Noob overwhelmed....

[fuhrermix]

Hi Guys, I live in Melbourne and I'm looking at getting into DJing.

Been to a few stores in town and the range is overwhelming.

My budget is around $1000.00 for two "CDJ's" and a mixer.

Are there any brands to be wary of?

Thanks,

Frank

[CBG]

CDJ is pioneer's name for a CD player.

DJM is their name for a mixer.

You won't be able to get to CDJs and a DJM for $1000. In fact you won't be able to get anything for that much. Brand new anyway.

If you wish to start mixing. Get Traktor and buy a MIDI contoller, to get you going. It will give the basics of mixing, it just wont teach you to beatmatch.

[Buck_Choi]

true. that budget is too low for anything brand new. sorry to say. unless you go for some crap no name brand that has less then half the functions and a little to no chance of surviving a trashing if your going to play with them for hours on end =]

[JonnyB]

you could buy 2 tape players?

haha .

save a bit more buddy if you want anything that will be usefull and last

cheapest bang for your buck i can think of is the cdj400's and the djm600

for about 2.4k

[Cupe]

sure, i saw a brand new cdj400 at JB HiFi for like 300/400 (pretty sure)

[fuhrermix]

Thanks Guys,

I have been looking at some Citronic gear, seems to be ok and a good price, has anyone had experience with those?

[JonnyB]

sure, i saw a brand new cdj400 at JB HiFi for like 300/400 (pretty sure)

no hahaha.

they still are up at about 800 each

could of been liek a 200 or something maybe you got confused

[Cupe]

i read it, it was just a while ago

maybe floor stock? looked like they just wanted to get rid of it

i think i actually posted about it when i saw it

+rep if anyone can find it

[DjNikko]

lol far to lazy for that what does everyone think of this whole usb plug in aspect to the cdjs these days?

[JonnyB]

i never use them duno why, i find if you have to many tracks on there it takes a rediculous amount of time to load, plus you cant write your track names on them

[Skank]

cdj 800s for only 400 bucks id buy 100 of em thats half of retail value

[Cupe]

it was cdj400 not 800

[Skank]

yeah thats what i ment typo