2010-08-26

Equipment Necessary For DJing

Being a DJ can be a very rewarding hobby or career, but it can be stressful and expensive to get all of the right equipment. You need to make some hard decisions about what style of equipment you want to use. Many DJs these days are using primarily a laptop. If this is your preference, you may not need much more equipment if you already own a laptop. You'll need to get DJing software, headphones, and perhaps an external audio interface which will allow you to listen to one song while another is already playing.

These days, most DJs are using CDs. To do this, you will need a pair of headphones, a mixer, and 2 DJ CD players. Keep in mind that you will need special CD players meant for DJing that allow you to change the speed of the music and other features that are meant to emulate how vinyl records can be manipulated. Pioneer makes the most popular and industry standard players which are known as CDJs. The mixer connects the two CD players, allows you to choose which is playing, and make changes to the sound itself.

Traditionally most DJs used vinyl records. Though on the decline, this is still popular today. The main advantage is that records allow a DJ to play the music more physically and organically rather than depending on computers. The Technics 1200 direct drive turntable is the DJ standard, though other companies make similar products. You can find cheaper turntables, but they often won't have the power and speed adjustments that are necessary for real DJing.




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