What gear did you start with and what gear do you have now?
And was it hard to get there?
i started with 2 technics 1200s and the mixer was a realistic by radio shack, and a pile of vinyls my friend donated to me to learn with. it was pretty hard to get there…
Started on a friends turntable setup. As for my own gear, I started with a basic midi DJ controller and as digital DJing evolved, so did my setup …
I started with the original version of this bad boy around 10 years ago…
now I own 2 studios and a record label among other things
I started with 2x 1210’s, a Gemini BPM250 mixer and 2 Jamo speakers. Im currently using everything in my sig.
I started with a with an X1 MK2 then got an F1 then got a Numark 4 Trak (yeah what a jump) then I got an Z1 then got a VCI-400 . I still have all of the gear and some other junk like a Maschine and a APC mini that I never use. I rotate playing between the NI gear and the VCI-400, haven’t played the 4 Trak in a while I miss it a lot. No it wasn’t that hard to accumulate all of that stuff. I forgot I also purchased a laptop to dj with I used to use my desktop for dj software, I also use both Serato & Traktor.
Keyboard. Now the list in my sig.
Started on these two CD-players in 2001 (the BCD-3000 was added much later!)
The CD players were used alongside this mixer and Gemini turntable
The BCD-3000 was added around 2010, first step into digital DJing.
Then moved onto CDJ-900s and a Denon x1600 mixer in 2011. Then swapped the CDJ-900s for the SC-2900s, and also managed to acquire my 1210s, my PDX2000mk2s and a host of other stuff along the way.
The problem I have is that aside from my CDJ-900s I still have every piece of DJ gear I ever purchased, so currently hoarding 4 CD players, 5 turntables, 6 mixers, 2 controllers, and a ton of mobile stuff (lights & sound). I keep saying I need to have a sort out 
This is my most commonly used setup these days, with the 2900s normally on the stands:
And for mobile gigs (with two of us):
I started out with Stanton C304s and a M304 Mixer
Now i have a Mixtrack Pro
Have I gone backwards in life? lol
I started with a friend of mine as punk / independent “DJs”.
We brought a huge tower pc and his heavy old school monitor to gigs und ran two instances of winamp into one channel. 
Then I got a laptop with winXP and controlling Traktor DJ Studio via keyboard.
And I started hating Windows.
After years of unpredictable blue screens, I switched over to MacOS Tiger (black Macbook) and my bought first controller. The BCD3000 with internal sound interface. This cheap controller introduced me to midi mapping, because of faulty buttons.
I upgraded to Reloop´s Digital Jockey 2 with audio interface. But these buttons were even worse.
So I looked a lot at ebay to finally find a VCI 100 with DJTT´s upgrade kit to FW 1.4! I additionally bought a cheap Audio2 (MK1).
And since then, I´m rocking this gear almost every day.
Started with a shitty LG Netbook, Virtual DJ and a Numark Mixtrack Pro I. Then I added a MacBook as the Netbook really just did not cut it. Then I needed more control and got an Akai LPD8. Then I started to be limited by the bugs of Virtual DJ and the awful mapping engine. Then I went big. I ordered an Allen & Heath XONE:K2, two NI X1 MKI’s, two MIDI Fighter Pro’s, a Focusrite 2i4, a pair of V-Moda LP2’s and a ton of Chroma Caps. This is still more or less the set-up I use. I rarely use the MIDI Fighter Pro’s anymore as I got better at mapping the X1’s and my K2 to do most of what I needed with shift keys and modifiers. I also added an RMX-1000 to the chain because, as much as I love the Traktor effects the RMX-1000 just sounds so good and is really, really fun.
So Short Version:
Started with a Netbook, Virtual DJ and a Numark Mixtrack Pro I.
Currently use a MacBook, Traktor, two NI X1’s, an A&H K2 and an RMX-1000.
I’m backwards.
Started with my keyboard, then S4, then 2 Stanton Str8-80’s into S4, then 2 Technics 1210 mkii’s into S4, then 2 Technics 1210 mkii’s into Pioneer DJM 900 NXS, now I’m just rusty as hell because I’d rather produce or just play.
I started scratching on old cassette tapes, I would stick pencils in them to wind them back so I could beat juggle.
I started with 2 gemini t02 turntables and a numark mixer. Then I got traktor, now i have 2 1210s mk2 with traktor z2.
hahaaaaa !!!
Started with a numark axis 8 and axis 4 and a crappy numark mixer, All used.
I had zero DJ experience and instead of looking up stuff online I just messed around with it. One day I went to update the firmware and something happened to them and they were F’ed up ever since.
By that time I had really got interested in trying top produce. I only had the money to either by production equipment or DJ equipment. seeing what one of my all time favorite producers Ill Gates was doing with Live, I found my change to get “both” gear. Purchased a copy of Live suite. Now my setup is a livid Ohm RGB slim and a midi fighter pro.
2 weeks ago I got a copy of Traktor and started messing with that. My goal is to be proficient in as many avenues as I can. I personally think Live is the future of “DJing” since its so much more flexible then TT, CDJs and even traktor or serato but I hate the negative connotation that goes along with it. So I decided to start learning how to Mix well on everything.
1xGemini pmx 60, 2 x soundlab belt drives, and 2 cheapo wharfedale cd decks, evolved from that. Now Denon DNS3500x2, DND4500, DNX500, DNX1500, DNMC6000mk2, Serato DJ and Traktor Pro2, Launchpad S x2, Launchcontrol XL, was difficult up until 10 years ago when I fell in with an agent.
It’s mainly because people who start and learn on tables and a mixer feel like it’s just really traditional.. It’s mostly just a mental block that won’t let them accept anything new(I was there at one point honestly)
It’s like telling a 60 year old man that old muscle cars are and have always been garbage, and that ACDC sucks lol. They’re just stuck on their ways and won’t accept any other way.
i dont think its that people that started with tts are stuck in their ways.. i think you will just always have elitist asspricks in every avenue of everything, asspricking their way into everything with their rules!
down with rules!
- Numark DM1050, a splitter cable and the pc keyboard for transport
- Behringer BCD3000
- UC-33 + Nanopad + Audio Kontrol 1
- APC40 + Traktor Audio 8 + whatever mixer was around
- S4+X1+iPad running Lemur
- Maschine + iPad running Lemur
- MF Twister + Spectra + 3D + Push
- VCI-400SE + MF Twister + MF Spectra + MF 3D + Push
Think that covers it 