Can you mix using the American Audio Q-SD pitch & why have 3 music sources?

0:00 Second video for you here on this guy

Alright folks, second video for you here on this guy. It's a 19 inch rack mount mixer, it's from American Audio and it's the QSD. Two reasons why I'm doing this video but first of all follow the link underneath here, it'll take you to video number one. First reason for this particular video, loads of people email me and say Jonathan I want to become a mobile DJ, what gear do I need? So, here's the deal, you need music sources. Vinyl turntable, CDJ player, MP3, PC program, that sort of stuff. Then you need a mixer to play the actual music through. You need headphones so you can cue your actual music in. You need an amplifier to make music louder. You need speakers so people can hear the music and then you need lighting to cause a good effect. And then maybe your smoke machine and your lasers, all that sort of stuff. But here's the deal.

It's a good idea to take a third music source with you, the reason being is there's nothing worse than that. It's happened to me where by halfway through the night one of your CDJ turntables gets clogged, stops working, it could be anything and all of a sudden you're left with just one music source. Well, a pro DJ can still get away with it because what they will be doing is they will not let the public know Thank you for watching. See you next time. All of a sudden, your CDJ turntable has stopped working. They've paid you to do a job. So, ideally, you need to take for backup, even if it's just for backup purposes, a third entity. Well, in this mixer, you have got a third entity. It's there. It comes in the form of you've got a slot there to put what's known as an SD card. This particular unit will take up to a maximum of a 4GB card.

Is near enough exactly the same as a CD player. You have cue, you have a loop function which a lot of CD players don't have anyway. You've got play pause, you've got search through the track, you've got there your folder search for an mp3, you've got track search, you've got master tempo so what that will do it will keep the same key of the actual track but then as you move the pitch up and down it will slow or speed up the track but it will stay at the same key. You've got pitch bend, you've got pitch range 4, 8 or 16. So first reason is as follows. It's a good idea to take a third entity, a third music source with you and in this mixer you have got that third entity in the mixer. The second reason for this particular video, and again no one's telling me to do this, this is me doing my punk TV. If you like it stick around, if you don't go somewhere else.

The second reason is a lot of people reckon something like this, you know, it's just for show and you can't mix on it. So I'm going to prove you wrong. The pitch control on this is near enough, just as good as any other twin CD player. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to do you a quick mix, look to the side of the video for the actual track listings. Track one will be the track I'm going to play on the actual twin CD player here. All of this will be the track I'm going to play from the SD card. I haven't got any headphones and if you think it's all set up and cued, what I'll do, I'll mess around with the pitch control so they're all over the place. So I'll put, well in fact no I won't pause the camera, what we'll do is we'll just wang it there. If I pause it you'll be thinking oh he set it up on him. So if we do that like that then you'll see. Right here we go, let's give it a bash. So we'll play that one and then there you go, we'll put it down.

4:23 This is the actual SD card

So it's all over the place. We'll put it there. And then if I, we're on this one now, so four is this one. So this is the actual SD card. Okay, so here we go. So we'll start this one off again. So put that onto four and that onto two. So now we use it, we're going to use a crossfade now. Have you got that? So there you go. I'll just pause that. So I hope I've proved a point there. Two main reasons for this particular video, like I said, it's always a good idea, mobile DJ, to take a third entity. You may never actually use it, but it's there as a backup. And the second one is, because I like messing around with the pitch controls, is that you can mix on it. Practice and enjoy.

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