what are y'all using to record your mixes? audacity? anyone use traktor pro with the audio 4 or audio 8 or some other external sound card?

i went traktor pro cuz thats all ive used... though i too did heaps of reading and video watching of both, and was leaning towards sl3 but only went with traktor because it was massively on sale, and as a newbie i was hoping to slash as much startup costs as much as possible (in case i stink at it!). i also figured if its good enuff for craze then it will suit my amateur azz... from what ive read the audio 8 is a much better sound card than the sl3, but the serato ui is much more friendlier. traktor does also have a lot more bells & whistles, but as ive previously mentioned ive only ever used it with two turntables in absolute mode and it does me well. very low latency. in these early days playing vinyl on one deck and time-code on the other i can't really feel any diff.

yeah cheers for the welcome.. hmmm well i wouldnt call myself a scratcher just yet (i wouldnt even yet call myself a dj.. this grasshopper still has a long way to go) and i dont aspire to be dj kentaro ninja status... though i am practicing the technique to maybe drop some wigga wiggas when its appropriate. yeah i saw the hip hop section is a bit on the quiet side

hi kids. eggs sell here.. im fresh to adjf (one post in off-topic..heh) and im freshhh to the dj scene. well if you dont count doing house parties on rental eqip back in the late 80's-early 90's bumping shep pettibone 12" mixes of anyone who was anyone (thats showing my age! but i was a kid back then i swear)... always been into music, got a massive collection of cd's, mp3's and still got the old 12"s. after finding my ipod's shuffle function was crap as shyte (ive got 5,000 songs but without fail it will play blink 182 josie at least once every two days!!! its a good song but for cryin out loud!!!!). I decided im gonna make my own mixtapes! i had been doing mixtapes for mates, but in the old school cassette terms, i.e. unmixed. now since this essay hasnt really introduced me... my setup is two stanton st150's, reloop IQ2 (non usb) and traktor pro scratch (pretty much used in absolute mode, as any effects i do with the reloop iq2, but i have sometimes created an 8 bar loop to practice scratching and or pee.) listen to everything!thinking of playing bmore, breaks, hip hop old & new school (no hating now...), and really fat funky house...a disco track here and there dont hurt.