Hobbies And Pastimes

When someone plans to be a DJ, one of the major stumbling blocks is the astoundingly steep price of the equipment. That said, DJ equipment is not one-piece equipment, but an assembly of several components. A DJ can mix and match components of different qualities and price ranges to make the entire outfit suit a budget.

The greatest margin on price can be made on the sound mixers. Sound mixers can have a great number of features; and so their prices may be as low as $200 and also as high as $2000. A DJ working within a limited budget can opt for a small mixer, which could easily be afforded at $200 to $500. These mixers can work just as fine as big ones and are ideal buys for amateur DJs. Even big names in the DJ equipment market such as Numark, Gemini, Aiwa, Akai, etc. produce such small economy speakers.

DJs that are keen on remixing their music opt for turntables instead of CD, DVD or MP3 players. Turntables are more expensive than players, but Gemini manufactures good quality affordable turntables within $400. Though direct drive turntables are a tad bit more expensive than belt driven ones, DJs prefer them as they play the record faster without any time lag.

Players are cheaper than turntables because they don't offer the more advanced features that turntables have. Players only output audio and doesn't allow for manipulation of sound like turntables do. DJs that just play original records go for players.

Getting a pair of cheap speakers is not unusal, so look around for cheaper speakers as that's a very normal thing to do. A low wattage speaker can be selected to save costs.There are small woofer-type speaker at around $20 each that can output stereophonic sound.

The most price friendly option is to get a "DJ package". What you get is the necissary things like headphones, speakers and tables etc. Buying a package is great for discounts. Packages will usually be mixers and have a special where you get the headphones for free along with your speaker package.

Though it's not great to use cheap equipment for DJing, DJs with creativity and talent will very well do a good job with cheap stuff. Most likely, buyers of equipment are amateur DJs who are uncertain of the profession and just want to mix at home or trying to get a few beats together.