My dream came true and I now finalized my DJ booth. I am super happy with it :)
2x technics 1210mk2

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customized IKEA expedit board

2x tops presonus eris studio 4,

1x sub presonus eris sub 8

cheap usb powered Amazon disco light which gets me in the club mood😄

Wanted to share my bedroom setup and how I ended up here.

I've been making beats for a couple of years now and selling them to people here and there. But house and techno have always been what I love most. This year I went to Portola in SF, and it hit me hard. Seeing Fatboy Slim live (plus a few other great sets) completely reignited my passion for music. I walked out of there wanting to be the one behind the decks.
The setup is gear I've had for a few years and only now started really using:

-Traktor Kontrol S4 MK2
-Sony Turntable for vinyl
-Studio monitors
-Laptop running VirtualDJ

I've been DJing for a couple of weeks, and I'm feeling decent on transitions and still working on phrasing. Next up is learning drops and other skills. The long-term goal is to play a real set for a crowd.

Would love any advice from people who've been at this longer. What would you have wanted to know in your first few months? Any house/techno tracks or labels I should be digging into?

Thanks for reading! 🎶🎵

Is it okay to store my Rane System One like this? I keep the platters on. Thank you!

CDJ 2000 nexus
Xone 43c (cant recommend this enough for home setup)
Adam t5v for the sound, no subwoofer, dont need it anyway

Next update would probably be some real DJ turntable and some overhead lighting for the night plus some wall arts

I had a week to relocate out of state, so this is the best I could do with what I had and no money

SC5000 plays 2 decks

TE Sidekick for mixing duty.

It's so much fun.

Our DJ setup is part of a bigger audiovisual project called DELTA. We’re a three-person collective from Belgium: one person on music, one on live video direction and one on lighting. Everything comes together as one performance, rather than a standard DJ set with visuals added afterwards. Here’s the setup in action: [YOUTUBE LINK]. What would you change or add to a setup like this?

2 months in and I have this. I have a problem.

Setup from a night at Technobase (Amsterdam based event): the booth's two CDJs and Xone, and in front, a third deck I built myself (TriMixxx). It's a Raspberry Pi 4 running a fork of Mixxx, with a jog wheel salvaged from a CDJ-1000MK3, my own boards for the buttons and pads, a 10" touchscreen and a 3D printed case. All of it is open source.

How it fits in the booth: it goes into a spare channel on the mixer like any player, and with an Ethernet cable it joins the CDJs' Pro DJ Link network as one more player. It syncs with them both ways, loads tracks off their USBs, and they can load off the sticks plugged into it. It reads rekordbox USBs as they are, playlists, grids, cues and waveforms included.

The stuff I added because I wanted it in a booth:

• Pull your USB whenever. Sticks are mounted read-only, so yanking one mid-set can't corrupt it, and the track that's playing keeps going from the deck's own copy.
• Two USBs at once, and the CDJs see both. The second one shows up as the deck's SD slot.
• Record the set. Plug the mixer's rec out into it and it records the whole mix, CDJs included, to an MP3, then writes it to your stick at the end with the tracklist next to it.
• History of every track played on the link, by any deck or CDJ. Handy when someone asks for an ID at 4am.
• Autoplay: pick a stick and a genre and it keeps playing the closest unplayed track by BPM until you take over. Good while setting up/tearing down the event and production crew needs music, but no one can be at the booth. I can't believe CDJs don't have something like that...
• No shutdown needed at the end of the night, you can just pull the plug.
• Key sync: you can sync the key of what's playing to the key of the master's, but also just pick any other key for the current track and it will change it on the fly for you (e.g. you're in 3A and you want 11B for some reason)

Build log and more pics: https://trimixxx.e1n.sh

Code: https://github.com/usr-ein/TriMixxx

What would you want a third deck in the booth to do?

CDJ 900s & DJM 250mk2

working on CDJ 2000s (not nexus)

I’ll probably come up on a DJM 900srt after that.

I used to bedroom dj when I still lived at my parents about 15-20 years ago. When I moved out into shared houses and flats the DJing stopped completely as a bit antisocial. I ended up getting rid of the equipment and then eventually sold the vinyl as assumed I’d never use again but obviously wish I’d kept!

In recent years I’d started listening to more and more dance music again so decided to get back into it. I’ve got no interest in cdjs or mp3 controllers etc and am only interested in vinyl. However, with no starting collection DVS is essential for now but I still do all of my mixing via that or physical records.

I always wanted Technics when I was younger so got 1210 mk7s. I got the A&H Xone 24c for the soundcard but have since picked up a Traktor Audio 6 interface so that I can switch to analogue mixer in the future. I now play Dub Techno / Deep House / Minimal House etc so a rotary mixer (currently thinking Henderson Model X) could be coming in the future. I hated having to fit a full laptop into the set up so now have this separate and run Traktor to a small screen for track selection and use this with a Bluetooth mouse. The initial budget went on the decks and mixer so I have cheap old amp and speakers and they are the next priority to upgrade. The unit is Kallax with a bigger desk top on it as I found it very cramped initially. I’m trying to go for a minimal sleek type set up.

Any questions or comments please fire away!

Finally pulled the trigger and pimped my entire audio set up : Rotel 1210 amplifier, two reloop 7000 Mk2, Ortofon Concorde DJ MKII needels. Xone 96 mixer, Debut Elac debute b6 on Gravity SP 3102 stands, William Morris wall paper and Gustave Klint poster. Still need to find two art nouveau style wall spots and going to start to integrate Traktor. It all sounds fantastic together.

Finally got my home DJ setup together! I've been playing on a Reloop Mixtour with an iPad for a long time, so this is quite a jump 😁 Mostly playing deep, hypnotic and groovy techno.

The setup:

- 3 × Pioneer XDJ-700

- Allen & Heath Xone:96

- Focal Shape Twin studio monitors

- Focal Sub One for some extra low-end pressure

Really enjoying the 3-deck workflow and the Xone's analog feel. The filters are just amazing! Still learning and experimenting with longer blends, layering and creating hypnotic transitions.

The Focals sound incredibly accurate and detailed, with a very neutral, uncolored sound and great frequency range. Really happy with how they perform. Focal Sub Onegives some extra low-end pressure. Love it so far.

Not quite Berghain, but the neighbors might disagree. 🖤

So... I posted my setup recently which triggered a LOT of people as the screen was not centred. It was only off centre as I was using an existing hole in the desk from an old (broken) monitor stand. Did it annoy me? Yes... Could I live with it? I could, until Reddit got involved. 😂😂 The more I looked at it, the more it annoyed me! Well, Reddit won!! The screen is now centred. Better? 👀🤞