This is harder than I thought.
I went to the music store yesterday to buy this thing, they had it for $150 and it was a decent mixer (adjust eq's, fade, etc. and I wanted it because it was a decent price and had little simulation turntables for scratching.) As it turns out they don't carry it in the store so I'd have to order it, I ended up spending $260 on a different one, this one is built smaller though and when I flick the fader to like fade from a song to another I sometimes hit the little turntable thing and it takes my tracks off beat. It's gay. I considered returning it and getting two actual turntables and a different mixer but in order to stay in my price range I'd have to buy really cheap stuff and it's probably not even worth it. I think I'm just going to stick with this until I get some more cash and then either use it for it's external soundcard functionality or sell it.
In other news I'm not djing from my laptop instead of my desktop, at first I used my desktop because it has a gig of extra ram but my laptop seems to be doing decent. I cleared off my dresser and am using that. Once I started standing up while I do it I almost instantly improved. I'm still a noob but my mixes sound better. Still not good enough for me to post though.
Anyway here's my setup. I don't know what I'm going to do with the stuff that's usually on my dresser (including one of those ipod radio clock things which is now on the floor) Also if I upgrade to real turntables and stuff after I get some dollas I'll have to get a laptop mount or something to put in my walll because I'd have nowhere to put it unless I brought a table in or got rid of my desktop or something. College will just be worse though.
