What's going on? This is Karim from DJ booth net, and I'm here in the lab to give you guys a really quick comparison video of some slip mats that I've been using over the years. They're perfect for scratching, they're great for cutting it up, and making sure you have a very, very slippery surface for when you're out there scratching and doing your different tricks or different juggles, and so on and so forth. First up, we have the legendary and iconic Thunder rumble DJ Qbert and visible scratch pickles butter rugs. They're very thin, very, very thin slip mats, very lightweight. They have a shiny surface on one side, and then the other side, they have like this felt-like surface. They have many different iconic style labels to them. They have a tractor label version. The back has that cloth feel to it, and the front has that shiny surface to it. And they also have the Serato DJ version. And then they have all of their different proprietary thud rumble styles, like the one you see here. I've been

using these for years and years now until I wanted to get something a bit different because I find when using butter rugs sometimes they're a little too thin, meaning that they sometimes come off of the platter along with the record if you're switching actual live vinyl, and they are just sometimes not as durable. You get some fraying around the edges and around the corners after you use them for a while. So someone recommended to me that I go try the new Dr. Suzuki slip mats. These have been out for a few years as well. The Dr. Suzuki slip mats come with these plastic slip discs, which are lightweight, really shiny surface style discs that you put onto your platter prior to putting on your slip mat. And then they have the slip mat itself. The topside is felt, and the bottom side has like this textured style surface that's also very slippery. And the two of them in combination makes it so you have very good control, but it's even more slippery than using the Thud Rumble additions over here.

butter rugs for some reason. This just seems to be a little bit more slippery to me. Even the butter rugs and these to me when I first started using them were super slippery. So these are a little bit more durable to me and they do have a little bit more of a slippery style feel to them. I do like the fact that these are thinner. So sometimes the thickness plays into part of how you're going to use your record. Now you're manipulating your record and if you have any shakes or wobbles or anything like that. And I do like it that it is thin and it feels like you're almost putting the record right on top of the platter with no slip mat. And they're very slippery as well. Very good control. But I just like the Dr. Suzuki just a little bit more. But again, they're all very highly recommended. These come in at about 25 bucks, which is one of the points where the Thud Rumble butter runs will win. Because you can get these in many different styles, many different colors.

and many different brands on them. While this azuki's come in just this gray color, they also have a mixed version of the slip mat, which is better for mixing, gives you a little bit more control. But I know people that said that they use the mixed ones as well for scratching, and they work just fine for them. So, that was just a quick comparison between two slip mats that I've been using over the years: the thought of Rumble butter rugs, which are still very good, and my new favorites, the dr. Suzuki scratch slip mats.

DJ Slipmats: Butter Rugs VS Dr. Suzuki Scratch

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