DJ Tutorial Adding Effects to Enhance the Mix with Lenny Fontana Numark NV

0:01 It's a track entitled Raise Your Hands

Alright ladies and gentlemen, we've got a demonstration here on the Newmark NV and I have been given the privilege of using this new track by a good friend of mine, Mr. Lenny Fontana. It's a track entitled Raise Your Hands. It's not out until April 2015 so if you're watching this during the course of the summer 2015 it's highly likely you've been rocking to this in Ibiza. Okay, so what we've got is we have the Newmark NV. I will put a hyperlink to Lenny Fontana in the description of this video. Like I said, the track you're listening to is entitled Raise Your Hands, courtesy of Mr. D-Train Deliverance Train. D-Train is short for Deliverance Train and Mr. Lenny Fontana. Okay, so what we have on the right hand side, we have the radio mix. On the left hand side, we have the Deeper House Deliverance.

So what I'm doing here with the Newmark NV is I'm adding some effects over this track. Now I've got the same track on both sides, but what I've got is the radio version has got a bit of an acapella at the beginning, which is a fantastic tool to use and to add to pretty much any track, of course, so long as it's in the same key or a key that will match with this track. That's very important. If it's the wrong key, it's the right key. If it's the wrong key, it's not going to sound good at all. All right, let's just have a listen to the beginning. Sorry, let's just take away the effects.

Okay, there you go. That's the acapella and then it comes into the track itself. Here we go. So we've got the track coming in. Okay, so kicks off with a really nice sort of house kick. But what we want to do, what I want to do is just use the beginning of the acapella. Or the acapella, not the track itself. Now I could chop it using the deeper house dub mix straight through into the acapella without using any effects. It will work. We can do it in a couple of ways. In fact, we can do it loads of ways. One is using the faders or for this demonstration, we use the crossfader. I'll just give you a demo now.

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2:34 You get the general idea

All right, so you get the general idea. But it's very dry. The beginning of the acapella, that's mainly because it is a radio version. So it's not meant for the big clubs where they like loads of effects. But of course, using the effects on the Newmark MV, you can make what I would class as the beginning of the acapella fuller, bigger. It's a bigger sound. Now let's have a listen to it, what I would class it in its dry state.

Now there is a definite sort of echo. There I want to highlight that a little bit more. I can add some more echo. Also, I want to add some reverb. Now let's have a listen to what it sounds like with a tiny bit of reverb.

So because the original acapella has already got a little bit of echo on it, the reverb is not only over the acapella itself, it's over the tiny echo at the end of the acapella itself. So what I want to do, I want to add. Some more echo over it. So what we do is using these dials above the platter, we can see we have, I'm on effects three and effects one and on effects three, we can see reverb on effects one. We can see echo now as I move these dials from the off position, which is seven o'clock, I move them clockwise. We can also see on this icon, we've got a similar movement on the icon corresponding to my movement on the dial. So let's have a listen. First to say 12 o'clock with reverb.

Now that might be too much. Let's put it to about sort of 10 o'clock, maybe a little bit now I've actually got the echo on as well there. Duh. All right, let's start again.

Like it. I've also got it on play pause or on cue that right now I'm going to add the echo. Let's start at nine o'clock.

4:44 I'm going to increase that to 12 o'clock

Okay. I'm going to increase that to 12 o'clock. Yeah, that is too much. Let's stick to nine o'clock. All right, let's go back. I'm just going to go back to, well, sort of just around about after the beginning of the Deeper House dub version two, three, four, one, two, three, four. Now, the actual timing here is and isn't important. Now, let's imagine we're starting to count from one, one, two, three, four, one, dabba. So the dabba, dabba, dabba, dabba. That would start. Let's start on the count of two, one, two, three, four, one, dabba, dabba, dabba, dab. That's where it comes in. But because you've got your finger on the cue button, you can pretty much bring it in at any point so long as you take it out in the right timing.

If you if you bring it in at any point and you let it play, then it might sound off the longer you let it play. If you bring it in at the wrong time. And this is where your ear comes in. And of course, practice. I'll give you a demonstration of that right now. Here we go. One, two, three, four, one, two, three. Now, you see there, I brought it in at the wrong time, but to begin with, it sounded okay. But as soon as we got to the latter part of it, you could tell it was off. I'm going to bring it in exactly the same time, but only bring a tiny bit of it in just a little bit of a snippet at the same time signature, which is the count. I think it was a count of four that count of one. Sorry, two, three, see too much right?

7:32 Two, three, four, two, three, four, one, one, two, three, four, one th

Let's bring it in just a tiny snippet of it now on the counter. One, four, one, two, three, four. Now I'm going to bring it in at the right time signature, which is on the two. Let's have a listen. Two, three, four, two, three, four, one, one, two, three, four, one there. Okay. So again, we're utilizing the effects. So this tutorial here, I could do this tutorial 100 times but slightly differently. And an analogy I'll give you is imagine you have two colors. I may have done this analogy before. You have white and red. You have a big pot of white and a big pot of red. Each pot has 100 milliliters of that color in the pot. If you took 50 from here and 50 from white, 50 from red, mix them together, you would get a match.

You'd get the pink color. Of course, you get pink. But then if you only took 49 from one and you took 50 from the other, you would get a subtle difference in the first shade you got. So let's take that analogy now and put it here onto the effects. I'm now going to increase the echo to about 930. I'm going to decrease the reverb to about 1130. Now, to the discerning ear, you're probably wondering what's going on. But to someone who has acute hearing, you would hear the subtle difference. Here we go. Okay, so you get the idea. All right. Now again, a big shout out to Mr. Lenny Fontana. This track is going to be an absolute monster. I'm not playing all of it. If you want to go and check it out, then wait. It should be out towards the latter part of April.

I'm not sure exactly where. I know it's out in definitely North America, but you need to check your providers and where you get your downloads from to find out when it is out in your area. Hope that's been a help. Don't forget if you want any more info on this track, then check out the link and that will take you directly to Mr. Lenny Fontana's website. Karmic Power Records in the house. Thumbs up, of course, to Detrain Deliverance Train. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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