New to DJ ing and EXCITED
Good day!,
I just bought my first real mixer and Im truly excited to learn more about this amazing craft. I purchased a Vestax 400 controller but have no power supply or cords to go with it. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good site to purchase my additional equipment. Also, I’ve read probably about 200 reviews on which program I should use, leaning toward serato. Again I look forward to learning
The power supply is the only tricky part. Radio Shack was/is a good place to start…because you can take the controller into the store and make sure everything works and fits.
Lacking that, you are wanting an “AC DC power adapter”. The Vestax will have the specs for the power supply printed somewhere on the unit…probably near the spot where it plugs in.
All the other cables are “generic”, any USB cable will do. Chroma cables are good quality, and help support this site.
if you want anything from radio shack you should hurry since they are going under
http://kvil.cbslocal.com/2015/02/05/fort-worths-radio-shack-corp-out-of-business/
You can also try looking on Ebay for the power cable.
If you have the specs for the wall wart check out mouser.com or digikey.com
The electrical specs of the power adapter are easy to come by - these are (almost) always imprinted on the electrical device next to where the power supply plugs in.
The connector size, on the other hand, can be a bit trickier. I have no idea how easy Vestax makes it to figure that out.
Here is a picture of the stock VCI-400 Power supply. I’ve used paint and some handy dandy red rectangles to show you the information you’ll need to take to your local Radio Shack. You’ll also need a USB cable with the square end. A lot of times the VCI-400’s come with Serato DJ or Serato DJ intro check the box for a card with a key on it. If nothing else there should be a key for the full version of Virtual DJ on the underside of your VCI. Hope this helps!
That power supply is very common. I probably have a couple of them in my electronics junk bin. You can buy on for less than $12 on Amazon.com.
The software thing can be a very emotive topic, what I suggest is consider what type of DJ’ing you want to do. Straight mixing, dropping samples etc, there are lots of programs to choose from, e.g. Mixvibes Cross, Traktor Pro, Serato, Virtual DJ, Deejay, Deckadance, even Ableton - but that’s a bit much just for basic DJ’ing. There’s quite a few others too, but these would be considered to be the bigger guns, with Serato DJ and Traktor being the biggest guns of all. In my own experience, I’ve used both Traktor and Serato DJ, but Serato in a home DJ environment, very functional, very reliable, and little nonsense, and very easy to use. Traktor is a different animal, very powerful Midi control system, not as intuitive and as user friendly as Serato, but I still prefer it.. probably due to it’s midi functions and pure under the hood grunt.
But really, at the end of the Day, all these programs do essentially the same thing. Allow tunes to be played the way a DJ should, they show their differences when you try to up the ante a bit, and be more creative, some have more on-the-fly creativity than others.. Serato Flip being worth a mention. Check out some youtube clips of the various apps in action, see what gets ya excited..
Ean golden edition or normal? I have the ean edition it rocks!
