If there are any turntablists in the premises, Please report here immediately Options

[Simba]

Alright, I've been wondering about this for a while. Out of the 361,264+ members on cB, there's got to be at least a few turntablists creeping around on cB, right?

Anyone?

Even just interested in turntablism.

[Simba]

Those complete DJ kits that include turntables and a mixer and headphones and all that?

Generally, they're pretty cheap/garbage stuff, but when I was looking for turntables the Stanton's actually seemed decent (I never saw and Technic ones at the time). I was looking at these. The price of the third pack is pretty out there though. And I never ended up buying any of those so I can't say whether they're garbage or not, but they definitely seemed to be some of the better choices.

Really though, if you've got the money to spend, I'd try to buy those Technic turntables. They supposedly last for ever (definitely several years), and are considered some of the best built. And since they're so durable and they're pretty much industry standard, you shouldn't have to really worry about buying new turntables even when you upgrade. Just the mixer and needles and all that.

You could even start with just one; you only really need one turntable and a mixer to get started with skratching (you can just play a beat off a separate CD player or whatever).

So even if you want to go ahead and buy the complete DJ kit, chances are, the equipment will be useless once you decide to upgrade. If you go ahead with Technics you'll just have to upgrade your mixer and anything else.

I guess first you're going to want to decide if you want to go with a complete DJ kit or buy each piece of equipment separately, because if you go separately, there are a couple more choices other than Technics (though Technics tends to be the most reliable) and some of them are cheaper.

We can talk about this on AIM too if you want. It's quite a bit of money to be tossing around and a lot of info to take in.


By the way, for anyone who's going out to buy equipment, www.musiciansfriend.com has some really great prices.