DIBS, also, in personal experiance, no matter how good mixer you have, its useless if your there rocking out mixing, but nothing to play it back with, so SPEAKERS EVERYONE C: for starting off, id recommend a pair of audio line (yes I realise everything I seem to recommend is audioline) 15" powered pa speakers. you can get them for about $800 including tripods at jbhifi and will do great for someone starting off, there fantastic sounding speakers!