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DJ Information

P1060675.jpegTo keep the people dancing, the Future Turtles camp includes a complete set of DJ gear and powered speakers which provide excellent sound for our camp parties.

So you wanna be a DJ...

Here are a few things to know…

  • To DJ on playa, there’s a fair amount of work to do ahead of time.
  • We use a Pioneer controller (XDJ-RX3) which requires you to prepare your music ahead of time.
  • You’ll need to:

Our Audio Setup

DJ Controller: Pioneer DJ XDJ-RX3 

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Powered Speakers: 

  • Three Bose F1 Subwoofers 
  • Five Bose F1 Model 812 Loudspeakers (1000 watts each)
  • Three Alto Pro TX315 Loudspeakers (700 watts each)

Yamaha MG10XU Mixer (not currently used)

Furman PL-PRO DMC Power Conditioner (important to plug all equipment into this to avoid damage from flaky electrical grid!)

We have a bluetooth -> XLR adapter for streaming through the audio system or through one speaker.

A detailed inventory of the audio equipment we own is on the camp manifest Google Sheet, in a tab called DJ Gear.

DJ Tutorial

DJ curious? Let’s get you on the decks!

Best beginner deck: DDJ FLX 4

  • If someone is looking for a cheaper alternative to see if they’re interested in DJing then get the DDJ 200, but most people find after a short period of time they outgrow it and want to move to the DDJ FLX 4

Music library: Beatport Streaming and/or ZIPDJ

  • Beatport Streaming makes it easy to access a large music library in the Rekordbox software, but note that we won’t be able to access Beatport Streaming on the playa so they’ll likely want to use a website like ZIPDJ to download the song files onto a USB
  • When registering for ZIPDJ, they ask for you to prove that you are a DJ, but they don’t seem to be that strict, if you create a SoundCloud profile and include “DJ” in your SoundCloud profile name you should be fine

Quick tutorial on how to load songs onto a USB using rekordbox: