K.C.,
Welcome to the site. You can’t go wrong with a Numark mixtrack PRO to start.
As far as “going down as a great” or anything along those lines….
I promise you that wanting to be great will not provide you enough motiviation to get through the many months of practice/frustration of starting of knowing you suck (yes this will happen) and you may never make it to even being “good”.
Your love of music and taking an intangible idea/concept for a song and perfecting and making it something “real” that you can share with other people and see how they react is what its all about. At least for me it is.
If I can help out in anyway feel free to hit me up here or on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.conm/vinnyblanc
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