A year late and i finally make it on to a thread i've lived and listened to forever.

I started dj'n with vinyl in 1988 (and dual cd's around 1991) and transitioned to digital in/around 1997-2000. My set up was .... Dual soundcards(pre cheap dualplex'n cards)/ 2 instances of winamp(each it's own soundcard) with the dsp pitch control or PCDJ / Vestax external mixer/ (and my turntables+records if i had time and energy)...... I would get laughed at/mocked by half the other dj's i worked with bringing in a full tower PC with these words..... " REAL DJ'S SPIN VINYL". By the middle of the night most of the crowd would be checking out my setup asking me how I was beat mixing with 1 turntable or CD players. I had promoters asking me to come play for them, I got lots of smiles and never made DJ'n about ME.Make everyone go nuts when "their" song plays,know when to play them and make everyone leave happy wanting to come back.

Yes it is an ego boost,yes i loved the control but i would do it in a club with 10 people or 1000 as long as everyone was tired by close.... Which is what a "REAL DJ" does, period.

Oh and yes I use VDJ with a Hercules controller AND Mixmeister AND Vinyl AND Samplers. Mixmeister is a great tool. Being able to pitch a track does give vinyl and CD/mp3 deck users that small key change edge that mixmeister can't but if you want to evolve your sound pick up another tool to use with mixmeister.

Ok i'm gonna go pee now. o/