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

[dj gullum]

VDJ and a M-Audio ozone was my first digial dj setup. using bad beltdriven turntable at the clubs before that.

[jakeintox]

Numark Total Control. Tiny little thing, used it for years! Still works, other than a few sticky buttons.

[Tortango]

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!

[DubluW]

Numark Total Control. Tiny little thing, used it for years! Still works, other than a few sticky buttons.

Same! Though mine lasted all of a few months before sand and other things leds to its downfall.

[Culture_Shock]

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 equipment, but I knew my way around it and rocked a few parties before I managed an upgrade to the VCI-100!

[ProfessorStrangeman]

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.

Mad fucking props.

[Polygon]

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

[William Gibson]

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...

[sobi]

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.

[loverocket]

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.