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  • DJ setups/Mixer porn/New toys thread...

loopdokter i demo’d sonarworks, but wasn’t a huge fan. i’m not struggling with my mixes too much these days, the odd track i have to work the low end a little, especially if i have a kick, sub, and low-passed chords, but it’s not causing me problems. the best thing for me was a combination of learning my headphones, using reference tracks when i’m not sure, and invaluable feedback from wayne, who does my mastering.

when i send him a mix, he tells me exactly what he did with it and that’s gone from fixing the garbage i was sending him a year and a half ago to just slight eq and compression for the most part now.

plus making dub, it’s not a genre that relies on super clean and separated mixes, so that probably hides some of my mistakes. my big challenge now is creativity vs. technical stuff. i feel like i have the basic tools and ability now, it’s a matter of making interesting music instead of typical derivative stuff.

    Along_the_Wire I think most will. At $2.5K a pop here in the States with tax only clubs/hire companies/A list DJs/trust fund kids can afford these and a decent mixer. I think the model for Pioneer is for people to learn the trade via XDJs / DDJs then use CDJs in clubs/when playing out. Thats why they haven’t gone nuts with redesigning the units/adding new features.

    The XZ is the price of one of these, so makes no monetary sense for the majority to buys CDJs.

      £3000 each.

      It’s no Kontrol S2 MK2.

      I was planning an upgrade to the XZ this year. Its been put on hold due to needing a new laptop. Went for the dell xps 13. Expensive, but a great piece of kit.

      Whatever happened to a 500 quid set up?

      #okboomer

        Kids these days can get a good start with a 200 € controller and a laptop. And build from that.

        …give it 6 months, loads of people will have the 3000’s at home IMO

        Dan it’s way cheaper now than it was 20 years ago. my first set up was 2×1200s and a shitty mixer for $1500 and records were $15 a piece (that’s all CAD). now you can pick up a controller and either illegally download tracks for nothing or pay a small fraction of what tracks used to cost.

          …actually this is a very good point, relative to what I used to spend across a year in my vinyl days, these are probably a bit of a bargain

          • Dan replied to this.

            Yeah, agreed on the costs of vinyl compared to digital etc.

            Pioneer will have spent a lot of time working on that price point (the industry won’t baulk at it in the slightest, they’re buttons compared to some of their investments), they have a very good idea about what their consumer will and wont spend.

            Remember the pages of deals at the back of DJ Mag back in the day, technics with an MRT60/Vestex/PA/Sound system ……buy on credit with about 30% apr. Entry into the world of DJing in those days was a very expensive business , and don’t get me started on import double packs bought just for a 3minute dub. 😕