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Stage 0 Before You Start Course 2 of 4

Choosing Your First Setup

Beginner 10 lessons · 1 h 15 min

What to buy, in what order, and - the part most beginner advice skips - what not to buy. Ellaskins is consistently against spending money early, and several of these lessons are him talking people out of purchases rather than into them.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • List the kit you genuinely need to start, and the order to buy it in
  • Say what a MIDI controller is and how it differs from CDJs and turntables
  • Recognise the gear that beginners buy and never use
  • Judge whether high-end kit would make any difference to you yet

Lessons

  1. The kit you actually need to start

    6:44

  2. What to buy, and in what order

    3:10

  3. What to buy and what to avoid, to save money

    21:31

  4. What a MIDI controller is

    5:50

  5. Do you need the high-end Pioneer kit?

    7:14

  6. Buying a cheap setup, and the speakers

    4:32

  7. Should you buy the gear before you can mix?

    Optional 4:09

  8. Buying gear for a younger DJ

    Optional 6:28

  9. Kit for a small mobile disco

    Optional 8:19

  10. What gear, and what music to put on it

    Optional 6:40

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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