Two ways of using the mic for the DJ.

0:00 Quite a few people have asked me to do some videos on microphone use

Alright folks, quite a few people have asked me to do some videos on microphone use. Now I've done two already on how to set up the microphone levels etc. This one is more so on using the microphone in a nightclub or say a party, wedding, mobile situation and actually using the volume controls while you're talking. Very quickly as well, if I don't or if I'm not, should I say, covering any points that you're interested in, either email me or post comments underneath. I'll have a look and try and do videos for you. Secondly as well actually, the two tracks I'm going to be using, this one here is on Madhouse Records. It's by Matrix, it's entitled Get Out and it's the Kerry Chandler's Mad Mix. And then to my left we've got Da Da, the track entitled Lollipop, bit of a club stomper at the moment.

Sandy Riviera and Trixie And I'll give you a demo, here we go. This is number one first. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and this record is dedicated to all the ladies in front of me on a head night tonight enjoying themselves, getting rather drunk but that's what it's all about, okay? Don't forget the music's going on till about four in the morning, the bar closes at half past two, so I suggest at half past two go get as many drinks as you can. And then you sort it for the rest of the night. Keep it locked, here we go. Right, that's number one, this is number two. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Jonathan. This is the DJ for this evening. I know I'm a bit of a mad nutter but who cares. Right, just to let you know, the bride and groom now are cutting the cake in the other room. I suggest you go through, check it out, take a few pictures, then once you've had a piece of cake come back in here and the party will start rocking. Thank you very much.

2:15 The reason for that is simply this

Alright, now that was a bit bizarre, wasn't it? Okay, now then, why did I do that? Alright, the first one, I don't know if you noticed, but I was only bringing the actual volume down about halfway. In other words, what was happening, there was a tiny bit of music in the background. The reason for that is simply this. Now let's say I've got a dance floor chock-a-block full of people. I need to keep those people on the dance floor. Now then, the way it works, it's almost psychological. If you've got a tiny bit of music in the background, even if it's just that beat, the people on the dance floor quite often will just stay there, even though they can't really hear the music as such, they can still hear a bit of ambient background music, therefore they will stay there.

And that is what you want them to do, alright? You want to keep the ambience, you want to keep the music rolling, but at the same time, you want to give some information to the crowd of people. You just want to have a bit of batter, batter, panter, panter, banter, that's what I was looking for, that's the terminology I can't even remember, can I? Alright, you just want to keep that rapport going with them, alright? The room is silent except for talking. Now then, people are going to look, heads are going to turn and nine times out of ten they're going to look at you because you're in charge of the music. Therefore, you have their full attention. So on that basis, this is the point at which you need to give them some information that's very important. For example...

Bride and groom. Another one, maybe there's a taxi for someone. Another one, maybe the bar's closing. Another one, maybe someone's just fallen down and, you know, or there's a glass broken on the floor. Something like that, okay? Now at that point, you do want people to stop dancing. You do want them to take note and you do want them to look at you. Right, now what we're going to do now, we're going to go from the one track through to the other track. I haven't got them set up or anything like that, but what we're going to do is just talk in between two songs and let Let's see what happens. Here we go. Well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Put in the old Kerry Chandler. Now that guy knows his house music, doesn't he? And it's on Madhouse as well. Don't forget, we're rocking all the way through till about four o'clock in the morning. Now we've got another club classic hit for you here. The track entitled Lollipop by Dada. It is big in the clubs. So who says just because it's big in the clubs, we can't play it here as well? We love it.

5:00 We love you and we love the music

We love you and we love the music. Keep it locked. You've got to use your head, alright? You haven't got to think, oh what do I say? I mean, as daft as it sounds, alright? Now then, here's an idea for you. Write down on a piece of paper. I know you may think, why do you want to do this? But, it's almost like having tips. Tiny, few little pointers here. If you think about it now then, have you ever seen the best man, the groom, the bride or whatever, have a small piece of paper and there's their speech in front of them. Now occasionally they'll have the full complete speech, but quite often they'll just have pointers, reminders to remind them of certain aspects they need to bring into that speech. There is nothing wrong with you as a DJ having a small piece of paper down in front of you and just having small words like bar. So in other words, oh you can talk about the bar or the staff, you know, say thank you to the staff for working hard this evening, the management, the bride and groom, the cake.

The pointers, the music, etc. Small pointers just to remind you and then you can emphasise on those pointers. I hope this video has been a help. Don't forget any more information, post comments underneath, practice and enjoy.

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