Equipment Help/Opinions Please?!

[lewiis]

aha,

another question i have is when looking at the cdj 900 it has slip mode which i like the sound of, beingable to mix but let the song continue on,

do any of these other devices have the same feature or way of setting it up to act just like slip mode on the cdj900?

[eggssell]

ha ha ive just tried to read what slip mode was on the pioneer site and the skratchworx site and stll dont understand it. can someone explain it in english...

[wazza]

slip mode let the track keep playing when your scratching....a bit like DUMP mode on the Denon dns 5000 & 3000

[lewiis]

yess i want to be able to scratch but then continue where the song should be

[chrismak]

just for clarity actual djing does not involve a laptop... get some 350's and a 2 channel mixer and use cd's

they used to say this:

"just for clarity actual djing does not involve a cd player... get some 1200's and a 2 channel mixer and use vinyl"

Remember the OP wants to DJ for fun and friends and said nothing about club gigs. The Traktor S4 with an existing laptop is nothing to sneeze at.

[pulsebeat]

yess i want to be able to scratch but then continue where the song should be

if you want to scratch dont buy cdj 200s

i bought em when i first started and didnt know there wasnt scratch so yeah

maybe look into some reloop cdjs

they are bacically pioneers and from what ive heard are reliable and have the functions you need

[mattus123]

is there any reason why no one has suggested Denons?

maybe look at the DNS700

http://www.djwarehouse.com.au/denon-dns ... layer.html

they are withing your budget, and leaves enough left over money for a mixer

[Funky_Steve]

Best advise I could give would be to go visit a few DJ stores and check out what's available. Try as many systems out as you can. Talk to the sales people who usually are DJs themselves or know all the techy stuff about the gear. You may be surprised at what you personally like compared to what others have provided an opinion on.

After all, you're the one who has to learn to use it and feel comfortable with it. And then if you out-grow the system, upgrade further down the track.

[eggssell]

lloyd i am assuming that you will still need to beatgrid all your tracks. im pretty sure traktor hasnt advanced itself that much.

autogrid works 90% of the time though, it just has to let it scan for a few seconds prior to playing the track.

does serato require scanning/analysing as well?

do you really think it works 90% of the time? maybe its different with different genres.

while i beatmatch thru the headphones, i do rely on traktor to label the bpm's so i can sort by bpm and hence make it easier to select songs from my collection while mixing on the fly (much like labeling your vinyls in the old days). i havent bothered to beatgrid yet (sounds tedious).

now i know occassionally traktor cant analyse so i will use a BPM app on my iphone to fill in the BPMs.

however while mixing hip hop recently, i noticed rather than saying it cant analyse it actually analyses it wrong. i automatically knew it would double some (i.e. show 160 or 180 when its actually 80 or 90), but i have come across tracks where it just had a random number (like 95 when it is 90; or 86 when its 93-4). which would totally stuff me up cuz ill grab a track while mixing thinking i can pitch down or up by a bit then i end up pitching it by heaps so it sounds stupid, then have to quickly search for a new song!!!

so yesterday spent sometime manually bpming heaps of my tracks.

oh well just like the old days i guess!