DJ Lesson and New Releases from CD Pool Underground March 2013. Using the Filter

0:00 CDPool website, there's a link

Alright ladies and gentlemen, a bit of a DJ lesson here for you. Also new releases from CDPool. We are listening to the underground releases for March 2013. If you want to know anything more about these tracks then go to the CDPool website, there's a link in the description. The track I'm playing at the moment is I Woke and You Were Smiling, alright? In this video we're going to be concentrating mainly on the filter effect on... The XDJ Aero, so I'm just going to zoom in a little bit. This player by the way is wireless, so it's utilising the tracks from the iPad there. If we move the filter towards, anti-clockwise, and move it now towards the 7 o'clock position, what happens is the filter will cut out all the mid and top and just leave you with a bass.

Bring it back to the 12 o'clock, so filter's now disengaged and move the filter now clockwise towards the 5 o'clock position. We've completely got rid of the bass and the mid and all we're really left with now is a really, really high end, high top pitch sound. Bass and high. Right, what I'm going to do, I'm going to find another track and we'll do a transition. As I bring the filter around, around about 2 o'clock to 1 o'clock position on the track that's coming in, I'm going to take the filter away on the one that's going out. It's almost like the other track is disappearing. Back on this side now is Harpy. Again, if you want any more information on this track or any of the others, go and check out the link Take You To CD Ball. Alright, so what we'll do now, we'll have another track. It's the original mix by the way. And again, with the Aero, what I can do now is I can choose the songs from the iPad.

3:18 Hand side, left hand, hand frequency

And just by pressing one of the tracks, making sure that's stopped. Drop the other one in. Robert Rodriguez. So the filters now are set to 12 o'clock which means they've been disengaged so we're not going to get any filter effect at all now. This one here, straightforward house track and for this transition I'm going to do the opposite that I did with the first mix. We've got the filter, so we've got just the bass line coming in and then as we bring the volume up I'm going to then decrease the filter on the right hand side. So we're just left with treble and then we bring this one in on the left hand side and we bring it in up to the 12 o'clock position. So we're going from having a load of bass to bass, bit more mid, more mid, bit more top, top, till we get the full sound spectrum.

And then while I'm doing that on the left hand frequency dial, I'll be moving the right hand frequency dial towards the right hand side or turning it clockwise so we end up just getting that treble. Here we go. Turn off there slightly and again as I've said many a time if the beat does start going off don't try and keep it in if you feel you can't. Just bring the other one straight out but of course I did a couple of things there. One is I brought the other track straight out And the other thing, I made sure that the filter was set to the 12 o'clock position so I've got all of the frequencies from this track in full stop. That's what it looks like on the iPad. So we can see the two tracks playing and if I now pause over there or just cue it up you can see that that's set to cue now so we'll press play again and away we go. Can't do it there but I can do it there. I can pause that one like that. There you go.

6:14 Let's find something else

Okay, let's find something else. Don't forget these are the underground releases from CDPool. More sort of like twisted, experimental, sort of like curvy wavy tracks. Different, you know? I can imagine a group of people in their bedroom just drinking Special Brew thinking, yeah, let's just make some banging cuts and that's what they're doing. Alright, so here we go. What I did there, I used the echo. So sometimes a good idea if you don't want to do a smooth mixing transition and put the beats together, add a bit of an echo, bring the one side down and then put the other one up. So that wasn't really a mix, it was more of a blend I would say. This one here is a track called Here by Siren. What I like about the filter effect, really give it a good twist. The sound when you use the filter is immense.

8:21 A big sound system

A big sound system. What I'm going to do, I'm going to finish off with a track called Arcadia. I think it's pronounced like that. It's A-R-K-A-D-I-A. It's the original mix, I believe, by Sergio Fernandez. And also practice and enjoy. Nice bassy, vibey track. This time, again, using the filter is an effect in itself. How you use the filter is an effect. Over the effect. The effect is the filter. You use it in itself. This time I'm going to use it really slowly. Alright, two ways. First of all, fast and then slowly. This time I'm going to move it exactly the same way, which is clockwise, but move it very slowly. So much of a difference. Second time was far better.

That's been a help, practice and enjoy.

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