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Just curious to see if any other DJ's are here on the forums!

If so, would you mind sharing what you use for your equipment and what type of genre do you play?

 
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Hip hop, house, breaks, trance, trap, all genres

Traktor pro, 2 1210 m5g's, vestax pmc-06.

 
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Yes

Djing since the late 90s...

Started off with Breakbeat Hardcore/Happy Hardcore at raves, moved onto Jungle (old skool 92-95).

Began releasing House/Electro/Tech-Trance, Jungle/DNB and Breaks under various names as well as engineering other releases around 2004

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Corey+MacDonald

retired now, always vinyl. DIgital ruined the culture.

equipment:
Technics 1200 MK II's
Pioneer DJM 500 (but played on lots of other stuff out there)
Vinyl (of course)

Production:
Virus A,B,C
Rolan TB 303
mpc 400
Edirol PCR 300
Pre-Sonus Studio One (in the later years) Reason + Cubase in the earlier years/releases
KRK Rokit 8s

 
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Nice Nice! I'm using 1200s and a 57sl mixer. I think I might get something more portable within a year or two. Something like the Numark NS7II.

Production seemed really interesting but a little complicated to me because I never knew the basics haha. Most people that I know use either Reason or Fruity Loops.

 
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Technics 1200's, CDJ-850's and Serato Scratch Live here...
Looking to to change my mixer from Pioneer DJM-600 to a TTM57..

 
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TTM57SL ftw! However, I recently got to mess with a 62....my wallet might be very light soon.....

 
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Production is a joke now, its all ableton and loops. Back in the day we wrote music. lol. I left djing and producing after I charted in the UK, I felt like that was an accomplishment enough and well, we all know the scene aint what it was back in the day.

So I'm back to playing in bands, always did, but now its my main focus. Right now in both an 80s Hardcore/Punk band and a Symphonic Black Metal band. Thinking of doing a solo album of my songs which range from acoustic tapping to strange modal c, d, tuning songs with 1/3 capos and other strange arrangements.

If you want to get into production the most important things to learn about first:

1) ASDR envelopes
2) High Pass, Low Pass, Bandpass filters
3) Sidechaining, ducking,
4) Compression, when and how to use it
5) Arrangement, mixdowns

I would say reason is the best "learning" atmosphere as it gives you an understanding of the dynamics of synthesis albeit digitally. But you'll have a better understanding of how to acheive a sound. I remember people being perplexed how I could say ok, I'm going to do a build up to a drop, bring it back in with a raging acid line and double bass sidechained to the kick and a little over-compression on the strings and then acually do it. Well, its because there's a difference between pushing random buttons and throwing in random crap like it's a computer game and understanding you're producing a song through and through. The digital revolution made it seem to much like a computer game, and made djing a joke. When most modern djs cant even juggle a beat or crab its like what are you doing.. wow, you can beatmatch. That's square one! :P

I know, jaded...

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I DJ most weekends her in the UK - I do a pub residency on a Friday night and tend to do birthday's / weddings / anniversaries - that kind of thing - on Saturdays and Sundays.

I use:

4ft Ultimax DJ Booth with overhead bar
Starcloth surround
Various lights and effects mounted on overhead bar
Haze Machine (venue permitting)
2 x RCF ART 322a 12" powered speakers on tripods
Numark CM200USB mixer
High spec laptop running virtual DJ with tracks on external HDD

Various bits of back-up including spare laptop, HDD, mixer, SD card reader, CD player...

I quite enjoy it but thinking about dropping the Friday residency in a few months as it would be nice to spend the odd weekend out with my wife.

I also work full time so it's hard work sometimes.

Justin