My First Turntables, for £26.00!
Just got my first set of Turtables, won them for £26.00 on eBay!
Set of Gemini xl500ii. Look in alright con. Not bad for £26.00
Any tips on maintaining these?
Had a Hercules RMX for couple of months as well, not bad little things.
Am I right in saying there should be a button/toggle here?
Sweet deal! Looks just like Technics.
Tips for mixing?
Get a mixer.
Good deal. Play some records.
They look VERY MUCH like Technics.
Congrats on a bargain - £26 for a pair of direct drives is stunning.
How are the pitch bend buttons? I had some Vestax decks years ago with a pitch bend joystick. I never could get used to using it - I ended up using the old tried and tested technique of pinching the spindle or brushing the platter…
haha looking at a 2-channel behringer nox404 at the end of the month, heard some alright things about them.
Got a small collection atm 
Love Discogs.com! I’ll post up a pic of them later
I couldn’t believe it tbh, especially as i’ve been wanting to get into mixing vinyl without spending a lot of money. There’s no buttons/joysticks for them, so im guessing this is why i got them cheap. Anybody replaced these before?
I do believe the direct drive motor’s have a low torque from what i’ve researched online, so gonna have to be light with the turntables. Haven’t even been able to power them up yet as i went straight out!
If the pitch bend buttons are missing, you COULD fill the holes and re-paint the turntable.
Or - you could do what you SHOULD do, and just MIX!
Pitch bend buttons? on turntables? is that a thing?
I’ll get you a picture of where they should be when i’m back home
Anybody had experience with the Behringer nox404?
Lololololol
Yep, my Stanton STR8-100’s have em.
and they work too!
That hole is for calibration of the pitchfader; there’s a little screw/pot in there which you can adjust with a jeweller’s screwdriver. Usually unnecessary though.
The pitch bend buttons should be to the bottom left of the fader, although tbh they’re a pain in the backside and not worth bothering with.
My first ever pair of decks were XL-500IIs as well; cost £250 for the pair about 12 years ago 
Great decks.
Btw, don’t bother with a mixer. Install Deckadance/Mixxx and route the turntables through the RMX. Alternatively, you could use Live Input mode in Traktor (doesn’t have to be a scratch-certified card for that, right?).
EDIT: You may have to get a wider desk though 
Either that, or rotate the decks 90 degrees (battle style).
Well I was gonna look at getting DVS but i think i’d rather just use actual vinyl’s rather than timecode. What are the benefits of DVS?
You’ll be wanting a simple 2 channel hardware mixer if you ever mix normal vinyl.
You don’t even need to use a DVS setup; with most DJ software you can route real vinyl’s audio into the software using the live input mode, and then apply software FX, filters, and EQing to it. Only things which will unavailable are transport functions like cuepoints, loops and beatjumping. A nice benefit is that you get FULL access to things like crossfader curve adjustment and cue/mix, which a cheaper hardware mixer might not have.
I’ve been looking at the Behringer NOX404 recently. looks like quite a nice & decent 2-ch mixer
never knew that! i thought with the Digital Vinyl System’s you could only use the timecode vinyl’s. I might have a look into it then
Nope It depends on which software you’re using… Traktor accepts live input, as does Virtual DJ; apparently Mixxx doesn’t YET and I’m not sure about Deckadance.
You can of course apply filters and EQ using a standalone mixer without the latency+possible gain issues involved with routing through software. Either way, you’ll want some sort of hardware mixer.
