Q&A: Mike Charles DJ Set Up
I get asked this question a lot:
What equipment do you use in your DJ sets?
Or some variation of that. Currently my DJ setup consists of the following:
This setup has been road tested for a while now and works well for me. The padKontrol is a new addition that I’m still trying to figure out how to incorporate. If anyone has any suggestions, make a comment. The DJM 600 is my mixer at home, and on the road I don’t always have the good fortune of playing on something from the DJM series, but its no biggie. I just take the line outs on the Xone 2D and run them to two line inputs on the whatever mixer I’m playing on. I’ve been using Traktor Pro since it first came out in November 2008 and subsequently sold my serato set up on eBay.
As for incidentals, it is well documented that I use iTunes to catalogue and organize my music collection. I travel with everything pack up in a UDG backpack. I record my DJ sets using Audio Hijack Pro, a simple easy software that only takes me two clicks to record a set.
FYI on the backpack, UDG makes some great bags but the zipper pulls on this bag suck. Everyone has broken off and I’ve replaced them all with improvised zipper pulls made out of 550 cord. FYI on the headphones, they are great cans, put out great sound, but like most DJ headphones, they break. The size adjustment slider on on side cracked pretty bad so I just taped it closed with duct tape. The slider on the other side still works, so I’m good. Still, the search for a durable set of headphones continues.
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