Just don’t try and throw a party using your home speakers – you’ll blow them up, I promise you! Keep them for practising… SoundCloud is a great way of finding interesting and unusual tracks and legally filling your collection for free. Also any headphones with a headband will do to start with. (See our good cheap speakers for DJing article for some ideas.) As long as you can find a way to plug an input from your DJ set-up into it, you don’t need specialist monitors just yet. Of course, you need some way of hearing your mixing, but a hi-fi, a decent “boom box”, even your TV’s sound bar or cheap gaming speakers can probably get you going on this. Yet you probably already have loads of things that you can use. One mistake people make is that they think to start DJing, you need loads of specialist gear. Use any speakers/headphones you’ve already got
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And I got my first paying gigs with that exact set-up – plus a PA system I hired with the money they paid me! So if, in the words of Lana del Rey, “you’ve got the music in you”, you want to see if DJing might be for you without shelling out piles of cash (or you simply don’t have access to the money you’d need to buy pro gear), here are a few suggestions for getting going: 1. Personally, I started DJing on a £20 mixer (see above) that took a nine-volt battery and only worked in mono, plus an single belt-drive turntable and two cassette decks. (Check out this recent story if you haven’t already – it graphically reinforces our point). We simply do not subscribe to this idea that it is a hallowed, expensive hobby only for those with the cash to pursue it, or that if you don’t do it a certain way you’re not a “real” DJ, or that just because you’re doing it on less than ideal gear, you can’t learn and get better. So, exactly how much does it cost to start DJing? Here at Digital DJ Tips, we absolutely believe that everyone who wants to should be able to try their hand at DJing, however much money they have (or don’t have). Moral? You don’t need expensive gear to start (plus, you can do a lot better than I did for a lot less cash nowadays…) Armed with one of these cheap mixers, a music system belt drive turntable, and two cheap cassette decks, I played my first DJ gigs – and learned all the fundamentals of DJing.
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