Look at this Piece of Equipment!

This came out this past week. I went to Guitar Center and tried it. And I walked away saying "Wow!". This DJ controller is awesome. Before I tried this out, I was going to buy Traktor Scratch Pro (which requires turntables and a DJ mixer for it to work), but after I tried this out, I was sold to it.

First of all, Traktor software is awesome. I have the trial version of it and even without any controllers, it's rock-solid. And this has a special version of Traktor designed just for it. The controller is designed is such a way that you don't have to touch the computer. You can browse all your songs on it. You can add effects, set cue points, loops, everything you could do on the computer, without touching it.

It's also got built in jog wheels so you don't need anything else to scratch, but in a near update they will be adding timecode support so you can scratch with a real turntable. And talking about turntables, not only can you mix mp3's from it, it has two analog inputs for CDJ's or turntables. These two features sold me.

All the big DJ's today are doing their mixing digitally using Traktor, Serato, or another program, but only true DJ's are still using vinyl. I wanted to stay true to DJing and also learn on vinyl, while being able to use all my mp3 (because vinyl is fracken expensive).

But all these features came with a cost. For the controller itself, it was $900. Plus a two year warranty (which knowing me would probably be a good idea), it was over $1000.

That is a lot of money, but how much would it cost to match a system like that?

Traktor Scratch Cost

• $300 for Software
• $300 for a decent mixer
• $300 a piece for decent turntables (x2)
• $200 for a controller for effects (x2 if I wanted to utilize it to it's full potential)

That adds up to be $1600. That's a lot of money, but so is $1000.

When I left (I had accountability there to stop me from buying it), Guitar Center (nationwide) got 400 units, and had 50 left. They had sold 350 units in the matter of 3 days. At that Guitar Center they got 4 and had one left.

Then I went back on Wednesday because I had a few more questions about it, and somehow I left buying it, actually putting it on lay-away.

Yeah, I spent $1000 on this. I'm pretty excited to get it, but finances are going to be a little tight now.