WHAT DO YOU THINKING ABOUT SYNC

Sync basically matches two bpms of two tracks together, and what offends people is that they feel like the art of beat matching is no longer relevant - that everyone can be a DJ now because they can skip hours and days and months of practice on learning how to beat match by ear.

And for anti-sync users, they feel like people who use Sync are cheating and are devaluing the overall art of DJ’ing.

Now to be fair. When one learns how to beat match, one begins to really understand their songs, beats, and tracks. Their ears become more in tune in hearing if two tracks are perfectly beat-matched with each other. And that in itself is also an invaluable skill to have as a DJ. 

And one also begins to learn how to use their jogwheels to further align their tracks together. 

So, if you use Sync as a beginner DJ, you kinda bypass all of those lessons that MUST be learned. 

So here’s my take. If you’re beginner DJ, please learn how to beat match manually by ear first before learning anything else. You must literally train your ears to discern if two tracks are aligned with each other. 

Now, let’s say, you’re not a beginner dj, and already know how to beat match and jogwheel by ear without visuals. My man,  you’re pretty much good to go with syncing in my book. 

Anyway, now, most modern DJ’s who don’t use Sync, pretty much to do this when they DJ.

First, They look at the visuals of the currently playing track, see the BPM, then move the tempo fader of the second track to match the currently playing track’s BPM,

That act of looking and matching, is essentially syncing done in two skippable steps.

And you may be wondering. Why would I want to skip that essential step that pretty much defines “what DJ’ing is all about” 

Well the answer is pretty simple. 

Because DJ’ing is more than just matching and blending songs together. 

At it’s core, it’s about making people dance. And the people on the dancefloor don’t care about what equipment you’re using, what technique you’re implementing, or whether or not you’re using Sync. They just care about the tracks you’re playing and if you’re making them have a great time.

So by skipping those two steps, hopefully you can use that energy that you reserved for beatmatching, to do more in things in your DJ performance that take more skill and energy. 

Like scratch, use effects, do cool dj tricks, think of the next song, MC, and read and interact with the crowd.

Now, Of course, Sync does not enable you to do that. You can do all that by also beat matching by ear. 

So, I guess what Im trying to say, is that Sync is just a tool that can help you out if you let it. 

And that there is no need to hate on a tool, that can enable you to do more with your performance, if you have the skills, drive and ability to.