What did everyone get started on! BE HONEST!

[General Trading]

a set of soundlab belt drives and a two channel mixer i cant remember the name of. i brought the set second hand for 50 quid - i managed to replace the belts easily enough but the mixer was a different issue. when the cross fader was 100% to the left the right deck would sound as well (abd vice versa) so i had to be real careful when 'in the mix' not to push the fader over too far.

i asked my bedroom dj mate what i needed to improve. "technics mate, you need technics"

[DjRespin]

A pair of Stanton's and some random 19-in mixer from the flea market.

[Carnage]

EDIT: My bad, just realized this was about turntables.

LOL.

Soundlab DLP1s and a soundlab mixer - damned if I know which one

[oldskule]

lol oh wow... somebody else started on a realistic mixer! right on, mine had 2 channels and crunchy crossfader that sounded like metal garbage cans falling off a truck... One technics no-pitch control TT, and one belt drive Akai or something I got from a second hand store...

[jay_jizle]

I started off on a Numark Battle Pak haha

I've had a ton of setups since and they kept getting better and better...

Haha! Awesome. Mine was the 'Phat Pak'...



And still to this day I don't know why I picked up the GC ad and wanted it knowing absolutely nothing about spinning...

[Juusjester]

Two Gemini XL-100 Turntables and the matching POS Mixer. Back back back in to time, way back, not as far as some though!

[flak]

gemini beltdrives with a crappy gemini mixer. got the setup for 50 bucks. it got me started. but 6 months later stumbled upon a pair of technic mk2's for 200 bucks. I still have them. that was 10 years ago.

[DjSwivet]

i started off on one of those stanton dj packages

[rayzer]

i started off on some cheap dual cd player set, absolutely ****e. ended up buying a numark pair later on and still have them now

[flareward]

Sneaking into dances that my uncle used to run, as he and his people ran a "sound"
Music was always round his house...taught me how to mix treble/bass and speaker set up...this is when a nigga wasn't even 10.

Took it from there...

He still has a couple of those big ass speakers in his front room..