You can travel back in time to 1999 with 3 pieces of hardware, what are they?

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You can travel back in time to 1999 with 3 pieces of hardware, what are they?

You have the chance to travel back in time to 1999 to pursue your dream career as a DJ/producer. You can take three and only three pieces of hardware with you. Any PCs or laptops you bring will be restored to their factory default state and you will lose all installed software and media as a result of a time travel paradox- you can’t bring any software or media at all unless it is the native firmware to a hardware device.

You cannot sell or loan anything you bring back for hardware or research purposes so this should not be a motive. Keep in mind all hardware you bring must interface with other 1999 technology and the current scene. So if you bring a CDJ-2000 back, remember there is still no Beatport or USB flash drives. If you bring a Maschine back, you lose the software and you couldn’t install the drivers on a windows 2000 machine anyway.

What do you bring and why?

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Would Carl Cox be considered hard, or software :slight_smile:.

(Don’t mean to derail Xone - excellent thread - going to require some thought…)

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I would take my current CD collection and 2x CDJ2000 and a DJM2000 mixer.

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Can’t bring any media. :slight_smile:

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2 x 1200s
1 x Mixer

what else was needed in 99?

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AIAIAI TMA-1 cans

and 2 needles

that is all

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Macbook pro, Emulator, Kontrol s4

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Exactly this. But I’d take 1210’s. Cause I like the colour. :smiley:

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Exactly…thats what I used back then, so I would use the same!

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How would you use the S4 and macbook with no software? :wink:

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Same here! :slight_smile:

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Nothing - but we’d seen the future - could it not have been embraced earlier?

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Tough on the rules hey Xone?

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Time travel is serious business.

So you wouldn’t innovate and want to use todays technology then?

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Precisely

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I’d try and catch Hawtin after one of his legendary decks efx and 909 shows and hand him this picture from the future:

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and hopefully he sees sense and that horribly embarrassing time contakt/cube shit never happens.

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Or a pic of Sasha back on CDJ’s @ Ushaiah?

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An unopened s4 pack (hardware and software) macbook pro 2011, midifighter pro with mapping.

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No! I loved playing vinyl back then and still use it today, I dont need efx, filters, auto sync, scratch…Im the type that lets the song play and mixes with smooth transitions…I dont need to ruin a song with that stuff.

Dont get me wrong, I currently use serato, cd’s, etc…but I like simplicity.

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what is the point of asking this question… you have set the rules to get the answer you want, so we can all validate your ideal setup, sure in 1999, under your rules i’d take pioneer efx 1000, cdj 1000mk3, xone 92, I would already be able to get tech 1200’s anyway… And in reality I wouldn’t play cd’s, just vinyl, that was the culture then.

but that isn’t what I choose not under your very restricting rules because the pio products were released in 2006 and the xone in 2005, so not really that advanced, just improving old designs, and not inline with todays feature set.

Maybe your trying to highlight the fact that hardware production has gone by the wayside, however you need to consider there were only three major brands back then
technics
pioneer
allen & heath

these other companies were around, but were very cheap at the time and more for a bedroom setup, and the bottom three were manufactured by the same company..
denon
vestax
stanton
numark

they all still make hardware, but because the price people are willing to pay has dropped considerably, so has the quality and the hardware functionality, but seriously sync is an option, I don’t use it for the same reason you don’t…cause it’s not challenging at all, and I get bored and like everyone else have A.D.H.D so can’t stand for 2 minutes without doing something, a.k.a. destroying tracks with effects..