Cd Deck Massive

[CANO ...]

Whos a member and whats your choice of deckage ?

Just interested like

[Shooms]

Denon DN S5000

Alpha track facility means effectively you only need one deck all night Plus it has a real spinning platter for the tactile amongst us (like me)

Technics 1210 mk5 x 2, Denon DN S5000 x 1, Numark 5000fx mixer x 1, loads of vinyl & the occasional cd = one happy Shooms

YouTube - Denon DN-S5000 in action

[Biskit]

pioneer cdj 1000's, all the 1000's are top to use mkII/mkIII

my m8 has the new denon, uses a hard drive, excellent piece of kit..

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still like the pioneers though

[CANO ...]

Nice

nifty idea of using the one deck to mix , great clippage

Originally Posted by Shooms

Denon DN S5000

Alpha track facility means effectively you only need one deck all night Plus it has a real spinning platter for the tactile amongst us (like me)

Technics 1210 mk5 x 2, Denon DN S5000 x 1, Numark 5000fx mixer x 1, loads of vinyl & the occasional cd = one happy Shooms

YouTube - Denon DN-S5000 in action

[dazz m]

ive got the one like the photo above- the denon dns3500.
imho its the dogs dangly bits!! i use it to play me rare italo mp3's on.
still a vinyl purist though!

[CANO ...]

looks smart that

Originally Posted by Biskit

pioneer cdj 1000's, all the 1000's are top to use mkII/mkIII

my m8 has the new denon, uses a hard drive, excellent piece of kit..



still like the pioneers though

[blue jammer]

Not wanting to rubbish the CDJ's at all, but here's my take on it.

I had a Denon and a Pioneer CDJ1000mk3 and whilst they were good and handy for playing things that weren't on vinyl (new stuff and maybe tunes you didn't own/rare etc) the control wasn't the same as vinyl.

The Pioneer was sturdy and the reverse function was ok, for the money though they are far too pricey imo, unless you really are going to use them a lot.

The Denon was a better deck out of the two as it had some built in effects, echo/filter/flanger and they really were good.

Scratching on either deck was truly awful though, you'll never replicate the vinyl control with a CD deck.

I sold both my CDJ's and have gone back to using a laptop with Final Scratch.

The reasons for that are;

usage
cost of media (cd's)
space

I network a laptop, so anything I download new or old can instantly be accessed over the network and fed into Final Scratch. The control is still vinyl as the time coded vinyls do the job nicely, it saves on space and there's no cost at all for any media which saves on time and money.

It's an alternative and works best for me, might not be for everyone but something to consider.

[Shooms]

I considered FS as I really like the product & like you say the manipulation is the same (agree about scratching on cdj) but I'm not a big mp3 fan - I wanted 4 channels worth of input (& no space for 2 more decks) so the Denon is the ideal compromise for me; 4 channels of input for 3 pieces of kit

For what it's worth if Denons & Pioneers had an even playing field (ie. Pioneer weren't giving away the kit to clubs to get it saturated in the market) then in my opinion Denon would be the clear winner - by far the better piece of kit. People buy Pioneers purely because they are 'industry standard'...

[JACKG]

Originally Posted by CANO ...

Nice

nifty idea of using the one deck to mix , great clippage

Youve seen me do it before

[blue jammer]

Originally Posted by Shooms

I considered FS as I really like the product & like you say the manipulation is the same (agree about scratching on cdj) but I'm not a big mp3 fan - I wanted 4 channels worth of input (& no space for 2 more decks) so the Denon is the ideal compromise for me; 4 channels of input for 3 pieces of kit

Final Scratch uses either mp3 or wav files - I only ever use wav files on it - for the fact that it analyzes wav files faster than mp3 and the quality is superb.

A lot of people are put off that FS is marketed at the mp3 market, but don't realise it uses wav files too

FS hardware lets you configure so you have 2 x decks and 2 x line (the line are the final scratch inputs) so you can use all 4 inputs on the mixer and switch easily between the two - I have 2 mixers though and 3 decks with FS in my current setup to allow faster mixing and additional scratching as I'm a fussy fucker

[zot]

Had some 1200 mk2's for about 15years, last year converted to Pioneer CDJ 1000 MK3'S and a Pioneer DJM800 Mixer.

Took about a week to suss beatmatchin propely but wouldn't look back, sound quality, functions, effects and freedom to mix anything is unreal....love em

[bren]

ive just bought a set of pioneer cdj's 1000 mk3 and im so glad ive bought them never will go back to vinyl

[siman91]

Im a poor man when considered to you lot with your flash 1000's.

I have just updated my faithfull pioneer cdj100's which will be up for sale soon (maybe). I got a pair Pioneer cdj800 mkII's for £600 and they are top class. I have nothing on cd other than a few cd's i burned myself of some of my records where I wanted doubles.....now I will burn my whole collection across as for simple beat mixing they are a peice of piss although ive not got the hang of vinyl mode fully yet.

For me vinyl is king and will never be replaced, warn analogue sound with homely pops and the physical connection of fingers to vinyl........ I need to calm down a little. So if possible keep both!

For me 800's perfect and I would recommend, cheaper than 1000's, solid standard pioneer construction but still will not replace vinyl.

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[etech]

For the DiYers out there

Optical DJ controller - Hack a Day

[postie1]

Even though i am a fan of cdjs there are negative points that prove vinyl is better.The life span of a burned cdr disc is approximately 2-5 yrs Storage expert warns of short life span for burned CDs so they deffo get a thumbs down there,i do own some pion 1000s and enjoy em,but like everything novelty wears off and find me self resorting more to me tech decks more and more,when i bought em i nearly sold me decks,glad i never now coz in my opinion they still rule