DJ Mixing Lesson on the Best Effect to Get the Best Mix

0:00 First of all the demonstration, then the explanation

Alright guys, first of all the demonstration, then the explanation. Two great tunes, this one here especially, just full of funk. We'll put the names of the tunes in the description. So what was going on? Right, first of all I'm using the Pioneer DJ software, we've also got the DDJ-RX and I was using the filter. So, let's just pause that, cue it up. OK, so a lot of people seem to think that what you need to do is use low, mid and high in the mix all the time. Well, you don't have to. One of the, in fact I would go as far to say the best effect of all time is the filter. Disagree with me if you want to. Simply because what it does, it will take away a lot of the frequencies of the track and you can slowly

Sweep them back in. So, if I just press play here again.

1:59 All you're listening to is the high end

If I move to the high position what we're doing, we're getting rid of a load of the low frequencies and we're just sending it to the high frequencies. Now there is meaning behind my madness here with this video

Because when doing a transition there are a lot of frequencies to listen to bass, mid treble, guitar vocals, bassline the whole lot. But just listen to this now. Now all you're listening to is the high end. Now just imagine if you were able to do a mix and not have to concentrate on the vast array of sounds coming from one track. Just a few top frequencies the high end. So that's what's happening with this transition. Not only is it a great effect to use but also your brain doesn't have to listen to loads of sounds your brain only has to concentrate on the high sound so when you're mixing in with another track that's all you're listening to

Instead of muffled sound with too much going on Listen Now admittedly you could do something the same using your mid and your high but I want you to try this with your controller or your mixer at home Try just using the mid and high or maybe just I don't know, maybe set the mid to 10 o'clock and the high keep that at 12. The bass at 0 which of course on a mixer is not at zero it's 7 o'clock. Try it and you will hear a noticeable difference between having the mid at say 10 or even at 12 and the treble at 12 bass at 0 and using the filter. You will be able to hear the sound a lot clearer so I'm going to do that transition again Also what I was doing is I set my filter Once the filter of course was engaged you need to engage it first

I set that dial to just above the zero position of course the zero position is 5 o'clock so about half past 4 no point having it at 5 because you virtually get no sound at all I just wanted to hear that slight tap in the background let's do this again I'm not using headphones by the way and as I was bringing the one up on the right taking the one away on the left ok so I hope that has been a help now that's the first part of the video the second part of the video let me just unwind that and turn that around so I can see what I am doing so a few days ago I did a pay-per-view video if you are interested in that it's all about learning how to become a mobile DJ and one guy said he paid two bucks and he knew a lot of the information

But there was one part in the video that made him think now he actually I think the story is something like this there was an agent who got him a few gigs who he classed as maybe a bit dodgy but the agent didn't tell him about one part of the video and eventually that part of the video could have saved not only his reputation or could have saved him making sure he got the gig on a night but could have saved his reputation for the rest of his life at being a mobile DJ I'm not going to say any more because you need to go and watch the video if you think if you are actually thinking then why should we pay to watch videos well I've done over 4000 videos on the web and on the odd occasion I don't think it's a bad thing

6:48 YouTube now I don't know if

If I do pay-per-view now again if you're not interested am I blurred? that'll do if you're not interested in pay-per-view or anything like that then watch this right I'm going to just reduce the DJ software and go to YouTube now I don't know if you're familiar with YouTube my god you're on it at the moment believe it or not but there are thousands of hours worth of footage uploaded to YouTube every minute now out of those thousands of hours potentially there's quite a few hours of DJ footage out of that DJ footage there are other people giving advice demonstrations and tutorials so you don't have to watch me you can watch other people no yes for example digital DJ tips now go and check them out because they have a vast array

Of good quality information right let's have a look let's just have a skip through yes there are my videos there as well but let's have a look DJ Shorty another one Turntable U go and check that out ok what else have we got here Dubspot Dubspot DJ Tutorial What is Harmonic Mixing using Traktor and Mixed in Key by DJ Endo that means that there are other people to choose from so go and do it stop complaining about what I'm doing and sort yourselves out I'm here for one reason and one reason only because I enjoy what I'm doing and if I can actually get a little bit of revenue on the side then everyone's happy and I'll finish off with practice

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