[HN Gopher] Pioneer CDJ Guidebook: A Comparison and History of C... ___________________________________________________________________ Pioneer CDJ Guidebook: A Comparison and History of CDJs and XDJs Author : aligray Score : 23 points Date : 2022-02-26 10:42 UTC (12 hours ago) (HTM) web link (passionatedj.com) (TXT) w3m dump (passionatedj.com) | evanelias wrote: | This is great and very thorough! But it's nearly 4 years old, | should have a (2018) appended to the title please. | mxmilkiib wrote: | Good stuff, though it's missing the newest model, the CDJ-3000. | scrame wrote: | Which, as a sign of the times, doesn't play CDs. | bredren wrote: | I had thought serato paired with vinyl control records on | traditional Technics MK2s was the sort-of stack of choice. | | Are people using CDs and these devices commonly today? | evanelias wrote: | I suspect it varies a lot by genre and possibly also geographic | location? | | For house, techno, drum and bass, etc I typically see a lot of | Pioneer gear, used with digital storage, not CDs. I still see | Technics turntables too, but with real vinyl, depending on the | DJ. The vast majority of the stuff I listen to doesn't involve | scratching / DMC-style turntablism though. | jjulius wrote: | It was for a time, and then the ability to plug a USB drive | into one CDJ and use it across multiple CDJs came into play. | Suddenly, instead of bringing a laptop to a club that you have | to fumble around with (no more unplugging and rewiring decks in | the middle of someone's set), all you needed to do was bring a | thumb drive. | | Nowadays you still see folk using Serato/Traitor for sure, but | - at least within the dance music community - regular vinyl or | USB/CDJ (or often a combo of both) are the most common formats | you'll see. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-26 23:00 UTC)