Do you use the crossfader?

[DJ_Animus]

I use the xfdr for chicago hard house style mixing. Use it for super silky smooth transitions. I use it when I scratch, I just love the xfdr.

[alien2k]

Honestly, I don't know if it is because of some genre styles (mostly techno, house, minimal) but I have seen many djs play from up close, from big name djs to regular local djs and I cant remember the last time I saw someone use the corss fader regularly for mixing. Plus adding all the vids I have seen from big djs playing I still cant find an example of a dj who regularly uses xdafer. I am not counting scratch djs, or hip hop, just the genres I spoke is what I know.
Does anyone have an example?

[DvlsAdvct]

I'm not a big name DJ by any stretch of the imagination, but I always use the crossfader, sometimes in conjunction with volume faders, for mixing EDM. But, like I said, I'm obviously an exception

[alien2k]

My personal oppinion is that at sometime in the learning curve most djs find that the control from an x curve is very small. Specially if beatmatching is not an issue anymore you can focus in nicer things. Tracks stop being just one big fade and you can subdivide your track in 3 bands (for a 3 band mixer), and start to mix frequncies rather that tracks.
I bealive that most djs that play Techno, house or similar genres like that. Just to be very general what most Djs do is mix in the highs first then the mids, cut the bass from the sounding track and bring the bass up from the new track. That would be the most common mixing style I have seen.

The x curve would never allow you to do much. That is my personal opinion based on what I have seen during my djing years.

[MattyDice]

I'm currently using a Korg Zero4 and this allows me to program the xfader curve in my computer, which has allowed for some really cool stuff in track blending. So I use both the line faders and xfader depending on which blend I'm going for in the tracks.

[tekki]

There you go... +1 add to confusion.

[Lambox]

I exclusively use the crossfader, which I guess you can attribute to my noob-ness.

[DOWN|3E4T]

I use the cross fader and the lines sometimes the eq really depends on what i am doing with my other hand. I don't think there a wrong or right way it whatever you fell comfortable with and the style of music your spinnin.

DOWN|3E4T out

[BradCee]

I do all my mixing on the crossfader and I don't scratch. I've always used it, and I think a well adjusted crossfader blends a LOT smoother than line faders.

But I'm a minority in this.

that makes two of us

[DvlsAdvct]

I exclusively use the crossfader, which I guess you can attribute to my noob-ness.

It's not noob-ness at all. If it works it works. No one's gonna tell me I'm a noob cause I use a crossfader. There are tons of other reasons to call me a noob