The internet (and Soulseek) still exists. It’s inexcusable.
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Most of my stuff is from Bandcamp (320k mp3) , flac and occasionally wav.
But some of the old classic cds aren’t actually mixed very well ( compared to modern stuff ) … but I won’t play YouTube rips.
Except for an autechre live in Birmingham rip which I think is old/live/YouTube.
Some legit things like aphex still sound hissy no matter what source.
Give it 10 years or so, you’ll have knobheads in Shoreditch advertising their “old school lo-fi YouTube rip only” DJ Sets.
Our kids are gonna love it.
They’ll think everything sounded like that in 2010.
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The convenience of the 21st century has made everyone lazy….
I miss going through a record bag and pulling out the vinyl i want to play…
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…that ain’t no dj…that was a juke box…and even an obvious cheap one…
poor him…so sad to see, when people got no clue at all…
i hate pretty much 90% of ALL people call themselves dj’s…
too much ego for nothin’…not enough truu artistic mindset…
since there are no real handcrafted beatmatchin’ skills needed anymore…
it’s all about taste and feel for the crowd and the moment in timeslot…
are u a cool flavour pre filter…a gatekeeper to something real ‘n feel…?
or just a mindless fool that started as nothing but a. wannabee in first place…?
no matter what genre ur promotin’…
but hey…THAT was no dj either way…
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Maybe something on his master bus would help?
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Youtube ads that extra vintage feel, like tape compression. I bet they thought they were going for that vintage AM radio feel.
I DJ a night where we often play stuff from the 80s to present. I have downloaded some videos, but they are putting up on the dang TV!
No, 320 is fine. If not the result of multiple transcoding of course.
Once you develop the ear for mp3 coding, it cant be unheard. And everything is amplified on a big sound system. Ive had a similar experience, years ago watching a mate play his set (he plays wavs, sounds lovely) then the next dude comes on and all of a sudden the sound system sound like total crap. It was mp3, and worse… he had taken a cable from the headphone output of the laptop straight to the mixer.
Thanks.
I felt I had to ask. I’ve seen negative comment about “digital DJs” in general by people with (supposedly) engineering ears, on forums here and there. I listen to a lot of this content, on reasonable headphones. It sounds fine, but I don’t trust my hearing much any more in terms of quality or detail 
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Nothing wrong with digital DJs (hey… I was one of them long before it became the norm). I’m not into audiophile bigotry. I’m not even talking about details here but plain shitty quality audio. You may not trust your hearing but trust me: you would notice the difference and you would wince in pain.
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I bet that guy thought it sounded fine on his laptop speakers/ earbuds when he practiced drunk in the mirror…once.
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Yeah, MP3 is one thing, but no interface? GET OUTTA HERE. The default Apple sound card isn’t great but I bet it was a low-end PC.
I mean, honestly at 320k the quality of your mix is really going to take precedence over the quality of your source material.
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Hanging offense, no?
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I play 320 mp3s out regularly with no issues. Just so long as they are bought from a reliable source and not dodgy ones that have been ripped from multiple sources.
For example a wav could sound worse than a 320 mp3 depending on what process was involved in making it. I could make a youtube rip and save as wav for example which would be far worse than a 320 I downloaded from an artists bandcamp or bought from beatport etc.
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I heard Stimming is working on something for this
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I was at a club once and the DJ sounded awful. Went and popped my head in the booth, turned out he was using an Octatrack…
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Wasn’t using 24bit for their 96kb rips
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cool story
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OT is the new Behringer.
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