Beginner DJ Lesson on WHY You Should Not Use the EQ bass Mid and Top

0:00 This video is for the complete and utter new DJ out there

Alright guys, this video is for the complete and utter new DJ out there. It's entitled Why Use the EQ? But that could be looked at in two ways. Why use the EQ? And also, why use it? What's the point? Why use the EQ? First of all, a DJ will use the EQ equalization on a DJ mixer. DJ 900 Nexus here, we have low, mid and high, also known as bass, mid and treble. Low, mid, high, bass, mid, treble. Low is the booming bass sound, which is of course your vibrating sub-bass that makes everyone wobble. The mid is that horrific voice or that sort of like nice kind of flowing mellow voice. The mid is the vibe from the guitar, the strings or maybe even the keyboard. And the high is that hand clap crescendo in the air kind of stuff.

So that's what the bass, mid and treble do. Why use it? Well, some DJs will like to have one bass line in but not the other. Maybe they want to emphasize the vocals on one track but not on the other. I'm not going to delve into why you shouldn't have vocals over vocals. Maybe later on in the video, but that's not what this video is about. Or maybe, for example, there is a nice melody in the one track and the DJ wants to emphasize that melody, but not the melody in the other track. Highs? Well really, the high, it doesn't matter so much about the high unless of course the producer has given you such a mad high that you just, another way of looking at that really isn't it, that you want to just lower it a little bit.

1:42 You've got three other important factors to listen to when mixing

So that's one reason why use it. Well, that's why because the DJ is there. The DJ can form, bring two tracks together and make some of the elements of one track overpower the other and vice versa by using the low, mid and high. Now to a beginner DJ, why use it? Why even bother? If I were you and you were a new DJ, I would not even bother touching the bass, mid and treble. Why? That's what this video is about. Well, you've got three other important factors to listen to when mixing. First of all, make sure your track is in BPM. It's the same beats per minute. If one track is 120, the other one has to be 120 exactly. Otherwise they're not going to mix. The second one, of course, is key. Make sure the tracks are in keys that work or the same key.

The third one, very important as well, is phrasing. Make sure the phrasing of the track is working together. Now I will delve on those subjects or I have in the past in other videos. And if you ask me, I will in a comment, I'll make more videos on them. But phrasing is very simple. The analogy here, it's like having three people in a room, two talking at the same time and the other poor bass trying to work out what the other two are saying. If they're both talking at the same time, it's difficult. It's like, hold on a minute, it's too much noise. Shut the frigging heck up and just talk separately. You know, you talk first, stop, then you talk and then so on and so on. That's a little bit. The analogy of phrase mixing.

3:40 Bass, mid and treble if you're

You know, if you've got a track that's got vocals for say eight bars and then the vocal stops, then ideally you want the next track to maybe start the vocals and stop. So then the other one can follow suit. If on the other hand, you've got one track that's got eight bars of vocals and then it just so happens that you start the other track halfway through that and there's vocals, then you've got this vocally vocal vocal sound. And it just even if they're in key, they're in beat, they're in time. They sound horrendous. There's too much going on, too much. Forget it. So in key BPM and in phrase. And that is what you need to concentrate on. Do not look at the bass, mid and treble if you're a new DJ, because if you start concentrating too much on that,

You're going to lose the grasps of the very basics. Now myself here, Jonathan, I give one-to-one Skype lessons via Skype. I teach people how to DJ. There is a fee involved paid via PayPal. I can also give lessons through Facebook as well. So if you are a friend or if you're interested, then in the description of this video there is an email. Contact me via that email. Ask some questions and you never know very soon I could be teaching you how to DJ on kit like this controllers or vinyl and I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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