Beat Down Pro

Alright so I’m brand new to dj-ing and need a few questions cleared up! I have virtual dj and need to buy turntables….im looking at the denon tt-200 and the denon tt-1650 so which one is better? also im looking to buy the dxm06 mixer so how does that sound? My first question is dealing with virtual dj…….i dont understand how the whole vinyl record thing works and what time coded vinyls are or do? Do you just buy a blank vinyl, put it on the deck, and play the music through virtual dj and just scratch and crossover with the records? or do you have to actually put songs on the records? Serato is def out of the question, i know its the best but i cant afford it! Any answers to these questions is most appreciated and I will give out points to the best helpful person out there;) THANKS!!!!!!!

Meaning, I could get a better mixer if I could some Numarks or something. How important is the quality of the turntables vs. a lower quality mixer. As far as my plans go, I plan on scratching and mixing (I plan on a serato too) but not like, battle dj-ing.

I just recently got turntables to go with my Hercules MK2 mixer/soundcard and use my Macbook to load my songs and use the program virtual DJ. I would like to actually DJ parties and get into stuff like that and I was just curious of what am I looking for exactly when buying amps or speakers for live DJing. Any websites and names of brands, technical specs, and prices, and anything else you can think of would be awesome thanks!!!

5 starts to best answer i choose!!!

I have been playing around with Virtual Dj on my computer a fairly expensive program, but I really need some hardware to go along with it. I am wondering what kind of entry level mixer and turntable might include some type of USB connection to play through. Thanks.

I have plenty of music and I have made my own mixes and tracks, i have no turntables,mixers, or big speakers, just a computer and software to mix , rip, cut, chop, tracks.

I am contemplating whether I should buy an all in one digital DJ system or two vinyl record turntables. If i bought turntables and a mixer what is everything else I would need and how can i set the turntables up to a laptop to run a DJ Software to feed my music? What free DJ softwares are there? How do I get the music? What kind of vinyl records do I need? Ive heard something about like timecoded or something…lots of questions but im learning this is hard and complicated. Thanks for all tips and answers.

I’m in the process in buying some technics turntables used to spin house music but what is the difference between Technics SL-1200MK2 and Technics SL1200M3D turntable? Does it really matter which one I choose because I’m just a beginning dj. Just want to make sure I”m getting the right one for the house music style.

I have little experience with turntables. However, have a passion for electronica and have dreamt of becoming a DJ for years! My sister’s boyfriend in San Francisco uses them and back home my friends spun a lot of drum n bass, so messin around on theirs is about all the experience I’ve got! But I know I’ve got a touch. There is this ad on Craigslist that looks like this:

Selling a full DJ setup. 2 turntables and a mixer in an Odyssey DJ hard case. One table is MCS and the other is American DJ, the mixer is Newmark. Comes with extra cables, and a crate of records, many are battle records(full of beats and samples)”

This setup is $200 dollars and looks very nice. Since I am a beginner, would this be an okay setup for me? Or are these brands cheap in that NO ONE should use them… I really need some advice here. I don’t have a lot of cash but could very well do $200, it’s a start after all right? Anyways, an opinion would be great. Thanks!!

I already have virtual DJ on my laptop and I am using a HERCULES DJ CONTROL, so what do I need to move up and start using either real turn tables or CD turn tables

I’m 16 years old, and i want to start making my own music along the lines of Hip Hop and rap. What kind of turntables should i get considering i am a beginner and totally new making music?

Im done with this story, about my DJ character, DJ Leandro Stephens. Here are some facts, 20 facts….and after each one, tell me whether its interesting or not…my teacher said it was good, and lots of people say that it was, but i want to make sure my audience like it. just be brutally honest.

1. He was born on Sept 27, 1950 in St.Louis, but spent part of his childhood in Japan where his dad was serving the US Air force.

2. He’s a military brat, lived in four different countries throughout his childhood, one is Germany.

3. He found his connection with music at age 2, by standing in front of a stereo…his father got him into music

4. Moved back to the US with his dad in 1966, when he was 15.

5. Went to Columbia University in new york to study music..he wanted to be a music teacher. He was workin a night job at this diner to help pay for his tuition. He hated college and wanted to drop out. he struggled and hustled at college.

6. He was having problems with a music teacher, so he felt teaching wasnt for him

7. Found his calling after seeing a college radio station on campus. He ditched class, went in…checked it out, hang around there, saw dj perform, wanted to be a dj, changed his major to mass communications, became a intern, orginally dj absent during power outage, he took over…after a while, he became a success

8. Sent demo to WLUH, a popular black station..sent demos…got rejected 3 or 4 times before he got hired.

9. Went, worked 12-5 running the board for the merv griffin show, then music from 5:30-6pm. after that he moved to a regular music shift…pretty soon, he became a success

10. Met his wife, Darlene at the station..she was a secetary

11. He was always on the road, so they couldn’t get have a wedding, so they got married in court in 1971.

12. Has two sons, Leandro, Jr (born 1975) and Roderick (born 1979)
and a foster daughter, Breanna (born 1985)

13. His best friend, Roderick, was stabbed over a drug deal back in 1976. That’s who he named his youngest son after.

14. He moved to Oakland back in September 1977, when he was just 26 years old.

15. Started collecting records at age 5, bought his turntables at age 10

16. As a teen in the 60s, he encountered and witnessed racism. He used music as a way to cope with his sadness. Music in the 60s said “Hey, we don’t run together, we come together”

17. His mother was navy, father was army

18. He grad. from high school in 1968

19. Has three grandchildren

20. He’s a lifelong music lover

Well, that’s all i can give right now…what do you think?

A guide at Windsor Castle was struggling to make herself heard over the roar of low flying aircraft coming into land at nearby Heathrow. She was interrupted by a tourist who demanded what was wrong with the town planners, and why had they built the castle so close to the airport.

The highlight of a cruise liner’s visit to the Alaskan port of Valdez was a guided tour of the southern end of the great 800 mile pipeline through which, the guide informed them, some 1.3 million barrels of oil came daily from Prudoe Bay in the north. When he asked if there were any questions, someone solemnly enquired, `How do they get all those empty barrels back up to Prudoe Bay?’

`Good home wanted for year-old Basset bitch. Understands every word I say, but ignores it.’ Card in Portsmouth shop window.

A group of tourists escorted around the British Houses of Parliament suddenly found themselves in the presence of the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, resplendent in full wig and gown. Spying behind the group the figure of Neil Marten MP, the Lord Chancellor called out in greeting.`Neil’ with dignified vigour. And all the tourists did.

A tourist, on a driving holiday in Britain was reported to have been overcome by the Cotswolds but astonished at the number of villages with the same name. `After Chipping Sodbury,’ he said, `there were three villages in a row called Loose Chippings.’

An English classics scholar, trying to impress his tour party colleagues on holiday in Athens, offered to converse in Greek with the local ferry officers at the docks to enquire about departure times. The locals, after recovering from fits of laughter, then revealed to the rest of the group, in perfect English, the scholar’s question: When do the galleys sail for the Isle of Aegina, O sailors?’

In 1981, fifty San Francisco nudists arrived in Miami for a national convention to find their airline had lost all their luggage, including their clothes.

The 1982 Association of British Travel Agents conference in Phoenix, Arizona, had to change its venue at the last moment when it discovered that its original hotel had been double booked.

The story is told, apocryphal no doubt, of the DJ working on a small and remote radio station in Scotland midway through his programme late at night on 1 October 1977. News came to the station that Bing Crosby had died (the station producer happened to be on the phone to the States and picked the word up almost as it occurred). The DJ thought he could possibly be the first person in the UK to publicly announce the death, so he put on a long track and rushed off to record library to get an old recording to play. Upon returning, nervously excited by now, he put the first record onto the turntable without looking at it and broke into the record then playing with a sombre voice: ‘I am deeply sorry to have to inform’ you listeners that I have just received news from America of a great tragedy. The legendary Bing Crosby is dead. As a humble tribute, I would like to play one of his songs,’ and as he switched over to his Crosby ’selection’, the melody was beamed out, ‘Heaven . . . I’m in Heaven…’

BEWARE OF TRAINS GOING BOTH WAYS AT ONCE. – Notice at Durham level crossing

I’m using various DJ softwares (like VDJ and Traktor) and plnning 6to start DJing. I’m gonna get a DJX 700 ixer from behringer for around 100$ and two turntables with timecoded vinyl for control. I don’t know what interface to get for timcoded vinyl. I was looking at the numark one and stanton’s FinalScratch (scratchamp), but I’m not sure what to get. I’d rathr get something that can work with more than one program (like Stanton’s ScratchAmp-Open) thats also cheap.
And can this be used to connect just the mixer to the PC too, like a soundcard? before I get the turntables.
I also need turntables. I was looking at the Technics SL1200’s, but they’e a bit too pricy for me. I also looked at the stanton ones like t.50 and t.80, but t.50 is belt drive (can belt drive scratch well?). What is a good option for me.
-Please help
-thx -Joseph

Basically, I know what it is obviously you put the two CDs in your turntable (unless u have vinyl) connect it to the box then laptop then just drag mp3 on the computer n boom. Couple questions though, 1. Can you use programs like Virtual DJ or does it just have its own program your only allowed to use and if you can use multiple programs which one is the best? 2. For most DJ programs, the BPM is read and when you drag a song, it automatically matches the BPM, or theres a one-click feature for that, do the DJ Programs that are compatible with the Serato Scratch live have that feature? and 3. Stupid question not expecting to get a solid answer but where’s the cheapest I could find it? So Far I’ve found it for around 500 on eBay. Thank you.

It was like a ball led to a lady dropping her groceries or something and each time the dj would rewind time to fix what goes wrong but then something else does. Memory is really bad on this one but work with me on it, if you can find this video i will worship you forever

Ok, I am a 13 year old who has been producing hip hop music sence 10 years old, i have a myspace (www.myspace.com/kornproductionz) and I have been using the same stuff to make beats for 2 years straight and i need new stuff. All this I am asking for all needs to be able to hook up to the computer…Here is a list of everything i need…

1) DJ turntable starter kit
2) Fruity Loops (Newest Version)
3) A recording micrphone w/stand and whisper catcher.
4) Some kind of graphic maker for albums.

Please get back at me, I would really appreciate it, but remember, im 13, please dont post 5 thousand doller equiptment, lol, all the stuff I need is starter stuff, thanks!