| Monday, August 01, 2005 |
| nu school versus old school |
so apparently Numark's releasing an Ipod mixing station that will allow u to hook up 2 Ipod's to a mixer for seamless music transitions rather than enduring full tracks from start to finish before the next one hits. I'm looking into this and it might be a solid investment if i wanna keep this djing bidness up. Given that lps will always cost 12-15 bucks a pop and mp3s are free, the only thing i'd need to worry about getting would be a second ipod and the mixing station itself which looks to come out to around 1G. Plus, i could probably carry eveything in one hand as opposed to throwing out my back everytime i'd transport my techs, mixer, and records. But then again, i've already invested so much into my current setup. How do i deal? It's a good thing i took microecon this summer. Let's look at my economic opportunity costs if i chose to stay with my current setup:
a) given that records come out to 12-15 and on average every season i buy 10-15 lps, i miss out on 120-225 bones per season in savings or 480-900 bones a year (given that sale prices for records and my interests in Djing stays the same). This means that if i continue to buy recs for the next 10 years i'm potentially forfeitting up to 9Gs of savings that i could have earned if i did with the Ipod setup.
b) potential savings in chiropractor costs in the future.
On the flip side, the opportunity costs if i was to go with the ipod mixing station:
a) the 1G to purchase another Ipod and a mixing station
b) the revenue from commercial clubs unwilling to hire me based on the fact that use Ipods to DJ (how professional is that?)
c) rrrreeeespect for "selling out" to the digital gods and tarnishing the good name of analogitivity
Hmmm....the numbers don't lie. I'd probably be better off longterm to do the investment. But is rocking Ipods still considered to be "Djing" in the true sense of the form? Mehhh
In other news, apparently people are still Djing parties with only one Ipod. Even if u have a set playlist, it's gotta suck that a) u can't mess with the pitch to beatmatch and b) there's always going to be those two seconds of silence in between each track where everything stops...the music for one, the dancing, all talking, all of it's put on hold until the next one hits....
too much music in 2 posts. i'm done |
posted by DarrenGene @ 11:27 PM  |
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