Lets lay down a few ground rules... well more like a heads up
-I am only 14 and have only been DJing for about a year and half
-I am NOT wealthy nor is my family, so If I get something I don't want you guys to think its because of wealthy parents.
First starting: Well, what can I say? I don't know what got me into DJing. It wasn't any dumb videogames like DJ Hero or anything. My father was a "professional"( or at least thats what he called doing a few gigs a month- but still not bad, right?) bass player for a band. However, a few years ago he really started to take business seriously and gave that up. Now whenever I see him every two weeks or so he does play casually at home, and he is amazing. I guess that when I saw how good he was at that I said to myself, Hey I could get really good at something like that one day!. Then I was just on youtube one day and I was following a lot of guys like Phil Morse, Dubspot, and ellaskins. I was learning a lot, but it wasn't until I found Ean Golden that I discovered what I really wanted to do. Controllerism, to me, was a whole new world of DJing. First thing I did, was grabbed an ION Discover DJ.
(Cheesy cowboy hat- from something me and my friends do every friday...)
Now of course, I knew I wouldn't be doing anything serious with this thing. There was no soundcard, no effects, its just what I used to start learning the basics. Fortunately, I did not fall into the hands of SYNC and tried to teach myself how to beatmatch. Its been more than a year and I still havent gotten it all down!
Next, I run into these Native Instruments guys. I immediatly saved up for Traktor and was loving using it with my Discover DJ. There was so much creativity allowed through MIDI Mapping!
Then came the Numark Stealth Control, NI Kore 1 Controller, Touch OSC, and a footswitch! And a couple blacklights too . The keyboard was used as two midifighters running through GlovePIE.
Again, at this point I am still a bedroom DJ and still learning. However, now I was able to add so much more to my sets. But, I was extremely anxious to go out and perform, So I figured I would lighten the load and borrow a friend's PA system.
More updates after christmas!
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