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Stage 1 Your First Setup Course 2 of 5

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 - it is about not being defeated by the hardware.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Connect decks, mixer, headphones and speakers in the right order
  • Find your music and load a track on a controller
  • Walk up to an unfamiliar setup and work out what you are looking at

Lessons

  1. How to plug in a new DJ setup

    8:26

  2. Where a vinyl turntable plugs into the mixer

    1:26

  3. A controller overview, start to finish

    6:21

  4. Browsing folders and loading a track

    4:29

  5. A controller and its software, for a first-timer

    7:17

  6. Loading tracks on a small controller and phone app

    3:15

  7. Searching for a track on a touch screen

    5:20

  8. Walking up to a setup you have never seen

    11:37

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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