How to use the MIC. For the New DJ. Video 2

0:01 Another video on how to use the microphone for a complete and utter no

Alright guys, another video on how to use the microphone for a complete and utter novice. Also, for the people out there who find it maybe a little bit embarrassing when using the microphone and also don't know what to say. Tune I'm playing by the way is by Danny J Lewis, it's a track entitled Stratosphere, I will put all information down there for you. In the first video, I try to explain a good way of getting used to even just holding a microphone is to sit in the bathroom, anywhere, in front of a mirror and just talk into it. The whole emphasis there is you looking at you, talking to you, etc. I know that sounds really bizarre but it does work. Video number two is more so about using the microphone while it's turned on.

Sorry, I had to do that. While it's turned on, but at the same time there is a bit of music playing as well, alright, so in a future video I will, I'm pretty sure I've done this in the past, but if we have a collection then you'll know where I'm going from, coming from, coming and going and stuff. Right, so what we'll do is in a future video I'll show you how to set levels etc., but what I'm going to do now is turn the microphone on, one two, one two, one two, and there you go. I'm going to talk into it, by God, it's me. Now the whole emphasis here is you listening to your voice through a PA system. Now also something very important in here, people are wondering, they're always saying what do I say on the microphone?

1:37 Louder, talk something, book read

Well when you're practicing just say anything, just talk about the weather. It could be just you in a room with music playing talking into the microphone, open a book and read a book, read a newspaper. It's about you talking into this thing through speakers, you getting used to your voice. Very important. Now something else that's just as important but we're dealing more with getting into a nightclub or mobile environment. Now at the moment you can hear me quite clearly over the music and of course as the music gets louder the volume of the microphone has to get louder, everything gets louder and louder and louder. One of the worst things in the world is when you get to a venue, let's say you're listening to a DJ and they're talking on the microphone and you can't understand what they're saying.

3:10 The other one is to bring it half way down

It could be because the music is too loud and they're trying to talk over the music. Well that's a no-no. Now watch this, you can see the volume down here, I've got my finger on the up fader so have a listen to this. Now I'm going to talk something like this. And now I'm going to talk something like that. And no I'm not a complete and utter... Alright, now what I was doing or what I'm now doing is I'm bringing the volume down while I'm talking but also putting the volume back up when I finish talking, near enough. Also that I'm trying to keep it in time. Now there's two ways of doing that, one is to bring the volume all the way down. The other one is to bring it half way down. Now as you get more and more into this and slightly more professional, you'll find that it does work.

When you bring the volume all the way down and you have a tiny gap for example. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the way of let's say introducing the variety group because volume up, music playing, volume down, silence and then you talk. You will get people's attention. The other one is volume down and talk straight away. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, how are you tonight? Volume straight back up as soon as you finish. So in other words there's no gap but there is quiet while you're talking on the microphone. In other words you want people to understand what you're saying as well. The other one slightly different, maybe you're in the mix or maybe you want the music to carry on going. In other words what you do then is you bring the music down slightly but you're still talking therefore you're not trying to talk over the music.

Now a lot of good quality mixers will have something called talk over. So if I click it over to talk over, what that means is as soon as I start talking the volume drops automatically.

Another video on learning how to use a microphone, there'll be more to come alright? Practice and enjoy. Danny J Lewis in the house, Stratosphere. Big cheer.

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