Just ordered my first bit of kit! What did your first ever setup consist of?

[djdust1724]

Stanton St-150 , SL2 , american audio VMS4 ( for a mixer ) , sure m-447-h

[SlvrDragon50]

That is really impressive.

I never understood how people could keyboard DJ.

[tescor]

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

[djdust1724]

stanton st 150 x2 , ssl 2 , sure m44-7-h , vms4 ( as a mixer ) ,

[slinkydisc]

Gemini 626 mixer and a pair technics which had seen better days.

[johney]

vdj + keyboard shortcuts

[BiggChev]

My first bit of gear was pretty pathetic but I can't help but laugh when I think 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.

[Craig Willis]

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 :-)

[backtothefront]

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 :-)

Kam Made2Fade mixers Same here, along side a pair of Soundlab DLP1's (belt drive) was my first set of kit. After a few months decided I was hooked on DJing so saved up and bought a 1210 Mk2, then eventually a couple of years later used part of my student loan to buy a 2nd after flogging the DLP1's on. Still got both 1210s today and working like a charm

[balakoth]

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!