DJ In A Box?

Found a deal somebody selling a set of 2 Numark TT1610s and an iM1 mixer (2Ch with an iPod dock) says one of the needles on one tables is broken.

I know they're belt driven, and I know this is low end stuff, but I have never even touched a real table before, and was wondering if this would be a decent way to start out (either that or I try it in 5 years when I have some money)

They want like 120 for the whole set. Is this a deal? Or pass? It's online so I can't really get too much knowledge, other than I'm told that's the only thing wrong with it (and some minor cosmetic stuff)

Deal or no deal?

Save your money.. That setup is flat out terrible

I happened to be in the market for a mixer (see: el cheapo) and this mixer is retail for like 100 bucks, so it looked like a mixer with 2 free turntables (and I've always wanted to try turntables either with scratch or against traktor, maybe 2 traktor+2 analog...)

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Originally Posted by LmnLm3

I happened to be in the market for a mixer (see: el cheapo) and this mixer is retail for like 100 bucks, so it looked like a mixer with 2 free turntables (and I've always wanted to try turntables either with scratch or against traktor, maybe 2 traktor+2 analog...)

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Those tables will last you a week.. Buy yourself a numark mix track instead.. great beginner controller

bah, that's the other thing I was thinking of doing lol

still need to get sound from the laptop to the PA... The quest continues!

Thanks for the advice.

Any further thoughts from anyone still welcome!

i know this is off topic but what went through my mind when i read the title was the 5 buck box from taco bell :)

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Originally Posted by nuke5

i know this is off topic but what went through my mind when i read the title was the 5 buck box from taco bell :)

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Are you sure that's off topic? :P

It says to me that just because something is known to be sub standard (i.e. toco bell "food") sometimes the cheap deal is what you're looking for, and most of the time it's better than nothing...

Maybe I snag that pack after all :cool:

See what I did there? :rolleyes:

tbh if you have the money why the fuck not? i mean if its crap you can sell it or throw it away. if you get some use out of it then it was worth it. plus if its a standard analogue mixer (or whatever the non-digital mixer is called) its good to keep around if you wanna do a dual gig. one channel would be you and one would be the other dude. yada yada yada.

I'm not tryin to burn money, I just figured if I can get it for under 100...

How much are needles? And are they different from styluses? Or cartridges? I googled and it's all 'analog' to me ;) Really, though, I can't quite tell, and not sure what I would need anyway...

Might grab it for the mixer, even if I don't dual gig, the ipod dock could be useful when people at parties come up with their iphones and are like "Hey, play this song that I have?" I can just be like "gimme your phone, lady" bam.

We'll see... money is money, and I still haven't got a PA yet ... ugh...

firstly... i fancy some taco bell now :p haven't had that in years since i was last in the usa

secondly... some of the first decks i started out on were some gemini belt drives owned by a friend. with good slip mats u can learn on some belt drives. if i was short on cash and wanted some decks then i'd probably go with beltdrives if it was a good deal.

tho you will probably be wanting to upgrade them to direct drives sometime in the future. if the price isnt all that much more than the mixer u could sell them on later tho anyway.

needles can be a bit pricy tho no real clue of current prices

not sure about that mixer tho looking at a quick photo of it... don't think i'd go for that. think i read u mentioning u wanting a mixer - but dont remember quite why u wanted one.

i havent had any reason to not just mix internally yet so picked up a cheap djtech djm101 for 20quid a while ago, as its just a nice (smallish) dj mixer layout but pure midi, so means i can add it to any other of my controllers for a more normal dj feel...

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Originally Posted by zestoi

not sure about that mixer tho looking at a quick photo of it... don't think i'd go for that. think i read u mentioning u wanting a mixer - but dont remember quite why u wanted one.

i havent had any reason to not just mix internally yet so picked up a cheap djtech djm101 for 20quid a while ago, as its just a nice (smallish) dj mixer layout but pure midi, so means i can add it to any other of my controllers for a more normal dj feel...

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right now with the launchpad and the nanoKontrol I have no EQ, and I was looking at the X-Session. I got to thinking, though, I might run out of USB ports...

And it might be nice to have some gear that won't get outdated as much as controllers do, but then again, since this is such low end stuff, I'd outgrow it before it gets outdated anyway.

So it shouldn't really matter that much, I guess I just thought "Ooh, turntables!" and you're right - that mixer doesn't even have 3 channel EQ. So it's a no go.

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Originally Posted by LmnLm3

right now with the launchpad and the nanoKontrol I have no EQ, and I was looking at the X-Session. I got to thinking, though, I might run out of USB ports...

And it might be nice to have some gear that won't get outdated as much as controllers do, but then again, since this is such low end stuff, I'd outgrow it before it gets outdated anyway.

So it shouldn't really matter that much, I guess I just thought "Ooh, turntables!" and you're right - that mixer doesn't even have 3 channel EQ. So it's a no go.

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if you're just wanting to add eq control for a couple of decks to your setup then either of the djm101 or xsession pro would do the job and both can be found pretty cheap 2nd hand. more controls on the xsession ofc - could probably be used to control 4 decks quite nicely.

you shouldn't have any issue with running out of usb ports if you use a hub or two unless u go crazy and buy a whole stack of other controllers and want to use them all at the same time ;)