In the last months Ive been pondering whether or not to upgrade my turntable setup in order to also be able to incorporate in my sets music that has never made its way onto vinyl.
My more and more failing old-ass belt-drive Reloop doubles are forcing me now to upgrade rather sooner than later. Beatjuggling/matching is becoming painstakingly difficult as the bottom plate does not accelerate once fading in a song due to the loosened/coarse belt.
In any case, I have been assessing what I want and can afford vs. what I need. Of course the current market/club standard would be a used and well maintained set of Technics 1210 MKII or the more or less identical refurbished PLX 1000 recently put on the market by Pioneer. Right now seeing as I want a complete overhaul so these two have a too hefty price tag for me right now, even though I know there is not much else matching these turntables right now.
The compromise Ive now come to fancy is this high-end model by Reloop: http://www.reloop.com/reloop-rp-7000
I want to combine these with the Traktor Kontrol Z2 mixer by Native Instruments, which will allow me to vary mixing straight from vinyl as well as digitally via time-code vinyls (and the mixer offers lots of more nifty effects and other stuff).
http://www.native-instruments.com/de...or-kontrol-z2/
As to Speakers/Hi-Fi systems Im still pretty undecided, but as our company is offering discounts on Teufel speakers I am looking especially at their models right now.
Id be happy on any thoughts/advice as well as what your setup looks like. I will mainly make use of it at home (mixes for Soundcloud and the like) and the occasional small pub gig.
My more and more failing old-ass belt-drive Reloop doubles are forcing me now to upgrade rather sooner than later. Beatjuggling/matching is becoming painstakingly difficult as the bottom plate does not accelerate once fading in a song due to the loosened/coarse belt.
In any case, I have been assessing what I want and can afford vs. what I need. Of course the current market/club standard would be a used and well maintained set of Technics 1210 MKII or the more or less identical refurbished PLX 1000 recently put on the market by Pioneer. Right now seeing as I want a complete overhaul so these two have a too hefty price tag for me right now, even though I know there is not much else matching these turntables right now.
The compromise Ive now come to fancy is this high-end model by Reloop: http://www.reloop.com/reloop-rp-7000
I want to combine these with the Traktor Kontrol Z2 mixer by Native Instruments, which will allow me to vary mixing straight from vinyl as well as digitally via time-code vinyls (and the mixer offers lots of more nifty effects and other stuff).
http://www.native-instruments.com/de...or-kontrol-z2/
As to Speakers/Hi-Fi systems Im still pretty undecided, but as our company is offering discounts on Teufel speakers I am looking especially at their models right now.
Id be happy on any thoughts/advice as well as what your setup looks like. I will mainly make use of it at home (mixes for Soundcloud and the like) and the occasional small pub gig.
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