Something that is very important to understand is that a DJ is not only responsible for putting music in a long, continuous piece of music, but rather is responsible for educating and entertaining (yes, educate, it sounds pretentious, but who but the dj's is the source where we find new genres and proposals).

BASIC MIX 1: PREPARATION

The DJ is responsible for carrying out a good selection of music and how to raise it beyond the order also the technical sense of musical approach, which we will call SET and that at some point also involves breakdowns and structurally-atmospheres without in strict meaning that the music stops. The DJ is also responsible for a good time to give the audience beyond the selfish and personal entertainment. This does not mean you have to be complacent, but rather part of a communion between DJ and audience.

WEAPONS OF DJ

Speaking on the technical side, what we hear from the speakers comes and supports the following basic equipment call: a pair of turntables or cd pleasure, a DJ mixer, headphones, monitors and obviously disks, CDs or vinyls and senna. First of all our turntable motor must be direct, as this will make much easier manipulation of vinyl, as the turntable motor band as a rubber, tend to loosen with use and its response is still further provided slow. Related to the use of the turntables we need a pair of slipmats, which are felt boards that allow us to stop the disc without having to stop the motor of the turntable, this in order to carry out rapid or early manipulation without the vinyl suffer harm.
Hearing aids are also a very important and allows us to hear the songs that discretion we will schedule without the public having to learn what we plot. However, the hearing must meet certain characteristics such as good and powerful playback, for accurate sound will make it much easier our transitions from one song to another. Our hearing aids should be comfortable and durable, as we will bring in the head by some accounts hours and occasionally whipped on the floor or your cable jalaremos without risk of breaking it.

THE "MIXER".

One of the key elements and where all the work develops djworkin4 "plumbing" is the mixer ... also known by its English name, "the mixer". This is where the sound work, giving a bit more profit if the track comes in, coloring equalization to ration or increasing frequencies, working with the crossfader, with the effects of it if any, or the ever useful sampler. The mixers are usually two inputs per channel and how much with a slip switch that lets you select the source that we will join the channel of the same, whether a cd pleasure, a phono in, or some other device that is connected (the phono in is for turntables). It is very important that we care when we are connecting the computer because the mixers have assigned a preamplifier phono channels and not in the case of line in. Imagine what happens if you connect a turntable to a line in and a cd player into a phono in, that is invested, just imagine it ... do not even try if you want your speakers or your stereo survive.

MUSIC AND PRACTICE.

The most important are the discs, either CD or vinyl. Without these there is no music and no music there is in that practice. The music is free choice of DJ, and gender is open entirely to the discretion or individual taste, as techno, trance, house, breakbeats, or whatever has been invented or not (and I speak for those who believe that bringing a genre, which in most cases not even move from concept) depends on what the DJ wants to play and probably will always find someone to do it.

BASIC MIX 2: SETTINGS

In the home setting our team will be connected directly to the master output to our home stereo or audio system, and this is a point where you have to pay close attention as the master out of the mixer should be connected to the line is in the stereo phono in and not because we could have a situation similar to what we discussed in previous delivery, since the phono in is attending a pre-amp for the turntable, in addition to the line we can use the aux in, if is present.

In the case of professional configuration is important to note that in the mixer have multiple outputs, one of these is the monitoring, ie which will be our reference signal and which may be present in the mixers under the name monitor out , booth or zone, we also have the main output is the amplification that will turn to public speakers of the track, this output is known under the names of master out, main out or house (which has nothing to do with the musical genre). The professional configuration allows us to wean our mixer outputs to have separate volume of the dance floor-that's what the audience hears, and the reference that we have. This is mainly for two reasons, first is that if we try to monitor directly from the speakers on the track, the time it takes the sound reach our ears cause we had a delayed reference and this would lead to mistakes on our part, the Second, if we had the monitor outputs from the same master, we could not decrease as the master would lower down the monitor, but also the volume of what the listening public, and certainly that's not something we want.

Once you connect the following is our team get it going, in other words, turn it on. This process, as well as shutdown, require much attention once that is involved in the use of electricity because if we neglect the order in which you can turn on and turn off peak send a signal through the system that can lead to result in damage to any of our components. To turn the team is very important to have the volume to zero, completely under. The first opportunity to display a download is when we turn on the mixer, so we must make sure that everything else is off. Once we turned on the mixer, proceed to turn the amplifiers (or at least the stereo), we can turn them on the turntables at any time since they have the ability to store electric charge, that is, if we or remove the tablets or needles with the channel open ... hang on, secure download.

It is very important to know the ground wire carrying the turntables in the ground pole carrying the mixer on the back (this due to static electricity I'm sure everyone has heard), if not connected perceive an annoying noise through our speaker systems, whatever it is. Once on the team, now we can go up the volume gradually and we're ready to start ringing.

To turn off the computer power we reverse the process and started down the volume of the amplifiers and the master, then turn off the amplifier and then the mixer, the turntables and other devices can be switched off at any time as long as their faders are down. It is important to mention that if we are using our home stereo, the risk of occurrence of a peak or a discharge is not as high or as dangerous, but for professional amplification must be very careful with the components of the amplifiers.

By: Ramiro Puente