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sapphic_beats wrote:. . . and I haven't done a 100% vinyl set since. I'd never consider cutting another Dubplate. . . " - Plastician

Kina takes the whole PLASTIC out of IAN, don't it..

yeah there isnt shite here. On Mill where you were talking about, you must have been refering to Swell, London West and I forgot the other name. Swell sells only clothing now, London West moved and only sells the cheesiest of the cheese over produced house, and their stock that no one wants to buy. The other store went out of business .

Yea Serato is the ish, I think its the top notch prog to use, I never had problems with it once! But Im still in favor of switching the vinyl with the digital.. havent gone 100%. Im still a collector at heart anyway.

Vonboyage wrote:

sapphic_beats wrote:. . . and I haven't done a 100% vinyl set since. I'd never consider cutting another Dubplate. . . " - Plastician

Kina takes the whole PLASTIC out of IAN, don't it..

Hahaha!!

I've still not done a 100% vinyl set apart from a few old school 2 step sets.

I've probably only cut 1 or 2 dubs in memory since I bought it.

I do still pack vinyl for every set though.

Serato is still spinning the 1210's - for me, thats the fun of DJ'ing - it don't make a difference to me if I'm spinning a vinyl with a label on it or a scratch live sticker on it.

Each to their own though - I know there are a lot of dubplate enthusiasts on the forum - I used to be a 100% dubplate dj as well - I have two racks full of them right here, I just am and always will be a bit of a technology buff - and when I saw Geeneus using final scratch I wanted to get involved!

yes indeed Serato/FS2 can certainly have its advantages. Even tho it won't compare to vinyl in sound quality, it can get pretty close. I just bought 15 quality tracks off bleep for $20. You can not beat that deal... and the ability to preview each song in its entirety.... no waiting for stuff in the mail... and the best part is if you can pick and choose individual tracks, not bound by buying a record for just one track and stuck with another two that you dont dig so much.

its pretty sweet... but i'm still buying vinyls for the bangers and new releases... i dont think i am ready to let myself be bound to using a laptop in my performances just yet

As long as you pay for the tunes I guess it's ok. Not for me though.

serato has totally transformed what were doing with streamizm. awesome product. won't stop me being addicted to buying vinyl though anyone seen anymore of the skreamizm3 tp's

I got it the other day

And then my laptop died

Can't wait to get it up and running when my laptop is ok again. My housemate has it and it's fuckin sick.

Not about carrying three bags of records to a gig anymore.

Excellent tool, my Technics CD Deck has become redundant since buying Serato.

Great for radio shows too!

Everytime I see/use the technology it amazes me. Still not sure which to get though, prob gonna go with Serato but Cue looks good and Torq is pretty slick. Anyone know if Cue is gonna be available for mac?

Plasticman wrote:http://www.scratchlive.net/djs/?dj=plastician

They are well aware of the Dubstep movement and support the DJ's using their product.

Got to big them up 100%

nice one, thanks!

some of us even post on this forum, i know zach from rane is on here and i work for serato.

i still buy vinyl too, and now more dubstep than any other genre (techno, house, d&b,.. ). nah wait, that's a lie, its second after minimal techno for me

Serato is great! has definitely changed my view of dj-ing. it's hard to cop the original vinyl of every track you want to play, so serato helps alot.
still i'm addicted on buying vinyl...

serato is fucking sick.

love mine to bits

I'm another multi-genre dj so serato is my weapon of choice. I show up with a backpack containing a macbook, external hard drive, interface headphones, needles, 2 records and I've got 6000 tunes at my fingertips. I could drop Led Zeppelin over Reso if I wanted, I still buy wax when I can afford it but this just seems logical. $30-$50 for a plate gets expensive.

i use serato in studio with no complaints. yet, i do prefer vinyl especially when i play out. too many times have i seen djs start late because of trying to intergrate serato into the house system. i show up and im ready to go, simple.

I can see the set up issues, I generally make sure I can get there before the start to set it up. If ya can arrange it that's the way to fly.

I own and like it but I'm wary about playing out dubstep with it.
You have to be on the EQ like feathers on wings.

Snare is way too harsh sounding, bass is not full enough. Compressed files do not sound very good over a system, particularly with this music, and it makes mixing very difficult because you've gotta really be fucking with the gains, and highs, etc.

That being said, Serato and Ableton Live are changing my life. Serato has given a whole new meaning to spinning grime vocals.

Ten quid for like 15-20 tracks? Are you dumb?

BLK PLAGUE wrote:i use serato in studio with no complaints. yet, i do prefer vinyl especially when i play out. too many times have i seen djs start late because of trying to intergrate serato into the house system. i show up and im ready to go, simple.

Tangental to that, has anyone tried testing the compatibility between Final Scratch & Serato? ie. Has anyone attempted to plug their Serato laptop into a Scratch Amp, or vice-versa? Just thinking of the hypothetical situation of two DJs turning up with each system, and whether you could avoid the frantic unplugging of decks by just leaving the one Scratch Amp (or whatever's Serato's equivalent is called) in place.

Sick Boy wrote:I own and like it but I'm wary about playing out dubstep with it.
You have to be on the EQ like feathers on wings.

Snare is way too harsh sounding, bass is not full enough. Compressed files do not sound very good over a system, particularly with this music, and it makes mixing very difficult because you've gotta really be fucking with the gains, and highs, etc.

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned until now. Though do you think it's any worse than CDs? Given most would be burnt from 320 mp3s?

i got serato about 6 months ago, and havent looked back since. its made me fall in love with mixing again, and im about to upgrade to a 909, or ttm 57 as a direct result.

i still buy vinyl for the tracks that i HAVE to buy for...

i find no problems with eq'ing... as long as my mp3 is 256 or above, trying to play anything lower at a club is just ghey... it sounds wackalack.

serato... its made my skills step up ten fold.

amazing product

if i had the money would definatley have it