So my son is really getting into this entire DJing thing. He’s been saving up his money and bought himself something called the iDJ3??? We’ll I have been doing some searches and couldnt find anything as far as speakers go. He was able to do this on his own so the least I can do is support him and get his speakers. My thing is I dont want to drop to much money into it if he isnt going to stick at it. So does anyone have any recommendations? And please break it down into dummy terms for me, I have no idea about any of this. I’m just a dad trying to help out his 15 year old son.
roland make some fairly cheap and decent speakers… they are the cakewalk speakers and cost 100 for the smaller ones and 200 for the larger ones. http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=747 good if you are starting out, plus a big bonus seeing as its a good sound system for tv’s and other things of that nature, if he doesn’t stick with it you can use the speakers…
First off, Kudos to you for supporting your son in his artistic endeavor. Now, there’s a WIDE variety of speakers and you need to limit your choices. If he’s just planning on playing at home and small parties for friends then you want to look more towards studio and or nearfield monitors. If he wants something to play bigger events, you got to look at larger speakers. Also, you haven’t mentioned your price range which would be very helpful in any suggestions we can give you.
From talking with him regarding his long term goal he wants to be the DJ the schools want to use. And his friends come to for house parties. I’m looking at 300 per speaker as I’ve found usually come per. I want to be as supportive as possible but in the same hand don’t want to drop my entire mortage payment on speakers if he’s not planning on sticking with it.
And thank you all for your help, I’m lost and dumb when it comes to this.
Which Rolands would you recommend a link would be great!!!
From reading this post I’ve started, what I’m thinking is get him a pair of monitors to start if he’s still at it in like 6 months grab him something bigger. OR should I say the hell with it and grab him the bigger units now? If he backs out and loses interest than I can possibly set them up for my home theater or sell them
I would check out the JBL EON series. Used you can pick up 15" Inch self powered speaker for 199$ each. That’s for the G1 series G2 series will go for 299$ each.
Kudos on the support. Definitely look into either JBL or maybe QSC. If he loses interest in the near future, you want your investment to retain value rather than take a nose dive as soon as the box gets open. Some of the cheaper stuff does that.
i use a pair of rokit 5s for my production and rokit 8s for my djing. they are both hooked up to a krk 10 sub and they sound good for the price. you can almost always get a deal on them or get them as a part of a package for really cheap (i got my 5s for free and my 8s for $170 each…both brand new). you could probably find a bunch of them on used sites or ebay as well. they are pretty popular so i don’t think you will have a problem selling them, but you may have to take less money though more people will want them so they will probably go quicker.
with that said, monitors are great if you don’t want the sound to be that loud outside of a small sweet spot. this will keep you from getting a headache when he blasts music all day long as the sound doesn’t travel far. the downside is, they won’t really work for parties because of this.
Monitors are all well and good, but if your son wants to DJ with them as opposed to create music, they’re not as ideal. They simply won’t go as loud as you want to. As a father, that might appeal to you and your neighbours though. =P
It’s post like these that make me love DJTT even more, My dad supports me because he’s seen how much I’ve poured into music. I started on a Numark Mix track and to be honest I’m glad my parent’s didn’t go all out and get me something crazy because I think it’s important as a DJ to work up your way in gear as you work your way up in skill and commitment. I don’t know too much about speakers but I hear great things about mackie thumps, but I seriously believe you could start on much less. maybe it would be a fun exercise to let him research some speakers on a budget? that way he gets to learn the product market and and additional info he’ll pick up from looking into it. And I mainly want to thank you from A teenage Son to a father for the fact that you’re supporting your kid in something you probably don’t really under stand but can see that he wants to do it more than anything.
If you do Thumps or something along those lines you’ll also need speaker stands which can add $100+ each to the cost. You’ll also need balanced TRS cables that will probably add close to $16–$80 total depending on length. Stands can wait for a little while, but not to long.
or sell them