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Your very first DJ equipment... ahh.... (idea stolen from djforums)

What was your very first DJ equipment? (idea stolen from djforums)

I remember mine.. Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 running from a basic 4-channel Yamaha soundcard through a cheap Numark DM1050 and into a pair of Technics DJ1210 cans

Traktor was warez, bought the Yamaha soundcard for 40 grivnas (8 bucks) on a local electronic flee market, traveled to Moscow to buy 3 pairs of DJ1210 cans for 99 bucks each and the Numark mixer was a present from my aunt from Moscow... it cost around 70 bucks

I started off with a gemini 500 xl table, a gemini PS 676 MkII, and a real old technics direct drive table. I think it was the one that came out before the 1200s.

Anyways it was good to start on this stuff because I had to learn to be gentle with the vinyl because it would skip alot on those tables. Then when i upgraded to 1200s i was used to being gentle lol.

A hacked version of Virtual DJ over 5 years ago, mixing just with my mouse.

Re: Your very first DJ equipment... ahh.... (idea stolen from djforums)

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Originally posted by boris_the_bear What was your very first DJ equipment? (idea stolen from djforums)

Been done here a ton of times too but always interesting.

Created my first mix tapes using a twin deck cassette machine and using the pause button to create effects and cuts etc. This was 1983 or 84 I think.
Then in 84/85 got a mixer with no crossfader and two non matching DJ decks (One Sony hi fi deck with direct drive and one department store own brand deck with enough torque to rip your arm off if your sleave got caught, and I mean torque that shames ANY deck availabe today unless it's powered by a chainsaw).

First time I played on Technics 1200s was in 1986.

All these years later still going strong, still love it, just have better equipment. Sadly find myself using just CDJs these days.

Things have also changed a lot, back in 86/87 anyone that could vaguely match a beat at an acid house party was a god. Proud to say that I was harmonic mixing back in those days too but just wasn't aware of the technicalities of what I was doing.

You kids just don't know how good you have it!!! :P

Cheers
Nem

good thread idea.

I originally (me and someone else) had a university radio show so we'd mix downtempo with the faders on the mixing console (we had mk2s and a dual Denon CD deck /w pitch control).

About a 2 years later I had a pair of Numark TTs and some random 2 chan Numark mixer. The TT500 isn't a bad table but wow the TT200 was a POS for sure.

I have hooked up a "setup" with belt driven tables and a peavey mixer. Those were not proud moments.

Doesn't quite beat those all-in-one units with two belt tables, and mixer.

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Originally posted by jpgrdnr Doesn't quite beat those all-in-one units with two belt tables, and mixer.

Hard to imagine that one of those was the dream for a while lol...

Cheers
Nem

stanton rm50 mixer with two tech 1200mk3s

now xone 62 with two cdj 1000 mk3s

I started with a CMX-3000 and numark DM-950.

started with a djm3000 and two pioneer turntables (i think re-branded omnitronics or similar). ended up selling them for more than the pair of 1200's i replaced then with cost.
only recently sold that mixer, now the last bit of my original setup I still have is the SEDJ5000 headphones. no foam inside them anymore, but still comfortable and working fine.

started with some used 1200mk2's which i still have...and some POS numark dm 2002x mixer

stanton str8-80's
vestax pcv-275

2 x Omnitronics decks and 1 x Numark DM1002EX mixer, and some god awful cans that fell to bits in a matter on weeks.......

Happy days!

Started with a Bush portable CD player and a Discman plugged into an 8 channel studio mixer made by a friend of my parents who lived down the road, then 'upgraded' to a pair of JVC hi-fi turntables I bought from my design technology teacher at school...

First decks actually with pitch control were a pair of Kam DDX680s I bought a couple of years later, with a Gemini PS-646 mixer.

Ah, those were the days!

A pair of Technics, and a Tascam XS-8 mixer (rebadged Ecler HAK 320), sennheiser hd280s, and mismatched carts that came with the used turntables. Total cost was about $800-900. I still have everything except I replaced one of the turntables with a new one and the mixer now lives in the closet.

I started off with pretty nice equipment for a cheap price

2 x Technics 1200s
2 x KRK RP8 monitors
1 x Vestax PMC-27 mkII mixer
then 2 random Pickering needles
and Im still using my first headphones i got from a work collegue which are Sony v300s

I started with Pioneers DJ Box 1.

CDJ-100s, DJM-300 and a EFX-500.

Hacked version of Virtual DJ.

i started w/ a bullshit set of belt drive turntables. they were made by Crate, like the guitar amps and stuff. anyways, the mixer was also Crate, with no eq. junk.

Numark Blue Dog Mixer




2 Pioneer CDJ-300

2 stanton STR8-30's and then torq mixlab

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Originally posted by limin_li Numark Blue Dog Mixer

fuck! never though such mixer could exist

2 Geminis-I borrowed from my friend who went to boarding school and a Gemini mixer-(designed for DJs, dunno the model) that my brother used to mix dances and parties as a little business
Sennheiser HD-280 pro fones which I am still using 4 years later. great headphones.

1984 - my best friend and I made our first mixes using one turntable (a JVC model, if I'm not mistaken) and a cassette deck, splicing tracks using the pause button over and over again. Time consuming, but we were from a small town and didn't really know how d.j.s did what they did, just how it sounded on the radio. A year or so later, after our first Montreal road trip and a night at Metropolis, he added another deck and the infamous Realistic 2-channel, stereo mixer:



I eventually bought the same mixer, and by 1988 had purchased my very own pair of Technics SL-BD22 turntables - if I recall correctly, they were about $150 each, at the time.

pioneer djm500, 2x pioneer cdj100s, sony mdr-v700dj, 2x technics sl1210mk2

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Originally posted by PivotTechno

Sweet Jesus!!! This is almost identical to the first mixer I had exept no cross fader on mine. No EQ, no gain, just fader up, fader down... lol

Cheers
Nem

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