BCD3000 feels like a childs toy, believe me, plus most brands midi controllers have a built in soundcard, as for what you say about brand names being everything!! how? they mean nothing, industry standard means industry standard, not the best, if you have plans to play in clubs and be a professional hired club dj then you will need to learn and buy traktor/serato and pioneer/technics, as this will be the equipment you will use, and your straight in at the deep end with no tutorial, as for quality of sound, that is only ever as good as your needle, mixer and speakers, cdjs are digital, end of.
you wont see virtual dj in a club as its not club standard, its for djs who tour and do parties and stuff, how you think traktor or serato are any different is beyond me, ive used all 3, and they all do the same thing with a different skin basically, please dont tell me what you read on a forum, it means nothing without personal experience, not knocking you, if you want to believe brand hype its your money
Whatever you buy, the mixer is the single most important piece, if you want cdj, its upto you if you want to spend 2 grand on pio's flagship decks, however denon make equally as good midi/cdjs, and are cheaper, even numarks new deck is very tight and well worth checking out, regardless of your brands of choice, mixing is mixing and if you are not beatmatching manually and cant do it using a platter and pitch slider then you are going to be in big trouble trying to use other equipment, when you can do this easily within 4 bars then it makes absolutely no difference what kit you use as all you need is play and stop. Loops, effects etc are luxuries and really only used by trance djs
apologies for the wall of text
Went down last year for a week and barely recognised it though!
