Lorie Johnson

I don’t think age matters one bit- if you love music. That’s really the key- loving music and wanting to share it with others. I’ve been collecting and curating music all my life. My dad taught me how to make mixtapes on our Sony reel-to-reel decks when I was a kid, and I went from those, to cassettes, to CDs to purely digital playlists. Now I’m taking courses here to refine my mixing skills and make better mixtapes. I just completed my first original song. And since I have all this music, I’m learning how to DJ with it- I’m taking the masterclass.

I was talking about this to a friend of mine, and she offered me a gig. So, there you go.

I’m 56. And most of my favorite DJs are within a decade of my age: Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed (I saw one of his earliest sets at a rave at Bury St. Edmunds), Pete Tong… And Giorgio Moroder is at it- and he’s 76.

We aten’t dead. 🙂

Looking at those speakers, I can tell you right now that even if you do manage to connect them to your controller, they’re going to sound awful- if you can hear them at all. The level of signal coming out of your controller is minimal, and speakers that are meant to connect to it are either connected through an audio interface that has an amplifier or monitor speakers that have their own internal amplifier. Those speakers that your friend has do not have a built-in amp.

Also, there’s a not-zero chance that you might damage your controller by directly connecting it to such speakers.

Sadly, it doesn’t appear that the amp that comes with those speakers has an aux-in of any sort. If it did, you’d have a way to get the sound out of your controller and into the speakers. I didn’t see any extra RCA jacks on the back.