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Stage 0 Before You Start Course 4 of 4

Vinyl, and Why It Still Matters

Beginner 7 lessons · 1 h 5 min

You do not have to start on vinyl, and Ellaskins does not say you should. But the format explains a great deal about why DJ equipment works the way it does, and the vocabulary - dubplate, white label, acetate - still turns up. Context rather than technique.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Say why a DJ would choose a vinyl turntable at all
  • Tell a 12-inch, a 7-inch, a dubplate, a white label and an acetate apart
  • Understand why the format is worth something again
  • Follow the vinyl-versus-digital argument without being taken in by either side

Lessons

  1. Why a DJ uses a vinyl turntable

    2:19

  2. Twelve-inch, seven-inch, and what each was for

    10:13

  3. Dubplates, white labels, acetates and promos

    17:39

  4. Why an old vinyl collection is worth keeping

    1:19

  5. Why now is the time to go old school

    11:26

  6. The case for keeping it old school

    Optional 14:19

    Opinion rather than instruction.

  7. Do real DJs use vinyl?

    Optional 7:45

    Opinion rather than instruction.

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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