Beginner DJ Lesson 2 Looking at Head Phone Phones and Cue Mixing Dials

Alright guys, selection of videos for complete beginners for DJs. In this video we're looking at the headphones volume and also what's known as the mixing dial. The volume for your headphones or level will increase or decrease the volume through your headphones. If this dial is set to the 7 o'clock position you shouldn't get any sound at all as you start to move this clockwise the volume in your headphones will increase. Always make sure that you're very wary and careful about increasing this volume because you don't want to ruin your hearing. Above this we have, and you do get this now on most good mixers, is a mixing dial. When set to cue you will only hear what you have cued up. So for example if I press the cue button on channel 1 I will now only hear

The sound from that channel but if I start to move this dial clockwise I will not only hear the channel that I've cued up, I will also start to hear the master volume, the sound that everyone else will be listening to through the PA. So it's almost like you are able to listen to what the crowd are listening to. So for example if you have pressed cue button there, and you seem to be hearing too much sound, you're hearing other sounds that you shouldn't have to or shouldn't want to hear. It could quite possibly be because the mixing dial is set to 12 o'clock or maybe 9 o'clock or maybe even 5 o'clock. Make sure if you want to only hear the sound, the track that you are cuing up, turn the mixing dial to the cue position and then of course you need to make sure

You set your headphone level correctly. I hope that's been a help. DJ Lessons for Beginners, the track you're listening to by the way is by Mr Kenny Hectic, a track entitled Get Up. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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