DJM2000 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyTM9xg0-s"]YouTube- DJM-2000: Overview[/ame] 1700 quid. carson you game for some finance fraud?
I had a look at this, and cant figure out whats so good about it, apart from it being a re-positioned DJM 800 .... As time has went by, i cant see what is so good about the new CDJ's either - surely in this day and age, decks like these should be able to automatically sync, especially if they are all being beatgridded in the bundled software that analyses your tracks. 1500 quid for a single control surface, or for a deck that still needs to be manually beatmatched .... er .... why?!
beacause it's pioneer, it's club standard and they can get away with it. simple as that really brid. saying that i havent seen a club with the new CDJ's either. although i'm probably wrong there
With mad prices like that it's nee wonder people are buying MacBooks and controllers in their thousands.
Is it not more a case of them making a point by not allowing you to auto sync? Surely the whole point of playing off decks is that you beat match yourself anyway
aye but when there's a sync button there, whats the feasable point in wasting time beatmatching yourself? when you could be throwing some mad skills about looping this way and that way with about 4 effects going mental on top. whilst standing on your head with the union jack sticking out your arse....?
Not anymore it seems. Personally i think if poeple don't learn to beat match they fail to learn about 16th and 32 bars and when to drop records yeah it means you can spend more time playing around with effects but Hard house dj's who are also ways on them really do my head in its just too much. Most records/tracks in certain scenes are made at the same speed anyway so its not that hard to learn to get record pitch's matched and the process helps to get a better feel for music and how certain sound complament each other. Still helps producers become dj's faster
your not wrong there, alot of people i know who've jumped straight onto the midi control traktor/ableton highway from no experiance on anything else cracked beatmatching but still dont grasp basic music theory. saying that, it's a learning curve and i remember not being able to know wtf a bar was. it means the curve has been cut short somewhat, and since alot of people think beatmatching is the be all and end all, they sort of think they're class and fail to notice that where they've left off the track incoming, is in the completly the wrong place - and the low end is at 5 oclock
Or djs that push the eqs past 12 oclock and hurt your ears. Plus dj's not getting that when you drop two bass lines in togeather it boost the over all volume and can redline.( i am gulity of that playing techno when i am getting carried away). It is a learning curve when i started i did not have a clue about bars or mixing tracks in key stilll learning loads now after 14 years of record collecting mixing on technics on 8 years and took the leap onto cdj's last friday which i really enjoyed even though i made a few mistakes as i don't own them and only learn't how to use them though work over a few hours.
i too used cdjs on saturday night - easy man - especialy as the tunes where around same tempo however , i got boarded easyly , just mixing , felt wierd not adjusting the record , no real buzz
kin hell' you need about 4 hands to get away with using that to full effect. Very nice on the eye as the pioneer gear always has. However I think there are more value for money options out there as a couple of people have mentioned here already.
Looks quality! but fuck that lol You've got to remember that its not only a mixer but 'effectively' an EFX 1000 as well which would be 800 quid to buy separate - hence the hefty price tag. One of these is cheaper than buying a DJM800 and an EFX
You have just hit the nail on the head for me there I still use CDJ's though i am desperate to get myself traktor with the vinyl controllers, as mixing soon becomes boring on cdj's and i find myself losing interest when i am just mixing in the house on them.
I'll be amazed if anyone who gets one uses anywhere near all the features, it's a great installation mixer for a club as it entertains alot of options/setups but I'd say for the vast majority of bedroom djs it's total overkill it's like ableton/cdjs and alot of other new technology when it comes along it's what you do with it that matters, after making the switch to cdjs from vinyl about 18 months ago I've enjoyed when playing house music being able to cue up quicker and hence get tunes mixed together quicker thanks to the bpm counters giving a good ballpark to get the tempos matched and locked quickly so I can mix alot more and play 15-16 tunes in an hour rather than 12-14, not just using it as an easy mix feature so I'm only doing something about 30% of the time as that would get boring