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DJ EQUIPMENT By: Chambria Dalhouse

MY DJ EQUIPMENT LIST Turntable DJ Controller Laptop Mixer Monitors Headphones Subwoofers/ Speakers

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Turn table A Turn table is used to play vinyl records. If a DJ was suppose to go old school and use only turn table for mixing he would need two of them. Its used for playing records and mixing music. There are lots of great benefits with using like the moving platter makes you understand how to move your hand to achieve certain scratching. However the downsides to this is that when you do scratching the record can get scratched and skipping might occur and if you want to play new music it’ll be very hard to impossible to find because not everyone still uses them. Audio Technica AT-LP60 is a brand of a vinyl turntable. Date accessed: March 16 th, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =-5RozyhvoZw

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DJ EQUIPMENT

By: Chambria Dalhouse

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MY DJ EQUIPMENT LIST

• Turntable• DJ Controller• Laptop • Mixer• Monitors• Headphones • Subwoofers/ Speakers

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Turn table• A Turn table is used to play vinyl records. If a DJ was suppose to go

old school and use only turn table for mixing he would need two of them. Its used for playing records and mixing music. There are lots of great benefits with using like the moving platter makes you understand how to move your hand to achieve certain scratching. However the downsides to this is that when you do scratching the record can get scratched and skipping might occur and if you want to play new music it’ll be very hard to impossible to find because not everyone still uses them. Audio Technica AT-LP60 is a brand of a vinyl turntable.

Date accessed: March 16th, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5RozyhvoZw

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CD Turn Table• CD Turn Tables are what most modern DJs use they usually have two

of them because for most that’s what they prefer. Its similar to a regular turn table but when you look more closely you see it has a lot more functions. First of all you don’t have vinyl so your tracks wont skip. It has no moving platter and it also has functions like cue point and loop. Another advantage is that with one CD you can burn a lot of songs one there so that’s really good if you like most things in one place. Pioneer CDJ-900NXS is a good one.

Date accessed: March 16th, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5RozyhvoZw

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Laptop• A laptop is so essential to a lot of DJs or all even. Its used to play MP3s and its

also used to store a lot of music. Like the Mac Book Pro some DJs store up to 10,000 songs on there or even more. A DJ mainly needs one laptop but some might even go for two if they can handle it. Looking back, it's easy to see that when everything went digital, the gradual advances in technology literally changed the face of popular music, resulting in an explosion of remixes, mashups, mixtapes, and entirely new musical styles like dubstep. There are also a lot of virtual mixing you can do on them like Virtual DJ which makes mixing a lot easier.

Date accessed: March 16th, 2014 http://www.mixedinkey.com/Book/Build-the-Perfect-DJ-Laptop

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DJ Controller• DJ digital controllers aim to copy the traditional turntable/CD

turntable set up. Most controllers come with shuttle jog dials that mimic turntable control of an audio file, with slightly less accuracy.

• An advantage of controllers is that the processing power of the computer can be used to manipulate the sound, giving a wide range of effects and sampling options. Also, controllers are often platform-independent, allowing for highly customized setups. A DJ can choose and configure the software and use a variety of controllers with it. Some DJs even use two or more controllers for different applications during a set. Like using a well-known Pioneer DDJ-SZ.

Date accessed: April 8th, 2014http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_digital_controller

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Using a Laptop with it• Without a DJ controller there would be no use

for laptops. Because when using it basically is an all-in-one system which also includes a software like Traktor, Serato or Virtual DJ which comes with it. So the laptop will contain all the songs and the controller will have the tools necessary for a great performance which is also carried out on the computer.

Date Accessed: April 8th ,2014http://www.digitaldjinfo.com/dj-equipment-beginners-guide/

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Mixer• A Mixer is important if your going to use two turntables or two CD players. It sits between two turntables or CD player or even one of each. You’ll most likely will only need one unless for different reasons you might need two, although I think that mainly applies if you have multiple turntables. Its where all the sound comes in and then it takes it to your amplifier. You use it to mix two songs with a fader and a cross fader. Mixers come in a lot of different makes and style. You have a scratch mixer and the way you can identify it is that there are no button or knobs around the faders. For e.g. Pioneer DJM-900SRT.

Date accessed: March 16th, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5RozyhvoZw

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Monitors• Monitors are used to hear the music in the DJ booth. Two monitors

are very ideal for the average DJ. They are very unique they are used to the music sound good better than it sounds on the recording. You will want one that is accurate and clean so if there is anything wrong with the track you can pick up on it. Monitors are similar there aren't real any differences between the makes. But it depends on you and what you want and also the style of music you play. You also want to choose monitors based on the size of your studio because that will affect it greatly. Pioneer S-DJ80X.

Date accessed: March 16th, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfD7RnC7P6Q

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Headphones• Headphones are used to hear the music before it is played out.

Headphones are such an essential for DJs who like a lot of mixing or any DJ in general. You use them to hear what you are going to play before you actually do. What DJs do with their headphones is the always leave and ear without the headphone on. The reason for this is so that they can listen and mix what they're about to play while hearing the music that are playing over the speakers. All in all when having headphones or any other DJ equipment you pay for what you get. So my thing would be to invest in some good quality headphones like Dr Dre DJ Headphones Mixr.

Date accessed: March 12th, 2014 Maryann Chase

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Subwoofers/ Speakers• Speakers are external machines. They are used so the crowd can

hear the music. They’re aren't that complicated most have a built in amp and as long of you give it a power source and audio source. So for most people who don’t like all the technical work with setting up a speaker they should purchase one with most of the stuff built in so all you have to do is plug it in and give it an audio source.

Date accessed: March 16th, 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARz2GCtzULk

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My Preferences• I prefer a MacBook Pro laptop over a 3Com Ergo

Audrey because the gigabytes it holds is way more than the 3Com. And it also has more features which means it’s a lot better at DJ mixing. It also can manage my songs better than the 3com and its also more modern.