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Just ordered my first bit of kit! What did your first ever setup consist of? Posted on: 02.06.2013 by Debi Capp I just ordered a Traktor S2 (w/ Blue Chroma Caps) and a Traktor Pro 2 Macbook Pro Keyboard Cover! | |
| Dannie Dimora 05.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by Ed Paris
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| Matt Kane 05.06.2013 | i started out with a spraypainted keyboard and traktor 2. i don |
| Klara Kinnebrew 03.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by loverocket
Yea I was 3 in `89... |
| Margaretta Hebenstreit 08.06.2013 | Traktor kontrol x1 and audio 2 dj had no idea what i was doing, i fell right into the trap of NI advertisments, checking tutorial vids about the x1 on their website and believeing "yeah i wanna do that" "mixed" my first 6 months without any kind of mixer, no eqing, just the crossfader using my macbooks trackpad. i had no idea really, but it was fun and since then i've stepped up my game quite a bit, and the x1 (now 2 of them) are still my all time favorite midi controllers (tested out quite a few) |
| Latoria Kavulich 07.06.2013 | Panda Board for the DJTT hall of fame! |
| Dedra Kreinbring 07.06.2013 | Mixtrack pro all the way! Started originally just using VDJ home and my laptop |
| Patria Fotos 07.06.2013 | Mixtrack Pro and a Akai LPD8. I used a shoebox for a laptop stand. Had no idea what I was doing. Had so much fun anyway! |
| Trey Brune 06.06.2013 | 2 x Stanton T.52's & Stanton M.202. The cheapest Direct drive combo I could afford. Really made me appreciate good gear, though I still appreciate that setup for helping me grasp the fundamentals. |
| Fannie Ohayre 07.06.2013 | 1983, a pair of 1200s and a cheap Radio Shack mixer. |
| Blanche Dumke 05.06.2013 | I started with a Vestax VCI-100 SE a few months back. Now I got my S2 last week |
| Len Lukawski 05.06.2013 | 1995: Soundlab DLP3's and a soundlab mixer - the one with the big channel cut buttons either side of the crossfader. Then 1210s in 1996. Sold then in 2008 to a mate. They are still going strong and I've since bought a pair of much newer 1200 mk5s. |
| Danae Dumler 05.06.2013 | Very first setup I played a party with, probably 1984?, was a cheap very light plastic belt drive turntable (I believe it was a Sony), a cheap-ass Radio Shack mixer, and a Pioneer. Pioneer cassette deck, that is! Don't remember what headphones other than I had some, and I didn't know shit about matching beats, I just alternated songs on tape and vinyl throughout the party. Good times!! |
| Werner Bile 05.06.2013 | A pair of Gemini belt-drives and some crappy 2 ch Gemini mixer |
| Maryam Fevold 05.06.2013 | My very first setup was about 15 years ago, I was DJing with some cheap-ass Gemini tables and a mixer. Then I took a break from DJing and focused on production. About two years ago, I got back into it with an S4, but then recently downsized to an S2 - the opposite of what most people do! |
| Dannie Dimora 05.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by Ed Paris
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| Matt Kane 05.06.2013 | i started out with a spraypainted keyboard and traktor 2. i don |
| Cole Maroto 05.06.2013 | 2x technics 1200 mk3ds and a stanton sk2f limited edition mixer. still have all of it too...though my stanton has a humming coming from the master volume that i don't know how to fix. |
| Breanne Penge 04.06.2013 | First setup was 2 x technics 1210's and a Numark DXM01 mixer. Congrats on getting started |
| Janeen Tarricone 04.06.2013 | Around '99 I got a cheap two channel mixer at Best Buy and two cheap soundcards for my desktop. There was DJ plug-in for WinAmp that allowed you to control the pitch and set a cue point. So with two copies of WinAmp up, one assigned to each sound card, you could mix. Latency was pretty bad but I was able to work around it. It taught me a lot and really makes me appreciate how far things have come. |
| Will Spinello 04.06.2013 | A pair of belt drive decks by Limit and a nasty, nasty 2 channel mixer that had a dodgy cross fader. Sound out to my amp and I recorded sets into an ancient tape deck (Which I've still got.) The limits were horrible, but as I've said before, if you can mix on belt drives you can mix on anything. My mate still uses on of them in his house. Wonder what happened to the other one? Probably returned to hell when it couldn't find anymore beginners to annoy. |
| Cora Younginer 04.06.2013 | Thread makes me feel super blessed with my first setup. Mixtrack non-pro with my cheap Realtek soundcard splitting the outs on a pirated VDJ copy. |
| Klara Kinnebrew 03.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by loverocket
Yea I was 3 in `89... |
| Jerica Salava 03.06.2013 | You little lucky bastards. I practiced beatmatching vinyl (For WEEKS) with one of these (NO PITCH CONTROL) : $T2eC16hHJHUFFfRN+OMoBRYDV8Jjfg~~60_35.JPG And one of these hooked up to an old Technics receiver: technics_sl-d202_turntable.jpg Had to be around 1989. The I got headphones and a realistic mixer. I bagged groceries and waited tables till one day in 1992 I bought a brand new Technics 1200 from a South American export warehouse (shhhhh) for $350. The smell of the platter and the brand new electronics was intoxicating. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it's still one of the happiest days I can remember. |
| Darren Teboe 03.06.2013 | Bought a Numark DM 1600x and a pair of Technics 1210's all brand new. 15 years later, I still have those decks, though I've gone through several mixers since. |
| Klara Kinnebrew 03.06.2013 | Got my first bit of kit less than a year ago now. All hand me downs. a Numark axis 2, an Axis 8 and a denon DX120 mixer. I was having lots of fun with that old ass gear until I tried to update the software on it. They completely waked out and stopped working. So I was forced to upgrade... |
| Dannie Dimora 03.06.2013 | for djing: An old pentium3 computer with a pirated version of vdj. Much like jester's keyboard, only dirtier and without the labels/writings on the keys Then i progressed to my ipod touch running some first-gen djing app (read, no pitch shift or load from library) For production: My oldman's p4 setup with cubase VST installed, a cheap headset for listening and recording voice samples, and a 240 year old midi keyboard with half of the keys broken to 4€ midi-usb converter |
| Wilton Keuning 03.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by BiggChev
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| Deangelo Boender 03.06.2013 | Korg Nanokontrol and a bootleg version of Traktor. I had all four pages of controls mapped, plus shift functions. Not a real durable piece of gear , but I knew my way around it and rocked a few parties before I managed an upgrade to the VCI-100! |
| Lillia Datson 03.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by jakeintox
Same! Though mine lasted all of a few months before sand and other things leds to its downfall. |
| Katie Ahmady 03.06.2013 | Used CDJ-200s from a friend and some very old and crappy mixer from the closet of my high school's broadcast journalism department. Looking back, I was really lucky to have Pio CDJs to learn on! |
| Ethel Feigum 03.06.2013 | Numark Total Control. Tiny little thing, used it for years! Still works, other than a few sticky buttons. |
| Ashanti Andreacchio 04.06.2013 | VDJ and a M-Audio ozone was my first digial dj setup. using bad beltdriven turntable at the clubs before that. |
| Shawn Vanhaitsma 04.06.2013 | Vextax PMC 4 Channel, Stanton Str 80s to a hifi system. 5 months later, Rane Empath, Technic Mk5gs.. That was 12 years ago for me now the decks collect dust, the Rane was sold, and perform more than I DJ completed tracks heh.. Times change so fast... the next ten years are going to be crazy! |
| Lashawn Maycock 03.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by Craig Willis
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| Tegan Ruport 03.06.2013 | First set up was Belt driven turntables called Pro 150's, looked the part but were terrible. The mixer was made by realistic (didnt even have a crossfader), soon upgraded if you can call that to Kam made2fade mixer :-) Second set up was Citronic PD1 tt's, with a chrome Numark Mixer, good learning tools. Had a break for a few years and dabbled with a mixtrack pro/NI S2, but now have Traktor Scratch Pro, Audio 6, NI X1, Macbook Pro, Pioneer HDJ 500w for my gigs and x2 Gemini PT 2000, Gemini PS4 Mixer and x2 Gemini CDJ 250's in my man cave :-) |
| Sydney Lashway 03.06.2013 | My first bit of gear was pretty pathetic but I can't help but laugh when I believe about it and how I used it. Yamaha keyboard (one of those dinky "educational series" ones) Computer mic designed to clip onto your shirt French-English dictionary Cool Edit Pro (pirated, I'm sorry) Rebirth Demo I'd use the dictionary as a mic stand and clip the mic to it. I'd then try my best to centre my "mic" between the built in speakers of my keyboard and record little loops (sans-quantize) into Cool edit. Didn't know much about multi-track so If I messed up I'd have to start over again with everything. Sometimes I'd make little loops on Rebirth, and because it was a demo, try and record it through the mic into Cool Edit. Sounds, incredibly crude but man, my friends and I had some great fun making tracks like this. Sometimes I'd even clip the mic onto my acoustic guitar and try to record like that. |
| Augustine Mitzen 03.06.2013 | vdj + keyboard shortcuts |
| Bryon Taglieri 03.06.2013 | Gemini 626 mixer and a pair technics which had seen better days. |
| Tonita Mujanovic 03.06.2013 | stanton st 150 x2 , ssl 2 , sure m44-7-h , vms4 ( as a mixer ) , |
| Kanesha Corella 03.06.2013 | vdj home and my laptop keyboard mapped out.. then my first bit of real kit was the pioneer cdj 500s and djm 300..got them in a roadcase for $50 and its still going strong as my backup kit |
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