Pioneer Djm 600 Dj Mixer

pioneer djm 600 dj mixer
advice on learning how to mix and dj! help!

Can you give a young grasshopper some advice. I love music and would like to learn how to mix and eventually learn how to produce music and beats. I heard ableton is excellent software and there are classes i’m looking to enroll into to learn the software. Should i go with CDJ-800 or CDJ-400 cd players? I guess a good 2 channel mixer would be the pioneer DJM-600…..?
My cousin is very old school and insists that i should learn on a good set of vinyls… I just don’t understand the reasoning behind it becasue I have about 60gigs of high quality mp3 tracks that I think i’d have more fun with. He says the tones are not earthy on a non-analog setup. What is your opinion on this? Should I take his advice?

CDJ-400s would be fine for you. You can sell it and upgrade to the industry standard CDJ-1000s later. The DJM-600 will be ok for you. You do not need to learn on a good set of vinyls. Many DJs today play CDs. However, in your case, you have high quality mp3s, and on large club speakers, the difference is noticeable between 320 kbps mp3 and wav. Overall, analog vinyl music does sound superior to both. That being said, most people won’t hear those differences. You do not need to enroll in any class to learn to use Ableton. Most of us figure it out ourselves. Ableton comes with a great tutorial that should jump start you on the basics. What I cannot stress enough is practice, practice, practice. Get some practice in whenever you can and eventually, new tricks should come to you.