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Best DJ Mixers for 2024 – Hands-On Review

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Building a club-style DJ Mixer + turntable/media player setup instead of a DJ controller or all-in-one?

The mixer is the heart of your setup, but which one is best for you?

We asked David to put together this guide based on his deep-dive reviews of nearly every model available today. We kept our noses out of it, so you can trust there’s no salesmanship, just 100% honest, expert advice.

Use this guide to save weeks of research and get the right dj mixer for your needs and budget.

This Ultimate Guide was produced by David Michael at The Passionate DJ Podcast.

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The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Used DJ Equipment in 2024 (And Are Trade-Ins Ever Worth It?)

Your used DJ gear is losing value.
The longer it sits, the more it depreciates.
But selling stuff is a hassle.

Where do I list? At what price? Are these pictures good enough? I don’t want to get ripped off. Maybe I should just trade it in? But who does trade ins? Etc. Etc.

So your gear continues to sit and lose value, or you get stuck using old gear, when you really want to upgrade.

Good news.

This guide has helped ~100,000 DJs sell their gear as fast as possible, for the best price, with the least amount of effort, and be done thinking about it.

You’ll turn your paperweights 🪨 into paper stacks 💵.

And paper stacks mean gear that you actually want (or, like, tons of Chipotle with guac).

So let’s get that guac 🥑

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Reloop RP-8000 MK2 vs Technics SL-1200 MK7: Why the DJ Turntable You Want Isn’t Technics Anymore.

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Reloop RP-8000 MK2 vs Technics SL-1200 MK7: Why the DJ Turntable You Want Isn't Technics Anymore.
Pictured: Reloop RP-8000 MK2 (left) vs Technics 1200 MK7 (right), vying for the title of best DJ turntable.
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Products Featured in this Article

Model: Reloop RP-8000 MK2
Release Price: $699.99 (contact by livechat, phone or email for preferred pricing)
Release: Late January 2019 Early March, per 1/17/19 manufacturer’s rep update

Model: Technics 1200 MK7
Release Price: $999
Release: May 2019

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One day after Technics announces its ferociously anticipated, but ultimately conservative Technics SL-1200 MK7, Reloop dramatically ups the ante with with RP-8000 MK2.  

While Technics took a nine-year nap on DJs, Reloop has been powering the new guard of world champions – DJ Brace, Vekked, Kris Karns (fka DJ Vajra), Fong Fong & IFTW.

The RP-8000 MK2 may be their single most impressive contribution to the DJ community to date. We take a look at how it stacks up against the new SL-1200 MK7 below.

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Required Viewing:
11 Movies Every DJ Must Watch

These are the movies I watched when I first fell in love with DJing as a teenager in the early 2000s. I just missed the 90s underground rave scene. Any concept I had of the art form strictly came from my imagination or a handful of pre-blog websites and forums.

These films were my first connection to a musical lineage outside of Lake Zurich, Illinois. They gave perspective to what I was doing and influenced how I wanted to do it. They made me proud in a way that wasn’t always accessible when playing records for drunk people.

Below is my list of essential films every DJ should watch to understand the artform and the cultures that gave birth to it. Together, they are a bonafide DJ curriculum. If you watch them, you’ll know more about this craft than 98% of people today. Enjoy.

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TDJH Presents
Only Love A Mixfilm by SLEEPER

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IF YOU DIG IT, PLEASE SUPPORT.
HELP US SPREAD THE LOVE!

 

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Only Love has been a labor of love. The project had no corporate funding and we’re giving it away for free. We created it because we felt it should exist and you should have it.

Our ability to create and fund projects like this depends entirely on your support. We hope it inspires you the way Coldcut’s Journeys by DJ, DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing and the movie Scratch inspired us. If you appreciate it, help us support the future of DJing.

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About Only Love

 
2016 has been tough.

We lost Phife, Bowie & Prince.

And tensions are high.

We asked one of our favorite people, award winning DJ, SLEEPER, to create something beautiful that would bring people together. The result was Only Love.
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The Monday Morning Podcast #1.5: Meet The New DJ Hookup with Cofounder Alex Pyatetsky

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Introducing, The New DJ Hookup

In 2005, Alex Pyatetsky (then “Xander”) was 19. A regular on DJ forums, he became friends with DJs all over the world. Upon learning that gear was way more expensive in Europe than the US, he became the hookup to cheap, US prices for his international friends.

A few bucks were made. But mainly it was fun.

5 years later, that experience would inspire him to cofound The DJ Hookup, one of the leading DJ, studio and pro-audio e-tailers in the United States today.

This podcast marks the relaunch of The DJ Hookup, the debut of its new website and release of  a new brand focussed on “serving friends” – just like Pyatetsky started 10 years ago.

In this interview, we go behind the scenes of the DJ equipment industry. Pyatetsky reveals how the company almost went bankrupt and the pivot that turned everything around. He shares the biggest lessons learned from serving 1000s of DJs and producers all over the world.  And how he intends to make TheDJHookup “the Zappos of DJ equipment.”
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The Monday Morning Podcast #1: Big Once, Trentino, Sleeper

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Introducing, The Monday Morning Podcast

 

Every weekend, adoring fans look up to their favorite DJs and music producers like rockstars and gods. But every Monday morning, they wake up and go to work like humans. The Monday Morning podcast, presented by TheDJHookup.com, is a place for aspiring DJs and producers to hear candid, hype-free conversations with the artists they admire most.

As the DJ community grows world wide, The Monday Morning Podcast offers artists a chance to speak openly and honestly about their lives and careers and listeners to learn from their wisdom and experience.

TL;DR – We felt like the DJ industry needed more honest conversations. So we started having them. We hope you enjoy.
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