What You Should Know Before Buying DJ Equipment

If you are planning to become a be a DJ, a disc jockey, one the most difficult things you will come across is to buy your own equipment. It will be difficult not because of anything else, but because DJ equipment is expensive.   Expert information can be gained at DJTalks.com | The Ultimate Community For DJs & Music Producers

In order to buy all the equipment you need you will have to spend thousands of dollars. To have what you need to be a DJ you wont have to buy only on piece of equipment but many. A DJ can mix and match components of different qualities and price ranges to make the entire outfit suit a budget.

One of the most expensive pieces of equipment that you will need to buy is a mixer.  Sound mixers vary from make to make and from model to model and their price depends on their features and their quality.

You can buy a DJ mixer for a couple hundered dollars to a few thousand dollars. If you are new to the disk jockey business, it is advised that you only spend only a few hundred dollars. The cheaper mixers can work just as well as the more expensive ones and if you are new to DJ’ing then you should not spend too much money because you don’t know how business will be.

The good news is that manufacturers of quality mixers and audio equipment in general, like Numark, Gemini, Aiwa, Akai produce good quality economic DJ mixers.

After the mixer you will need a turntable as well. There are different kinds of turntables available. If you are in to vinyl then you should get a traditional DJ turntable, or if you are into CD’s and MP3’s there is a wide selection of turntables for the new technologies that resemble the traditional ones.

In general, turntables are more expensive than plain players, but there are good ones available for under $400. You can even choose to buy a direct drive turntable, but you will have to spend more money for one of these. Most DJs however prefer them as they play records faster and don’t lag.

Players are much cheaper than turntables but have less features. DJs who like to scratch and spin records prefer the turntables because players only provide sound output like any other CD or DVD player.

A new DJ should not overspend on equipment. And one item you can save money for is the speakers. Speakers are used for live events and as a DJ if you want to minimize your costs and not have to rent any equipment in the future.

In general the price of any speaker depends on the price of its output. There are small woofer speakers that a DH can buy for less than  $100. if you are new to the field you might consider buying a DJ pack, a DJ in a box package and save money. These packages contain everything you will need.

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Using cheap DJ equipment is only recommended for new DJs. If you start getting gigs and start making money then you should consider buying more advanced equipment.

Bus Topology

When you talk about network topology, then you are referring to the physical or the logical layout of a particular network installation. The physical framework is the actual cabling or physical connections made between the different computers. The logical framework is the pathway that the signal goes through. There are several types of topologies in computer networking and one of them is the bus topology; another type is the mesh topology. 


The two other network topologies are known as ring and star.

The bus topology is usually used with an Ethernet network. It can both be a physical or logical framework. The simplest form of a bus topology is one cable running from a computer or device in the network to the last computer or device. The cable in the bus topology is called the backbone. When necessary, other computers or devices can be added to the present backbone, between the first computer or device and the last computer or device.

Since only one cable is used in this type of network setup initially, it is fairly cheap, simple and economical for a small business. However, once you start adding more computers or devices to the backbone, the cost will increase together with possible problems. When you add more computers or devices, this means physically linking the equipment to the current backbone. This is what will drive up the cost of having a bus topology network setup.

The advantage of a bus topology is that when one computer or device breaks down on the network, the other computers or devices will not be affected. Those devices will still work.

The bus topology is the simplest kind of network. If you are thinking of setting up a network for your small business, you may do well with a network with a bus topology setup, at least initially. It may have its limitations but a bus topology network is easy to arrange and is cost effective.