So you want to Learn To Dj. Awesome!
Your mate that used to DJ says “go out and buy a pair of turntables and start learning to mix. You log onto the message forums and old school DJs say “buy turntables and learn the real art of DJing“.
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Here are the facts…. When the physical music industry fell apart 10 years ago, a lot of distributors went out of business. They owed the record labels a lot of money which they couldn’t pay so a lot of record labels also ended up going out of business. The distribution channels for vinyl records fell apart, so much so that 99% of labels stopped printing vinyl.
This is the number one reason why DJs stopped using Turntables. It wasn’t because records were too expensive. It wasn’t because vinyl was too heavy to lug around. DJs stopped playing on Turntables because they had nothing to play!
A lot of the DJs went against my advice and bought tables only to find out that they couldn’t find music to play! The only markets for buying vinyl were Ebay and local classified listing sites. Nightclubs too abandoned the turntables for dj cd players such as the Pioneer CDJ 1000s.
The great news for the die hard vinylists and for people that are learning to DJ is that you can now DJ with vinyl and have access to all of your favorite songs. The best of both worlds.
How is this possible….?!?!?!?
My friends, our savior is Serato SL 3. The DJ technology industry has gotten so good now that setups like Serato and Traktor can work well with real vinyl. You can have thousands of songs, as much as you can fit on your laptop, and can play them using the special timecoded vinyls that come with the Serato or Traktor setup. You can choose to buy just the software, the timecoded CDs for the CDJs or the timecoded vinyls as shown here:
In an earlier post called “Learning To DJ pays off…” you can see Superstar DJs Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, and Loco Dice Djing using Searato with the cool looking white and red timecoded vinyl discs.
Over the last six months I have seen hundreads of DJs move back from playing CDJs or Ditital on dj software to using Serato to play on vinyl again.
Now you too can learn to dj with the feel and warmth of vinyl while still having access to all of your favorite songs!
Now get out there and rock it! 
I’ve seen a lot of big DJs with a setup like this and I was wondering why they were using it… Thanks for this posting.
DJ MV
I don’t agree with you Sean. Vinyl still lives on! You can still buy some sick vinyl!!!
Spinning the wheels of steel is the real deal….The warmth of Vinyl analogue, with no digital in between…Then the bass Freq is felt literally in the blood stream. Spinning digital is great and flawless but sharp, vinyl is not felt in this generation to understand the lows of techno in the bones. Sorry but thats just the way it is..At the end of the day its all about the Traxx, not the technology…But the real dj’s are the ones that still collect, purchase, practice, carry, smell, touch the vinyl…REGardless of compressed media…