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Originally Posted by Chojin
Making loops is easish and OJB could teach me, I'm just interested in what equipment I'd need to spin at parties and where I should start.
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Headphones and if you're really anal, your own cartridges/needles, your records/cds, and time is all you need to play out. Depending on where you want to play, you can invest money into the hobby as you need to. To date, all I own are a pair of Sony MDJ700s (now starting to wear out after 2 years of heavy use), a pair of Shure carts and a few hundred records.
As far as where to start, find someone with turntables or cd mixers that you can practice on. Until you know you're serious, there is no good reason to dump six hundred to a grand into equipment, when that money will go much further in buying records.
If you do decide to go with CDs, most clubs should be equpieed to handle you, but many mobile gigs would need you to bring your own CD mixers. No mobile gig should ever ask you to supply the turntables.
For you, personally, if you were willing to spend a bit of cash on equipment, your best bet would be to get a couple solid CDJs like the Pioneer CDJ100. They run about 300 bux each, and you'd still need a mixer, but you could play with those on a home sound system to practice, or use them in a mobile gig set-up, and you can play your own tunes on them a lot easier than getting vinyl cut, that's for damn sure.
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