Just ordered my first bit of kit! What did your first ever setup consist of?
I just ordered a Traktor S2 (w/ Blue Chroma Caps) and a Traktor Pro 2 Macbook Pro Keyboard Cover!
Mine was home made two channel mixer (pre amp) and two Cassette decks 
. It’s like a different planet now with all this new technology.
As for my first controller it was BCD3000! Used it for about two years and for that wile I made a super custom map since I was needing a bigger setup and it was my only peace of MIDI gear. 3k got unique layout and that’s what got me inspired to learn mappings in first place. BCD3000 clone with Livid quality components would be my dream controller 
Good to go for your first peace of kit. You can find pretty nice mappings for S2 in here mappings page.
I started with a single 1210, a portable aiwa cd player, and a broken 2 channel Kam mixer (no working crossfader, and one line fader dodgey). Had this set-up for 6 months before buying the second 1210. Then another few months before getting a Gemini PS626. Still got the 1210’s 15 years later, mixer has changed a few times though.
This is why I always recommend people to buy technics decks when they are starting out. They are very unlikely to break (never had to do a thing in 15 years, not even change a bulb), and they are worth almost what I paid for them all these years later. And short of getting a cheap controller, they are almost the cheapest set-up available (excluding mixer admittedly).
2 x Citronic PD1 Turntables and a reaaaaallllyyy shit 2 channel Gemini Mixer.
You used to need to wiggle the RCA connections on the back of the decks to get both channels working after one got dropped down some stairs coming home from a house party.
Highly recommended setup for beginners, it’s so terrible the first time you mix on something decent you realise you’re a superstar.
1 Yamaha P-550 turntable w/ 4% pitch control, wooden base with suspension Sony turntable with no pitch, and a Radio Shack mixer with the crossfader.
I didn’t even own any gear for the first few years I started dj’ing. I carried a bag of records with me at all times. I’d go to friend’s houses and play with them. I’d go to house parties and ask to jump on the decks. I was pretty nomadic anyway and crashed on a lot of couches. Then, about 4 years later, I got settled, bought a pair of 1200’s and a Numark mixer with some Alesis MK1 620’s and M447’s. I still have one of the 1200’s. The Alesis’ lasted me damn near a decade and the rest of the gear was jacked from a house party.
i had a really really old vestax mixer and a pair of numark tt200s. I remember having no idea what eqs did haha 
I remember spending my first few months mixing with a broken needle at one point it had a little bit of tape holding it all together. It worked out as long as no one bumped it.
Thank god I had such shit taste in music back then none of the records I thrashed ever meant much too me.
2x Gemini XL-500mkIIs and a Citronic MSX-1 mixer.
First digital setup was a Hercules RMX and Traktor 
Stanton St-150 , SL2 , american audio VMS4 ( for a mixer ) , sure m-447-h
That is really impressive.
I never understood how people could keyboard DJ.
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
stanton st 150 x2 , ssl 2 , sure m44-7-h , vms4 ( as a mixer 
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Gemini 626 mixer and a pair technics which had seen better days.
vdj + keyboard shortcuts
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.
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
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 
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!