Vinyl, CDJ, PC, and the Future Is......? MR/MRS DJ.

0:00 First of all though, I want to go back about three or four years

Hi folks, Jonathan here. A while ago I did a video and it was entitled Vinyl, PC or CDJ, which one is the future? Something like that. And I asked all of you guys to give your thoughts, your comments on the matter, which one you thought would be the future. Now I've sort of made up my mind in a roundabout kind of way and I want you to comment on what your thoughts are and maybe just, you know, a brief idea what you think. First of all though, I want to go back about three or four years. I did a car boot sale quite locally and I took a couple of Madonna picture discs. Now I had those to one side and I can always remember a couple of young ladies walking past, I mean they were girls, they were maybe 12, 13 or 14 year olds, and one said to the other, not to me, to each other, he said, what are those things? And the other one, I can remember her saying, I don't know. So they actually didn't know what they were. Admittedly they were not black so they weren't like proper...

1:23 It from that point of view

Here are a set of CDJ turntables and a mixer. Become a DJ. They wouldn't know anything about vinyl. They would have never seen it. Maybe they have seen it, but they just didn't know that, like I said earlier, that was a proper piece of vinyl. So they wouldn't be missing anything. They wouldn't think, oh my goodness, vinyl is the best, you know, CDs are crap, PC is crap. So we need to look at it from that point of view. Now me personally, like a lot of people out there, I love vinyl. Like you guys maybe, you love vinyl. I personally think now that it's the wrong attitude just to say all vinyl is best. Everything else is crap because we have to always continually look to the future. Now I am not contradicting myself at all because I love vinyl, I always will like vinyl. I like the touch, the feel, it's a very intimate sensation putting that piece of plastic on that turntable and actually manipulating the music by hand as opposed to a machine doing it for you.

2:46 In my mind they are all the future

Here's the deal. Let's say you're in the middle of Africa, you're in the middle of China, you're in the middle of America, it doesn't really matter, and you haven't got a shop whereby you can buy vinyl close to you. Well, the way technology is moving forward, you can buy a PC program or a set of CDJ turntables, you can download some music, you can burn it onto a CD once you've paid for it, and there you go, you can become a DJ. So, the way to look forward, or the way I'm looking forward... It's like this basically. I will always have my vinyl collection, but then I will be using CDJs as well because in a sense they're all the future. In my mind they are all the future. Maybe we've got the likes of Serato Scratch Live whereby you can have two virtual pieces of vinyl and use all the music from the PC. In a sense the two are gelled together. You're using vinyl, you're using PC.

The likes of CDJ, you have vinyl mode etc. Maybe it isn't precisely and exactly like using vinyl turntable, but for the person who cannot get hold of vinyl, it's possibly the closest thing they'll ever get to using vinyl. So again, what is the future? The future is up to you. That's what it's all about. If you want to use vinyl for the rest of your life, then so be it. Use vinyl and I wish you the best of luck, and so does everybody else. Then go for it. And if you want to use CDJs, who gives a monkey's? It's about the music. That's all it is. Practice and enjoy.

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