How old were you when you started?

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How old were you when you started?

At what age did you guys start out to DJ/Produce if not just one or the other?
Personally I started messing around with FL Studio back in may( I was 16 at the time) then I eventually evolved to Ableton 8 around August. I barely Dj, my close friend has an S4 and some shit speakers. I started messing around with it, then with some additional inspiration for Mr. Carl Cox’s mixes, I fell in love with it. So now I mess around on it like every weekend or so, been thinking of making my stage name DJ Freeload. Lol jk. Im definitely looking into buying my own setup but thats another story.

ANYWAY, to end my rant and shift the spotlight onto the rest of DJTT Forum users, whats your bio?

EDIT***I forgot to put that I am 17 now, I realize that this is irrelevant but I still felt the need to put it.

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Think we already got at least one of this threads.

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My apologies if thats the case, just a simple inquiry.

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[quote=“Chebiva, post:1, topic:35022, username:Chebiva”]
At what age did you guys start out to DJ
[/quote]Depends on what you consider DJing to be. I’ve been collecting records for as long as I can remember. In kindergarten I started taking a battery powered record player to school to play my records on the playground during recess. In elementary some teachers would let me play my records on the classroom’s record player during arts & crafts. In Jr. High I would bring two turntables, a mixer & a few home stereos to the school gymnasium after school.

When I was 16, I bought a used PA system consisting of; a pair of SL-1200 turntables, a Peavey powered mixer & a pair of Peavey SP-1 speakers. (I added a brand new Radio Shack mixer.) In 1979 I upgraded the record players with brand new (model MK2) Technics turntables & the Realistic mixer with a brand new Gemini (I’m thinking it was a MX-2200, but I could be wrong.) mixer.

I started playing records in bars in the early 1980s & continued to off & on up to today. (I’m currently working as a bar DJ.)

I only started beat matching songs a few years ago (I’m thinking more than 5, but less than 10.), but only use it about 10% - 20% of the time at work.

So depending on your definition of what a DJ is, I either started when I was a toddler, I haven’t started yet, or somewhere in between.

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I started making mix tapes for friends with a dual cassette recorder when I was around 13. That was in 1983.

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Wow I feel very young. I guess there is no real definition to what a DJ is but I mean I guess I would be something along the lines of playing records for other people at some sort of party venue, whatever process you use to achieve that whether that be actual mixing or just a record player I think it all falls under the same category.

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Around 13 back in 1982.

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For those old enough to remember it in the UK, I “played” in front of an audience for the first time at our Silver Jubilee street party in 1977 at the age of 15.

I did 1 hour so the DJ they had booked all day could have a break.

At Christmas 1977 our street had another party, this time indoors, to try and keep the street spirit alive and I got booked to do the whole night.

I got paid £60 which wasn’t bad at all back then and people bought their own records in case I didn’t have a wide enough selection.

Never looked back after that! :smiley:

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I started Christmas of last year when i bought a mixtrack with some christmas change, this year got myself an S4 cause i havent missed more than 2 days consecutively in 365. :smiley: but i got fruity loops 7 when it first came out and made some jams then got fruity 8 but immediately went to Reason but wasnt diggin it then to Ableton

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I was 17 when I started. :slight_smile:

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I was about 15 the first time I actually touched any type of dj gear, I was messing around with a rack mount cd mixer and got the hang of it pretty quick. That was about 10 years ago. Since then I have done some house parties and a wedding or two but I can see myself getting into club gigs in the near future.

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I started messing round with audacity when I was 12( just chopping up parts of the song and rearranging them) then when I was 13 I got virtual DJ and I got a liking to it and now I’m 14 and I have a numark mixtrack with traktor pro 2

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My 1st gig was when I was 10…I am now 18..I started producing when I was 13…Let’s just say now: I know what the hell am doing,lol

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I started 3 years ago, when I was 19. And it was 19 years too late. Boy what I would have wanted to learn the art of DJing with vinyl…:disappointed:

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I was 19, that was some ~7 months ago /noob

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3 years ago at 27. Shit was too expensive. Computers made it aaaaaall goooooooood! :smiley:

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25 Years Young

I started out in 1985, I was 25 years old and House music was the thing back in Newark, New Jersey. All the clubs were playing it. Zanzabar/Club 88, etc. Love it then, Love it NOW!

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When I was 11 I got fl studios from a friend because we thought that every artist made it in fl and we would become famous. Made my first song 4 days later. It was terrible, but my parents said it was good :slight_smile:
then, at 13 I got Vdj from the same friend planning to get club gigs every night of the week.
Now I am 15, have built two midi controllers and a full speaker system have gone threw about 4 controllers and am about to play my first gig in a week. Stoked :slight_smile: