Vinyl users. How many of you bring the vinyl collection to gigs

[fueledbymusic]

For those of you who use turntables at gigs. How many of you actually bring music in the vinyl format? In other words. Playing all the latest music all on records (crates of records), rather than MP3s or WAVs.

Or do you guys use the turntables with time coded vinyls mostly. How many percent of you use the TTs for that purpose only. (Where you don't actually have any vinyls of the latest music)

[JackStalk]

I use actual vinyl maybe once or twice a year. Normally I play CDs on CDJs. When the turntables come out, I usually bring about 100 records with me (greatest hits albums are the best!) and it's only for certain events where I can pre-plan a setlist of all classic rock that I already own.

[akela]

I used to carry vinyl to gigs, back in the day about 20 years ago. When I got my first dual-CD deck like the Denon DN-2000F, my vinyl carrying stopped. It totally stopped in in the year 2000 and beyond. In 2010, I stopped carrying CDs (big puches of CDs too!) when I went the controller route.

That being said, I still have my Technics SL-1200 MKIIs and they are 24 years old this year. I still spin vinyl on occasion but I do not bring my turntables to gigs anymore.

[Badger]

I don't bring my whole vinyl collection to gigs (that would be a tad difficult) but I usually bring two or three crates of records to each gig, along with a case or two of CDs.

I don't use any form of vinyl emulation; I play the tracks directly from the actual vinyl releases and swap the records out manually.

[DTR]

Whatever fits in my box bag.



Apparently it can hold around 80 records, but in reality I'd be carrying a lot less than that.

[Connor]

I don't have my vinyl turntables yet so none!

[Nick Bike]

i usually take a few as backup. obv more when it's wax-only.

[dlove]

I use 100% vinyl at gigs. I've played with people with better collections than me who burn everything onto cd, tho', and although I don't do that, I can see why. A lot of my vinyl is rare, and sometimes I pack my boxes thinking 'I wish I had 2 copies, one to play out and one to keep for good' :/

[AdrianR]

I bring, a bag of vinyl and a Cd wallet. (As well as vinyl cleaner etc etc) .. I may not play ANY vinyl, and most of it is old, classics stuff now, but I bring it as back up and because I know the songs I have on vinyl are timeless. Even if I bring underground stuff, I can play it comfortably. Basically, I treat everything song for song. If I have it on vinyl I play it on vinyl.

I don'tthink I would ever do a gig with Time Coded vinyl. From what I've seen it causes trouble. If I was to do a WHOLE NIGHT of just me in a club, I'd bring a laptop and a controller and do it that way. Because then I can just have fun with it. But if I'm just on for an hour (Standard set time here now), fuck it, vinyl and Cd. Can play just as well on them as with a controller so, it doesn't worry me.

[dlove]

^^ quite often, I do 4 hour sets on vinyl. Mr Scruff goes for 6!

And I regularly play alongside people using Serato ect, and there's never any more "trouble" than with any other format.