Why does a DJ, Video 2 , use a mixer?

Alright folks, this is video number two in a selection of videos dedicated to the complete total nutter novice, in other words someone who's never even seen gear in their entitled lives. This is video number two and these videos are entitled Why Does A DJ Use? In this video we're going to be looking at the mixer. Before I say anything about it, I want you to imagine this. You go on holiday And you stay at a big hotel. Now, where is the first place you'll go to in that hotel? Maybe it's the bar, okay? But if you think about it, if it's a big hotel, where is the bar? You've got two options. One is to spend all day looking for it and the other one is to go to reception. For example, you are the punter. You are the person that wants to stay in that hotel. You will go to the reception and the reception will direct you to individual places, to your room, to the bar, etc. Now then, same principle, your music source as in turntable or CD player or PC or effects, anything has to come into the mixer first and then from the mixer

All the sound is channeled to a relevant place. That is the philosophy and policy behind a DJ mixer. In other words, when you listen to sound in a PA, through a PA should I say, in a nightclub that the DJ has made... From the CD players, the turntables etc. It's not coming just straight from a CD player out to you. That sound has to go through a DJ mixer first, whereby that DJ has control over all of the individual inputs. In other words, he will have control over a CD player. He will have control... Over a vinyl turntable, he will have control over a PC program and all of the control is worked from the DJ mixer. That's what a DJ mixer does. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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