This is my first time of buying dj equipment, need some help please
Hello
I am 27 years old and this is my first time of buying dj equipment. I want to play at home in my room and maybe later in life I want to play in small parties.
Need some suggestions of what to buy. I already have a pair of audio technica m50’s headphones. The shop suggested the Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S2 MKII as my main mixer. The problem is choosing the speakers. Which type of speakers should I buy? A pair of studio monitors like krk 8 g3 or a pair of active pa speakers like the Alto tx 8?
Yeah second vote for studio monitors, you’ll get a much cleaner sound from a pair of well placed monitors rather than PA speakers.
As someone who owned and mixed at home on PA speakers for years I often found the volume creeping higher and higher while I was mixing… to a point where they were rattling the fixtures and fittings in my neighbours houses.
If you like you neighbours and want to keep it that way, go for monitors.
another vote here for studio monitors. they double up if you ever want to start production. I use a pair of jbl305s, and a lot of people love their krk’s
Studio monitors because of the before mentioned facts but also because I assume you’re absolutely new to this, and might as well wait until you know you really like it before you get big honkin’ PAs
Yeah good call, my first speakers was a set of Trust 5.1 surround speakers that I picked up cheap. I had the fronts, rears and centre speaker on the table in front of me and the sub on the floor. Really any kind of speakers will do the job.
It does, I was young and had just bought the decks and mixer and couldn’t afford any speakers. I had bought the 5.1 for my PC and they were the best things I had at the time.
They were basically stereo because I used the stereo RCA input on them. The main thing for me was having the sub… I kept the other three speakers connected because more = louder, right?
I am currently debating back and forth for the Pioneer DDJ-SB2, the Numark Mixtrack Pro 3 or the Traktor Kontrol S2 MKII. Does all of them have aluminium chassis. What I am interested in most of all is reliability and number of functions between these 3 but I can’t choose without knowing from someone who owns them.
The Pioneer DDJ-SB2 and the Numark Mixtrack Pro 3 are similarly priced but the Traktor Kontrol S2 MKII is about 100 euros more. But price doesn’t matter as long as I get decent quality. Also to add I know that both these controllers come with serato dj intro, should I be able to use all of the functions with dj intro from the mix track and the sb2?
You need a Serato approved piece of hardware to unlock Serato’s DJing abilities. These hardware pieces are limited to controllers (mostly the Pioneer S_ series, Numark controllers, Denon’s MCX8000, plus some others), mixers (Rane mixers, Pioneer DJM900, Allen & Heath mixers, Mixars Duo) and soundcards (Rane SL cards and Denon Ds1)
You’re not entirely. If I wanted to I could plug in a Rane SL1, out put that to a mixer, and map the S2 as a controller. The thing with Serato is there isn’t a crossfader or multiple band EQ built into the program like Traktor so all your mixing would still have top be done on a separate mixer.
You don’t have to listen to me, but if your heart is set on using Serato and a Traktor controller, get an S4 because it has a dedicated mixer. But honestly, if you get an s4, just save yourself the $300+ and use Traktor
I still haven’t bought a controller yet because the one that I want is the pioneer ddj-sb2 and is out of stock. I would prefer serato over traktor. The other serato controller that is in stock is the numark mix track pro 3. And is the cheapest of them all. The only thing is holding me back is the missing gain knobs on each channel. Is the gain really necessary on a controller because to my knowledge the gain on each channel is used when you have two different models cd players with different volume output and connected to a mixer. So you can adjust the volumes accordingly.