Well, next week is my birthday, and as a present, I have $2000 to spend freely!
I can either replace my crap computer that I bought 8 years ago, or buy a Traktor S4, some headphones, and a midi-fighter! But I don’t know which one to pick!
Tough decision for me since I love to play games on my 2008 Black Macbook, till suddenly all the new games seemed to surpass the minimum requirements.
My Desktop spec:
Windows XP
1 GB of RAM
Freezes 24/7
My Macbook spec:
10.5.8 OSX
2.4 GHZ, Intel Core Duo
4GB 667 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM
£2000 fuck me thats a lot of money for ur birthday. Obivously a loty of people in here are going to tell you to buy the s4, where all tech heads, and you say you have never djed before.
My advice would be to try and see if you can have a little play round with some djing equipment, and see if you really want to spend all that money. ( a decent music shop should be able to help you with this. )
DJing can be a really expensive hobby, its not as bad now with mp3s, but when it was vinyl. Fuck me it cost me a small fortune.
I cant see how you can’t afford a new comp and a decent controller for £2000, if your just starting you dont need the best. The vestax vci 100 is almost half the price of the s4, and should have more than any beginner needs on it.
Your Mac is fine. Should run Traktor fine for a good while yet. I’d personally get the S4 because it’s easy to setup, and with the jog wheels can teach you a lot about DJing. I’d give the MIDIfighter a miss until you find you can’t do without it.
Refurb macbook pro 13’ with 4 gigs ram (try to get the last model, better graphics card for games.)
S/H S4
Decent Headphones.
Sell ur existing Blackbook for whatever u can get for it ($400ish probably)
And I’d honestly learn the fundamentals of DJ’ing before splashing more cash on a midi fighter just yet. I still dont get the attraction of them, but depends on the style of music much as anything else.
i would pay 30 $ to get snow leopard first, just this will make your computer feel like a new one, if you want even more power, invest in a ssd drive, and your computer will be blazin fast for any djing related task (maybe even gaming if you install a windows partition to play).
1000 bucks. That’s a great night of booze and bitches!
also do you already have TP? I think if you get a second hand VCI-100, and there’s some awesome deals on the forum, you could have a new laptop, controller, soundcard, headphones and money left over.
Love when people start djing and splash out on all the top gear straight away… “pauly d” style.. Haha why not see if its for you.. I know many people with cdj 1000s sitting there and realising it wasnt for them ha why not get a shitty 100 quid controller and try mixing with the free program you get with it usually virtual dj and seeing if you like it… Its not about what you use its about how you use it , i used a hercules mp3 e2 for ages with a numark sound card that worked perfect for what i needed, the two items cost 150 euro
A new mac book is $999. And you certainly do not need an s4 to start out. but you might be able to get both. Have you considered any other controllers? I started out on a Mixtrack, and it’s just fine.
, i used a hercules mp3 e2 for ages with a numark sound card that worked perfect for what i needed, the two items cost 150 euro