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Your First Setup

5 courses · 68 lessons · 5 h 8 min

Every control on a controller, CDJ and mixer explained one at a time: loading tracks, gain and trim, faders, and using headphones properly.

Courses

  1. Complete Beginner DJ Lessons

    Beginner 37 lessons · 1 h 59 min

    Ellaskins' own ordered beginner series, start to finish. It begins with nothing more than a controller in front of you and ends with you looping, cueing and holding two tracks…

  2. Plugging In and Switching On

    Beginner 8 lessons · 48 min

    Getting a working setup in front of you: what plugs into what, what the browser is for, and how to get a track loaded on the common controllers. Nothing here is about mixing yet…

  3. Every Control on the Mixer

    Beginner 8 lessons · 52 min

    The mixer is where beginners do the most damage, usually by running everything too hot. One control at a time: gain and trim, the EQ, the line faders and the crossfader, and the…

  4. Headphones and Cueing Properly

    Beginner 10 lessons · 1 h 4 min

    Cueing is the skill that makes everything after it possible, and it is almost entirely about how you use one ear. What to buy, how to wear them, what you should actually be…

  5. Setting Up a Vinyl Turntable

    Beginner 5 lessons · 24 min

    If there is a turntable in front of you, it needs setting up properly or it will skip, wear your records and sound thin. The tonearm, the counterweight, the stylus and the…

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