DJ LESSON Using some FX

0:00 The track you're going to be listening to is Lenny Fontana, Moment of

Alright ladies and gentlemen, in this video I'm going to give you a couple of ideas on how to use the echo effect on the DJM-2000. Also, if you have any mixers with the echo effect and also a level depth dial, you can pretty much do exactly what I'm going to show you here. We're going to use the toggle switches at the top of the channel as well. So just to give you a basic idea of what's happening, I have a track playing on channel 2. The track you're going to be listening to is Lenny Fontana, Moment of Love. It's the epic vocal mix. If you want to check out Lenny Fontana, follow the link in the description. It will take you directly to his Facebook page. There it is, beautiful track. I've set the button up here to number 2, which means I can now use the effect on channel 2.

The echo is flashing there, which means echo is ready to go. I'm on a quarter beat, so by pressing the on-off button here, we should get a quarter echo over the track. Bring the volume down. And that's our echo.

1:12 I'll give you a demonstration of that

What we can do if we want to, we can cut the echo off at any time during the time the echo is playing by using the level depth. I'll give you a demonstration of that. First of all, without the level depth, there's the echo finishing as it's meant to finish. By turning the level depth down to minimum, we can cut off the echo whenever we want when we turn that dial down.

Now there's also... There's also another way of getting the echo by just using the total switch at the top. At the moment, the track is coming through CD digital, so by pressing it to line, switching over, we can do exactly the same thing as we would be doing if we were putting the volume down. The difference is this is more precise and it's instantaneous. As soon as you flick it over, it cuts out from full volume to nothing instead of slowly reducing. That's the difference. We can do as well. I'll have a bit of fun here. Get away. Turn the time dial.

2:39 Bit of low pass filter as well

Now if you imagine you had another track playing and this one over that track, you could actually add a couple of really crazy sounds.

Bit of low pass filter as well.

High pass.

That's it. Bit of a trick. Practice and enjoy.

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