Your Turn to Advise the New DJ!

0:00 Vinyl turntables, loads people

Alright folks, Jonathan here. I do get loads and loads of people asking me about what should I buy. Now here's the deal, there's loads of people who have been watching my videos for quite a while, in fact over a year, and you're used to vinyl turntables, you're used to CDJ players, you're used to PC programs, but there's a lot of people out there who haven't really got the foggiest and don't know what to buy. So this particular video is all about you sharing your bit of information you have, your bit of knowledge DJ tutorial by Ellaskins What you have to take into consideration is possibly this. Let me kneel down. Let's say, for example, you are in the middle of nowhere and you have not got the capabilities of, say, driving to a shop and buying records. So, are you stumped? Will you be able to use vinyl turntables? Well, the answer is yes, because you buy some vinyl turntables, you buy some virtual vinyl, the likes of Serato Scratch Live,

1:24 Places where you can download music

And then you can become a DJ because all you've got to do is basically download the music off the internet, burn it onto your hard drive and then you can use the likes of Serato Scratch Live. Same applies with CD players. You don't have to buy CDs anymore because... You can go to the places where you can download music, you can burn it onto a CD and then you can use it in your CD players. Alternatively, the likes of Serato Scratch Live, they actually have two virtual CDs you can put in there. So, this video, what I'm going to do every time I get a person asking me should I buy vinyl or should I buy CD, and of course there are other formats as well. I'm going to give them this link to this video so your information you put underneath here is vital because hopefully new DJs will look at this video and they'll also read the comments you've left. Now, here is... This is a vinyl turntable. There is your basic mixer. So, using Serato Scratch Live, you can have virtual vinyl, your mixer, you'd have your laptop here and...

All the music would be on your laptop and you would use it through these particular turntables. Alternatively, you could have something like this, two CD players. You could do exactly the same thing. So, you could in essence be in the middle of nowhere and still be able to use CD players or vinyl. But then also we've got these guys here now. This is from American Audio. Now, this is known as the SDJ-1. And what have you got here? You've basically got sound cards, there you go. Wang that out, you can put all of your music on here from your actual PC and then slot it in there and you have two separate entities that you can plug into your mixer. So there you go. Now there is another way, alright. Here's the deal. Put your comments underneath. Now bearing in mind you possibly are going to be advising new DJs in the future. Practice and enjoy.

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