Pioneer CDJ - 2000 Professional Multi Player DJ Equipment

Product Description
The CDJ-2000 is the ultimate technologically advanced multi-format player in the world. No matter what your media preference is, the CDJ-2000 can handle them all with great performance, reliability, and confidence. It enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD, DVD-ROM, SD card and USB memorydevices.  You can also assign various buttons of the CDJ-2000 to trigger other devices, such as DJ effecters and software with MIDI mapping capability. With Pioneer’s new “Pro DJ Link” you can connect up to fourCDJ-2000’s and share a single music source from just one player. For displaying song titles, jacket art as well as detailed track information, the CDJ-2000 has a unique 6.1” Full Color LCD panel andGraphic User Interface so DJs can find information needed to select a song easily at a glance. Both the CDJ-2000 and CDJ-900 turntables include rekordbox, Pioneer’s proprietary music management software that organizes and catalogs a DJ’s entire music library. When music files are imported to rekordbox, thesoftware analyzes each file and prepares them for use specifically with the new CDJ turntables.The CDJ-2000 is the natural selection for performing DJs worldwide. ReadMore...

Pioneer DJM - 2000 DJM - 2000 Professional DJ Mixer

Product Features

* Industry-first 5.8" full color multi-touch display
* Internal USB audio interface
* Pro DJ link that connects up to four CDJ-2000/900s
* Manipulate frequencies and alter sounds with EVOLVED BEAT EFFECTS and INST FX (Instant Instrument Effect) allows effects to be applied intuitively with a turn of the knob
* MIDI: Assign various DJM-2000 buttons to trigger other devices
* Manipulate frequencies and alter sounds with EVOLVED BEAT EFFECTS and INST FX allows effects to be applied intuitively with a turn of the knob.

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Technics 1200s Turntable

Ask any pro DJ, and he or she will tell you the undisputed king of all turntables is the Technics “1200”
(Figure 4.1). In 1969, Technics (a division of Panasonic, which is a division of Japanese electronics
conglomerate Matsushita) produced the world’s first direct drive turntable, the SP-10.  Ten years and
several engineering refinements later, Technics made history with the first SL-1200, and then the SL-1200
MK2, the industry legend. To this day, more than three million Technics 1200s have been sold, and are
still the smartest and best made turntables in the entire world. There have been a few minor changes
here and there over the past few years, but the 1200 still looks virtually identical to the way it looked
when it was first produced. It was made so well that there are several 10-, 15-, and even 20-year-old 1200s
still in service!

My personal 1200 MK2s are over 15 years old and they work perfectly even after thousands of club and
mobile gigs. I’ve personally used several 1200s that have run 5-7 nights a week for over 10 years with not
even one major problem. Those tables saw cigarettes, fog, dust, smoke, water, spills, chills, and other
abuse that would have rendered virtually any other non-alien mechanical component dead and buried.
Heck, even the Maytag repairman envies the 1200! Sure, some parts wear out with heavy use, but
Technics sells a wide range of user replaceable parts. They’re incredibly durable, and very easy to use.
The Technics 1200 (shown in Figure 4.1) is nothing less than the perfect electronic component. Even
though I gave away most of my vinyl, I’ll probably never sell my set.  ReadMore...

Turntables

Fortunately for all you “vinyl junkies” in DJ land, record players or “turntables” are still being massproduced
and more popular than ever. New professional turntables can easily run you from $800-$1,500
a pair. There are less expensive options; you can often find this equipment for sale used in classified
advertisements or on an Internet auction site. I sold a bunch of my old equipment on eBay for much less
than I bought it for. 

As a matter of fact, vinyl is still so cool that a company called Vestax, well known for its popular mixers,
manufactures a pretty amazing unit that records audio from any source, CDs, MP3 players, microphones,
computers, or whatever else you can plug into it directly on to Vestax vinyl blank records. Imagine having the ability to press your own vinyl—how cool would that be! Vestax’s VRX-2000 unit has a small cutting
head that actually cuts the grooves into the vinyl blanks. These recordable records will hold up to 14
minutes of audio on each side. The stylus cutter is replaceable, and has an average lifespan of 200-300
minutes of recorded audio. At about $375 per cutter, this can get kind of pricey if you decide to make a
lot of records. Oh, and the unit itself is in the neighborhood of $9,000. 


Professional turntables differ from consumer versions in several ways. Pro turntables have a “pitch”
(speed) control, which allows you to physically change the speed of the record with a sliding control. This
allows you to speed up or slow down your incoming record so that you can more easily “mix” the two
records for a smooth transition between songs. Most pro turntables will allow you to speed up or slow
down a record by 8% or more. Pro tables are much more durable than consumer tables, and this is very
important if you’re going to be throwing them in the back of your car and slamming through potholes on
your way to gigs. 


Most pro turntables have a colored strobe light on them with little metal nubs on the platter. These are
used to show that your turntable platter is rotating faster or slower than exactly 33 1/3 or 45 revolutions
per minute (RPM). 


Pro turntables usually have a mechanism known as “quartz lock,” which helps make the speed constant
when locked in the zero-pitch change position. I’ve heard of some DJs having the quartz lock removed for
more control while mixing, but I never found this necessary.
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