Like, to give one example, i have a friend who has been a couple of years DJing now, relative to me she is new to the game. we got together a few weeks back to talk about DJing, specifically so that she could jump on my equipment at my residency if i needed to take a quick break, and i could do the same for her.
during the conversation she mentioned that she still does not use the sync button, and tries to mix manually, yet there was a lot of functions on her controler such as loops, cue points etc, which she said she just doesnt use at all.
I gave her my opinion, which is, ok when you a re totally new you should try to learn to match manually, but once your professional, you are better of focusing on things that make a difference. all of the time spent manually beatmatching is time you could be spending thinking about other things that may actually improve your performance in a way that the crowd can actually see or hear it. the thing about digital DJing, is it is so customizable now that you never now what that thing might be.
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